Ed Schrader’s Music Beat

Baltimore duo Ed Schrader’s Music Beat released a new single, “European Moons,” from the upcoming album Nightclub Daydreaming; and shared important personal news from Ed Schrader themself. As they say in a press release: In the past few weeks, I’ve made a big decision. I’ve decided to give you the full me. I’ve decided to speak openly about something that I had never spoken to anyone about. The me that I’ve been repressing in hopes of not making other people feel uncomfortable. But that’s not a life—that’s an inhumane purgatory that I am done subjecting myself to.   That said, I have always felt like a woman and my pronouns are they/them. The stage and the studio have always been a safe space for me, where I can share my deepest struggles, joys and laughs. In your art, you can’t ...

In the new Gillian Waldo-direct music video for “This Thirst,” delirium sets in as Ed Schrader and bassist Devlin Rice work the graveyard shift at a ’50s diner. It’s a bit like if Big Al from Happy Days did a bunch of drugs after the kids went home. “Who is stationed in the guest house?” Schrader sings with the eyes of a lunatic. “Switched your lock and sold the key.”  “This Thirst” and “Berliner” are the first glimpses of Nightclub Daydreaming. The fourth album by art-punk duo Ed Schrader’s Music Beat arrives March 25 via Carpark Records and it offers answers to questions nobody has ever thought to ask. Like, what if David Bowie had been addicted to coke in Baltimore instead of in Los Angeles? [embedded content][embedded content] Daydreaming is their first since their lush 2018 break...