X have shared the second single, “Ruby Church”, off what will be their last album “Smoke & Fiction” which was released August 2nd via Fat Possum.
TRACKLIST:
01 “Ruby Church”
02 “Sweet Til The Bitter End”
03 “The Way It Is”
04 “Flipside”
05 “Big Black X”
06 “Smoke & Fiction”
07 “Struggle”
08 “Winding Up The Time”
09 “Face In The Moon”
10 “Baby & All”
The video for the song was directed by Brandise Danesewich.
Jack White has officially announced the release of his new album, “No Name”.
Tracklist:
1. Old Scratch Blues
2. Bless Yourself
3. That’s How I’m Feeling
4. It’s Rough on Rats (If You’re Asking)
5. Archbishop Harold Holmes
6. Bombing Out
7. What’s the Rumpus?
8. Tonight (Was a Long Time Ago)
9. Underground
10. Number One With a Bullet
11. Morning at Midnight
12. Missionary
13. Terminal Archenemy Endling
The one thing we’ll give to Jack White on these sorts of releases that he does is that he’s in an almost enviable position of being able to release an album with no advance warning no singles no promo no nothing and still be able to move a few hundred thousand copies of his album.
Capsula have shared a new song, “Premonición”, which is available in all platforms now.
This, most likely, will be part of their new and upcoming album, for which we have no additional details yet and their follow up to “Phantasmaville” which was released back in 2021.
If this song is any indication as to what the album will sound like, then we should be expecting a 1970’s glam rock n roll album in the same vein as a Bolan or Bowie album from that era and that is always a good sound.
The Smile have (not so) secretly released a 12″ single for the songs “Don’t Get Me Started” and “The Slip”.
The cover for this release was not done by Stanley Donwood apparently or it has not been reported by whom it was done.
The Smile were on tour but they had to cancel their Europe tour due to Jonny suffering from an illness that we are sure it had nothing to do with the ongoing genocide.
Thee Sacred Souls have shared that they will release their new album, “Got A Story To Tell”, on October 4th via Daptone Records.
TRACKLIST:
01 Lucid Girl
02 Price I’ll Pay
03 Live for You
04 On My Mind
05 Waiting on the Right Time
06 Losing Side of Love
07 Somebody Knew
08 My Heart is Drowning
09 Stuck in the Mud
10 In the Mirror
11 One and the Same
12 I’m So Glad I Found You, Baby
The first single off the album is the opening track “Lucid Girl” with a video directed by Emma Kolb (CAKE).
The Jesus Lizard announced the release of their upcoming album “Rack” which will be out September 13th via Ipecac.
TRACKLIST:
1. Hide & Seek
2. Armistice Day
3. Grind
4. .What If?
5. Lord Godiva
6. Alexis Feels Sick
7. Falling Down
8. Dunning Kruger
9. Moto(R)
10. Is That Your Hand?
11. Swan the Dog
The first single they released off the album was the opening track “Hide & Seek” with a video created by Displaced Replaced.
The second single is for the song “Alexis Feels Sick” with a video created by David Yow.
Tindersticks have announced a new album, “Soft Tissue”, out September 13th via Slang.
TRACKLIST:
1. New World
2. Don’t Walk, Run
3. Nancy
4. Falling, The Light
5. Always a Stranger
6. The Secret of Breathing
7. Turned My Back
8. Soon To Be April
They’ve shared two singles so far off the album. The first one was the opening track “New World” and this is what Stuart Staples shared about the video: “Sid was making these tiny ceramic characters, and I asked her to make some of the band. Later I wrote this song about somehow trying make sense of this strange world I felt developing around me and these little guys came back into my mind. Let’s take them on a stop motion journey across a strange land, from the barren rocks to the bountiful fruit that is not familiar and maybe poisonous. Sid put the landscapes together and moved the figures, millimetres at a time. Neil took the photographs; we edited as went along.”
The second single is for the song “Nancy” and this is what Staples shared about it: “Some say that there are only a few different types of songs. “Nancy” definitely falls in to the classic “guy fucks up / begs for forgiveness” bracket — but hopefully with a few surprises along the way. Like much of Soft Tissue, the musical spark of excitement came from the creation of the rhythm track Earl Harvin gated, echoed, and fused with a CR78. Dan McKinna’s bass and David Boulter’s organ arpeggios combining into a heavy sauce. Nice brass too.”
Beak> released a new album, “>>>>”, on May 28th.
TRACKLIST:
1. Strawberry Line
2. The Seal
3. Windmill Hill
4. Denim
5. Hungry Are We
6. Ah Yeh
7. Bloody Miles
8. Secrets
9. Cellophane
The band released this statement: “This is the fourth Beak> studio album, imaginatively titled “>>>>”. At its core we always wanted it to be head music, listened to as an album, not as individual songs. This is why we are releasing this album with no singles or promo tracks. The recording and writing initially began in a house called Pen Y Bryn in Talsarnau, Wales in the fallout from the weirdness of the COVID days. Remote and with only ourselves and the view of Portmeirion in the distance, we got to work.
With the opening track, “Strawberry Line” (our tribute to our dear furry friend Alfie Barrow, who appears on the albums cover) as the metronomic guide for the album, we then resumed recording, as before, at Invada studios in Bristol, whilst still touring around Europe and North/South America.
After playing hundreds of gigs and festivals over the years we felt that touring had started to influence our writing to the point we weren’t sure who we were anymore. So we decided to go back to the origins of where we were at on our first album – with zero expectations and just playing together in a room.
Hopefully we have achieved this.
We begin touring the album in November playing the album in full, which we’ve never done before. Yes, we will probably still play “Wulfstan II” at the end.
See you there.”
Kendrick Lamar has released a video for one of Drake’s funeral songs, “Not Like Us”.
The video for the song was co-directed by Dave Free and Kendrick himself.
At this point (almost) everyone has heard the song that potentially and hopefully ended Drake’s career. And if there is a lesson to be learned here is that you don’t come at Kendrick at all because he will mock you, embarrass you, diss you, insult you, slap you around, take what you’ve created and turn it inside out and use it against you. Surely he isn’t untouchable, it’s just that I don’t see anyone who would dare go after him again in the near future.
Also, the video he co-directed will most likely be the video of the year, there hasn’t been a video with such impact since Donald Glover released “This Is America” by Childish Gambino.
i think i better follow you around 