Arca has shared a new song, “Chama”, off the upcoming album collaboration with Tokischa. The song is out now via XL Recordings.
Arca shared this via a press release: “This one’s for all the dolls, the queens, and the good little witches. If I shine, it’s for us. Courage to all my butterflies in defending softness, tenderness, magic, and sweetness in a world full of hardness. Shine without fear, chamas.”
The video for the song was directed by Stillz.
The Color Forty Nine have shared a (new) video for the song “I’m Going To Try” off their last album “String Ladders”.
The video was filmed in the South of London from the window of the 259 bus.
For those that may think that the art of storytelling via a music video is gone. Or maybe you are looking for something almost cathartic like watching the “Nightswimming” video for the first time. Or be transfixed like some of us were by the “Street Spirit” video. Or maybe even contemplate like in “Star Guitar”. Or just waiting for something to come like “Rabbit In Your Headlights”.
This is for you. This is for us.
Tears For Fears have shared a new single, “The Girl That I Call Home”, off their upcoming live album “Songs Of A Nervous Planet”.
TRACKLIST:
01. Say Goodbye To Mum And Dad *
02. The Girl That I Call Home *
03. Emily Said *
04. Astronaut *
05. No Small Thing
06. Tipping Point
07. Everybody Wants To Rule The World
08. Secret World
09. Sowing The Seeds Of Love
10. Long, Long, Long Time
11. Break The Man
12. My Demons
13. Rivers of Mercy
14. Mad World
15. Suffer The Children
16. Woman In Chains
17. Badman’s Song
18. Pale Shelter
19. Break It Down Again
20. Head Over Heels
21. Change
22. Shout
*New Studio Tracks
Roland Orzabal shared this about the new song: “My wife Emily has been on at me for years to try and write her a love song. So eventually I did it. I was in Hawaii, I took my phone with me and every day I would sing over the backing track, many, many times. But I couldn’t for the life of me, think of a title. Then one night, I went to bed and I did that thing where we ask the universe, ‘please gimme a hand, gimme, a really good title.’ I woke up the next morning with The Girl That I Call Home. And my wife loves it.”
The video for the song was directed by Maschima.
Of the new album Curt Smith shared this: “I think a lot of people don’t know that we are a good live band, actually! They see a duo, and they think it’s going to be two people with a couple of keyboards and a bunch of backing tapes, and that’ll be it. Over the years, we’ve vastly improved since our heyday back in the ’80s.”
Orzabal added: “You could say this is an album forty years in the making.”
The band also shared a clip from “Sowing The Seeds Of Love” from the upcoming concert film release that was recorded at the FirstBank Amphitheater in Franklin, Tennessee
TV On The Radio have shared the news that they’re doing a 20th anniversary reissue of “Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes” out November 15th via Touch & Go.
TRACKLIST:
1. The Wrong Way
2. Dreams
3. King Eternal
4. Ambulance
5. Poppy
6. Don’t Love You
7. Bomb Yourself
8. Wear You Out
9. Staring At The Sun
10. You Could Be Love
11. Staring At The Sun (Demo)*
12. New Health Rock (single)*
13. Modern Romance (from the “New Health Rock” single)*
14. Final Fantasy (2004 recording)*
15. Dry Drunk Emperor (2005 recording)*
*bonus tracks
With this announcement they also shared “Final Fantasy” which is a 2004 demo that eventually became “Bomb Yourself”.
They’ve also shared that they will be doing some select shows in Net York, Los Angeles and London. While they will be on tour not everyone will be there, they shared this in a press release: “David Andrew Sitek, TVOTR’s guitarist and producer, is unable to join the live shows.”
TOUR DATES:
November 25 – New York, N.Y. @ Webster Hall
November 26 – New York, N.Y. @ Webster Hall
November 29 – New York, N.Y. @ Webster Hall
November 30 – New York, N.Y. @ Webster Hall
December 4 – Los Angeles @ El Rey Theatre
December 5 – Los Angeles @ El Rey Theatre
December 7 – Los Angeles @ El Rey Theatre
December 10 – London, UK @ Islington Assembly Hall
December 11 – London, UK @ Islington Assembly Hall
December 12 – London, UK @ Islington Assembly Hall
TR/ST has shared a new single the title track “Performance”, off his upcoming album out September 13th via Dais Records.
TRACKLIST:
1 – Soon
2 – Regret
3 – All at Once
4 – The Shore
5 – Boys Of LA
6 – Clowned
7 – Dark Day
8 – Performance
9 – Warp
The video for the song was directed by Bryan M Ferguson.
TR/ST will be on tour supporting the new album. Dates are on the poster below.
Mo Dotti have shared the third single, “Whirling Sad”, off their upcoming album “Opaque” which will be self released on September 20th.
TRACKLIST:
01 “pale blue afternoon”
02 “lucky boy”
03 “really wish”
04 “wave goodbye”
05 “carnelian”
06 “whirling sad”
07 “for anyone and you”
08 “wasted delay”
09 “never comes around”
10 “dead to me”
Mo Dotti shared this about the influences for this song: “the influence of vintage Lush, the sweeter side of My Bloody Valentine, and SST Records-era Dinosaur Jr.” The video for the song was directed by Shelley Shimeck.
A few weeks ago Mo Dotti also shared the video for “Lucky Boy” which was shot at Slide Away Fest by Sophie Negrini.
The WAEVE have shared the second single, “Broken Boys”, off their upcoming second album “City Lights” out September 20th via Transgressive.
TRACKLIST:
1. City Lights
2. You Saw
3. Moth to the Flame
4. I Belong To
5. Simple Days
6. Broken Boys
7. Song For Eliza May
8. Druantia
9. Girl of the Endless Night
10. Sunrise
The video for the song was directed by Tom Pallant.
The band has announced some UK tour dates, but nothing for the USofA (nor Tijuana) have been announced:
UK Tour dates:
20 September – Rough Trade Liverpool
21 September – Rough Trade Nottingham
23 September – Rough Trade Bristol
24 September – Rough Trade East, London
29 October – Village Underground, London
The Smile have shared the news that they’re releasing their third album, “Cutouts”, out October 4th via XL.
TRACKLIST:
1. Foreign Spies
2. Instant Psalm
3. Zero Sum
4. Colours Fly
5. Eyes & Mouth
6. Don’t Get Me Started
7. Tiptoe
8. The Slip
9. UGcgWGFkcWE= (No Words)
10. Bodies Laughing
With the news of the album they’ve also shared the third and fourth singles off the album, “Zero Sum” and “Foreign Spies”, with videos directed by Weirdcore.
The Smile shared this alongside the news of the new album:
“We lovingly submit our latest 45 minute (?) record Cutouts
to be swallowed up by the fast running stream, down into the giant ever growing river and on to the sea.”
Fentanyl have shared the fourth single, “Silver Hour'”, off their upcoming self titled album out September 13th via Convulse Records.
TRACKLIST:
01 “Or So I Thought”
02 “Blind”
03 “Ever Ending”
04 “Further”
05 “Avoidant”
06 “I Can’t Recall”
07 “Hyper Focus”
08 “Stress Starve”
09 “Detached”
10 “Real Me”
11 “Brackish Water”
12 “Spiral”
13 “Gazes Back”
14 “Silver Hour”
Kenneth Turner (vocals) shared this about the album: “I would say the record is a racket. It’s loud like any hardcore record should be, it’s jarring, it’s hella bright, and even though the guitars aren’t very distorted, it still has moments where it’s heavy. I grew up listening to punk on shitty, tinny stock car speakers, so I always kinda always wanted Fentanyl to sound like you were listening to it in a 2003 Honda Civic. I do think I’ve taken that a bit to the extreme in terms of tone, but at the end of the day it sets us apart.”
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