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Gossip have shared the second single, “Real Power”, off their upcoming album “Real Power” out March 22nd via Ultra.

TRACKLIST:
01. Act of God
02. Real Power
03. Don’t Be Afraid
04. Crazy Again
05. Edge of the Sun
06. Give It Up for Love
07. Turn the Card
08. Tell Me Something
09. Light It Up
10. Tough
11. Peace and Quiet

Beth Ditto shared this about the song: “That song is about how awesome our city is and how it really showed up. The system was being rearranged and we were forcing people to reckon with it at a time when it could literally make you ill to gather, during a pandemic. That’s real power, people coming together, making those decisions to be in the streets.”

Beth Ditto shared this about the return of the Gossip: “When we began, so much about Gossip was about running away- that was always in the music. We survived. We came from nothing, and we got the fuck out of there. And to be here 20 years later and still making music together is just incredible.”

A full tour has not been announced yet., only some selected dates have been shared so far.

Smerz have shared the first single, “My Producer”, off their upcoming EP “Allina” out February 1st via Shopping Records.

TRACKLIST:

01 Allina
02 The Stylist
03 Paparazzi
04 New Shoes
05 Dance Rehearsal
06 My Producer
07 Je t’aime
08 Dangerous

The new EP that traces the quick rise (and fall) of a fictitious pop star experiencing 15 minutes of fame. The first single “My Producer” is about her producer and how they are going to make her a big, big star! Shot and directed by Allina’s producer, while they were having tons of fun in the studio,

No additional information has been shared by the band. No tour has been announced (yet).

Michael Malarkey has shared the first single, “The Passenger”, off his upcoming EP out April 4th.

The song features Palestinian singer Rasha Nahas. No additional information about the album has been provided (yet). No tour dates have been announced (yet). Malarkey has been busy recently with his other projects Burial Clouds and Shadyside.

The Lemon Twigs have shared a new single, “My Golden Years”, off what might be their fifth album.

The video for the song was directed by Ambar Navarro, and she shared this about the video: “The ‘My Golden Years’ video is about looking back at the good old days, and the highs and lows of trying to make it as a band. We wanted to incorporate situations like being broke and getting kicked out while being playful and humorous about it. When you’re trying to make it as an artist there’s this vulnerability of putting yourself out to constant rejection that can be tough, but the band finds their full peace and freedom in performing in an open field.”

The Lemon Twigs shared this about the song: “’My Golden Years’ is about making every minute count and living up to your potential…in that sense I think that people like Mark Ruffalo or people who hike might like the song. Or it could be good while you’re working out.”

Josef Van Wissem has shared a new single, “With Our Hands Our Hearts To Raise”, off his upcoming album “The Night Dwells On The Day” out January 19th via Incunabulum Records.

Van Wissem shared this about the song: “I wrote “With Our Hands Our Hearts To Raise” as a theme for a silent score I was working on at the time. The film was “Der Müde Tod / Destiny” is a 1921 German expressionist romance directed by Fritz Lang and inspired by the Indian folktale of Savitri. The film follows a woman desperate to reunite with her dead lover”.

Josef Van Wissem will continue to be on tour until April. No additional dates have been announced yet.

Mama Zu have shared the second single, “Safe Place To Stay” off their upcoming album “Quilt Floor” out February 23rd via Thirty Tigers.

Linwood Regensburg shares this about the song: “Part of me feels like releasing this as an album teaser/single is a huge mistake. It’s pretty slow-moving, a bit cold and empty, initially. Might even borderline cross into adult contemporary territory at times? I doubt anyone would play this on the radio…though maybe Delilah would dig it? I could be wrong. Is this pitch selling you yet?”

Linwood Regensburg said this about the album: “After she died, I didn’t want to touch it. I didn’t want to play the songs or listen to the songs, let alone finish them. It just seemed like such a daunting task with a lot of layers, there was a lot of work left to do, but then there was also this exhausting underlying emotional component that pops in and hangs around the moment I’d open a session. By 2020 I felt ready to finish what we had started, both for her sake and for my own sanity level. I was the only person left with this project. It was a way of spending time with her, and kind of the only capacity in which I could. But then, I was also left with a lot of creative choices without her. Even though I had played most of the instruments, it had still been a totally collaborative thing; if there was a part I played that she didn’t like, she was clear about that. If someone’s gone, you can still talk to them, but you can only assume what their feedback might be. So I was stuck with a lot of musical choices that I’d be working under the context of, I hope you like what I did here.”

The Smile have shared the third single, “Friend Of A Friend”, off their upcoming album “Wall Of Eyes” out January 26th via XL.

The video shared today was animated by Sabrina Nichols with artwork by Stanley Donwood.

This song feels familiar. It’s like a déjà vu. It’s warm and welcoming like a 70’s Neil Young song. It’s something that could’ve been played during the OK Computer tour era, the jazz way that Tom Skinner is playing accompanied by Jonny’s orchestral arrangements (and Robert Stiltman sax) and sprinkled with Thom’s vocals it makes for a saccharine dreamscape.

The Smile have also announced “Wall of Eyes, on Film”, a series of one-off events hosted at independent movie theaters in different cities around the globe. The screenings will feature a new music video for “Friend of a Friend,” directed by the up and coming american director Paul Thomas Anderson.

Braulio Lam has announced the release of his new album, “Claroscuro”, out February 2nd via Dragon’s Eye Recordings.

TRACKLIST:

01. Claroscuro I
02. Claroscuro II
03. Claroscuro III
04. Claroscuro IV
05. Claroscuro V
06. Claroscuro VI
07. Claroscuro VII
08. Claroscuro VIII

Braulio Lam shared this about the album: “We are surrounded by beauty and sometimes those magic moments escape unnoticed. I thought those moments could be transformed into music. I thought to myself, I would love to capture that atmosphere and shape that feeling into sounds. I gave myself the task and tried to seized these moments that I treasure; the magic hours in light that a sunrise and sunsets have.

For me, one of my favorite times of the year, is the October’s golden hour. The transition between summer and autumn creates a gold/amber tones in the environment that I enjoy.“

Nonexistent Night has announced the release of their debut album “In The Middle Of A Boiling Sea” out January 26th via Three One G.

TRACKLIST:
1. Unofficial Soundtrack to the Unconscious
2. One Year
3. Tessellations
4. Prelude in Terror
5. Metaphysics Becomes Physics Becomes Dead Language

Today they’ve shared the song “Metaphysics Becomes Physics Becomes Dead Language”. John Rieder shared this about the song: “Sal wrote this one and also played the guitar parts on the record since Alia Jyawook had not joined the band yet. It’s the only song in drop D tuning, and I think we were all living in the echo of Converge’s Bloodmoon at the time we started arranging and playing this track together. The bass and drums you hear were supposed to be a quick, rough play-through at the end of a very long day, but we played it well enough that it was ultimately a keeper–an unintended first take.”

https://nonexistentnight.bandcamp.com/track/metaphysics-becomes-physics-becomes-dead-language

This is post rock for a drowning world. The band consists of Carrie Feller (Hexa), Sal Gallegos and John Rieder (Secret Fun Club) who first began working together in mid 2019.

The band recently added Alia Jyawook (Scary Pierre, ex-Hot Nerds) as permanent cellist and guitarist and are already working on new songs for a follow-up record. Influenced by bands like Three Mile Pilot, Rachel’s, Slint, Chelsea Wolfe, King Woman, Kate Bush, June of 44, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Om, Low, Converge, and Tristeza.

https://nonexistentnight.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-middle-of-a-boiling-sea