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Sparks have shared the first single, “The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte”, off their new album by the same name out May 26th.

TRACKLIST:
01 “The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte”
02 “Veronica Lake”
03 “Nothing Is As Good As They Say It Is”
04 “Escalator”
05 “The Mona Lisa’s Packing, Leaving Late Tonight”
06 “You Were Meant For Me”
07 “Not That Well-Defined”
08 “We Go Dancing”
09 “When You Leave”
10 “Take Me For A Ride”
11 “It’s Sunny Today”
12 “A Love Story”
13 “It Doesn’t Have To Be That Way”
14 “Gee, That Was Fun”

The video for the song was directed by the Mael Brothers and Richie Starzec and it stars, arguably the greatest actor of this generation, Cate Blanchett. Sparks said this about it via a press release: “We met Cate Blanchett in Paris at the César Awards last year, little knowing that a year later, one of the great actors of our time (and a splendid person!) would graciously consent to lending her bootie-shaking skills to the first video from our new album, The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte. Dreams really do come true. We will sleep well tonight knowing that forever we can say we co-starred in a film with Cate Blanchett!”

Sparks said this about the album: “This is as bold and uncompromising as anything we did back then, or for that matter, anytime throughout our career”.

The band will go on tour to support the album starting in May in the UK and coming over to the USofA before hitting Japan.

Clark has shared the second single, “Clutch Pearlers”, off his upcoming album “Sus Dog” out May 26th via Throttle Records.

TRACKLIST:

01 “Alyosha”
02 “Town Crank”
03 “Sus Dog” (Feat. Anika)
04 “Clutch Pearlers”
05 “Over Empty Streets”
06 “Wedding”
07 “Forest”
08 “Dolgoch Tape”
09 “Bully”
10 “Dismissive”
11 “Medicine” (Feat. Thom Yorke)
12 “Ladder”

The video for the song was directed by Dylan Hayes.

Clark shared this via a press release: “Set to a bright carefree ditty with Reich-ian tuned mallets, ‘Clutch Pearlers’ deals with social awkwardness and insecurity, but, as with much of the record, definitely isn’t earnest; more sideways, with a self-awareness and self-deprecation ensuring things never descend into the air violin sin bin.”

Gabriels has shared another song, “Offerings”, off their upcoming album “Angels & Queens” out June 16th via Atlas Artists.

The song was debuted during their performance on the COLORS show. “Offering” is the opening track for the upcoming album.

The band will have a show in San Diego at the Belly Up on April 12th before their Coachella performance and another one at the Glass House in Pomona before the second weekend at Coachella.

Everything But The Girl have shared the second single, “Caution To The Wind”, off their upcoming album “Fuse” out April 21st via Buzzin Fly Records.

Tracey Thorn said this about the song: “Lyrically “Caution To The Wind” is a simple song about arrival and seizing the moment, so with the music we tried to capture the feeling of a perpetual point in time”. Ben Watt shared this about it: “I let the words quickly collapse and loop inside the production. The drums emerge and repeat, and everything then starts to unfold in cycles of anticipation and release. I guess it’s just classic nightclub tension and euphoria.”

There are no current live dates that have been announced (yet), or any plans for touring in support of the album for that matter.

The National have shared the second single, “New Order T-Shirt”, off their upcoming album “First Two Pages Of Frankenstein” out April 28th via 4AD.

TRACKLIST:

1. Once Upon A Poolside (feat. Sufjan Stevens)
2. Eucalyptus
3. New Order T-Shirt
4. This Isn’t Helping (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
5. Tropic Morning News
6. Alien
7. The Alcott (feat. Taylor Swift)
8. Grease in Your Hair
9. Ice Machines
10. Your Mind Is Not Your Friend (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
11. Send for Me

The video for the song was created from pictures taken by Graham MacIndoe.

Aaron Dessner shared this via a press release about the song: “To me, the line ‘I keep what I can of you’ means something about everyone I’ve ever known or loved. There’s a simplicity to ‘New Order T-Shirt’ that reminds me of our earlier records, but with the full maturity and experience we have now. It feels like a really important song for the future of our band.”

The band will go on tour to support the album, some of the shows are already sold out with a 2nd date added in some cities. Also, the band will have the honor and privilege of having Patti Smith as support when they play Madison Square Garden.

Murray A. Lightburn has shared the second single, “Once Upon A Time In Montreál”, off his upcoming album out March 31st via Dangerbird.

TRACKLIST:

01. Dumpster Gold
02. No New Deaths Today
03. In The Kingdom Of Heaven
04. The Only One I Want To Hear
05. Oh But My Heart Has Never Been Dark
06. Reaching Out For Love
07. Once Upon A Time In Montreal
08. Girl You’ve Got To Let Me Go

The video for the song was directed by AJ Korkidakis.

Murray shared this about it via a press release: “After getting an education in Jamaica and England, my mom got a job in Montréal as a nurse. My father was living in New York. They had dated back in Belize and reconnected years later in New York. My father didn’t really want to leave for Montréal, but he did. And it was hard for him: the harsh winters, the language barrier, the color of his skin. He was a skilled musician but that was barely going to keep the lights on—never mind feed a growing family. His lack of formal education, and his lack of French, limited his opportunities. Nevertheless, he just wanted to be with her. So he figured out a way, and that’s what his life was mostly about, I think—what I’ve deduced. Maybe there’s way more to it and that’s the romantic version, but it’s a version at least I can understand. Nothing else computes. My parents stayed married for 56 years.”

Frankie Rose will be releasing her new album, “Love As A Projection”, on March 10th via Slumberland.

TRACKLIST:
1. Sixteen Ways
2. Anything
3. Had It Wrong
4. Saltwater Girl
5. Feel Light
6. DOA
7. Sleeping Night And Day
8. Molotov In Stereo
9. Come Back
10. Song For A Horse

So far she’s released a couple of singles. The first one she shared was for the song “Anything”.

The follow up was for the album opener “Sixteen Ways” with a video directed by Scott Kiernan.

Via a press release Frankie shared this about the record: “This album is about having to focus our collective energies on the small things around that we can control to find joy. A distraction from the larger systemic problems that feel so overwhelming and are so very out of our collective hands… for now…”.

So far she’s announced a couple of live dates: 3/11 Brooklyn, NY – Union Pool
3/13 – 3/18 Austin, TX – SXSW

The Lemon Twigs have released a new single, “Any Time Of Day”, off their upcoming album “Everything Harmony” out May 5th via Captured Tracks.

TRACKLIST:

01 When Winter Comes Around
02 In My Head
03 Corner of My Eye
04 Any Time of Day
05 What You Were Doing
06 I Don’t Belong to Me
07 Every Day Is the Worst Day of My Life
08 What Happens to a Heart
09 Still It’s Not Enough
10 Born to Be Lonely
11 Ghost Run Free
12 Everything Harmony
13 New to Me

The video for the track was directed by Ambar Navarro. Navarro shared this about the video: “This was heavily inspired by ’60s television live performances and focusing on the minimal set pieces, referencing The Carpenters, Tom Petty, and especially The Monkees’ TV Show and absurd/surreal comedy of that era.”

The Lemon Twigs shared this about the song via a press release: “We were hired to write material and act in an interactive TV show about an imaginary ’70s brother band. We wrote a bunch of KISS type songs for the soundtrack plus this one. This one wasn’t quite right for the show, so we held it back. For a month in 2019, we filmed all 8 episodes. In the fallout of a high profile lawsuit taken by the company against Quibi, the show was shelved and remains on someone’s hard drive if not completely erased to save space. The song’s about the cyclical nature of life. Everything goes on and on. Out with the old, in with the new!”

The Twigs will head out in support of the album starting this April.

Xiu Xiu have shared a new single, “Pahrump”, off their new album “Ignore Grief” out March 3rd via Polyvinyl.

TRACKLIST:

1. The Real Chaos Cha Cha Cha
2. 666 Photos of Nothing
3. Esquerita, Little Richard
4. Maybae Baeby
5. Tarsier, Tarsier, Tarsier, Tarsier
6. Pahrump
7. Border Factory
8. Dracula Parrot, Moon Moth
9. Brothel Creeper
10. For M

The video for the song was directed by Angela Seo. She shared this about the video: “I’ve been watching a lot of old westerns and ghost films. In both, there is often an overarching sense of regret, revenge, a reckoning yet to come. You can’t ever simply run away.”

The band will go on tour to support their album starting this April.