OFF! share new single ‘War Above Los Angeles’, detail new album and North American tour

ENHYPEN will be throwing the first pitch at the forthcoming Los Angeles Dodgers baseball game in light of Korean Heritage Night.The Major League Baseball team announced via their Twitter page that the K-pop boyband would be throwing the first pitch at their next game, set to be held Friday (August 19), in celebration of Korean Heritage Night. The game will be held at the Dodgers Stadium in California, with the Dodgers playing against the Miami Marlins.Fans are currently able to purchase their tickets to see ENHYPEN on the field via the official MLB website here.Get ready.

MONSTA X, EXO’s Kai, Jeon Somi and more will perform at upcoming festival KAMP Los Angeles, which is calling itself “the biggest, fully immersive K-pop experience to ever hit the United States”.Yesterday (August 16), organisers KAMP GLOBAL unveiled the first wave of performers for the two-day festival. These are MONSTA X, Super Junior, iKON and rookie girl group Lapillus.

Film Independent today unveiled the three short films directed by fellows selected to participate in its Global Media Makers Spring 2022 LA Residency. (Watch them here.)

Panic! At The Disco have shared their latest single ‘Don’t Let The Light Go Out’ – you can watch the accompanying video for the song below.The track is set to be the final preview of the Brendon Urie-led band’s forthcoming new album ‘Viva Las Vengeance’, which is set for release on Friday (August 19) and is their first LP since 2018’s ‘Pray For The Wicked’.‘Don’t Let The Light Go Out’ is the latest single to be released from the album following its title track, ‘Middle Of A Breakup’ and ‘Local God’.Panic! have also shared the Brendan Walter-directed video for the song, which sees Urie taking an increasingly surreal trip in his car – you can watch the black-and-white clip below.A press release for ‘Viva Las Vengeance’ says that the record “shows a change in process for frontman/songwriter Brendon Urie, having cut everything live to tape in Los Angeles alongside his friends and production partners, Jake Sinclair and Mike Viola”.“The cinematic musical journey is about the fine line between taking advantage of your youth, seizing the day and burning out.

Jesse Jo Stark has released a new single called ‘Tornado’ – you can listen to it below.The song will feature on the Los Angeles singer-songwriter’s debut album ‘Doomed’, which is due to arrive on September 21 (pre-order/pre-save here).“It’s a story of letting a feeling take you to heaven then bury you six feet in the ground… somewhere in the desert,” Stark explained in a statement about her personal latest offering.‘Tornado’ follows on from the artist’s previous singles ‘Modern Love’ and ‘So Bad’ (feat. Jesse Rutherford).

UPDATED with results: An effort to recall Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón was rejected today, with the county clerk’s office announcing that organizers submitted only 520,050 valid petition signatures, short of the required 566,857.

Alvvays have shared their brand new single ‘Easy On Your Own?’ – you can listen to it below.The song is the second to be previewed from the Canadian band’s forthcoming third studio album ‘Blue Rev’, which is due for release via Transgressive on October 7.Following on from the arrival last month of the LP’s lead single ‘Pharmacist’, Alvvays have now shared ‘Easy On Your Own?’.You can listen to the track in the below visualiser.You can see the tracklist for Alvvays’ ‘Blue Rev’, which has been described in a press release as the band’s “most harmonically rich and lyrically provocative” album yet, below.Alvvays will head out on a North American tour in October, with dates running through to mid-November.

Pixies have shared the latest preview of their forthcoming eighth album, ‘Doggerel’ – an equally smoky and melodic cut of alt-rock titled ‘Vault Of Heaven’ – announcing with it a short run of US tour dates.The song itself features an allusion to a bad drug trip and copious references to 7-Eleven, as Black Francis (aka Frank Black) sings in the first verse: “There in the vault of heaven / While trying to titrate / I ended up in… / Another case. I went to 7-Eleven / To try and get me straight / I ended up there… / In outer space.”‘Vault Of Heaven’ arrives alongside a suitably wacky music video, directed by Charles Derenne.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorVeteran Russian musical collective and  activists Pussy Riot will be joined by some high-profile guests for their forthcoming concert at Los Angeles’ El Rey Theater on Wednesday: comic Sarah Silverman will be performing a full set, while Big Freedia — fresh from her prominent guest spot on Beyonce’s “Break My Soul” —  Salem Ilese, Josiah, Boyfriend, Slayyyter and Eva Elfie will be making special guest appearances, along with previously announced artist Rei Ami.The appearance is a rare high-profile slot for Silverman, who has been keeping a relatively low profile in recent months. Big Freedia and Salem Ilese both appear on Pussy Riot’s “Matriarchy” mixtape, which dropped on Friday. Ilese also released the viral hit “Crypto Boy,” and for which the group’s Nadya Tolokonnikova created the single artwork.

The Mars Volta have shared details of their first album in a decade alongside the release of a new single called ‘Vigil’.The self-titled album, ‘The Mars Volta’, is released on September 16 via Cloud Hill and marks the band’s first record since 2012’s ‘Noctourniquet’.It follows the release of ‘Graveyard Love‘ last month and June’s comeback single ‘Blacklight Shine‘, both tracks of which feature on the new album.The reunited Mars Volta will head out on a US tour later this year in support of their self-titled seventh record. See the full list of dates here (and buy tickets).‘The Mars Volta’ tracklist:01. ‘Blacklight Shine’02. ‘Graveyard Love’03. ‘Shore Story’04. ‘Blank Condolences’05. ‘Vigil’06. ‘Qué Dios Te Maldiga Mí Corazón’07. ‘Cerulea’08. ‘Flash Burns From Flashbacks’09. ‘Palm Full Of Crux’10. ‘No Case Gain’11. ‘Tourmaline’12. ‘Equus 3’13. ‘Collapsible Shoulders’14. ‘The Requisition’The Texas-formed band released six albums between 2003 and 2012 before splitting due to a falling out between founding members Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López.However, the pair made amends and formed a new group, Antemasque.

A staggering loss. Vin Scully, who was the voice of Dodgers baseball for 67 seasons, has died at age 94.

Over the last seven days, the average number of daily new Covid cases in Los Angeles was 5,332, an 11% decrease from one week ago when the average number of daily new cases reported was 6,014.

Stray Kids have unveiled a brand-new song and music video titled ‘Time Out’.On August 1 at Midnight KST, the boyband surprised fans with the digital single and its summery new visual to wrap up their ‘2022 STAYweeK’ fan event, which saw the release of several behind-the-scenes clips. The yearly event marks the anniversary of the Stray Kids’ fan base, which were named Stay on August 1, 2018.The ‘Time Out’ music video sees the eight-member group enjoying a summer getaway by the ocean, singing along to the new track as they lounge and play in a nearby beach house.“So come on / Let’s go, leave everything behind / Wherever it may be, somewhere far from here / Run to (run to), run to (run to) / Somewhere refreshing and wide open, oh oh,” Stray Kids sing on the upbeat new pop-rock track.‘Time Out’ is the latest of the boyband’s surprise “mixtape” tracks, following June 2021’s ‘Oh’.

Rosalía has today (July 28) shared a summery new single called ‘Despechá’ – check it out below.The song has been performed by Rosalía live during her ongoing world tour and has now been released as a one-off single.Speaking about the track and its meaning, Rosalía said: “There are many ways to be Despechá, in this theme it is from the freeness or the craziness, moving without reservations or regrets.“This is the place from where I make music, from where I did it when I first started and where I will continue to until God says so.“I’m grateful for having been able to travel in recent years and have learned from music from other places including the DR, where artists like Fefita La Grande, Juan Luis Guerra and Omega have inspired me and without them this song would not exist.”Check out the song here: The current ‘Motomani World Tour’ marks Rosalía’s first global run of concerts and sees her travel to 15 countries across a 46 dates.The tour began earlier this month in Almería, Spain at Recinto Ferial de Almeria and recently made stops in Barcelona and Madrid.

Rina Sawayama has shared the third single and title track from her highly-anticipated second album ‘Hold The Girl’.The artist has already previewed the new album – the follow-up to 2020’s ‘SAWAYAMA’, which NME awarded five stars – with the singles ‘This Hell’ and ‘Catch Me In The Air’, with the latter premiering as Zane Lowe’s New Music Daily pick on Apple Music 1.The new single is a typically ambitious, multi-faceted pop song, addressing both the trauma and catharsis of moving forward in life. “Sometimes I just wanna run away, leave behind that old me, start again/ Then I’ll remember who I’m really made of/ And she’s been hide-and-seeking, waiting all alone,” she sings on the track.Speaking about the songwriting process, Sawayama said: “‘Hold the Girl’ was the first song I wrote for the record at the end of 2020 – I had gone to therapy and had a revelation, so I decided to write this song… that was the start of it.