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Adam Gnade will release his new book, “I Wish To Say Lovely Things”, on February 24th via Three One G and Bread & Roses Press.

This book is the third part in a series that started with “After Tonight, Everything Will Be Different” and continued with it’s sequel “The Internet Newspaper”. The series is called “The Home and Away Quartet”.

A synopsis of the book says: “Like a child born of the bell hooks classic All About Love and Maggie Nelson’s Bluets, Adam Gnade’s latest autobiographical novel takes a hard look at love in all forms—romantic, platonic, love of place, of chosen family, of destiny and purpose. Structured in large part as a book of lists, “I Wish to Say Lovely Things” is a complicated, big-hearted look at what it is stay loving and gentle in a violent age. Through it all, Gnade’s characters struggle to get out of bed in the morning, fight for what they believe in while getting zero in return, and hope like hell in the face of hellish hopelessness. I Wish to Say Lovely Things is a graceful, philosophical, clear-eyed beacon with which to light your path through this painful, exhausting, and tremendously magnificent life.”

Facts about “I Wish to Say Lovely Things”:

1. Primarily inspired by bell hooks’ “All About Love” and Maggie Nelson’s “Bluets”.
2. Book design by Bran Black Moon.
3. Cover photo by Jonya Streeper.
4. Edited by Jessie Duke.
5. Paperback, 240 pages.
6. Retail price $17.

The Smile have announced the release of the lead single, “Wall Of Eyes”, off their second album by the same name out January 26th via XL Recordings.

TRACKLIST:
01 “Wall Of Eyes”
02 “Teleharmonic”
03 “Read The Room”
04 “Under Our Pillows”
05 “Friend Of A Friend”
06 “I Quit”
07 “Bending Hectic”
08 “You Know Me!”

The video for the song was directed by the promising american film director Paul Thomas Anderson.

The album was produced by Sam Petts-Davies and it also has string arrangements that were contributed by the London Contemporary Orchestra.

The band will start their support tour of the album in March 2024 and will most likely will be adding additional dates around the world.

Sharon Van Etten has shared a new song, “Close To You”, off the new Apple TV+ show “The Buccaneers”.

TRACKLIST:

01 Emily Kokal – “North American Scum” (Feat. Miya Folick)
02 Lucius – “Let The Games Begin”
03 Miya Folick – “What We Wanna”
04 Warpaint – “Ankhas”
05 Bully – “Right On Time”
06 Sedona – “Lifeline”
07 Lucius – “Ice Cream”
08 Alison Mosshart – “Down By The Law”
09 Emily Kokal – “Anyway I Look At It”
10 Emily Kokal – “These Waves”
11 Danielle Ponder – “Into The Dark”
12 Sarah Walk – “Lean In”
13 Bully – “Meet Me After Midnight”
14 Gracie Abrams – “Cedar”
15 Sharon Van Etten – “Feel Good”
16 Sharon Van Etten – “Close To You”

The album was produced by Stella Mozgawa of Warpaint. She said this about the album: “It was a truly incredible experience working with this group of uniquely talented artists. Everyone brought their A-game and taught me something invaluable about the creative process. Witnessing these artists map each character’s journey through song was a joy and the album feels like a really exciting companion to the show.”

Sharon Van Etten did 2 songs for the show, “Feel Good” and “Close Yo You”. Listen to the latter below.

The Buccaneers is the adaptation of an Edith Wharton novel. It is set in the 1870’s and a bunch of rich American girls are trying to find a posh English husband during the London debutante season.

https://youtu.be/FaDFty5ipEg?feature=shared

Mo Dotti have shared a couple of new songs, “For Everyone And You” and it’s b-side “Late August Early September”, off what will be their upcoming new album.

Andrew Mackelvie (drummer) produced the songs while Mark Gardener from Ride did the mastering.

No additional details have shared about the album or about upcoming tour dates to support it.

Yard Act have shared “Dream Job” the first single off their upcoming second album “Where’s My Utopia?” out March 1st via Republic.

TRACKLIST:

1. An Illusion
2. We Make Hits
3. Down By The Stream
4. The Undertow
5. Dream Job
6. Fizzy Fish
7. Petroleum
8. When The Laughter Stops (ft. Katy J Pearson)
9. Grifter’s Grief
10. Blackpool Illuminations
11. A Vineyard for the North

James Smith shared this about the song: ““Dream Job” feels like an apt introduction to the themes explored on “Where’s My Utopia?” though not all encompassing. In part, I was scrutinizing and mocking myself for being a moaning ungrateful little brat, whilst also trying to address how the music industry is this rather uncontrollable beast that hurtles forward unthinkingly and every single person involved in it plays their part. Myself included, obviously. As with pretty much everything else going through my head last year, trying to find the right time to articulate the complexity of emotions I was feeling and the severity to which I was feeling them couldn’t be found, or accommodated, so instead I tried to capture it in a pop song that lasts less than three minutes once the fog had cleared a bit. It’s good and bad. I’m still glad that everything that happened to me happened.”

The video was directed by James Slater.

Mount Kimbie have shared a new single, “Dumb Guitar” out now via Warp Records.

Mount Kimbie shared this about the song: “”Dumb Guitar” is “loosely based around a couple’s futile attempt to save a doomed relationship.”

The song will also be released as a 7-inch, with the song “Boxing” (which features King Krule) on the B-side.

The band will be on tour in the USofA next May, these are the only dates announced (so far).

5/17 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
5/18 Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theatre
5/21 Denver, CO – Perplexiplex at Convergence Station
5/23 Austin, TX – Parish
5/25 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
5/28 Toronto, Canada – Axis
5/29 New York City, NY – Webster Hall

A24 will be releasing Steve McQueen’s new film, “Occupied City” on December 25th, which is a 4 hour documentary based on Bianca Stigter’s “Atlas of an Occupied City (Amsterdam 1940-1945).

The synopsis reads: “The past collides with our precarious present in Steve McQueen’s bravura documentary Occupied City, informed by the book “Atlas of an Occupied City (Amsterdam 1940-1945),” written by Bianca Stigter. McQueen creates two interlocking portraits: a door-to-door excavation of the Nazi occupation that still haunts his adopted city, and a vivid journey through the last years of pandemic and protest. What emerges is both devastating and life-affirming, an expansive meditation on memory, time, and where we’re headed.”

Steve McQueen shares this about the film: “At first, I had this idea for an artwork that would project the present onto the past. My wife was writing this book and while talking to her, I thought it would be great to film the book. I didn’t think in a million years that my wife and I would collaborate, but somehow this emerged. With the rise of the far right being very vocal and given an actual platform, it’s being legitimized. I think when you get the images of what’s happening now and the actual stories of the past and put them together, it makes us question everything. It wasn’t a case of wanting to do something long. It was a case of wanting to do something right.”

Tiburona have shared the first single, “Pensando En Ti”, off their upcoming second album “Nos Extinguimos” out in January via Montgrí Records.

The video for the song was directed by Paula Puchi and Claudia Gracia.

Tiburona shared this about the song: “”Pensando En Ti” explores the implicit violence in the act of loving, in how desire, passion and obsession come together to create a portrait of the monstrosity of love elevated to its maximum power. Falling in love as a chase against the clock, as a terrifying attempt at possession, as a need for recognition and acceptance of our deepest shadows…in a dark lake, between the night and the green neon lights, between fishing rods and pastel colors.”

Pussy Riot have shared a new video, “Swan Lake”, just ahead of their new tour “Riot Days”.

The video was directed by Anna Aristarkhova in collaboration with Alisa Gorshenina (Alice Hualice).

Pussy Riot shared this about the song and video via a press release: “Children are the most vulnerable in this war. Children should not suffer. We demand the immediate release of all abducted Ukrainian children.”

Pussy Riot just started their US tour and this is a description of what their performance is: “Riot Days is a play based on the memoir of Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina. It’s a story of resistance, repression and revolution in a mixture of concert, rally, theatre and political happening.”