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Benjamin Booker has shared the third single, “Slow Dance In A Gay Bar”, off his upcoming album “Lower” that comes out January 24th on Fire Next Time Records via Thirty Tigers.

The video was co-directed by Benjamin Booker and Gerry Cisneros. Booker shared this about the song: “You know, sometimes you find yourself in a death hole, surrounded by bones and rotting flesh. It feels like every second is a shovel-full of dirt flung on your head, the worms are laughing at you, hungry, ready to eat. But then, out of nowhere, the impossible happens. A ladder appears. You climb up and the world you knew before is completely different. The colors are more saturated. The sun shines brighter and the air smells sweet like honey. This song is about that. We shot this video in the French Quarter before the attack. I’d like to dedicate it to the victims.”

(The) James Brandon Lewis Trio have shared the second single, “Prince Eugene”, off their upcoming album “Apple Cores” out February 7th via ANTI-.

TRACKLIST:
01 Apple Cores #1
02 Prince Eugene
03 Five Spots To Caravan
04 Of Mind And Feeling
05 Apple Cores #2
06 Remember Brooklyn & Moki
07 Broken Shadows
08 D.C. Got Pockets
09 Apple Cores #3
10 Don’t Forget Jayne
11 Exactly, Our Music

James Brandon Lewis shared this about the album: “The album takes its name and intention from the column that poet and jazz theorist Amiri Baraka wrote for DownBeat in the 1960’s. I was first exposed to Amiri Baraka at Howard University (also Baraka’s alma mater). “Blues People” (Baraka’s groundbreaking 1963 study of Black American music), was required reading. I’m always in constant dialogue with his work. The record itself is a nod to Amiri but mainly a nod to Don Cherry, using Amiri as a branch to really get the conversation going. It’s not a tribute in the sense that we’re playing Don Cherry compositions, but that the music is commenting on his musical curiosity.

Explosions In The Sky have shared a new album / soundtrack for the new Peter Berg Netflix series “American Primeval”. The album is out now via Netflix Music.

TRACKLIST:

01. The Fort
02. Hard Road
03. All My Fault
04. Horizon
05. Memories
06. Jacob’s Descent
07. Adam Ondi Ahman
08. A Melancholy
09. Snow
10. A Massacre
11. This Land
12. Ghosts

American Primeval is an American Western Netflix series directed by Peter Berg.

It tells the story of a mother and son fleeing a troubled past, seeking a sense of family in the unforgiving landscape of the American frontier.

The six-part Western stars Taylor Kitsch, Betty Gilpin, and Dane DeHaan.

This would be the third collaboration between Explosions In The Sky and Peter Berg.

Hamilton Leithauser has shared the second single, “Knockin’ Heart”, off his upcoming third album “This Side Of The Island” out March 7th via Glassnote Records.

The video for the song was directed by Gabby Sibilska on a concept by Hamilton Leithauser.

The album was co-produced by Leithauser and his wife Anna Stumpf alongside Aaron Dessner.

Hamilton Leithauser shared this about the song: “‘Knockin’ Heart’ is sung by an estranged, stoned lover on their way home, who is dying to get a message through to someone who is probably not listening. It is ‘I will love you for life if you’ll let me.’ I wrote and recorded it one evening and put it away for over a year. I knew I liked it, and I didn’t want to mess anything up by trying to perfect it. It was the last song I played for Aaron when we got together, and the first song he helped me work on. I’d say he raised the ceiling and lowered the floor on the entire thing sonically. He actually used a funny bass technique he said he’d used on a Taylor Swift song, which I got a kick out of. I gotta say his bass sounds fantastic. Now there are three basses on it! One of mine and two of his. That is a first for me.”

Andy Bell has shared the first single, “i’m in love…”, off his upcoming third solo album “pinball wanderer” out February 28th via Sonic Cathedral.

TRACKLIST:

1. panic attack
2. i’m in love…
3. madder lake deep
4. apple green ufo
5. pinball wanderer
6. music concrete
7. the notes you never hear
8. space station mantra

The song features Dot Allison and Michael Rother (Neu!).

The video for the song was directed by Chris Tomsett

Andy Bell shared this about the song, which is a cover of The Passions originally titled “I’m In Love With A German Film Star”: “I went through a stage of playing the guitar part for that song at every Ride soundcheck. Erol Alkan has always maintained it’s ‘proto shoegaze’, and I agree. Dot has been a friend of mine for a long time now. Like many people of a certain age, I loved One Dove, and when I booked her to DJ at a club night in Sweden in about 2004, she levelled the place by playing “Ace Of Spades” by Motörhead at 3am and we became mates. I played on some tracks on her last album Consciousology, and this was her returning the favour.”

He also shared this about working with guitarist Michael Rother: “I met him at his show at the Barbican last February and asked him to remix the song, but instead he decided he wanted to play guitar, which took everything to a whole new level. I was leaving for a tour the next morning and I knew I had to mix the single before I left. Hearing Michael’s guitar parts in the mix was such an incredible feeling; it just fired me up to keep on recording and mixing into the night.”

Bonnie “Prince” Billy has shared the third single, “Downstream”, off his upcoming album “The Purple Bird” out January 31st via No Quarter and Domino Records.

Will Oldham shared this about the song and collaboration with John Anderson: “One of my favorite recorded John Anderson performances is a duet he sang with Merle Haggard called “The Winds of Change” on Merle’s 1996 record.  It’s a minor-key ballad about climate change and over-development, the compromise of our environment’s integrity at the hands of humans.  “Downstream”, though in a major key, hits on the same ideas.  I don’t know how to explain how it felt to witness this master of song bring, beautifully and humbly, his experience and expertise to bear on this little recording we were making.  Anderson’s singing on the final verse has weight in it, and concern, and love.”

The video was directed by Michael Cullen.

Young Widows have shared the first single, “Call Bullshit”, off their upcoming fifth album “Power Sucker” out March 21st via Temporary Residence Ltd.

TRACKLIST:
1. The Darkest Side
2. Every Bone
3. Call Bullshit
4. Exit Slowly
5. Power Sucker
6. Turned Out Alright
7. Balloon
8. The Holy Net
9. Total Fucking Clarity
10. Take Get Lost
11. Falling Bullet
12. A Life in Tow
13. Hotel of Crows

This is their first album in 11 years and they announced a tour where they will be supporting Thou.

Darkside have shared the second single, “S.N.C”, off their upcoming third album “Nothing” out February 28th via Matador Records.

TRACKLIST:
1. Slau
2. S.N.C
3. Are You Tired
4. Graucha Max
5. American References
6. Heavy is Good For This
7. Hell Suite (Part I)
8. Hell Suite (Part II)
9. Sin El Sol No Hay Nada

Via a press release this was shared about the album: “This concept “Nothing” initially came out of the constant search for mindfulness, but also through Harrington’s moments in the morning with his newborn daughter, where he found a deep beauty in just sitting with her on the floor doing nothing.

For Jaar, this concept of nothing became applicable to other aspects of life. “Nothing” is the reflexive answer when asked about what’s wrong, when there’s too much to even begin to express. In this framework, “nothing” means its mirror opposite. Or “nothing” can be a damning illustration of the lack of change in the world. The maddening inaction on climate change, the political hypocrisy, and the recurring cycles of violence against the people of Palestine, the Sudan, and elsewhere.”

Throwing Muses have shared the first single, “Summer Of Love”, off their upcoming album “Moonlight Concessions” out March 14th via Fire Records.

TRACKLIST:

01 Summer of Love
02 South Coast
03 Theremini
04 Libretto
05 Albatross
06 Sally’s Beauty
07 Drugstore Drastic
08 You’re Clouds
09 Moonlight Concessions

The band shared this about the song in a press release: “…the song began as a bet with a guy for a dollar that revolved around the idea that the seasons don’t change us…”

The video was directed by Samuele Gottardello.