bar italia, the London indie rock trio of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi, and Sam Fenton, have announced details of their debut album. Tracey Denim will be released digitally and on CD on May 19 with a vinyl release to follow on September 8.
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Jenny Lewis has announced details of her fifth studio album, ‘Joy’All’, and shared its latest single ‘Psychos’.Produced by Dave Cobb, the new album is due out on June 9 via Blue Note/EMI and follows 2019’s ‘On The Line’. It was first previewed last year with the single ‘Puppy And A Truck’.Explaining how the album came together, Lewis said: “I started writing some of these songs on the road, pre-pandemic… and then put them aside as the world shut down. […] Then from my home in Nashville in early 2021, I joined a week-long virtual songwriting workshop with a handful of amazing artists, hosted by Beck.“The challenge was to write one song every day for seven days, with guidelines from Beck.
The guidelines would be prompts like ‘write a song with 1-4-5 chord progression,’ ‘write a song with only cliches,’ or ‘write in free form style.’ The first song I submitted to the group was ‘Puppy and a Truck.’”Of working with Cobb, she added: “Dave works fast and we cut the bulk of the record with his incredible house band – Nate Smith, Brian Allen and Cobb on guitar, and myself on acoustic guitar & vocals – live on the floor in a couple of weeks.“Jess Wolfe came back to the studio to provide background vocals on the record and then Greg Leisz and Jon Brion added pedal steel, B-Bender guitar and Chamberlin, respectively, back in L.A..”Listen to ‘Psychos’ and see the artwork and tracklist for ‘Joy’All’ below.1. ‘Psychos’ 2. ‘Joy’All’ 3. ‘Puppy And A Truck’ 4. ‘Apples And Oranges’ 5. ‘Essence Of Life’ 6. ‘Giddy Up’ 7. ‘Cherry Baby’ 8. ‘Love Feel’ 9. ‘Balcony’ 10. ‘Chain Of Tears’Reviewing 2019’s ‘On The Line’, NME wrote: “‘On the Line’ toes many tightropes.
bar italia, the London indie rock trio of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi, and Sam Fenton, have announced details of their debut album. Tracey Denim will be released digitally and on CD on May 19 with a vinyl release to follow on September 8.
Gengahr have announced their upcoming fourth album ‘Red Sun Titans’ and shared new single ‘In The Moment’ along with details of a UK tour.‘In The Moment’ is the second single from the album, following the comeback track ‘The Ladder‘, which was released back in February.“‘In The Moment’ reflects upon the necessity to break away from our daily routine and create meaningful memories,” said frontman Felix Bushe. “As much as sunny days and laughter with friends, ‘In The Moment’ celebrates the late hours without inhibition, where dreams lead and tomorrow lingers.”Bushe also shared that new album ‘Red Sun Titans’ is a record “caught in between two worlds”, and “sits at that crossroads where the past is still in view and to be learned from, but the future is there for the taking.”‘Red Sun Titans’ is set for release on June 9 via Liberator Music. The album was produced by Matt Glasbey (alt-J, Coldplay) and Charlie Andrew (Wolf Alice, London Grammar, Bloc Party, all three alt-J albums).The LP follows 2020’s ‘Sanctuary’ which Bushe claimed to be their most intimate album yet sharing, “I got the chance to go down the rabbit hole and make my own experiences personal.”1. ‘Alkali’2. ‘Red Sun Titans’3. ‘From Beruit (Interlude)’4. ‘A Ladder’5. ‘In The Moment’6. ‘Heels To The Moon’7. ‘Floating In The Undercurrent (Interlude)’8. ‘White Lightning’9. ‘Suburbia’10. ‘In My Way’11. ‘The Interview’12. ‘Haunted Spaces (Interlude)’13. ‘Napoleon’14. ‘Collapse’The band will also embark on a UK headlining tour in support of the LP.
Radiohead‘s Jonny Greenwood has announced a new album with Israeli musician Dudu Tassa.‘Jarak Qaribak’ will come out on June 9 and is being previewed by a first single titled ‘Ashufak Shay’.Discussing the style of the music on the album in a press release, Tassa – who has previously toured with Radiohead – said: “When people listen to this music, I really love to imagine them thinking…what is this? It sounds 1970s, but there are drum machines, there are guitars but they’re singing in Arabic…what’s going on?”Greenwood discussed how the project compared to another past collaboration with an Israeli singer, Shye Ben Tzur, saying: “‘Jarak Qaribak’ presented a similar set of problems, in that you have all these scales which don’t conform to western major/minor scales, and have notes which involve quarter-tones, and it’s very hard to impose a chord sequence on these melodies. It usually makes them collapse. It’s like reducing the resolution on a colour photo until it’s just squares.”Listen to ‘Ashufak Shay’ below alongside watching an album teaser.1. ‘Djit Nishrab’ (feat. Ahmed Doma)2. ‘Ashufak Shay’ (feat. Rashid Al Najjar)3. ‘Taq ou-Dub’ (feat. Nour Freteikh)4. ‘Leylet Hub’ (feat. Mohssine Salaheddine)5. ‘Ya Mughir al-Ghazala’ (feat. Karrar Alsaadi)6. ‘Ahibak’ (feat. Safae Essafi)7. ‘Ya ‘Anid Ya Yaba’ (feat. Lynn A.)8. ‘Lhla Yzid Ikthar’More music looks set to be on the horizon for Greenwood, with both of his main projects hinting at future new material in recent weeks.This month, Radiohead drummer Philip Selway has said that the band will release new material “of some sort” in the “next couple of years”, while The Smile – the band of Greenwood, Thom Yorke and Sons Of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner – have been working on new
King Krule has announced an upcoming album, ‘Space Heavy’, and shared the lead single taken from the release, the stripped-back track ‘Seaforth’.Announced today (April 13), the new LP will mark the fourth studio album from Archy Marshall – under his King Krule alias – and is set to explore “the space between” two locations he considers home.The theme of the album was inspired during its writing process, when Marshall began developing the tracks during commutes between London and Liverpool. Written throughout 2020 and 2022, he became “fascinated by the notion of ‘the space between’”.Arriving ten years after his debut album, ‘6 Feet Beneath The Moon’, the 15-track LP will see the musician explore “a narrative of lost connection”, and give just as much emphasis towards the negative space in the songs as he does the positive.
King Krule has announced details of his fourth studio album. Space Heavy will be released on June 9.
Public Image Ltd have announced their first new album in eight years and an accompanying UK tour for later in the year.The album, titled ‘End Of World’, is set for release on August 11 and is dedicated to frontman John Lydon‘s late wife Nora Forster, who died last week at the age of 80. She had been living with Alzheimer’s disease for five years and Lydon had been her full-time carer.‘End Of World’ features the song ‘Hawaii’ as its closing track, which Lydon had written as a “love letter” to Forster. The band had used the song in their bid to represent Ireland at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, but they lost out to Dublin quarter Wild Youth.“Nora loved the album, she wouldn’t have wanted us to postpone it or change any of our plans,” Lydon said in a press release.
The Wyoming game warden will soon be back on patrol: Paramount+ announced the neo-western Joe Pickett will return with two episodes on Sunday, June 4 in the U.S. and Canada.
Greta Van Fleet have announced details of their third album ‘Starcatcher’ – listen to first single ‘Meeting The Master’ below.The follow-up to 2021’s ‘The Battle At Garden’s Gate’ will land on July 21 and was produced in Nashville by the band and Grammy-winning producer Dave Cobb.“We had this idea that we wanted to tell these stories to build a universe,” drummer Danny Wagner said in a statement.“We wanted to introduce characters and motifs and these ideas that would come about here and there throughout our careers through this world.”Listen to ‘Meeting The Master’ and see the tracklist for ‘Starcatcher’ below.1. ‘Fate Of The Faithful’2. ‘Waited All Your Life’3. ‘The Falling Sky’4. ‘Sacred The Thread’5. ‘Runway Blues’6. ‘The Indigo Streak’7. ‘Frozen Light’8. ‘The Archer’9. ‘Meeting The Master’10. ‘Farewell For Now’In a two-star review of Van Fleet’s sophomore album, NME wrote that “despite the abundance of material provided over the past few years, ‘The Battle at Garden’s Gate’ is a mixed bag of heavy metaphor and lazy observation.”During an interview with Heavy Consequence late last year, bassist Sam Kiszka said of the album: “It’s conceptually going back to almost the days in the garage, with the raw energy of the sound.”The Van Fleet bassist went on to reveal that the album will expand on the band’s sound “because we’re the best musicians we’ve ever been.” Kiszka’s comments echo those he made about the upcoming album in a September episode of the Kyle Meredith With … podcast.
won the Best Small Festival award at the BandLab NME Awards 2022, will return to Brockwell Park in south London on Saturday, May 27. Tickets are on sale now – you can buy yours here.Last November, it was confirmed that Caroline Polachek will headline this year’s Wide Awake.
Dexys – formerly known as Dexys Midnight Runners – have announced their first new album in over a decade, and shared the lead single ‘I’m Going To Get Free’. Check it out below.Only the second studio album to be released under the shortened name, ‘The Feminine Divine’ marks the pop veterans’ first new material in 11 years – following on from their 2012 release ‘One Day I’m Going To Soar’.Due out on July 28, the upcoming album combines both Dexys classic pop sound, along with a new synth-heavy approach.
PVRIS have announced details of their fourth album and shared its first single – listen to new track ‘Good Enemy’ below.The new LP is titled ‘Evergreen’ and will be released on July 14 via Hopeless Records. It will feature two songs shared last year and follow 2020 album ‘Use Me’.Speaking about the new album, vocalist Lynn Gunn said: “‘Evergreen’ is a reclamation of control in our post-pandemic culture, posing a complex discussion on fame, technology, spectacle, and female autonomy.”She added: “It’s not my job as an artist to cater to certain trends or people’s nostalgia, I have to follow what I feel compelled to follow and do my best to uncover what truths and messages I can find within that. I have to always embrace the risks of change and trust that each stage of my music’s life will resonate with whoever it’s meant to.”Listen to ‘Good Enemy’ below.Discussing the album title, Gunn said: “If you search the definition of ‘evergreen,’ you will find words like: enduring, timeless, fresh, unlimited, and renewal. In our modern culture where everything is online, algorithm-based, and instantaneous, it feels like timelessness, longevity and connection could someday become dying concepts.
Laurent Garnier has announced that he will release a new album in May. He also says that if you want to catch him DJing somewhere near where you live, the next eighteen months will be the time to do it, as he plans to step back from touring in 2025.The new record, titled ’33 Tours Et Puis S’en Vont’, will be Garnier’s first solo album for the best part of a decade – the last being 2015’s ‘La Home Box’.
Jenny Lewis has announced that she will release her fifth solo album ‘Joy’All’ later this year. Out now is new single ‘Psychos’.“I started writing some of these songs on the road, pre-pandemic and then put them aside as the world shut down”, she says.
Stella Rose has shared details of her debut album, as well as unveiling new single ‘Faithful’ – check it out below.‘Eye Of Glass’ will be released on May 19 via KRO Records. To coincide with the announcement, Rose has released the video for ‘Faithful’, which was directed by Ben Howley.The New York-based musician worked on the new album over a two-week period in late 2020 with Yves Rothman, who has also recently produced records for Blondshell and Bartees Strange.Rose’s breakout single ‘Muddled Man’ arrived in October 2022, swiftly followed by ‘Angel’ the following month. Both tracks, alongside ‘Faithful’, will appear on ‘Eye Of Glass’.
Jenny Lewis has announced her first new album in four years. Joy’all will be released on June 9 via Blue Note/Capitol with first single "Psychos" streaming now.
Jungle have announced that they will release their latest album ‘Volcano’ this summer. The LP is the follow-up to 2021’s ‘Loving In Stereo’.Alongside the announcement, the duo have released new single ‘Candle Flame’, featuring rapper Erick The Architect, of which they say: “We wanted to create a song that was both personal and relatable, exploring the highs and lows of love and relationships in a way that was both poetic and authentic”.“Working with Erick The Architect was an absolute pleasure and his unique perspective and talent added an extra layer of depth and richness to the track”, they go on.
Kelly Clarkson has arrived for the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Awards!
billy woods and Kenny Segal have announced a new joint album called Maps, the follow-up to their 2019 collaborative debut, Hiding Places. It’s due out May 5 via woods’ label, Backwoodz Studioz.
Wicca Phase Springs Eternal has announced details of a new self-titled album. "Moving Without Movement" is the first release from Wicca Phase Springs Eternal, which is due out June 2 via Run For Cover Records. Scroll down to see a video for the new song now.
Kelly Clarkson has announced her new album ‘Chemistry’, promising that new music will also be coming “really soon”.The singer and daytime talk show host said that she’d been working on the new project for “close to three years now” and initially wasn’t sure if she was going to release it, but added that she was “very excited”.“It’s called ‘Chemistry’ because I was trying to find a word – also, it might be one of the songs on the album – that really described the whole thing,” Clarkson explained in a video shared to social media.“This album is definitely the arc of an entire relationship. A whole relationship shouldn’t be brought down to just one thing.