The Sophs have shared another single, “Sweetiepie”, off their upcoming album “Goldstar” out March 13th via Rough Trade.
The video for the song was directed by Eric Daniels.
Ethan Ramos shared this about the song: “”SWEETIEPIE” is someone standing outside their ex’s window at 3 a.m., waving their arms over their head and screaming for some sort of second chance. In our narrator’s head, they’re John Cusack in Say Anything, but in reality, they’re just another creep who had too much to drink.”
Kim Gordon has shared the second single, “Dirty Tech”, off her upcoming album “PLAY ME” out March 13th via Matador.
The video for the song was directed by Moni Haworth.
Kim Gordon shared this via a press release: “I was kind of musing about, is my next boss going to be an AI chatbot? We’re the first ones whose lights are going to go out, not the tech billionaires. It’s so abstract that people can’t comprehend.”
Flea has shared the third single, “Thinkin Bout You”, off his upcoming album “Honora” out March 27th via Nonesuch.
Flea shared this about the song via a press release: “Channel Orange”! When that record came out, it really blew me away. I listened to it ten million times. It was something I just couldn’t stop listening to. I loved it so much and still do. Just one of those real watershed moment records for me. “Thinkin Bout You” is one of the many great songs on that record, and I thought it would be fun to play on trumpet.
Then I went to Nate Wolcott, who plays keyboards on Honora on several tunes. He did that string arrangement for me. He stepped up to the plate and really did something beautiful. I just wanted to get the honest beauty of the melody because it’s a great song.”
Fcukers have shared the second single, “Beatback”, off their upcoming album “Ö” out March 27th via Ninja Tune.
The video for the song was directed by Fcukers own Shanny Wise with the participation of dancer Eric Schloesser.
Anna Calvi has released the single, “God’s Lonely Man” which features Iggy Pop, off her upcoming EP “Is This All There Is?” Out March 20th via Domino.
TRACKLIST:
01 God’s Lonely Man [ft. Iggy Pop]
02 I See a Darkness [ft. Perfume Genius]
03 Computer Love [ft. Laurie Anderson]
04 Is This All There Is? [ft. Matt Berninger]
Nick Launay shared how this collaboration came to be: “Anna met lggy at a music festival where he watched her set, approached her after and said in his VERY low voice: “Hey I really like your songs, WE SHOULD DO SOMETHING
So flattered and lost for words she replied “How about a song ?!”
A year later at the tale end of producing her Album:”Hunter” she wrote it, we recorded it, and sent it to him.
He LOVED it and said LETS DO IT ! His fantastic Manager Henry McGroggan then organized a meeting to make it happen. I explained to lggy could fly to Miami and we could record his vocal on his favorite beach with my laptop if he liked?
He laughed, then grinned, and said: “got an even better idea, how about you come to my lguana house by the swap and sing it to the Alligators
GRRRREAT idea concurred!
He added he hasa magic AFRICAN CHAIR he likes to sit n sing in, cos it sounds better! said ok lets put the African Chair on the Veranda and you can sing to the Alligators He replied “WERE GONNA HAVE A LOTTA FUN This is EXACTLY What happened! There were iguanas and chicken in the back yard, he sat in the chair and sang what you hear to the Aligators swimming by. Before doing so he asked:”Hey Nick, love the lyrics Anna wrote, can you tell me exactly what it’s about?”
Luckily Anna had explained the night before that it’s about a man who is so insanely obsessed with ONE thought that he excludes everything else from his life, and is therefor lonely.. like Travis Bickle, DeNiro’s character in TAXI DRIVER. As
“You’re fucking kidding me!… turn around, look on the wall behind you!”
Hanging right there was a framed photo of DeNiro on the set of Taxi Driver, and it was signed “Love to lggy from DeNiro”
Both our Jaws dropped !
On that note lggy said: “WNell guess we better do this vocal!”
enjoy!!!”
shame brought their “Cutthroat Tour” with support from The Sophs to the Casbah on February 5.
One of the best shows this year, hands down.
shame.
The Sophs.
Bonnie “Prince” Billy has shared the second single, “Hey Little”, off his upcoming album “We Are Together Again” out March 6th via No Quarter.
The video for the song was directed by father / daughter duo Brent and Maya Stewart.
Will Oldham shared this about the song: ““Hey Little” was written years ago for someone else to sing. Now I am a father; the lyrics are realigned and rearranged. Catherine Irwin sings with great soul. I asked Ryder McNair to listen to Madonna’s “Dear Jessie” for inspiration on the string arrangements. Brent Stewart and his daughter Maya brought a creative partnership to the video-making process. The shoot was seamless and joyful. Brent spoke of wanting to incorporate double-exposure (they shot on film) and I mentioned the Burt Lancaster film The Swimmer. Both Maya and Brent jumped on that idea with gusto, and friends here in Louisville let us film in their indoor pool in the dead of winter. Notable of course is Thomas Deakin’s beautiful clarinet solo. And the real live goats.”
TOMORA have shared the second single, “Come Closer”, off their debut album by the same name out April 17th.
TRACKLIST:
1. “PLEASE”
2. “COME CLOSER”
3. “A BOY LIKE YOU”
4. “RING THE ALARM”
5. “MY BABY”
6. “HAVE YOU SEEN ME DANCE ALONE?”
7. “SOMEWHERE ELSE”
8. “I DRINK THE LIGHT”
9. “WAVELENGTHS”
10. “SIDE BY SIDE”
11. “THE THING”
12. “IN A MINUTE”
The video for the song was done by Adam Smith and S T A R T !
Memorials have shared the second single, “Wildly Remote”, off their upcoming album “All Cloud Bring Not Rain” out March 27th via Fire Records.
Matthew Simms shared this about the song: “We started this song in a really clichéd way, in a sound check! It was at a memorable gig in Brest, a beautiful port town on the western-most tip of France. Brittany has embraced us, and we love playing there! We wanted to try to capture, on the recording, an intimacy and atmosphere that we have found to be an important part of playing live, when, amongst the noisier outbursts, come quiet, gentle moments. It’s the juxtaposition of the two and the twists and turns we take between them that we hope keep things interesting!
I feel there is a deceptive simplicity to it all, but especially in the word play of the chorus, expressing a notion of something true but also not quite realised or perhaps out of reach…
For recording, we tried a few approaches, but it was clear to us that the song should be the focus, and we wanted the sound to be warm and upfront. The electric guitar is run through an old leslie speaker that blurs the edges beautifully, and the saxophone tape loop was the ideal twist! The verse and chorus are both based around the same 3-chord sequence, so we knew we wanted it to go somewhere else in the middle. These incidental moments almost always come together quickly and instinctively, if they’re going to work. The tape loop solo seemed to fit instantly as an unconventional sound and performance, taking its place in an otherwise quite conventional spot for a solo in an instrumental section. The tape machine gets its time to shine!”
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