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Sudan Archives has released her new single, “NBPQ (Topless)”, off her upcoming album, “Natural Brown Prom Queen”, out September 9th via Stones Throw.

Tracklist
1. Home Maker
2. NBPQ (Topless)
3. Is This Real? (Can You Hear Yourself?)
4. Ciara
5. Selfish Soul
6. Loyal (EDD)
7. OMG BRITT
8. ChevyS10
9. Copycat (Broken Notions)
10. It’s Already Done
11. FLUE
12. TDLY (Homegrown Land)
13. Do Your Thing (Refreshing Springs)
14. Freakalizer
15. Homesick (Gorgeous & Arrogant)
16. Milk Me
17. Yellow Brick Road
18. #513

The video, which is really good and as amazing as the song, was directed by Augusta Yr. The song was written by Sudan Archives and co-produced by her and Simon On The Moon, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, and Ben Dickey.

Brittney Parks (Sudan Archives) said this in a press release about the song: “…it’s song of redemption and freedom…it’s about my insecurities that I have being a brown skin Black female in the world and how to navigate through that while facing American beauty standards.”

Sudan Archives — 2022 Tour Dates

Sept 24 – Solana Beach, CA – Belly Up Tavern
Sept 25 – Santa Barbara, CA – Soho Music Club
Sept 26 – Sacramento, CA – Harlow’s
Sept 27 – San Francisco, CA – The Independent
Sep 29 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
Sept 30 – Vancouver, BC – Fortune
Oct 1 – Seattle, WA – Neumos
Oct 4 – Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line
Oct 5 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
Oct 7 – Toronto, ON – Axis
Oct 8 – Ottawa, ON – Bronson
Oct 10 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
Oct 11 – Philadelphia, PA – World Cafe Live
Oct 12 – Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere (The Hall)
Oct 14 – Washington, DC – Black Cat
Oct 15 – Pittsburgh, PA – Sound Series Block Party
Oct 17 – Asheville, NC – The Grey Eagle
Oct 18 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West
Oct 19 – Nashville, TN – The Basement East
Oct 21 – Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room

Dead Cross have shared the second single, “Heart Reformer”, off their upcoming album, “II”, to be released October 28th via Ipecac.

TRACKLIST:
1. Love Without Love
2. Animal Espionage
3. Heart Reformer
4. Strong and Wrong
5. Ants and Dragons
6. Nightclub Canary
7. Christian Missile Crisis
8. Reign of Error
9. Imposter Syndrome

The short-film like clip was directed and edited by Dark Details (a.k.a. Chris J. Cunningham).

Michael Crain said this of the song: “‘Heart Reformer’ was as much fun to write as it is to listen to. It’s a classic Dead Cross song. It’s a pit stirrer and a fist pumper!” He also shared this: “Words can’t even begin to describe how much this album means to me. It’s birthed of pain and uncertainty. The slow, excruciatingly painful, and nauseating recovery from cancer treatments were the catalyst for every riff and note on this album. However, my will to live and be with my brothers Justin, Dave, Mike, and co-producer Ross Robinson, got me out of bed and running into the studio every day to get it all on tape.”

While Crain was battling cancer and recording this album, Patton was trying to come to grips with his bout of agoraphobia which forced him to cancel multiple live performances that were already scheduled and made him rethink his singing in public persona. He now has a few dates lined up with Mr. Bungle and if those go well Patton has shared that he would love to take this album on the road since he enjoyed playing love with Pearson, Lombardo and Crain.

Benito Cerati has released the first single, “Agujero Negro”, off what will be his debut album “Shasei” out later this year.

The video was directed by Belén Asad. The musicians that have worked with him on this are: Lito Vitale (moog & synths), Estanislao López (bass & co-producer), Alejandro Castellani (drums), Carlos Salas (percussion), Alfredo García Tau (guitars & synths), Alejandro Terán (string arrangements), Javier Casalla, Julio Domínguez, Karmen Rencar y Alejandro Terán (violin, cello y viola), Gillespi (trumpet), Ramiro Flores (sax & trombone) and Federico Stuart (scratch).

Benito said this about the album: “…it’s an album inspired by my adolescence and the coexistence between nature and the digital. Also, influenced by the intensity of first encounters and mistakes made…dual and contradictory…” He also self described the album as: atmospheric, ethereal, mysterious, exuberant, femenine, surreal, nocturnal, cryptic, suspenseful, obscure, sci-fi, ominous, wintery, sensual, eclectic, hypnotic, psychedelic. Inspired by: ambient, pop, spy movies soundtracks, downtempo, experimental, baroque, spacey and a lot of Moog.

Rancho Shampoo & The Indian Dub Orchestra have released a new song “Timbalero”.

Memo Navajas shared this about the song: “Timbalero is a collaboration between Timothy Cuero, from the Kumiai Nation, in the community of Campo, CA and the Rancho Shampoo & Indian Dub Orchestra, coming from the Underground. The voice of Cuero, who interprets his version of a Kumiai bird song, which traditionally narrates small stories from the community, dictates the stave of an urgent song, both introspective and an invitation to escape our reality. Prepare yourself to be submerged for three minutes and eight seconds in the vastness of the cosmos. To ramble on beyond the fourth dimension in this chant that commemorates the Rayovac Ancestors whose bodies dilate and expand, like the spaghetti syndrome, long and wide across the universe, breaking through everything that is, everything that was and everything it will be with it’s majestic presence.”

(if one looks beyond the obvious, one sees connections to the spirit world, to the underworld and to other realities)

The National have released their first single, “Weird Goodbyes”, off their upcoming new album.

The new son is a collaboration with long time friend and partner Bon Iver and a string composition from Bryce Dessner played by the London Contemporary Orchestra.

Matt Berninger said this of the song: “…it’s about letting go of the past and moving on, then later being overwhelmed by second thoughts.” Aaron Dessner said: “‘Weird Goodbyes’ was one of the first new songs we made, I was misusing drum machines, as usual, and stumbled onto this beat that got stuck in my head – it felt like something only Bryan could naturally play. We built the song around the beat. Matt’s melody and words felt so elegant and moving from the beginning – mourning a loss of innocence and motivation, holding onto memories and feelings that inevitably slip away and the grief we all suffer in weird goodbyes.”

Thee Sacred Souls have shared their last single, “Lady Love”, before the release of their self-titled album out August 26th via Daptone Records.

Track list:

1. Can I Call You Rose?
2. Lady Love
3. Easier Said Than Done
4. Overflowing
5. Trade of Hearts
6. Weak For Your Love
7. Future Lover
8. Sorrow For Tomorrow
9. For Now
10. Once You Know
11. Happy And Well
12. Love Comes Easy

The album was produced by Bosco Mann, Daptone co-founder Gabriel Roth. Thee Sacred Souls is a warm and textured record, mixing the easygoing grace of sweet ’60s soul with the grit and groove of early ’70s R&B, hints of Chicano, Philly, Chicago, Memphis, and even Panama soul turn up. There’s something distinctly modern about the band that defies easy categorization, a rawness and a sincerity that transcends time and place.

Bill Callahan has announced the release of his upcoming album, “YTI⅃AƎЯ”, out in October via Drag City.

TRACKLIST:
01 “First Bird”
02 “Everyway”
03 “Bowevil”
04 “Partition”
05 “Lily”
06 “Naked Souls”
07 “Coyotes”
08 “Drainface”
09 “Natural Information”
10″ The Horse”
11 “Planets”
12 “Last One At The Party”

Bill said this about the album: I wanted to make a record that addressed or reflected the current climate. It felt like it was necessary to rouse people — rouse their love, their kindness, their anger, rouse anything in them. Get their senses working again. I guess there was already plenty of anger! But we needed a better anger. To get out of this hypnagogic state. Hypnagogic rage. Disassociated rage that destroys the community and leaves only the individual eating themselves alive instead of feeding others. We were born to feed others. We have milk, breasts. We have language, tongues. We have music, ears. All to feed. At the time it felt like we were coming out of something, getting clear of it. So I was picturing songs that would make sense to take before an audience at this crucial juncture, venturing out, where things could go either way. A reintroduction to the basics of life. Of human interaction. Face to face. A new clear vision. A new way. Which is probably just an old way we’d abandoned somewhere back there as we retreated into our screened, blindered existence. Sometimes you forget the most basic things. The biggest things! And it just takes a little nudge to get your head back on track. I wanted sounds and words that made you feel and that lifted you up. But first there was a need to bond, to clear the air. Or to just acknowledge the air. So there is some of that on the record. I went for horns because horns are heralds, triumphs, second line funerals and just breath forced through a metal maze or amusement park slide. And I wanted voices, I wanted multiple voices, not just mine. There is too much of just mine right now. So there are 6 or 7 people singing on this record. Listening to this record takes one hour. Ah hour sounds like a year to me these days. Taking an hour of someone’s life. I fault the internet. I fault ourselves for falling for the internet. An hour is actually lovely, nothing, a lifetime. You have to live that lifetime though in order to appreciate the hour. I’m not suggesting people must listen to this record all the way through in one sitting. It IS sequenced for that particular purpose, though, in case anyone wants to.”

His band this time around includes Matt Kinsey on guitar, Emmett Kelly on bass/backing vocals, Sarah Ann Phillips on piano/backing vocals, and Jim White on drums.

(the) Yeah Yeah Yeahs have shared their second single, “Burning”, off their upcoming album “Cool It Down” out September 30th via Secretly Canadian.

Tracklist:
1. Spitting off the Edge of the World (feat. Perfume Genius)
2. Lovebomb
3. Wolf
4. Fleez
5. Burning
6. Blacktop
7. Different Today
8. Mars

The video for “Burning” was directed by Cody Critcheloe. This song sounds like the culmination of what the YYY’s have been building since they started with their EP, which is a danceable frenetic track filled with guitar noise and a shimmering drum beat that will build you up and spit you out.

Karen O said this of the song: “Back when I was 19 living in the east village, one night a roommate dragged me out of the apartment for an impromptu drink across the street, I left a votive candle burning on a plastic yaffa block which in my absence set flame to my room. Within an hour and a half of having one drink down the block firefighters had come and gone extinguishing the fire, I came home to find that a natural disaster had occurred (to my room) and most of my stuff, lost in the flames. All electronic goods were melted and demolished like my laptop, cameras etc. but oddly enough the items that held the most sentimental value remained intact like sketchbooks, a favorite sweater with hearts across the chest, and photographs. I had photos of my parents in their youth where the fire burnt around the two of them as if there was some intangible force field protecting them, many photos like that, mysteriously leaving the beloved subjects untouched. If the world is on fire I hope the most beloved stay protected and that we do all we can to protect what we cherish most in this life. ‘Burning’ is a song about that feeling, smoke signals for the soul. Begging to cool it down, just doing it the best we know how. Nick and I nodded to Frankie Valli’s ‘Beggin’, with the line ‘oooh lay your red hand on me baby.’ We’ve cut a rug to many a soulful sixties bangers in our day, it was in our DNA by the time we wrote ‘Burning’.”

Dead Cross have announced the release of their second album, “II”, out October 28th via Ipecac Records.

TRACKLIST:
01 “Love Without Love”
02 “Animal Espionage
03 “Heart Reformer”
04 “Strong And Wrong”
05 “Ants And Dragons”
06 “Nightclub Canary”
07 “Christian Missile Crisis”
08 “Reign Of Error”
09 “Imposter Syndrome”

The first single of the album is “Reign Of Error” with a video directed by Displaced / Replaced.

Michael Crain said of the song: “’Reign of Error’ was recorded almost as quickly as it was written and I believe there’s a very good explanation for it. I haven’t told anybody this before, least of all the rest of the band or Ross, but I honestly felt a strong presence in the studio that day. Those riffs flew out of me and when Dave sat down at his kit it was almost as if we’d played that song a thousand times before. It literally just happened so fast. Bam! One take. I’m not trying to paint a dark or fantasy-like story either. Having just escaped death and still healing from my cancer treatments I was incredibly sensitive to energy and the other side. There was someone else there. Not evil but benevolent and inspiring. I honestly believe it was Dave’s old bandmate and friend Jeff. I think he just wanted to jam with his friend again and perhaps did so through me. There I said it. Whether people believe it or not I really don’t care. I’m just grateful that I had that experience.”

No tour dates have been announced yet due to the agoraphobia case that Mike Patton went/is going thru. He did say that he hopes that they could tour in support of the album and that he has a couple of Mr. Bungle dates scheduled and that if those go well for him mentally that he is more than open to go on tour with Dead Cross.