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Warpaint celebrate 20 years as a band by sharing new 7" | Listen to 'Common Blue'
FEBRUARY 14, 2024 – Twenty years ago today, in a small studio on Fairfax Boulevard in Los Angeles, indie quartet Warpaint was born. To mark the anniversary of their formation, they are thrilled to announce the release of a new 7”, ‘Common Blue’ b/w ‘Underneath’, out March 22, 2024 on Rough Trade Records. “It makes us smile to release them in collaboration with friends and family at Rough Trade,” the band say, continuing “It feels like a perfect return to where it all began! With these new songs we tie a bow around this time in our lives, and all the experiences and songs we’ve shared over the years. It’s been an incredible journey and taken us all over the world sharing good times with beautiful people. Our hearts are full!”
SERPENTWITHFEET shares new single | Check out 'Ellipsis' - ft. Orion Sun
Grammy-nominated groundbreaking alternative R&B artist serpentwithfeet shares his latest track ‘Ellipsis’ featuring Orion Sun from his forthcoming album, GRIP, out 16th February for the digital release and March 29th for the physical release via Secretly Canadian. Arriving merely days from GRIP, ‘Ellipsis,’ produced by ThankGod4Cody (SZA, Jay Rock, Chlöe), serves as a moving collaboration with beloved singer, songwriter and producer Orion Sun that embodies the essential essence of GRIP, revealing the incredible intimacy and vulnerability that permeates through a physical connection.
KIM GORDON releases new single + video | Check out 'I'm a Man'
Musician and visual artist Kim Gordon has released ‘I’m a Man,’ the latest preview track from her second solo album, The Collective (March 8th, Matador Records). Atop a dark, churning soundscape, Gordon ruminates on the lost role of “traditional masculinity” and the role of capitalism in its demise. An evocative video for ‘I’m a Man’ is also out today, serving as a perfect visual accompaniment to the song’s expressive lyrics and pulsing sound. It stars Coco Gordon Moore and Conor Fay and was directed by filmmaker Alex Ross Perry, best known for writing and directing the films Listen Up Philip and Her Smell.
WAXAHATCHEE releases new song & video | Check out 'Bored'
Waxahatchee shares ‘Bored,’ the new single from her highly anticipated new album, Tigers Blood, out March 22nd on ANTI- Records. The song comes with a rollicking video shot at Devil’s Backbone Tavern in Fischer, Texas, directed by Corbett Jones & Nick Simonite.
NASCAR ALOE shares video for new single | Check out 'Skid Row'
Recently named one of AltPress’ 24 Rising Artists To Watch in 2024, Los Angeles based nascar aloe has been busy cultivating a community that embraces a gleefully caustic and unique perspective on the many lanes where rap and punk overlap. Here, the Cambodian-American alt-rapper shares the video for his new single ‘SKIDROW’, lifted from his upcoming EP ‘SPEED’ due out on March 15th.
As an ode to those nestled on the fringes of society, ,SKIDROW’ was inspired by nascar’s current residence within DTLA’s infamous Skid Row neighborhood. Set to a vigorous pace fit for a high-speed chase, nascar fuses syncopated drums and punishing rhythmic synths to offset a melodic hip-hop leaning hook.
JAKOB NOWELL drops JAKOBS CASTLE banger | Listen to '2 Hours Ago'
Jakob Nowell releases a new anthem of insouciance dubbed ‘2 Hours Ago’ from his solo project Jakobs Castle – set to release its galvanizing debut album ENTER: THE CASTLE on April 12 via Epitaph Records. The hyperpop-adjacent song echoes nostalgia for the don’t-give-a-fuck attitude of 90s punk rock, but filtered through Nowell’s casual, irreverent musicality.
ROE KAPARA returns with alternative anthem | Listen to 'Glorious Day'
Los Angeles based artist Roe Kapara is releasing the new single ‘Glorious Day.’ His first track of 2024 is a hedonistic anthem that embraces a sonic nostalgia reminiscent of early 00’s alt rock heroes like Weezer and Cage The Elephant. “'Glorious Day’ is about the inconsequential life of a nobody that decides to take part in one day of self-indulgent debauchery,” he explains. “Through a sequence of catastrophic interactions with the law, he finds himself flying off of a cliff to meet his own demise.”
CHANEL BEADS announces debut album & shares lead single | Listen to 'Idea June'
Chanel Beads — the project of New York-based musician Shane Lavers — announces his debut album, Your Day Will Come (out 19th April on Jagjaguwar), and shares the lead single/video, ‘Idea June.’ Your Day Will Come marks Lavers’ arrival as a new force in experimental music. Throughout the album, Lavers captures the many contradictions of modern existence and the strange infiniteness of the digital world.
GOAT GIRL announce new album & share video for new track | Listen to 'Ride Around'
‘Ride Around’, the video for the new single by Goat Girl is directed and produced by filmmaking duo Luke Kulukundis and Mateo Villanueva Brandt from Foreign Body Productions, an award winning South London production company. Goat Girl – Lottie Pendlebury (she/her), Rosy Jones (they/them) and Holly Mullineaux (she/her) are excited to announce their third album ‘Below The Waste’ which is being released on Rough Trade Records on June 7th 2024. The album was co–produced by the band & John Spud Murphy
THE GHOST INSIDE share lead single from upcoming album |Listen to 'Wash it Away'
Since their 2004 formation in El Segundo, California, The Ghost Inside have inspired international audiences with their songs of resilience, perseverance and vulnerability born from genuine life experiences. After five studio albums, today they announce their new record Searching For Solace out digitally on April 19th and physically on June 7th via Epitaph Records.
The Ghost Inside also share the lead single ‘Wash It Away’, which finds vocalist Jonathan Vigil ruminating on the realization that anything, even the band, can quickly disappear.
ERIKA DE CASIER shares new single & video | Check out 'Ice'
Erika de Casier shares a new single and video from her highly-anticipated third album Still, out on 22 February via 4AD. ‘ice’ featuring Tampa rap duo They Hate Change marks the first collaboration in de Casier’s discography, and what a marvellous first showing. For the three-minute cut de Casier moonlights as the duo’s third member, flipping a classic hip-hop trope (“Ice – you put it all on me,” she sings) into a comment on a frustratingly noncommittal person.
FAYE WEBSTER releases new single 'Feeling Good Today' | Check out the new single
Faye Webster has released ‘Feeling Good Today,’ another gem from her forthcoming album Underdressed at the Symphony. Vocoder, newly present in this album, distorts the song’s timeless melody as she sings about the simple joy of a good day – an ever increasing rarity in this world. A companion video shot by Pooneh Ghana is also out today and features TikTok/YouTube star Lili Hayes going about her business wearing a latex Faye Webster mask.
REMO DRIVE share new single ahead of new album | Check out the new single here
Last month, Midwest indie-band Remo Drive shared plans to release their fourth studio album ‘Mercy’; a record traversing themes of reinvention, trusting yourself, and wearing your heart on your sleeve even when it’s painful or vulnerable. A collection of the band’s most lyric-focused work yet, their robust songwriting is exemplified in the sarcastic wit of their Americana-inspired new single ‘All You’ll Ever Catch’.
MANNEQUIN PUSSY share video for new single - Watch 'Nothing Like'
Mannequin Pussy release a mind bending video for their new single 'Nothing Like'. On the yearning song, which is anchored by a dancey, shuffling drumbeat from Kaleen Reading, Marisa Dabice's voice eventually morphs from a coo to a roar as she sings "Oh what's wrong with dreaming of burning all this down?". The video was generated using AI by director Connor Clarke.
Of the song, Dabice says " 'Nothing Like' is pure fantasy. Originally inspired by a stoned out night 6 years ago spent watching an episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, in which Buffy is forced to kill her lover Angel, before he destroys the world. The song existed in fragments until it met it's final form last year. Young love is so often all consuming, dangerous and heightened to mythological proportions - 'Nothing Like' sort to mix the balance of both the light feelings of new love and the absolute depths that obsession can bring you to."
MRCY introduce themselves with stunning debut single | Meet MRCY
Soul through the modern looking-glass, MRCY make an immediate impression on debut single ‘Lorelei’: artfully combining commanding vocals, otherworldly psychedelics and wistful arrangements into work that is as classic in feel as it is contemporary in approach.
SLEEP THEORY share 'Fallout - reimagined' | Listen to Fallout
Breakout four-piece Sleep Theory — vocalist Cullen Moore, guitarist Daniel Pruitt, bassist Paolo Vergara, and drummer Ben Pruitt — were one of the biggest success stories of 2023. With monthly streams numbering at nearly 10 million per month, a Top 10 track at Active Rock, and a full slate of touring though early summer, the band continues to grow by leaps and bounds. Today, they release the lyric video for ‘Fallout — Reimagined.’ It’s a softer, contemplative, and cinematic take on the raw-edged original but it’s just as powerful.
New Albums & EPs Out Now
MOLLY LEWIS - Foremost whistler releases debut album | Get nude
Molly Lewis conjures up visions of smoky Hollywood jazz clubs and Italian cinema soundtracks on her debut full length album. Spellbinding and critically acclaimed professional whistler Molly Lewis releases her debut full-length album On The Lips via Jagjaguwar.
“Mood lighting is a must – the record will not play if you have bad lighting. Splayed on a Chaise lounge with eyes closed works too.” Molly Lewis writes in instructions for listening enclosed in the album’s packaging. “Light chit-chat between friends or lovers is encouraged. Clinking of crystal glasses makes great additional percussion. Silk or velvet should be worn, or alternatively, fully nude always works!”
Texas indie band LATE NIGHT DRIVE HOME share new EP | Check these guys out!
Ahead of their recently announced Coachella performances this Spring, today indie rock four-piece late night drive home release their new EP ‘I’ll remember you for the same feeling you gave me as i slept' via Epitaph Records. Formed in El Paso, TX in 2019, lead singer Andre Portillo, guitarist Juan “Ockz” Vargas, bassist Freddy Baca and drummer Brian Dolan have quickly gained a cult following of over 1 Million monthly listeners charmed by their penchant for nostalgia. Named one of AltPress’ 24 Artists To Watch In 2024, the outlet praises the band for “reinventing indie music for a modern age while increasing representation for Latin artists in the genre”.
ALDRCH releases exhilarating new EP | Check out 'Complex'
NYC artist-producer aldrch is releasing his supercharged project, would you like to go out? The follow-up to his 2023 debut album industry standard, aldrch’s music sonically dives head first into 2000s club rock revival while he lyrically speaks to his relationship with ego, envy, love, fate, and control. New with today’s release is the song ‘complex,’ a defiant and kinetic track. “‘complex’ is a song about getting older and seeing the true colors in those around you,” aldrch shares. “The lyrics are a bit somber, but I paired them with an upbeat and dancey instrumental. Go figure.”
MADI DIAZ performs live on The Tonight Show | Watch the performance
Nashville’s Madi Diaz celebrated her new album, Weird Faith, last Friday with a release day debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Backed by Allison Crutchfield (guitar, backing vocals), Brian Betancourt (bass) and Zoë Brecher (drums), Diaz (guitar, vocals) performed the “infectiously vibrant” (Paste) Weird Faith single, “Everything Almost.” Next weekend, Diaz will return to CBS Saturday Morning to perform other Weird Faith standouts.