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Ashes and Diamonds have shared the first single, “On A Rocka”, off their debut album “Ashes and Diamonds Are Forever” out October 31st via Cleopatra Records.

TRACKLIST:

1. Hollywood
2. Teenage Robots
3. On A Rocka
4. ON
5. Boy Or Girl
6. The A Listers
7. Plastic Fantastic
8. Ice Queen
9. Setting Yourself Up For Love
10. Alien Love
11. Champagne Charlie
12. 2020

Ashes and Diamonds are singer/guitarist Daniel Ash (Bauhaus, Love & Rockets), drummer Bruce Smith (PiL, The Pop Group) and bassist Paul Denman (Sade).

Daniel Sh shared this about the single: “We wanted to start with something hard and fast for major impact regarding the first single.”

Bruce Smith shared this: “It’s a killer piece of music. Super fresh, it doesn’t sound like anyone else. What else can you say?”

The video for the song was directed by Jake Scott.

Daniel Ash shared this about the album: “We actually started this project about seven years ago but because of Covid it’s taken all this time to be truly satisfied with the final product. It’s been so long I actually don’t recall how this band initially got together apart from the fact that Paul’s wife Kim suggested Bruce for drum duties. I do remember Paul wanting to work together many many years ago but that’s another story.”

Ronboy has shared a new single, “Disaster”, it features (up and comer solo artist) Matt Berninger. The song is available now.

The video for the song was co-directed by Ronboy and Matt Berninger.

Ronboy shared this about the song: “Being hard on myself is usually a conversation I have within the privacy of my own mind. But now Matt is responding to my thoughts… publicly. It’s emotional in itself having him on this song.”

Matt Berninger shared this about it: “Ronboy has a way of blending tenderness and ferocity like no other artist I know. So happy she let me into this incredible song.”

Nick Cave & Bryce Dessner have shared a new song, “Train Dreams”, for the new film of the same name directed by Clint Bentley.

“Train Dreams” features Joel Edgerton as a railroad labourer, alongside Felicity Jones and William H. Macy, and it adapts Denis Johnson’s 2011 novella.

Director Clint Bentley shared this about the song: “When we started thinking about making a song for the film, Nick felt like the perfect artist to do it. It turns out that Train Dreams is one of his all-time favorite books, but he initially feared there wouldn’t be time to do something because he was getting ready to go on tour. Then he watched the film and was inspired to write something and the whole thing came together really quickly. I knew he would craft something beautiful and resonant, but the film has such a delicate tone at the end, one that was really hard to get right, and I didn’t want a song that would push the audience in another direction emotionally. But Nick and I were very much on the same page from the outset. He read some early lyrics to me that he was working on and I was just really a bit overwhelmed with the whole situation, I’ve been a fan of his for such a long time and there I was, not only having a really lovely conversation with him about life and art, but he was also reading lyrics to me that he was writing for a film I made. It was a really special moment. He’s a very rare artist and one I admire immensely. There’s no one thing that defines a Nick Cave song sonically, lyrically, or otherwise. He’s got songs about everything, all the varieties of our experience here. There’s a deep poeticism alongside rock and roll. And that just felt like the perfect fit for a film like this that’s telling the story of this person who lived a beautiful resonant life, even if it did include heartache and pain.”

Bryce Dessner composed the score for the film. This is the second collaboration with Clint Bentley.

Hannah Frances has shared the first single, “Surviving You”, off her upcoming album “Nested In Tangles” out October 10th via Fire Talk.

TRACKLIST:
1. Nested in Tangles
2. Life’s Work
3. Falling From and Further
4. Beholden To
5. Steady in the Hand
6. A Body, A Map
7. Surviving You
8. The Space Between (feat. Daniel Rossen)
9. Heavy Light

Hannah Frances self directed the video.

Hannah Frances shared this about the album: “It’s a personal account of receiving harm from people who have projected their own pain onto me, who refuse to see themselves or take accountability for the impact of their actions. I was reckoning with my rage, and recognizing how much I’ve lived in survival mode for the majority of my life. This is for anyone who grew up in a turbulent and harmful home and is learning to affirm their lived experience.”

Black Eyes have shared the first single, “Pestilence”, off their upcoming album “Hostile Design” out October 10th via Dischord.

Tracklist
1. Break a Leg
2. Burn
3. Under the Waves
4. Pestilence
5. Yeah, Right
6. TomTom

The band shared this about the album: “The album was written over fifteen months, between August 2023 and November 2024, and was recorded at Tonal Park studios over three days, with Ian MacKaye resuming his role as producer and Don Godwin engineering. The instrumentation returns to Cough’s two drums, bass, guitar and sax lineup, but adds some fresh elements: live multichannel dubbing, now a standard of our shows, has been integrated into the performances, as have electronic drum triggers and samples as well as the occasional bass clarinet passage.”

Shame have shared the third single, “Spartak”, off their upcoming album “Cutthroat” out September 5th via Dead Oceans.

The video for the song was directed by Charlie Steen (vocalist). He also shared this about the song, which might as well be describing our feelings and situations from when we were in school too: “I guess this disdain towards cliques comes from how shit I was made to feel by the cool kids growing u. I was a chubby teenager who liked the wrong type of music and wore the wrong type of clothes. It’s just another time I’d like to say fuck you to those people, and to anyone who makes someone feel shitty for not fitting in.”

Sean Coyle-Smith (guitar) said this about the song: ““Sparktak” came about because  I was basically trying to write a Wilco song.”

Deftones have shared the second single, “milk of the madonna”, off their upcoming album “private music” out August 22nd.

The band has also shared the lineup of what will be the 6th annual Día De Los Deftones to be celebrated November 1st in San Diego, CA. The poster and lineup are below.

Jehnny Beth has shared the fourth single, “High Resolution Sadness”, off her upcoming album “You Heartbreaker, You” out August 29th via Fiction Records.

The video for the song was co-directed by Jehnny Beth and Johnny Hostile.

“High Resolution Sadness” critiques the mental fatigue caused by excessive Smartphone use and encourages listeners to reconnect with real-life experiences and relationships.

Jehnny Beth shared this about the song: “This track was written with the energy of a moshpit in mind, while highlighting the brain rot caused by endless phone scrolling. It reclaims the urge to ‘put down the screen‘ and feel ‘your skin on my skin‘. Perfect lyrics for crowd surfing.”

IDLES have shared the single “Rabbit Run” off the movie “Caught Stealing” by Darren Aronofsky.

Joe Talbot shared this about the song: “This has been a huge opportunity for us that seemingly came about after a chance meeting backstage at Fallon when we both happened to be guests on the same day. But in hindsight, I realize that Darren is one of my favorite directors and his films have in some ways made me who I am as an artist. This lucid dream has been a lifetime in the making and one that I will live over and over with a huge sense of humility and joy.”

Darren Aronofsky shared this about the music selection: “I built Caught Stealing to be a roller coaster of fun and wanted to supercharge the film by main lining a punk sensibility. I don’t think a band has really been tasked with performing a score for a movie. Who better to collaborate with than IDLES? It has been a dream watching them bend their notes to blast a hole in our movie screen.”

Rob Simonsen shared this about the score:  “I was really excited by the idea that Darren had for our third project together, which was to write a score for IDLES, using them as our orchestra. They had created original songs for the film, and building a palette that started from their sound, the incredible textures they create through inventive use of feedback, distortion, and pedals, was a really satisfying challenge. Our work with the band was genuinely inspiring. They’re not only extraordinarily talented musicians, but individuals with clear eyes, big hearts, and bold souls.”