Editors have shared the second single, “The Rush”, off their upcoming ninth album “Surface, Echo & Sound” out October 30th via PIAS.
Tracklist 01. Surface, Echo & Sound 02. Call It In 03. The Rush 04. Rescue 05. Shadow 06. Real 07. Happiness 08. Much Love 09. Butterfly Wings 10. Seriously 11. The Hills We Died Upon
The video was filmed in Tokyo and directed by Henry Ehara.
Tom Smith shared this about the song: ““The Rush” is an imagined bar scene of two people talking about life, drinking and reflecting on its highs and lows. That idea of finding comfort in people close to me, friends and loved ones and family, is a theme that comes up all the time. It’s a theme that is in everything to a degree.”
Open Mike Eagle & Kenny Segal have shared the first single, “Unfinished Concrete Initials” off their upcoming album “DOOMED!” out August 14th via Backwoodz.
Open Mike Eagle shared this about the release: “In recent years, Kenny made it very clear that he wasn’t trying to keep having one or two beats on my projects; he wanted to build something. I was able to convince him to let me use a couple beats for “Neighborhood Gods Unlimited” with the caveat that we would focus on our thing next. Then my relationship fell apart right when we started working, and it was like, ‘Perfect, I have a lot to say about this.’ Each vision is a crashed airplane halfway on the border of dream and nightmare, bitter and sweet, sadness and freedom. Every one of Kenny’s beats is a chunk of ore from a different comet. I used each one as a canvas to paint my impression of a dead world.”
“Unfinished Concrete Initials” features Hemlock Ernst (a.k.a. the rap moniker of Future Islands’ Samuel T. Herring).
Eartheater has shared her third single, “Crown Jewel”, off her upcoming album “Heavenly Body: If I’m The Bottle You’re The Message” put July 14th via Chemical X.
Eartheater shared this about the song: “I wrote this love song for my baby girl but I guess it’s subplot is about good posture. I was very tall at a young age taller than all the boys and sometimes taller than grown ups. My girl is probably going to be taller than me and I just want her to shine as bright as she can and not feel self conscious about it. One of my retorts when people would feel the need to remark on my height was ‘it’s like I’m in a penthouse in Dubai’ hence the Dubai line.”
Jack White has shared the third single, “Dollar Bill”, off his new album “Frozen Charlotte” out July 10th via Third Man Records.
TRACKLIST: 1. G.O.D. And The Broken Ribs 2. Derecho Demonico 3. There’s Nobody There 4. Raising the Grain 5. You’ll Never Fix Me 6. Nobody Knows 7. Dollar Bill 8. I Can’t Believe What I’m Hearing 9. Thick as Thieves 10. All Alone Again 11. She’s in a Frenzy 12. Making Contact 13. Neighbors Blues
Jack White shared this about the release: “An old carnival prize chalkvware statue from the 1940’s of a sailor boy falls over in my recording studio and its head breaks off. graba nearby blue skull shaker percussion object and glue it in the head’s place. paint the body white and suddenly an all new character avatar that called “Frozen Charlotte” came to life. A “frozen Charlotte” is a penny doll toy from victorian times, they were ceramic but could float or have a dress put ove, recalling an old folk song about a girl who froze to death from not dressing properly in the winter. wanted to make the modern version of chalk ware of the 40’s and 50’s which to me is 3D printed plastic. We took the piece to be scanned and CAD filed in order to make more of her with the help of Daniel Birkhead and my good man Daniel Mancini facilitating. Then sanding, priming, spraying back at my own shop to create numerous avatars of her including a male trixter hero version named the “Frozen Charlatan” who is the chrome metallic alter ego. Some of them felt like they needed to include the original broken off sailor’s head. Many versions of the sculpture started to come out of me, different personalities and characters, some to mimic the fast airbrush style of cheap carnival prizes made assembly line style, and some more elaborately painted, all of which are in the art show.”
Tyondai Braxton has announced the release of his new album “Splayed Werks” and with it the first 2 singles, “UnFS” and “Piiano”, the album is out August 21st via Erased Tapes.
TRACKLIST:
1. Bell Smear 2. Multiplay 3. Dia 4. Vali 5. UnFS 6. Salt Point 7. Oslo 8. Realistic Water 9. Multiplay II 10. Phonolydian 11. Piiano 12. 4 Zones 13. Nimble FX 14. Clouds of 15. K Space
Braxton shared this via a press release: “My philosophy on releasing music has changed a lot, but also my idea of what it means to be an artist. The important part of the artist’s job is to archive what you’re doing, what you’re excited about, what you’re dealing with, what you’re reacting against, putting that in a form that documents your life…At the moment, we’re all looking out into the world, dealing with the helplessness in a time of war, media over-saturation. What’s the role of the artist in that? I think the archiving of any particular creative idea in the moment is one of the most significant things an artist can do now. Things I previously thought were important “this piece means so much to me,” or “listen to how this chord arrived” are actually much less so.”
Captain Murphy has shared a new song, “Mudhole”, made for the soundtrack of the movie “The Furious” directed by Kenji Tanigaki.
The video for the song contains images by Adam Fuchs, the Adul Swim animator who also helped create the Captain Murphy aesthetic alongside Flying Lotus.
Lenny Kaye has shared the second single, “Solstice”, off his upcoming debut album “Goin’ Local” out July 17th via Yep Roc.
Kaye shared this about the song: “I wrote ‘Solstice’ with Patti Smith. Our collaboration continues a long history together across many of our shared works.”
Evil Island have shared the second single, “Animal” off their upcoming debut album “Terraform The Afterlife” out August 14th via Blowed Out Records.
Evil Island is Johnny Whitney, Cody Votolato, and Mark Gajadhar of The Blood Brothers, Autry Fulbright II of OFF! and …and you will know us by the trail of dead, and Todd Weinstock of Glassjaw.
TRACKLIST: 1. Melted Heart (ft. Alexis Krauss) 2. Termantrixx (ft. Michael Gatto) 3. Animal 4. Tiger Baby 5. T-Hexx (ft. Guy Picciotto) 6. Evil Island Death Cult National Anthem 7. Grow Spikes 8. I Bought A Spell (ft. Jordan Blilie) 9. No Good 10. Moonlight Doomlight 11. Blinding Rage 12. King Death 13. Suicide By Cop
Johnny Whitney shared this about the song: “‘Animal’ felt enormous almost immediately. It’s the only song we’ve ever written that sounds authentically like us while also sounding like it could be blasted through the PA at a football stadium.”
The video for the song was directed by Patrick Lascu and Chelsea Deebo.
Whitney shared this about the album: “‘Evil Island’ was born out of the firestorm of creative energy that Cody, Mark and I felt when The Blood Brothers reunion tour ended in 2024. My brain was on fire, I was gripped with a kind of mania. I had so many ideas rattling around in my skull that if I didn’t make something new with my friends, the psychic damage probably would’ve manifested as some exotic form of cancer. I knew our story wasn’t over. More importantly, I knew our particular strain of feral pop hardcore felt more necessary than ever given that the world is boiling in bullshit. So we wrote eleven songs, brought Ross Robinson into the fold, then Autry joined the band, and suddenly everything locked into place. With Terraform the Afterlife, we let Ross completely off the leash. What was supposed to be a two-week recording session turned into a five-month descent into something far bigger than we imagined. We built a musical world that’s dazzling, violent, joyful, ugly, melodic, brutal and somehow still coherent. We put every drop of ourselves into this record. Terraform the Afterlife is the most creatively gratifying thing I’ve ever been part of, these songs will be fucked into my skull forever.”
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