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The Clientele have share the first single, “Blue Over Blue”, off their upcoming album “I Am Not There Anymore ” out July 28th via Merge.

TRACKLIST:

1. Fables of the Silverlink
2. Radial B
3. Garden Eye Mantra
4. Segue 4 (iv)
5. Lady Grey
6. Dying in May
7. Conjuring Summer In
8. Radial C (Nocturne for Three Trees)
9. Blue Over Blue
10. Radial E
11. Claire’s Not Real
12. My Childhood
13. Chalk Flowers
14. Radial H
15. Hey Siobhan
16. Stems of Anise
17. Through the Roses
18. I Dreamed of You, Maria
19. The Village Is Always on Fire

Alasdair MacLean (vocalist/lyricist/guitarist) shared this about the song: “‘Blue Over Blue’ is about getting lost in the woods on Hampstead Heath on an autumn day with my two-year-old son on my shoulders—he loved it and wanted to play hide and seek. I knew he was a ticking time bomb as I had no food with me and was trying to find my way back to a path.”

The band will embark on a tour to support the album starting in August.

Killer Mike has shared the second single, “Motherless”, off his upcoming solo album “Michael” out June 16th.

TRACKLIST:
1 Down by Law
2 Shed Tears
3 Run
4 N Rich
5 Talkin Dat Shit!
6 Slummer
7 Scientists & Engineers
8 Two Days
9 Spaceship Views
10 Exit 9
11 Something for Junkies
12 Motherless
13 Don’t Let the Devil
14 High and Holy

The video for Motherless ” was directed by Shane Smith. He also shared this about the song: “When I first played Dion (No I.D.) the album he said two things—one of which was that I was essentially holding something back and that was the song ‘Motherless,’” Mike said in a statement. “It was the last song made for the album because I hadn’t uttered these words [‘my momma dead’] out loud since her transitioning. When I tell the story of my mother the tales told include one when I walked in on her attempting to take her own life—it gets to the heart of how deeply sensitive an artist and human she was. She survived, was diagnosed bi-polar and depressed; she fought that until the day she died. She lived a beautifully rich outlaw of a life and I am honored to show her as the total beautiful badass she was.”

Alongside releasing the video for “Motherless”, which comes in with a PT. II preamble, he’s also sharing a video for the previously released song “Don’t Let The Devil” which has the PT. I II in the opening titles.

Killer Mike shared this about that: “El’s heard me talk about these bohemian-artsy-disco infused parties my mom used to throw when I was a kid. So when we were trying to figure out what the video for ‘Don’t Let the Devil’ should be Jaime came back with this treatment written out and I cried at the end. What’s even crazier is he didn’t know what we were doing for ‘Motherless’ either but that’s the magic I guess.”

Geese shared their second single, “3D Country”, off their upcoming album of the same name out June 23rd via Partisan / Play It Again Sam.

TRACKLIST:

1. 2122
2. 3D Country
3. Cowboy Nudes
4. I See Myself
5. Undoer
6. Crusades
7. Gravity Blues
8. Mysterious Love
9. Domoto
10. Tomorrow’s Crusades
11. St Elmo

The video for the song was directed by Andy Swartz & Cameron Winter.

Cameron Winter shared this about “3D Country” in a press release: “The lyrics are this story I had about a cowboy who does psychedelics in the wild west and fries his brain forever. I was imagining at first he’s this stoic, masculine character like out of a Cormac McCarthy novel, but then he unravels and sees his past lives in Ancient Rome, the Great Wall of China. Ultimately he finds himself in the end and it turns celebratory. I liked the idea of contrasting this strait-laced individual with that super mind-bending, interdimensional experience. Similarly, the music is an amalgam of a lot of different country licks, a gospel-ish call-and-response part, things we typically wouldn’t do, but we wanted to push them through this textured, strange, psychedelic lens. We kept jamming around this one groove that’s in the verse for 10 minutes at a time, and then went back to take the best 30-second bits to piece it all together. The original version was over twice as long, and we bring some of those crazier sections back when we play it live and for the version of the song that’s in the music video.”

Puma Blue has shared the first single, “Pretty”, off his upcoming new album “Holy Waters” out September 1st via Blue Flowers.

TRACKLIST:

1. Falling Down
2. Pretty
3. O, The Blood!
4. Hounds
5. Too Much, Too Much
6. Epitaph
7. Gates (Wait For Me)
8. Dream Of You
9. Holy Waters
10. Mirage
11. Light Is Gone

The video for the song, which feels heavily influenced by Wim Wenders and Jim Jarmusch, was directed by Angela Ricciardi.

Puma Blue shared this about the video: “I wanted to capture how it feels to look in a mirror and feel dissonance with what you see. I obscured myself for much of the video, shot on film and directed by Angela Ricciardi, I wanted to hide and sing from the shadows. But I walk around New York City with these angel wings because the lyrics are ‘You make me feel so pretty’, this idea that I am perceived as beautiful by someone else despite how I see myself. At the end, I come home to this lifeless figure, a nothing. The idea that even though you can be loved by someone you can still be haunted by dysmorphia to some extent. This song is an attempt to challenge that, to honour that admiration from the one who sees me as beautiful.”

About the song Puma Blue shared this: “‘Pretty’ is about feeling ugly. So ugly that sometimes you can’t believe the person who loves you sees you how they do. We were playing with beauty and ugliness when producing it, the live studio performance already felt so sweet and delicate, it needed something uglier and haunting so I howled these notes in the bridge and we fed my voice through a synth that made me sound like a swarm of bees.”

No tour dates have been announced yet for the USofA (nor Tijuana). A European is set for the fall, so hopefully soon after.

Jim Sclovanus & Nicole Atkins have released a cover of Tom Waits “Strange Weather”.

TRACKLIST:

Side A – “Strange Weather” Side B – “A Man Like Me”

https://nicoleatkins.bandcamp.com/album/strange-weather-2-track-single

Jim Sclovanus shared this about the release: “My good friend Nicole Atkins & I have a new single! It’s our take on Tom Wait’s “Strange Weather,” and the B side is our original song “A Man Like Me.”
It’s exclusively on Bandcamp via Lowe Amusements. Along with a digital download offering, we also have 300 limited edition picture disc vinyls available for pre-order! Each disc comes with a signed art card from Nicole & I.”

They will be on tour during the month of May and part of June all around the UK. No dates for the USofA (nor Tijuana) have been announced.

Palehound have shared the first single, “The Clutch”, off what will be their new album “Eye On The Bat” out July 14th via Polyvinyl.

TRACKLIST:

1. Good Sex
2. Independence Day
3. The Clutch
4. Eye On The Bat
5. U Want It U Got It
6. Route 22
7. My Evil
8. Head Like Soup
9. Right About You
10. Fadin

The video was directed by Brittany Reeber and Anthony Kolodny, and they had this to share: “Adam, El, and I wanted to create something that captured the charged, raw drive of the song. Inspired by slick, visceral performance videos of the early ’00s, we got ourselves the biggest space we could find and Adam created a visual aesthetic with the circular track, rotating head and alternating key lights that ultimately build (along with the band’s electric performance) to an epic and dizzying climax.”

El Kempner said this of the song: “‘The Clutch’ is the very first song I wrote for this album, back in 2020 right when lockdown started. I had been on a tour that was sliced in half by the onset of the pandemic and we had to apocalypse road trip back to New York across the country from Oregon, where our next show had been scheduled for. While that was happening, I was also having a triggering romantic experience with somebody I didn’t know too well, and by the time I got home my whole body seemed to be spinning in turmoil. Writing and producing this song grounded me and helped me process a new future and self that I hadn’t anticipated.”

Benefits have shared a new single, “What More Do You Want”, off their recently released album “Nails” out now via Invada Records.

The video for the song was directed by John Kirkbride.

Kingsley Hall shared this about the track: “It’s about the corruption of power and the nagging possibility that things weren’t necessarily better in the old days, despite what everyone says, and how harking back to them may not bring you the glory you desire. It’s one of the noisiest songs we’ve ever constructed, completely designed with a brutal sonic impact in mind. Dale’s drums clang and clatter in a really beautiful way, they’re harsh and heavy but there’s a melody to them. Hugh and Robbie hurl giant slabs of noise into the mix and it all builds to be a monster. Despite the chaos, this is probably Benefits in our purest, noisiest form.”

The band is on the last shows of their European tour, they are also slated to play Glastonbury, however no dates for the USofA (nor Tijuana) have been announced yet. Hopefully that changes soon.

bar italia have shared their second single, “punkt”, off their upcoming album “Tracey Denim” out May 19th via Matador.

TRACKLIST:

1. guard
2. Nurse!
3. punkt
4. my kiss era
5. F.O.B
6. Missus Morality
7. yes i have eaten so many lemons yes i am so bitter
8. changer
9. Horsey Girl Rider
10. NOCD
11. best in show
12. Clark
13. harpee
14. Friends
15. maddington

The camera work for the video was handled by Mario Suardiaz.

The band will be doing a short, and from what it looks like, a sold out tour of NY and LA in June. Which we imagine would be followed by a somewhat more extensive tour in the Fall or Winter.

Clark has released the fourth single, “Dolgoch Tape”, off his Thom Yorke produced album “Sus Dog” out May 26th via Throttle Records.

Clark shared this about the song: “It was written for a friend to try to bring something consoling, and satisfying, but not in a fobbing-them-off way.”

Clark will head out on tour in June to support the album. No additional dates have been announced yet.