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Indigo De Souza Announces New Album, Shares “Kill Me”: Stream
Indigo De Souza has announced her new full-length album, Any Shape You Take, out August 27th on Saddle Creek Records. As a preview, the Asheville-based artist has shared the cheeky music video for the album’s first single, “Kill Me”. De Souza will also hit the road on a US tour this fall. A musician since childhood, De Souza co-produced Any Shape You Take with Brad Cook, who’s also worked with Bon Iver and Waxahatchee. It was recorded at Betty’s, the Chapel Hill studio of fellow North Carolinians Sylvan Esso. The album is described as an exploration of change and the role it plays in the human experience. “I wrote ‘Kill Me’ sometime in 2018 when I was really tired and fucked up in a lot of ways,” De Souza said in a statement. “I was deeply consumed in a big crazy love and coming to terms w...
Chubby and the Gang Announce New Album The Mutt’s Nuts, Share “Coming Up Tough”: Stream
Chubby and the Gang have announced their new album, The Mutt’s Nuts, due out on August 27th via Partisan Records. The London punk five-piece also shared the LP’s lead single, “Coming Up Tough”. Produced by Jonah Falco of Fucked Up, The Mutt’s Nuts features lyrics rooted in UK political issues that include worker’s rights, inequality, police brutality, government failure, and gentrification. The album’s sound mixes influences from artists like Hank Williams and The Bobby Fuller Four with Brooklyn-based ’50s girl groups and British blue-eyed soul. The blistering “Coming Up Tough” addresses government failure in modern London and the school-to-prison pipeline. “You did some crime, you weren’t that wrong,” frontman Charlie Manning Walker (aka Chubby Charles) yells into the mic. “They sen...
Angels & Airwaves Announce First Album in Seven Years Lifeforms, Share “Restless Souls”: Stream
Angels & Airwaves have announced a new album called Lifeforms. It’s their first studio LP in seven years (!) and it’s due out September 24th. To celebrate, they’ve shared a new song from the record called “Restless Souls”, which you can stream below. Lifeforms spans 10 tracks in total and includes the previously released single “Euphoria”. The alt-rock group broke the news today by partnering with Sent into Space, which launched a renewable hydrogen capsule into space that played the entire album out loud, displayed the LP information, and detailed their upcoming world tour. It probably felt like the latest dream come true for Tom DeLonge considering he went from singing about aliens in Blink-182 to proving UFOs exist with the Pentagon and partnering his To the Stars Academy with ...
Declaime and Madlib Announce Album In the Beginning (Vol. 1), Share “All Over the World”: Stream
Some old hip-hop gems are about to be unearthed. Madlib and Declaime have just announced a new album that’s comprised of previously unreleased songs they recorded together back in the mid-90s. It’s called In the Beginning (Vol. 1) and they’re previewing it with the lead single “All Over the World”, which you can stream below. Looking at the tracklist for In the Beginning (Vol. 1), which spans 13 songs in total, the collection will boast a wide range of vintage material by the two that used to be lost to time on various mixtapes and B-sides. According to a press release, the record serves as a time capsule of sorts — back then, the legendary producer and the underground rapper were neighbors-turned-friends in California — and includes contributions from the Loot Pack and CDP crew members li...
Chromeo Announce Date Night: Chromeo Live! Album, Release “Don’t Sleep (Live)”: Stream
Chromeo have a handful of shows scheduled for this summer, and to get fans hyped, they’re dropping a live album. The duo announced today that their first-ever live LP, Date Night: Chromeo Live!, will be available June 25th via Last Gang Records/eOne. As a preview, they’ve shared “Don’t Sleep (Live in DC)”. The forthcoming live collection will feature 20 tracks spanning the electro-funk pioneers’ entire discography, including favorites like “Fancy Footwork”, “One Track Mind”, “Night by Night”, “Hot Mess”, and “Come Alive” featuring Toro y Moi. The set was recorded at various stops on their pre-pandemic 2019 North American headlining tour, with selections coming from New York City, Seattle, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Minneapolis, and elsewhere. “We always toured as a duo, but on our last run, w...
Doja Cat Announces New Album Planet Her
Doja Cat has announced her new album Planet Her. It lands in record stores and on streaming services June 25th. The follow-up to 2019’s Hot Pink has been getting teased for some time, including in the music video for “Kiss Me More” featuring SZA. It turns out that SZA is but one of many stars on the album’s guest list, which also includes Ariana Grande, The Weeknd, and J.I.D. Check out the tracklist, as well as the artwork by David LaChappelle, below. Earlier this year, Doja Cat hopped on Ariana Grande’s “34+35” remix, and she also appears in Season 2 of Dave, which begins next week. Planet Her Artwork: Planet Her Tracklist:01. Woman02. Naked03. Pay Day (feat. Young Thug)04. Get Into It (Yuh)05. Need to Know06. I Don’t Do Drugs (feat. Ariana Grande07. Love to ...
David Duchovny Announces New Album Gestureland
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-09T14:35:36+00:00“>June 9, 2021 | 10:35am ET X-Files and Californication actor David Duchovny has announced his new album, Gestureland, out August 20th via GMG/King Baby. Recording for the 12-track project began in February 2020 at Outlier Studio in upstate New York and resumed after COVID-19 lockdown throughout the year at his band’s own studio in Long Island City. The album was finalized in early 2021. “The album represents three years of song writing over which time I think we developed into a band so there’s a stronger element of deep collaboration here,” Duchovny said in a statement. “The songs are obviously inspired by present day life and problems but we hope to ...
Together Pangea Announce New Album DYE, Share “Nothing to Hide”: Stream
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-03T21:03:31+00:00“>June 3, 2021 | 5:03pm ET LA garage punks Together Pangea have announced their new album, DYE, out October 22nd. As a preview, the band shared a new song, “Nothing to Hide”, and an accompanying music video. Spanning 12 tracks, DYE was written and recorded by William Keegan, Danny Bengston, and Erik Jimenez during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. It’s described as “an upbeat, undeniable collection of hooks, anthems, and power-pop garage-rock catchiness.” The self-deprecating “Nothing to Hide” is the trio’s ode to a potential lover. Together Pangea open up about their imperfections with lyrics like, “Your heart is ever innocent, it tells you what you know ...
CHVRCHES Team Up with The Cure’s Robert Smith for “How Not to Drown”: Stream
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-02T16:04:38+00:00“>June 2, 2021 | 12:04pm ET CHVRCHES have unveiled “How Not to Drown”, their new collaboration with The Cure’s Robert Smith. It’s the latest preview of the Glasgow-based pop group’s upcoming fourth album, Screen Violence, which will be released on August 27th. Additionally, CHVRCHES have announced a North American tour taking place in November and December. On the haunting track, singer Lauren Mayberry trades verses with the British rock icon over crashing percussion and sinister synths. “Tell me how/ It’s better when the sun goes down/ We’ll never escape this town/ I wasn’t scared when he caught me/ Look what it taught me/ Tell me how/ It’s better if we mak...
John Mayer Announces New Album Sob Rock
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-01T19:11:44+00:00“>June 1, 2021 | 3:11pm ET John Mayer has announced a new solo album entitled Sob Rock. Revealed via Twitter on Tuesday along with the effort’s cover art, the LP is due out July 16th. Marking Mayer’s eighth studio LP, Sob Rock is his first solo project since 2017’s The Search for Everything. Since then, he’s released a trio of standalone singles: 2018’s “New Light” (with hip-hop producer No I.D.), and 2019’s “I Guess I Just Feel Like” and “Carry Me Away”. No word yet on if any of those tracks will appear on Sob Rock. Since 2015, Mayer has been performing as part of the Grateful Dead supergroup Dead & Company. He’ll be returning to the road with the ...
Morrissey Announces New Album Bonfire of Teenagers, But Doesn’t Yet Have a Label to Release It
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-31T16:14:18+00:00“>May 31, 2021 | 12:14pm ET Morrissey is set to release a new album called Bonfire of Teenagers. “The worst year of my life concludes with the best album of my life,” Morrissey humbly declares in a statement posted to his website on Monday. The album was recently completed in Los Angeles and features artwork by Liam Lynch (see below). There are 11 tracks in total, including questionable titles like “Ha Ha Harlem” and “Kerouac Crack”. Bonfire of Teenager doesn’t yet have a release date, as Morrissey is currently in search of a label. Technically, he’s both rich enough and somehow still popular enough to be able to self-release a record successfully, but ...
Dee Snider Announces New Album Leave a Scar, Shares Video for “I Gotta Rock (Again)”: Stream
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-27T15:25:33+00:00“>May 27, 2021 | 11:25am ET Legendary Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider has announced his fifth studio album, Leave a Scar, arriving July 30th. He has also unveiled the video for the inspiring lead single, “I Gotta Rock (Again)”. In 1984, Snider and Twisted Sister proudly declared “I Wanna Rock” in one of their best known songs. Nearly 40 years later, the message hasn’t changed, but there’s a bit more urgency to it. For Snider, it’s no longer a want but a need. “‘I Gotta Rock (Again)’ is the starting gun for this album and the driving motivation behind me returning to the studio to record Leave a Scar,” Snider said in a press release. “At the end of 2019, I had ...
