NEW Singles & Videos + Release Announcements + Brand New Signings
FAT FREDDY'S DROP release 'Stand Straight' single | Get ready to party with the NZ Summer TOUR
Fat Freddy’s Drop step up with ‘Stand Straight’ the latest single from their new album SLO MO. With its stonking reggae riddims and heavy horns, ‘Stand Straight’ is proving a powerful and popular set opener on Freddys euphoric SLO MO album tour across Europe and UK.
SHARON VAN ETTEN unveils new song | Check Out 'Southern Life'
“Sharon Van Etten is going all-in with her band, the Attachment Theory” (Rolling Stone). Set to release their self-titled debut album on February 7th via Jagjaguwar, Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory now unveil new single/video ‘Southern Life (What It Must Be Like),’ following the “gothically romantic” (Pitchfork) lead single, ‘Afterlife.’
MDOU MOCTAR share new Tears Of Injustice track| Check out 'Takoba'
On February 28, Matador will release Tears of Injustice, the acoustic version of Funeral for Justice. Today, listen to ‘Takoba (Injustice Version).’ In its original arrangement, the song gradually unspooled into an epic crescendo of interlocking guitar solos. On Tears the quartet delivers a more intimate and hypnotic read on the song, foregrounding traditional percussion and call-and-response vocals.
TWO SHELL return with ‘Magic Power’ | Check it out today!
In ‘Magic Power‘, Two Shell collaborate with Japanese pop unit Peterparker69, merging their ethereal, euphoric sound with an added layer of chaotic, dancefloor energy. Following the praise for Round, which was featured in Pitchfork’s 100 Best Songs of 2024 (“a carousel of hijinks and hits”), Magic Power delivers a sugary hit that’s bound to appear in DJ sets across the globe.
jasmine.4.t shares album title track | Listen to 'You Are The Morning'
Singer-songwriter and trans woman jasmine.4.t is set to release her debut album You Are The Morning on Jan 17th via Saddest Factory Records. Based in Manchester, Jasmine recently became the first UK signee to Phoebe Bridgers’ label and today is sharing new single and album title-track ‘You Are The Morning’, which follows on from recent singles ‘Elephant’ and ‘Skin on Skin’.
New Albums & EPs Out Now
GREG MENDEZ releases First Time/Alone EP on vinyl | Pick it up from your favourite record store today
Philadelphia, PA’s Greg Mendez recently signed to Dead Oceans and today his new EP, First Time / Alone, is released on vinyl. First Time / Alone came together in late summer and early fall of 2023, on the heels of the release of Greg Mendez, his self-titled breakthrough album, also being reissued via Dead Oceans.
Reissue of the Week
TOM WAITS re-issues The Heart Of Saturday Night | 50th Anniversary Edition
Fifty years ago a young and aspiring Tom Waits released The Heart of Saturday Night, his attempt to immerse himself in the romance of longing for adventure, trouble, mystery of love and lust, and the after- hours clubs where jazz, blues, lounge, piano bar crooners would gather and play for and with each other in their search for the ruby eye of the heart that only shone on a Saturday night.