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No Age have shared a new song, “Compact Flashes”, off their new album “People Helping People” out September 16th via Drag City.

TRACKLIST:

01 You’re Cooked
02 Compact Flashes
03 Fruit Bat Blunder
04 Plastic (You Want It)
05 Interdependence
06 Violence
07 Flutter Freer
08 Rush to the Pond
09 Slow Motion Shadow
10 Blueberry Barefoot
11 Tripped Out Before Scott
12 Heavenly
13 Andy Helping Andy

The video for the new song was directed by Tim Biskup.

The band will head out on tour to support the album. Here are the dates for that.

Black Thought and Danger Mouse have released their album “Cheat Codes”.

Tracklist:
01. Sometimes
02. Cheat Codes
03. The Darkest Part (feat. Raekwon and Kid Sister)
04. No Gold Teeth
05. Because (feat. Joey BadaSS, Russ, and Dylan Cartlidge)
06. Belize (feat. MF DOOM)
07. Aquamarine (feat. Michael Kiwanuka)
08. Identical Deaths
09. Strangers (feat. A$AP Rocky and Run The Jewels)
10. Close To Famous
11. Saltwater (feat. Conway the Machine)
12. Violas and Lupitas

The duo have released a few singles/videos since the album’s announcement. “Gold Teeth” was directed by the amazing UK artist Uncanny.

The video for the collaboration with Run The Jewels and A$ap Rocky, “Strangers”, was also directed / edited by the UK artist Uncanny.

The video for the song “Aquamarine” which features vocals by the always amazing Michael Kiwanuka was directed by George Muncey and Elliot Elder, also known as the UK artist Uncanny.

With Danger Mouse as a partner there is a fine mixture and selection of 70’s era soul, psychedelic rock, funk and jazz samples that give Black Thought ample room to perform and deliver in what should count as his first solo album. This is also Danger Mouse first collaboration with a rapper since he released Danger Doom back in 2005 with the late legend MF Doom, who is also featured on the track “Belize”.

Black Thought has been doing this for more than 30 years and in the process has become an underrated goat. Danger Mouse has been doing his thing for over 15 years now. From performing, to producing, to partnering across genres so effortlessly, regardless of the results.

Which brings us to ask the question, is this the poster couple for what dad rap sounds like?

Boris released their new album, “Heavy Rocks”, on August 12th via Relapse. And now they’ve shared their new single “My name is blank”.

TRACKLIST:

She is Burning
Cramper
My name is blank
Blah Blah Blah
Question 1
Nosferatou
Ruins
Ghostly imagination
Chained
(not) Last song

The video for “My name is blank” was directed by Yutaro (Art Love Music).

Boris have been doing their heavy and experimental music for three decades now and they’re one of the best to ever do it both with their albums and their loud live shows.

MTVoid have released their first single in 9 years, “Scanner Void”, an album will be released later this year via Lobal Orning.

MTVoid is the duo featuring TOOL’s Justin Chancellor and Sweet Noise/Serce vocalist Peter Mohamed. For this song Death Grips producer Andy Morin lends drums and synths.

Justin Chancellor said this: “Peter and I really push each other. My playing is a reaction to what he creates. He’ll hit me with a beat, and I’ll spend days recording to it, almost in stream-of-consciousness. I’ll respond to him, and I’m always excited at what he pulls out from my response. It’s all cause and effect. There is a means to this end though; we’re both trying to write a song we would like to listen to. There’s a genuine momentum to it.”

Sudan Archives has released her new single, “NBPQ (Topless)”, off her upcoming album, “Natural Brown Prom Queen”, out September 9th via Stones Throw.

Tracklist
1. Home Maker
2. NBPQ (Topless)
3. Is This Real? (Can You Hear Yourself?)
4. Ciara
5. Selfish Soul
6. Loyal (EDD)
7. OMG BRITT
8. ChevyS10
9. Copycat (Broken Notions)
10. It’s Already Done
11. FLUE
12. TDLY (Homegrown Land)
13. Do Your Thing (Refreshing Springs)
14. Freakalizer
15. Homesick (Gorgeous & Arrogant)
16. Milk Me
17. Yellow Brick Road
18. #513

The video, which is really good and as amazing as the song, was directed by Augusta Yr. The song was written by Sudan Archives and co-produced by her and Simon On The Moon, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, and Ben Dickey.

Brittney Parks (Sudan Archives) said this in a press release about the song: “…it’s song of redemption and freedom…it’s about my insecurities that I have being a brown skin Black female in the world and how to navigate through that while facing American beauty standards.”

Sudan Archives — 2022 Tour Dates

Sept 24 – Solana Beach, CA – Belly Up Tavern
Sept 25 – Santa Barbara, CA – Soho Music Club
Sept 26 – Sacramento, CA – Harlow’s
Sept 27 – San Francisco, CA – The Independent
Sep 29 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
Sept 30 – Vancouver, BC – Fortune
Oct 1 – Seattle, WA – Neumos
Oct 4 – Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line
Oct 5 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
Oct 7 – Toronto, ON – Axis
Oct 8 – Ottawa, ON – Bronson
Oct 10 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
Oct 11 – Philadelphia, PA – World Cafe Live
Oct 12 – Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere (The Hall)
Oct 14 – Washington, DC – Black Cat
Oct 15 – Pittsburgh, PA – Sound Series Block Party
Oct 17 – Asheville, NC – The Grey Eagle
Oct 18 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West
Oct 19 – Nashville, TN – The Basement East
Oct 21 – Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room

Dead Cross have shared the second single, “Heart Reformer”, off their upcoming album, “II”, to be released October 28th via Ipecac.

TRACKLIST:
1. Love Without Love
2. Animal Espionage
3. Heart Reformer
4. Strong and Wrong
5. Ants and Dragons
6. Nightclub Canary
7. Christian Missile Crisis
8. Reign of Error
9. Imposter Syndrome

The short-film like clip was directed and edited by Dark Details (a.k.a. Chris J. Cunningham).

Michael Crain said this of the song: “‘Heart Reformer’ was as much fun to write as it is to listen to. It’s a classic Dead Cross song. It’s a pit stirrer and a fist pumper!” He also shared this: “Words can’t even begin to describe how much this album means to me. It’s birthed of pain and uncertainty. The slow, excruciatingly painful, and nauseating recovery from cancer treatments were the catalyst for every riff and note on this album. However, my will to live and be with my brothers Justin, Dave, Mike, and co-producer Ross Robinson, got me out of bed and running into the studio every day to get it all on tape.”

While Crain was battling cancer and recording this album, Patton was trying to come to grips with his bout of agoraphobia which forced him to cancel multiple live performances that were already scheduled and made him rethink his singing in public persona. He now has a few dates lined up with Mr. Bungle and if those go well Patton has shared that he would love to take this album on the road since he enjoyed playing love with Pearson, Lombardo and Crain.

Benito Cerati has released the first single, “Agujero Negro”, off what will be his debut album “Shasei” out later this year.

The video was directed by Belén Asad. The musicians that have worked with him on this are: Lito Vitale (moog & synths), Estanislao López (bass & co-producer), Alejandro Castellani (drums), Carlos Salas (percussion), Alfredo García Tau (guitars & synths), Alejandro Terán (string arrangements), Javier Casalla, Julio Domínguez, Karmen Rencar y Alejandro Terán (violin, cello y viola), Gillespi (trumpet), Ramiro Flores (sax & trombone) and Federico Stuart (scratch).

Benito said this about the album: “…it’s an album inspired by my adolescence and the coexistence between nature and the digital. Also, influenced by the intensity of first encounters and mistakes made…dual and contradictory…” He also self described the album as: atmospheric, ethereal, mysterious, exuberant, femenine, surreal, nocturnal, cryptic, suspenseful, obscure, sci-fi, ominous, wintery, sensual, eclectic, hypnotic, psychedelic. Inspired by: ambient, pop, spy movies soundtracks, downtempo, experimental, baroque, spacey and a lot of Moog.

Rancho Shampoo & The Indian Dub Orchestra have released a new song “Timbalero”.

Memo Navajas shared this about the song: “Timbalero is a collaboration between Timothy Cuero, from the Kumiai Nation, in the community of Campo, CA and the Rancho Shampoo & Indian Dub Orchestra, coming from the Underground. The voice of Cuero, who interprets his version of a Kumiai bird song, which traditionally narrates small stories from the community, dictates the stave of an urgent song, both introspective and an invitation to escape our reality. Prepare yourself to be submerged for three minutes and eight seconds in the vastness of the cosmos. To ramble on beyond the fourth dimension in this chant that commemorates the Rayovac Ancestors whose bodies dilate and expand, like the spaghetti syndrome, long and wide across the universe, breaking through everything that is, everything that was and everything it will be with it’s majestic presence.”

(if one looks beyond the obvious, one sees connections to the spirit world, to the underworld and to other realities)

The National have released their first single, “Weird Goodbyes”, off their upcoming new album.

The new son is a collaboration with long time friend and partner Bon Iver and a string composition from Bryce Dessner played by the London Contemporary Orchestra.

Matt Berninger said this of the song: “…it’s about letting go of the past and moving on, then later being overwhelmed by second thoughts.” Aaron Dessner said: “‘Weird Goodbyes’ was one of the first new songs we made, I was misusing drum machines, as usual, and stumbled onto this beat that got stuck in my head – it felt like something only Bryan could naturally play. We built the song around the beat. Matt’s melody and words felt so elegant and moving from the beginning – mourning a loss of innocence and motivation, holding onto memories and feelings that inevitably slip away and the grief we all suffer in weird goodbyes.”