"We actually have a song called Age of Anxiety"
25.03.2020 - 19:09 / billboard.com
It wasn’t written as a love song for the end of the world, but Margaret Glaspy’s “Killing What Keeps Us Alive” is exactly that: a romantic, alarming and urgent reminder that our presence may be fleeting, but love doesn’t have to be. The chorus, which she sings with a robotic modification at first, speaks to that: "We keep living like we'll never die / And we keep killing what keeps us alive."
“It isn’t not about, you know, the state of the earth,” says Glaspy of the track, which kicks off
"We actually have a song called Age of Anxiety"
Pure X—the trio of Nate Grace, Jesse Jenkins V, and Austin Youngblood—has announced their first new album in six years. The band’s self-titled fourth album arrives May 1 via Fire Talk, with a physical release to follow on July 3. The announcement comes with two new songs, “Middle America” and “Fantasy.” Check those out below.
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After much ado, Drake has released "Toosie Slide," his first foray into the hip-hop microgenre nebulously defined as "instructional dance music." It's a ploy so deliberately engineered to corner the TikTok market and to meme its way into being the next "God's Plan" that it's amazing it sounds as good as it does.
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Rod Wave just released his new album, Pray 4 Love. It follows a breakout 2019 during which he released two projects, PTSD and Ghetto Gospel. The latter effort is executive produced by Kevin Gates.
Greg Fox—the composer and virtuoso drummer for Ex Eye, Liturgy, Zs, and more— has announced a new album. Contact is out May 29 via RVNG Intl. The follow-up to 2017’s The Gradual Progression, Contact was produced and mixed by Randall Dunn. A portion of its proceeds will benefit the Dhamma Dharā Vipassana Meditation Center. Hear the new song “From the Cessation of What” below and scroll down for the tracklist and cover art.
Album release week felt a little different for the 5 Seconds of Summer guys this year. Instead of running around the country performing tracks from their new LP, Calm (which arrived March 27), each of the 5SOS guys were at their respective Los Angeles homes, quarantined as part of the efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19.“It’s definitely odd,” frontman Luke Hemmings says over the phone.
Phish will debut their new album, Sigma Oasis, in an online listening party on Wednesday night (April 1) at 9:00 p.m.
Margo Price has pushed back the release of her next album That’s How Rumors Get Started. She says the record, initially set to arrive May 8, will now come out in the summertime. To accompany the news, Price has shared a cover of John Lennon’s “Nobody Told Me.” Watch Price and her husband Jeremy Ivey’s performance below. Scroll down for Price’s announcement about her album.
Jessi Alexander never intended to move to Nashville to become a songwriter -- she simply wanted to make a living in the music business anyway she could. The West Tennessee native vividly remembers being enthralled by music as a young girl.
Today (March 25) is Big Sean’s 32nd birthday, and, to celebrate, he’s revealed the title of his next album: Detroit 2. The record, which does not yet have a release date, will arrive via G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam Recordings. Check out Sean’s new Detroit 2 trailer below.
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