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After sharing the remarkable title song from her new album Weather Alive, Beth Orton is back with the music video for a new single titled “Forever Young.” The nearly six-minute track features Dustin O’Halloran on synthesizer, backing vocals from Grey McMurray, and frequent Orton collaborator Ali Friend on double bass. Check out the Stephen Ellcock and Jonathan Reid-Edwards–directed video below. Of the “Forever Young” visual, Ellcock said in a statement: Beth originally had the idea of looking at women as mystics and witchcraft as a form of spiritual connection rather than evil. Running with this, we wanted to make something that took you on a journey both cosmic and macrocosmic, from outer to inner space and back again. A kaleidoscope of archetypal imagery and shifting perspectives seen th...

Archers of Loaf have announced their first studio album in 24 years. Reason in Decline arrives October 21 via Merge. Eric Bachmann, Eric Johnson, Matt Gentling, and Mark Price have also announced a tour behind the new album, which marks the first new full-length from the band since 1998’s White Trash Heroes. Watch the video for the first single “In the Surface Noise” below. While Reasons in Decline is the group’s first LP in over two decades, the band has reunited on a number of occasions since 1998. In 2011, they embarked on a North American reunion tour, during which they performed on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. In a statement, Bachmann explained that the desire to write new material for the band came after revisiting his older songs. “For Archers lyrics, songs, everything, I had to im...

Panda Bear has announced a new album with Spacemen 3’s Sonic Boom. Reset arrives August 12, and its Troggs-sampling single “Go On” is out now. Watch James Siewert’s video below. The longtime partnership between Panda Bear and Sonic Boom, whose real name is Peter Kember, dates back to Panda Bear’s 2011 album Tomboy. Before that, Panda Bear had thanked Spacemen 3 in the liner notes to his breakout album Person Pitch. A dollar from each CD and LP sale goes to Earthisland.org, an environmental nonprofit. Domino Mart is releasing a limited-edition yellow vinyl of the record, and an extra 500 translucent pink LPs are on sale via Bandcamp, with $10 going towards MAPS, a nonprofit researching and developing psychedelic therapies as a form of mental health treatment.   Panda Bear & So...

Bob Dylan has announced another leg of his ongoing tour behind Rough and Rowdy Ways. His next run of dates will kick off September 25 in Oslo, and then wind through Stockholm, Copenhagen, Paris, Amsterdam, London, and more, before wrapping up in Glasgow on October 31. Find Dylan’s full schedule below. Dylan released Rough and Rowdy Ways in 2020, and has been touring extensively in support of the record since last fall. He has added dates to the tour three times since announcing his initial run. Dylan wrapped up his West Coast leg of the tour just last month. Earlier this month, Dylan’s one-of-a-kind re-recorded version of “Blowin’ in the Wind” sold at Christie’s London-based auction house for £1,482,000 (roughly $1,769,508 or €1,733,940). The updated track is the debut Ionic Original—a new...