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”.
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
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.”
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.”
Godspeed You! Black Emperor have shared the first single, “GREY RUBBLE – GREEN SHOT”, off their upcoming album “NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD” out October 4th via Constellation.
TRACKLIST: 01 “SUN IS A HOLE SUN IS VAPORS” 02 “BABYS IN A THUNDERCLOUD” 03 “RAINDROPS CAST IN LEAD” 04 “BROKEN SPIRES AT DEAD KAPITAL” 05 “PALE SPECTATOR TAKES PHOTOGRAPHS” 06 “GREY RUBBLE – GREEN SHOOTS”
GY!BE shared this via a press release: “THE PLAIN TRUTH== we drifted through it, arguing. every day a new war crime, every day a flower bloom. we sat down together and wrote it in one room, and then sat down in a different room, recording. NO TITLE= what gestures make sense while tiny bodies fall? what context? what broken melody? and then a tally and a date to mark a point on the line, the negative process, the growing pile. the sun setting above beds of ash while we sat together, arguing. the old world order barely pretended to care. this new century will be crueler still. war is coming. don’t give up. pick a side. hang on. love. GY!BE”
The band has announced tour dates for the fall of 2024 and the spring of 2025 with one date included for Tijuana.
i think i better follow you around 