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Sean Nicholas Savage has announced his new album, Shine, with a video for the title track. The album was recorded in Los Angeles with Mac DeMarco, who also shot the album’s cover photo, on production. It’s out July 22 via Arbutus. Check out the tracklist and the video for “Shine” below. Of the new record, Savage said in a statement, “It’s about the glimmering eye of a seagull eating trash, or a cat on the fire escape, from another being, in another world, that glimmer of hope, the glimmer of life.” Shine is Savage’s 15th studio album, and the follow-up to 2020’s Life is Crazy. He’s on tour in Europe through June. Check out “How Mac DeMarco Went VR for ‘This Old Dog’” on the Pitch. Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. Shine: 01 Feel Like a Child02 Streets ...

Cass McCombs has shared a new song about the loss of a close friend. “Belong to Heaven” was produced by Ariel Rechtshaid, and it features Danielle Haim on drums and backing vocals; Shahzad Ismaily on bass, keys and piano; Frank LoCastro on keys; and Buddy Ross on hammond organ. The Chaplin sisters recorded additional vocals for the track, which you can listen to below. McCombs has worked with Rechtshaid on three of his previous albums: 2009’s Catacombs, as well as Wit’s End, and Humor Risk, both from 2011. The singer-songwriter’s most recent LP, Tip of the Sphere, arrived in 2019. Since issuing that record, he has released a book of poetry, shared his solo single “The Wine of Lebanon,” and enlisted a string of collaborators for new music. He’s shared new recordings with Wynonna Judd, Steve...

Katie Bejsiuk, formerly the leader of Free Cake for Every Creature, has announced her new album The Woman on the Moon with the lead single “Onion Grass.” The LP is the first under her father’s original surname; the first generation American born to Ukranians changed it before his daughter was born. The new record is due out June 24 via Double Double Whammy. Listen to “Onion Grass” below. Of the new song, Bejsiuk said in a statement that it was “inspired by the rupture of an adolescent friendship, which occurred as we moved from the imaginative space of childhood to the restrictive and gendered structures of young adulthood.”  Bejsiuk wrote most of The Woman on the Moon in upstate New York between 2019 and2021, exploring archetypal phases of womanhood: “Women are complex, powerful harb...

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