Rise Against have surprise released a new EP titled Nowhere Generation II, along with the video for the track “Last Man Standing.” The EP is a companion release to last year’s Nowhere Generation full-length album and contains new material, including the aforementioned single “Last Man Standing.” The song features passionately sung vocals and narrative lyrical content, with an underbelly of surging guitars. The video is also quite entertaining, as the band and others attempt to escape the pinpoint accuracy of a long-range female archer. Advertisement “‘Last Man Standing’ was a way of expressing some frustration with our world in regards to exploitation, public alienation and human inequality,” explains director Ryan Valdez. “As you see in the video, we are fed through this race of survival....
BTS are feeling nostalgic with their new anthology album PROOF, but the pop superstars have assured us that the best is “Yet to Come.” The project, which features the new single “Yet to Come (The Most Beautiful Moment)” and several other fresh recordings, is available to stream below. A three-disc collection, PROOF compiles songs from BTS’ discography that “reflect the thoughts and ideas of the members on the past, present, and future of BTS,” a statement explains. Its June 10th release date is especially symbolic, as it coincides with BTS’ ninth anniversary as a band, and the annual BTS Festa that takes place on June 13th. The first disc begins with a remastered version of “Born Singer,” an unofficial release from when BTS debuted in 2013. Originally an interpolation of a track by J....
Our feature series Track by Track allows artists to run through every song on their newest release. Today, Andrew Bird breaks down his latest album, Inside Problems. Multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Andrew Bird returns today (June 3rd) with his newest full-length LP, Inside Problems. Inspired by complex thoughts awoken by silence and the idea of thresholds, Bird looks to offer wisdom on the lush 11 tracks. Bird has always remained busy. Prolific in his artistic output, whatever form that may take, he seems to have an unquenchable thirst to create. Preceded by 2019’s My Finest Work Yet, 2020’s holiday-themed Hark!, and 2021’s collaborative These 13, Inside Problems marks Bird’s fourth album in as many years. In the same time period, he’s also taken up acting (check out his perfor...
Post Malone has released his long-awaited album twelve carat toothache via Mercury Records/Republic Records. Stream the LP below on Apple Music and Spotify. Led by The Weeknd duet “One Right Now” and the Roddy Ricch-assisted “Cooped Up,” the studio set follows Posty’s hit third LP Hollywood’s Bleeding, which rocketed to the top of the charts to become his second career No. 1 album upon its September 2019 release. Twelve carat toothache is chock full of other collaborations as well — from “I Like You (A Happier Song) with Doja Cat and its antithesis with Gunna, “I Cannot Be (A Sadder Song) to “Love/Hate Letter to Alcohol” with Fleet Foxes, and “Wasting Angels” with The Kid LAROI. Advertisement Related Video “I want to make an album that will uplift and show that people are not alone in thei...
The first installment of Stranger Things Season 4 dropped this week, and along with it came an appropriately ’80s-tinged soundtrack. Stranger Things: Soundtrack from the Netflix Series, Season 4, Volume I is available to stream below. The Season 4 Stranger Things soundtrack was once again compiled by show creators The Duffer Brothers and music supervisor Nora Felder. Along with classics like Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer,” The Beach Boys’ “California Dreamin’,” and KISS’ “Detroit Rock City,” the Season 4 soundtrack includes a new version of Journey’s “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)” remixed by Bryce Miller and Alloy Tracks. Yet the most exciting soundtrack inclusion — at least to star Winona Ryder — may be Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill.” “I’ve been obsessed with her since ...
Bruce Hornsby has enlisted Danielle Haim on his new single “Days Ahead.” “Remember how we used to be/ Connection that our friends could see/ Remember when we tried to learn German/ I told you what I learned today/ That this all too shall pass away/ It sounded like a stale, stale sermon,” the two sing, with the Haim frontwoman mostly on backing vocals, before jumping into the track’s chorus. The song’s music video was self-directed by Hornsby during the pandemic. The lyrical narrative plays out with a feuding older couple who call an elaborate dollhouse home. Related Video “Days Ahead” is featured on the singer-songwriter’s new album ‘Flicted, which also dropped today in full via Hornsby’s very own Zappo Productions/Thirty Tigers. The 12-track LP follows 2019’s Absolute Zero and 2020’s Non-...
Liam Gallagher has released his third solo album, C’MON YOU KNOW. Stream it below via Apple Music and Spotify. After a steady stream of singles including the Dave Grohl-assisted “Everything’s Electric,” “Better Days,” and the album’s title track, the former Oasis superstar finally rips the cover off songs that he’s been teasing since last fall, like “I Wish I Had More Power,” which he’s cheekily dedicated to his brother and bandmate, Noel, saying: ‘It’s a naughty little tune, but it’s lovely.” His latest solo LP follows 2019’s Why Me? Why Not. and his 2017 debut As You Were. The Consequence review of C’MON YOU KNOW notes: “the record is far from a bad listening experience, but fans hoping to hear the beginning of a new era will have to wait. Fans simply excited for another crop of ro...
Wilco have unveiled their new double album Cruel Country via dBpm Records. Stream it below on Apple Music and Spotify. Cruel Country is the band’s follow-up to 2019’s Ode to Joy, and features lead single “Falling Apart (Right Now)” and “Tired of Taking It Out on You” among its sprawling twenty-one tracks. The two-disc studio set finds the indie rockers fully leaning into the country music rumblings that have followed them since their 1995 debut album A.M. “I think there’s been an assumption over the years that Wilco is some sort of country band,” frontman Jeff Tweedy wrote upon announcing the album. “There’s a lot of evidence to support that way of thinking about our band because there have been elements of country music in everything we’ve ever done. But to be honest, we’ve never been par...
We hope you have a box of tissues nearby, because Bright Eyes have today unveiled reworked versions of some of their earliest songs. To accompany the recent reissues of their 1998 debut A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997, 1998’s Letting Off the Happiness, and 2000’s Fevers and Mirrors, Conor Oberst and company have released a companion EP for each album, each comprising re-recordings of five album tracks plus a cover of a song that especially inspired them when they originally made that album. But Bright Eyes didn’t embark on this ambitious project alone: To help them, the band enlisted pals like Phoebe Bridgers, Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield, and M. Ward to contribute. In addition to hearing Oberst covering Simon Joyner, Lullaby ...
Boldy James and Real Bad Man have teamed up for the ice cold new album Killing Nothing. James previously linked with Real Bad Man in 2020 for the stellar album Real Bad Boldy, which means this isn’t the first time that fans have wondered how Real Bad Man can simultaneously claim to be a Los Angeles clothing collective and also a music production crew (Adam Weissman and James Clay Jones III are credited on every track). Then again, we can definitely see the appeal in looking as tight as Killing Nothing sounds. The 13-track set features contributions from frequent Boldy collaborator Stove God Cooks, as well as CRIMEAPPLE, Knowledge the Pirate, and Rome Streetz. Stream it below via Apple Music and Spotify, and scroll onwards to check out the artwork and tracklis...
Our Track by Track series gives artists a space to tell the story of each song on their newest release. Today, Faouzia takes us through CITIZENS. After years of steadily growing an audience with her heartfelt, international music, Faouzia has finally shared her debut project, CITIZENS. The record is a swift 23-minute collection and includes the recently released “RIP, Love” and the John Legend-featuring “Minefields.” Faouzia’s global influences are immediately noticeable when listening to her music. Born in Morocco and brought up in Canada, the tri-lingual pop star unabashedly brings each element of her roots into her songcraft. Beyond her capabilities to sing in English, French, and Moroccan, her fusion of traditional Moroccan and Arabic stylings with modern pop production has garnered he...
Welcome to Harry’s House: The third studio album from Harry Styles is here. Styles announced Harry’s House, his follow-up to 2019’s Fine Line, back in March with a brief teaser trailer. Lead single “As It Was” — which we crowned Song of the Week — followed shortly thereafter. Styles then premiered the cuts “Boyfriends” and “Late Night Talking” during his weekend one set at Coachella last month. Although the 13-track LP conveniently shares its name with a 1975 Joni Mitchell tune, the title Harry’s House is actually a nod to Japanese pop legend Haruomi “Harry” Hosono. As Styles explained during an interview with Apple MusicL “[Hosono] had an album in the ’70s called Hosono’s House, and I spent that chunk in Japan; I heard that record and I was like, ‘I love that. It’...