Bill Callahan has shared the first single, “The Man I’m Supposed To Be”, off his upcoming album “My Days Of 58” out February 27th via Drag City.
TRACKLIST:
01 Why Do Men Sing 02 The Man I’m Supposed to Be 03 Pathol O.G. 04 Stepping Out for Air 05 Lonely City 06 Empathy 07 West Texas 08 Computer 09 Lake Winnebago 10 Highway Born 11 And Dream Land 12 The World Is Still
Bill Callahan shared this about the album: “Improv/unpredictability/the unknown is the thing that keeps me motivated to keep making music. It’s all about listening to yourself and others. A lot of the best parts of a recording are the mistakes—making them into strengths, using them as springboards into something human.”
PLOSIVS have shared the first single, “Metacine”, off their upcoming second album “Yell At Cloud” out November 28th via Swami Records.
TRACKLIST: 01 “Death Kicks In” 03 “Falls Equivalency” 03 “Metacine” 04 “Civilized” 05 “Hello Gallows” 06 “Storm Machine” 07 “Lady For A Day” 08 “Apartment For Monsters” 09 “Destroyed By Touch” 10 “Vintage Dated”
John Reis shared this about the making of the album: “The band relocated to Winnipeg and wrote and recorded at the No Fun compound while the the famous blizzard of ‘20 descended upon the city, the sub-zero conditions led to power outages and most of what you hear on “Yell At Cloud” was recorded in the dark or by candlelight.”
The Dears have shared the fourth single, “Doom Pays”, off their recently released album “Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful!” via Next Door.
The video for the song was directed by Kevin Drew.
Murray Lightburn shared this about the song: “This song was written very quickly, all at once; words, music, melody and arrangement. It is probably the closest thing to making any kind of political statement we will ever make. In the face of that, there is an internal noise and an external noise and they feel immovable. It’s a battle on two fronts.”
Charli XCX has shared a new song, “House”, it is off the soundtrack she did for Emerald Fennell version/vision of “Wuthering Heights”.
The video for the song was directed by Mitch Ryan.
Charli XCX shared this about the song, the collaboration with John Cale and the inspiration for the soundtrack: “I got a call from Emerald Fennell last Christmas asking whether I would consider working on a song for her adaptation of Wuthering Heights. I read the script and immediately felt inspired so Finn Keane and I began working on not just one but many songs that we felt connected to the world she was creating. After being so in the depths of my previous album I was excited to escape into something entirely new, entirely opposite. When I think of Wuthering Heights I think of many things. I think of passion and pain. I think of England. I think of the Moors, I think of the mud and the cold. I think of determination and grit. A few years ago I watched Todd Haynes’ documentary about The Velvet Underground. As many of you know I’m a huge fan of the band and was really taken by the documentary. One thing that stuck with me was how John Cale described a key sonic requirement of The Velvet Underground. That any song had to be both ‘elegant and brutal.’ I got really stuck on that phrase. I wrote it down on my notes app and would pull it up from time to time and think about what he meant. When working on music for this film, ‘elegant and brutal’ was a phrase I kept coming back to. One day whilst on tour in Austin, Finn and I went to the studio and wrote the bones for a song that would eventually become House. When the summer ended I was still ruminating on John’s words. So I decided to reach out to him to get his opinion on the songs that his phrase had so deeply inspired, but also to see whether he might want to collaborate on any.
We got connected, we spoke on the phone and wow… that voice, so elegant, so brutal. I sent him some songs and we started talking specifically about House. We spoke about the idea of a poem. He recorded something and sent it to me. Something that only John could do. And it was… well, it made me cry. I feel so lucky to have been able to work with John on this song. I’ve been so excited to share it with you all, sitting quietly in anticipation.
Love you all, let’s fall in love again and again <3”
Mariachi El Bronx have shared the first single, “Forgive Or Forget”, off their upcoming fourth album titled “IV” out February 13th via ATO.
TRACKLIST: 1. Forgive or Forget 2. Bandoleros 3. Songbird 4. All Things 5. El Dorado 6. Fools Gold 7. The Takers 8. RIP Romeo 9. Gambler’s Prayer 10. El Borracho 11. Tie You Down 12. Into The Afterlife
Matt Caughthran said this about the song: “…it’s about someone who’s completely disheveled and a little washed out, looking back on their life in a way that’s kind of hazy. There’s a little bit of hope there, but it’s pretty dark.”
To celebrate the release of the album Mariachi El Bronx will do TIJUANA QUATRO, hitting 4 select stages across Southern California and Mexico. Each show will be $4 to celebrate our 4th record, and tickets are on-sale NOW. Presented by liquid death.
1/8: La Cita | LA – 12/6: La Santa | Santa Ana – 1/17: Corazon Del Barrio | San Diego 2/14: Black Box Tijuana | Tijuana, MX.
bar italia have shared the fourth single, “omni shambles”, off their album “Some Like It Hot” which came out October 24th via Matador Records.
A press release from the label said this about the song: “‘omni shambles’ is a taut rocker veering between syncopated, angular riffs and cathartic singalong within an action-packed 2 minutes.”
Smerz have shared a new album, “Big City Life EDITS”, which is a sort of re-imagining of their latest. It is available now via escho.
“Big City Life EDITS” features Clairo, ML Buch, Astrid Sonne, Erika de Casier, Fine, They Are Gutting a Body of Water, MIKE, Zack Sekoff, Elias Rønnenfelt, Fousheé and more.
TRACKLIST:
1. Big dreams Yrdloop EDIT 2. Easy – Astrid Sonne EDIT 3. Imagine this – NEW YORK EDIT 4. What – haloplus+ EDIT 5. Roll the dice – Molina EDIT 6. Feisty – Erika de Casier EDIT 7. A thousand lies – Fine EDIT 8. Big city life – They Are Gutting a Body of Water EDIT 9. You got time and got money – MIKE + Zack Sekoff EDIT feat. Elias Rønnenfelt & Fousheé 10. But do ML Buch EDIT 11. Close – Clarissa Connelly EDIT 12. Dreams – Cezinando EDIT 13. Street style Toxe EDIT 14. You got time and got money – Smerz & WIZJ EDIT feat. Clairo
Anna Calvi has shared a cover of the Bonnie “Prince” Billy song “I See A Darkness” and it features Perfume Genius.
The video for the song was directed by Alexander Brown.
Anna Calvi shared this about the song: “So many songs are about romantic love. But I wanted to highlight the romance of the chosen family, the depth of connection that isn’t tethered to heteronormative ideals. It’s such a powerful song about the yearning for intimacy. I love inhabiting other people’s songs. When I sing someone else’s words, I feel like I’m getting closer to myself somehow, because the songs I choose express something I can’t articulate.”
The Dare played a whole 50 minute set at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, CA on Saturday October 25th to what felt like a sold out crowd.
Seeing The Dare live is as if James Murphy was skinny with no band/friends onstage playing with him and instead it’s just a tracking tune that plays some sort of b-side versions of Soulwax songs (Nite Versions) remixed by 2manydjs and he does karaoke to them with a tower of Marshall stacks and strobe lights to help with the stage presence.
i think i better follow you around 