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Sleaford Mods have shared the cover of the Pet Shop Boys song “West End Girls”, which will be released as a single with the B-Side being a Pet Shop Boys remix of the Sleaford Mods cover. All profits generated by the single are being donated by Sleaford Mods to the charity Shelter, details of their work can be found at https://www.shelter.org.uk/

TRACKLIST:

Side 1

West End Girls (clean)
West End Girls (dirty)

Side 2

West End Girls (Pet Shop Boys Remix)
West End Girls (HiFi Sean Remix)
West End Girls (Extnddntwrk Remix)

The video for the song was directed by Ewen Spencer.

Jason Williamson shared this about the song: “I’ve been listening to the Pet Shop Boys’ albums Please and Actually a lot, the music still fits this landscape so well. When Andrew suggested we cover ‘West End Girls,’ it was important to honour the track’s brilliance. So, when Neil and Chris gave the track their blessing our tiny minds were blown, and when we received their remix… it was almost too much. It was brilliant!”

Andrew Fearn shared this: “‘West End Girls’ is a song that’s very close to my heart, my coming-of-age track in so many ways.”

Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe shared this: “Sleaford Mods have brought East End boys back to the West End streets for a great cause and we love their new version.”

Planet B have announced the release of their second album, “Friction Prediction”, to be released February 9th via Three One G.

TRACKLIST:
01. Dick On the Dance Floor
02. Clogged Sync (feat. Eric Livingston and Ethan Campa)
03. The Baader Review (feat. Crow Jane)
04. The Bouquet (feat. D-Styles)
05. Terrible Purpose (feat. Ric Scales)
06. Horror Movie Called Civilization (feat. Tommy Meehan)
07. Filthy Suitcase
08. Goals Gone Wild (feat. Tommy Meehan)
09. Rack More Brains (feat. Kent Osborne)
10. Unreal Estate (feat. David Scott Stone)
11. Let Me Explain This Again (feat. Josie Cotton and Gabe Serbian)

Planet B’s second LP has been a long time in the making. Obviously, over this span of time, there has been an almost unimaginable amount of surreality and insanity to pull from when creating the band’s unique hip-hop-punk-meets-sci-fi-horror-movie sonic aesthetic. As always, the sound is as confrontational as it is catchy, the lyrics scathing and the beats bizarre. Earworms abound. As with the band’s first release, there are a host of guest collaborations on the various tracks, from Josie Cotton to David Scott Stone (ex-LCD Soundsystem, Melvins), D-Styles (Invisibl Skratch Piklz), and more. Perhaps most personally meaningful are the instrumental contributions from Gabe Serbian (The Locust) and Eric Livingston (Mamaleek), both family to the band, who have each passed on from this dimension and back to whatever radical planet they came from since the creation of the album.

Justin Pearson (Dead Cross, Deaf Club, The Locust), Luke Henshaw (Sonido de la Frontera), Kevin Avery (Field Day, Retox) and Scott Osment (Deaf Club, Glassing) formed Planet B with the shared purpose of creating music subversive in sound and sobering in message. Their music lays somewhere just out of reach of genre, with aesthetics rooted in hip hop, hardcore punk, turntablism, and 70s-80s horror movie scores. It is catchy, heavily percussive, and eerie all at once. The band’s first self-titled LP showcased the band collaborating with artists such asKool Keith, Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Martin Atkins (ex-PiL, Killing Joke, Ministry, Pigface), K. Joseph Karam (The Locust), and Sonny Kay (The VSS, Angel Hair). The band has also released splits with electronic punk duo ADULT. and turntablist collective Invisibl Skratch Piklz. The band also formed an offshoot with The Satanic Temple co-founder and spokesperson, Lucien Greaves; this project is called Satanic Planet. Fiction Prediction sees a similar array of collaborators.

It has been reported that the novel “The Death Of Bunny Munro” by Nick Cave will be adapted as a limited series with Matt Smith attached to star and executive produce.

Matt Smith will play the titular role of Bunny Munro, a sex addict, door-to-door beauty product salesman and self-professed lothario whose life is derailed by his wife Libby’s suicide. Together with his 9-year-old son Bunny Junior, he embarks on an increasingly out-of-control road trip across Southern England as the two struggle to handle their grief. Bunny by trying to seduce any woman he meets, Bunny Junior by talking to the ghost of his mother as he slowly realizes his father is a mess. Eklöf and Cave will also executive produce the series.

Nick Cave shared this via a statement: “Finally, someone with the courage to take on this unholy tale. I am thrilled that Sky and Clerkenwell Films are bringing Bunny to life, in all his flawed glory, and I can think of nobody better than Matt Smith to play him.”

Matt Smith, via his statement, called the novel a brilliant exploration of love, grief, and chaos. At its heart a deep, difficult, and tender story about a father and son, coping with loss and change.

Adam Gnade will release his new book, “I Wish To Say Lovely Things”, on February 24th via Three One G and Bread & Roses Press.

This book is the third part in a series that started with “After Tonight, Everything Will Be Different” and continued with it’s sequel “The Internet Newspaper”. The series is called “The Home and Away Quartet”.

A synopsis of the book says: “Like a child born of the bell hooks classic All About Love and Maggie Nelson’s Bluets, Adam Gnade’s latest autobiographical novel takes a hard look at love in all forms—romantic, platonic, love of place, of chosen family, of destiny and purpose. Structured in large part as a book of lists, “I Wish to Say Lovely Things” is a complicated, big-hearted look at what it is stay loving and gentle in a violent age. Through it all, Gnade’s characters struggle to get out of bed in the morning, fight for what they believe in while getting zero in return, and hope like hell in the face of hellish hopelessness. I Wish to Say Lovely Things is a graceful, philosophical, clear-eyed beacon with which to light your path through this painful, exhausting, and tremendously magnificent life.”

Facts about “I Wish to Say Lovely Things”:

1. Primarily inspired by bell hooks’ “All About Love” and Maggie Nelson’s “Bluets”.
2. Book design by Bran Black Moon.
3. Cover photo by Jonya Streeper.
4. Edited by Jessie Duke.
5. Paperback, 240 pages.
6. Retail price $17.

The Smile have announced the release of the lead single, “Wall Of Eyes”, off their second album by the same name out January 26th via XL Recordings.

TRACKLIST:
01 “Wall Of Eyes”
02 “Teleharmonic”
03 “Read The Room”
04 “Under Our Pillows”
05 “Friend Of A Friend”
06 “I Quit”
07 “Bending Hectic”
08 “You Know Me!”

The video for the song was directed by the promising american film director Paul Thomas Anderson.

The album was produced by Sam Petts-Davies and it also has string arrangements that were contributed by the London Contemporary Orchestra.

The band will start their support tour of the album in March 2024 and will most likely will be adding additional dates around the world.

Sharon Van Etten has shared a new song, “Close To You”, off the new Apple TV+ show “The Buccaneers”.

TRACKLIST:

01 Emily Kokal – “North American Scum” (Feat. Miya Folick)
02 Lucius – “Let The Games Begin”
03 Miya Folick – “What We Wanna”
04 Warpaint – “Ankhas”
05 Bully – “Right On Time”
06 Sedona – “Lifeline”
07 Lucius – “Ice Cream”
08 Alison Mosshart – “Down By The Law”
09 Emily Kokal – “Anyway I Look At It”
10 Emily Kokal – “These Waves”
11 Danielle Ponder – “Into The Dark”
12 Sarah Walk – “Lean In”
13 Bully – “Meet Me After Midnight”
14 Gracie Abrams – “Cedar”
15 Sharon Van Etten – “Feel Good”
16 Sharon Van Etten – “Close To You”

The album was produced by Stella Mozgawa of Warpaint. She said this about the album: “It was a truly incredible experience working with this group of uniquely talented artists. Everyone brought their A-game and taught me something invaluable about the creative process. Witnessing these artists map each character’s journey through song was a joy and the album feels like a really exciting companion to the show.”

Sharon Van Etten did 2 songs for the show, “Feel Good” and “Close Yo You”. Listen to the latter below.

The Buccaneers is the adaptation of an Edith Wharton novel. It is set in the 1870’s and a bunch of rich American girls are trying to find a posh English husband during the London debutante season.

https://youtu.be/FaDFty5ipEg?feature=shared

Mo Dotti have shared a couple of new songs, “For Everyone And You” and it’s b-side “Late August Early September”, off what will be their upcoming new album.

Andrew Mackelvie (drummer) produced the songs while Mark Gardener from Ride did the mastering.

No additional details have shared about the album or about upcoming tour dates to support it.

Yard Act have shared “Dream Job” the first single off their upcoming second album “Where’s My Utopia?” out March 1st via Republic.

TRACKLIST:

1. An Illusion
2. We Make Hits
3. Down By The Stream
4. The Undertow
5. Dream Job
6. Fizzy Fish
7. Petroleum
8. When The Laughter Stops (ft. Katy J Pearson)
9. Grifter’s Grief
10. Blackpool Illuminations
11. A Vineyard for the North

James Smith shared this about the song: ““Dream Job” feels like an apt introduction to the themes explored on “Where’s My Utopia?” though not all encompassing. In part, I was scrutinizing and mocking myself for being a moaning ungrateful little brat, whilst also trying to address how the music industry is this rather uncontrollable beast that hurtles forward unthinkingly and every single person involved in it plays their part. Myself included, obviously. As with pretty much everything else going through my head last year, trying to find the right time to articulate the complexity of emotions I was feeling and the severity to which I was feeling them couldn’t be found, or accommodated, so instead I tried to capture it in a pop song that lasts less than three minutes once the fog had cleared a bit. It’s good and bad. I’m still glad that everything that happened to me happened.”

The video was directed by James Slater.

Mount Kimbie have shared a new single, “Dumb Guitar” out now via Warp Records.

Mount Kimbie shared this about the song: “”Dumb Guitar” is “loosely based around a couple’s futile attempt to save a doomed relationship.”

The song will also be released as a 7-inch, with the song “Boxing” (which features King Krule) on the B-side.

The band will be on tour in the USofA next May, these are the only dates announced (so far).

5/17 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
5/18 Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theatre
5/21 Denver, CO – Perplexiplex at Convergence Station
5/23 Austin, TX – Parish
5/25 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
5/28 Toronto, Canada – Axis
5/29 New York City, NY – Webster Hall