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Alice Glass Releases New Cover of the Smashing Pumpkins’ “Drown”: Listen
Alice Glass has shared a cover of the Smashing Pumpkins’ 1992 cut “Drown.” Glass recorded the rendition with producer and longtime collaborator Jupiter Keyes. The original Smashing Pumpkins song appeared on the soundtrack to Cameron Crowe’s Seattle-based romantic comedy Singles. Check out Glass’ version of “Drown” below.
Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard Announces New Album Harmonics, Shares Song: Listen
Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard will release a new album, Harmonics, on July 12. Today, he has shared a Nathan Castiel–directed video for the single “Moments Die,” featuring the New York singer Barrie. Other guests on the follow-up to 2017’s Electric Lines include Hayden Thorpe (formerly of Wild Beasts), Alabaster dePlume, Ibibio Sound Machine’s Eno Williams, Oranje, Jungle’s TomMcFarland, Fiorious, Falle Nioke, and Goddard’s Hot Chip bandmates Alexis Taylor and Al Doyle.
The Babies to Reunite for First Concerts in a Decade
The Babies are back. The indie-rock band—featuring Kevin Morby, Cassie Ramone, bassist Brian Schleyer, and drummer Justin Sullivan—will play its first shows since 2013. The first concert is in Los Angeles on September 18, and the second show is in Brooklyn on September 24. Opening at the Los Angeles show are PG14; Joanna Sternberg will open the Brooklyn concert. Find more details below.
Blood Incantation Tease New Album, Share “Luminescent Bridge” Video: Watch
Denver death metal band Blood Incantation have teased that their next studio album will arrive soon. They’ve also shared an epic music video for their song “Luminescent Bridge.” The clip was helmed by director and visual effects artist Miles Skarin, who crafted cosmic visual effects, and Alex Pace, who shot the group in a Dune-like desert setting. Check it out below.
Martha Skye Murphy Teams With Roy Montgomery for New Song “Need”: Listen
Martha Skye Murphy has shared a new song, “Need,” featuring a rare guest appearance from the guitarist Roy Montgomery. Below, check out Billy Howard Price’s video, in which Murphy plays various roles embodying “the most feral parts of [her] being,” as she puts it in a press release.
Arooj Aftab Announces Album and Tour, Shares Video for New Song: Watch
Arooj Aftab has announced a new album, Night Reign, and a tour. Ahead of the Vulture Prince follow-up, you can hear the single “Raat Ki Rani.” The actress Tessa Thompson made her directorial debut with the video, which is set between a photo shoot and a fleeting romantic liaison. “Interaction with the queen of the night feels unthinkable,” Aftab said in a press release. “Sometimes we must be content with an exchange of glances.” Watch the video and check out the live dates below. Night Reign is out May 31 via Verve.
Your Day Will Come
Chanel Beads is what you might call a scene band, the project of producer Shane Lavers who’s associated with the much-maligned lower Manhattan micro-neighborhood of Dimes Square. They play packed shows in lofts and bars full of kids born in 2004 taking pics on a point-and-shoot digital camera while wearing absolutely enormous pants. If you go to a bar called The River and hang out with dripped-out downtown people, someone will ask you: Hey, have you listened to the new Chanel Beads singles?
Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos
Ka Baird entered 2022 feeling adrift. The two years of lockdowns and shutdowns had been difficult for the artist, whose practice—an improvisatory fusion of wordless vocalizations, movement, and crackling electronics—is deeply dependent upon the intimacy of live performance. At Chicago’s Lampo foundation, they developed a new solo piece, Bearings, to be performed 10 times over the course of two nights that spring, for an audience of between one and four people. Pacing the stage, deploying disorienting shifts in lighting and sound design, alternating between bursts of flute and ghostly hissing and chattering, Baird hoped to trigger a mixture of confusion and catharsis—the kind of soul-cleansing experience that might mark a new beginning, helping artist and audience alike get their bearings in a world turned strange. Then, just weeks before the show was to launch, Baird’s mother experienced an unexpected decline in health; the diagnosis was terminal.
A Power Ranking of Everyone in the Drake–Kendrick Lamar–Every Rapper Ever Battle Royale
Pitchfork writer Alphonse Pierre’s rap column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, Instagram freestyles, memes, weird tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention. Rap’s megastars have finally found a way to keep busy outside of chasing past glories with joint albums that should have happened a decade ago...
The Smile’s Tom Skinner Announces New Live Album, Shares Song: Listen
In 2022, Tom Skinner of the Smile released the solo album Voices of Bishara. He’s now readying a live album called Voices of Bishara Live at “Mu”. The full-length arrives on May 10, via International Anthem, and features the musician and his ensemble’s performance of the 2022 album’s tracks and more. Below, listen to a live take on Abdul Wadud’s 1970s composition “Oasis.”
Fontaines D.C. Announce New Album Romance, Share Video for New Song “Starburster”: Watch
Fontaines D.C. have signed to XL for a new album, Romance, set for release on August 23. The announcement comes with a new single, “Starburster”; check out the Aube Perrie–directed video, in which a wounded Grian Chatten goes about his everyday business, sometimes in a prosthetic mask, below. It is the band’s first LP with producer James Ford, who has recently worked with Arctic Monkeys and Blur.
Graeme Naysmith, Guitarist in Dream-Pop Band Pale Saints, Has Died
Graeme Naysmith, the guitarist of dream-pop band Pale Saints, died on April 4, the band’s record label, 4AD, confirmed. His age and cause of death were not given. Pale Saints formed in Leeds in the late 1980s, originally playing jangly indie-pop before expanding, on their 1989 debut EP, Barging Into the Presence of God, into the more atmospheric sound that would come to be associated with dream-pop and shoegaze. Debut album The Comforts of Madness, released in 1990 and reissued in 2020, minted their trademark sound, drawing the subtle harmonic complexities of the C86 sound into a whirlwind of sometimes noisy, sometimes lustrous guitar noise and filigree that they advanced, with some orchestral additions, on 1992’s In Ribbons and 1994’s Slow Buildings. The group disbanded in 1996, but Naysmith worked closely with 4AD on the recent Pale Saints reissues.
Listen to Nino Paid’s “Black Ball”: The Ones
Heart-on-sleeve rhymer Nino Paid’s new mixtape Can’t Go Bacc is throwing me for a loop. Is this where DMV crank meets cloud rap? Half of the beats have these melancholic yet fantastical Zelda-esque pianos and lush, sparkly synths that could have been on 808s & Dark Grapes II. Check out “Black Ball”: The crystalline keys make the beat feel like a rainbow appearing in the sky after a downpour. That works for Nino Paid’s writing, which is all about how the battle scars of his youth have made him stronger: “Sittin’ in school I was never a scholar/Anger problems, bruh I’m just like my father/For all of them reasons I gotta go farther/For all of my people I gotta go harder.” The way his quick, muttering flow smears the words only adds to the mistiness.
Charli XCX and Troye Sivan Announce North American Arena Tour
Charli XCX and Troye Sivan have announced a joint North American arena tour. The “1999” and “2099” collaborators will play shows together in September and October. Joining them on tour is special guest Shygirl. See the dates for the Charli XCX & Troye Sivan Present: Sweat Tour below.
Coachella 2024 Weekend 2 Lineup & Schedule: All the Set Times You Need to Know
With weekend one behind us, the 2024 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will return to Indio, California, on Friday, April 19. Now, the complete weekend two schedule has been revealed, with a few tweaks, including the addition of Kid Cudi. See the stage and set time breakdown below. Lana...
WE STILL DON’T TRUST YOU
Earlier in their careers, Future and Metro Boomin always sounded committed to bringing the best and the weirdest out of each other. The menace in the pits of Metro’s beats matched Future’s drug tales and bouts of dead-eyed hedonism, and darker, stranger variants on that chemistry kept things exciting. Whether it’s the seething snap of an “I Serve the Base,” the creaking minimalism of a “My Collection,” or the fidgety pomp of a “Jumpman,” the duo always pushed the boundaries of mainstream trap in seedier directions.
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Before moving the tassel on his graduation cap from right to left, Liam Hughes started a punk band with his best friend, Jael Holzman. For Hughes, the group doubled as a graduate thesis and a sneaky way to access American University’s recording studio. For Holzman, it was an opportunity to vent. She sang openly about her experiences as a trans woman, and those lyrics felt like a beacon for incoming band members Miri Tyler and Guinevere Tully. After releasing a 2022 EP under the name Ekko Astral, the Washington, D.C., punk outfit expanded into a five-piece with more on the line than just a framed degree: Ekko Astral’s community-building efforts in the local scene transformed them into a sounding board for DIY fans who felt seen.
One Million Love Songs
There is a special ache that sets in after any big ending. It doesn’t need to be a breakup; it could be a death, moving out of an apartment, or settling in for bedtime at the end of an especially perfect day. Throughout their seven-year career, Chicago soft rockers Bnny have sat in this wounded sadness like a frog on a pond. Their second album, One Million Love Songs, finds power in it, using rough-hewn layers of guitar to break open singer-songwriter Jessica Viscius’ teary-eyed world.
Celebrated Composer Richard Horowitz Dies at 75
Richard Horowitz, the composer and percussionist who won a Golden Globe Award for his soundtrack, with Ryuichi Sakamoto, to The Sheltering Sky, died in Marrakesh, Morocco, on Saturday, April 13, according to a post on the Instagram page of his wife, Sussan Deyhim. In its own tribute, the New York label Rvng Intl., which reissued Horowitz’s album Eros in Arabia, heralded the “incredible tapestry of music [Horowitz] was a part of,” adding, “now you are all around us, reborn in the ultimate dimension.”
Live Nation to Face Antitrust Lawsuit From Justice Department: Report
Live Nation Entertainment may face an antitrust lawsuit from the Justice Department as soon as next month, The Wall Street Journal reports. The agency began investigating the Ticketmaster parent for potential abuses of power in 2022, amid outcry over various ticketing failures for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour. The lawsuit would allege that Live Nation’s concert promotion and ticketing operations have undermined competition in the live music market, The Journal reports, citing sources familiar with the matter.
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