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Above & Beyond and Mat Zo Drop Long-Awaited Group Therapy ID, “Always Do”
Above & Beyond and Mat Zo have finally dropped one of 2021’s most anticipated Group Therapy IDs. The Anjunabeats veterans today released “Always Do,” an acid-soaked progressive house single. Tinctures of haunting vocals guide listeners through an atmospheric, dark arrangement, which is highlighted by pulsing bass. Fans got their first taste of the track back in September 2021 at the Group Therapy 450 outing in London—and they’ve been awaiting its official release ever since. Check out the riveting single below. Recommended Articles Earlier in the week, the Anjunabeats Twitter account teased that the trio had an upcoming collaboration on the way with a “label star.” This, of course, was Zo, who shared his excitement to work with the trio. Be...
SHINEDOWN Releases ‘Planet Zero’ Music Video
SHINEDOWN has released a thought-provoking and cinematic music video for its new single, “Planet Zero”. The clip arrives as “Planet Zero” hits No. 1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay chart this week. The explosive single, the title track from the band’s seventh studio album, out April 22 via Atlantic Records, is SHINEDOWN‘s 17th No. 1 and sixth consecutive chart-topper, breaking a new record for the most No. 1s in the 40-year history of the chart. Directed by Charles De Meyer, the video brings to life a glimpse of a dystopian future (complete with a menacing A.I. character named Cyren from the album’s interludes who we hear at the end of the music video) that warns of the dangerous dehumanizing consequences of cancel culture run rampant. On “...
DUB WAR To Release First Album Of New Material In Over 25 Years
Fusion metal pioneers DUB WAR have released their brand new rousing single “Blackkk Man”, the first single off of their first album of all-new material in over 25 years, “Westgate Under Fire”. Watch the new lyric video here. The track packs a punch with jagged guitar, furious rhythms and tough vocals from founder and frontman Benji Webbe (who many will also recognize as the mighty SKINDRED‘s lead singer). Released in the midst of the celebration of Black History Month in the U.S., “Blackkk Man” is a furious revolt against racism and a bleak reflection of crucial events from this decade in particular, including the murder of George Floyd. Says Webbe: “This song is exactly how I was feeling at the time of Mr. Floyd‘s murder. This is a cry...
Kuusumu – KUOLEMANLAAKSO
RATING: 8.5/10 As any dedicated fan of ultra-miserable, deathly doom metal will tell you, the Finns have absolutely got their shit together. Although less well-known, KUOLEMANLAAKSO deserve to be regarded along those other benchmarks of funeral and melancholic doom metal: SHAPE OF DESPAIR, SKEPTICISM and SWALLOW THE SUN. Across a series of fascinating and emotionally supercharged albums, this shadowy unit have become increasingly potent. Led by the enigmatic presence of SWALLOW THE SUN frontman Mikko Kotamäki, KUOLEMANLAAKSO have long threatened to produce something special, and “Kuusumu” is precisely that. More overtly gothic and theatrical than any of the aforementioned, the Finns’ sound has truly blossomed here over seven wistful but punishing nose-dives into the dark....
EXODUS Announces ‘Persona Non Grata’ European Tour 2022
San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal veterans EXODUS have announced their “Persona Non Grata” European tour 2022, which will take place in July and August and will feature a slew of club shows as well as appearances at a variety of Europe’s most renowned summer festivals. Some of the dates will also feature EXODUS‘s peers and labelmates TESTAMENT. EXODUS will be touring in support of its latest album, “Persona Non Grata”, which was released last November via Nuclear Blast Records. The LP is the follow-up to 2014’s “Blood In Blood Out”, which was the San Francisco Bay Area thrashers’ first release since the departure of the group’s lead singer of nine years, Rob Dukes, and the return of Steve “Zetro” Souza, who pre...
Band of Horses’ Ben Bridwell Isn’t Convinced Things Are Great, But He’s Trying
Ben Bridwell is just waking up from a nap between interviews. Five years after his band’s last album — a span that felt even longer due to the pandemic — the Band of Horses frontman is back on the press circuit, and it’s tiring. If fielding repetitious questions from journalists weren’t wearying enough, the topics up for discussion have been weighing on Bridwell for years. Written pre-COVID, the stories on Band of Horses’ new record, Things Are Great, are about depression, darkness, and divorce. Singing those songs live is something he looks forward to as meditative (“It’ll probably be more joyful than reflective on what the story is,” he tells Consequence. “It’s more like paying attention to the goddamn chords and shit”), but speaking about them is something else entirely. “I had a Z...
Camila Cabello Announces New Album FAMILIA
Camila Cabello is celebrating her 25th birthday with the announcement of a new album. The Cuban-American pop star took to social media today to share that her third studio album, FAMILIA, would be out on April 8th. “2 facts: it’s my birthday and this album is my whole fucking heart,” Cabello wrote on Twitter, sharing what appears to be the album’s artwork. “FAMILIA. Out April 8.” While the official tracklist for FAMILIA hasn’t been released, we can safely assume Cabello’s follow-up to 2019’s Romance will include her single from last year, “Don’t Go Yet,” as well as the Ed Sheeran-featuring “Bam Bam,” which is out today. See her tweet announcing the new record, as well as its cover art, below. Advertisement Related Video Last September, Cabello performed alongside Coldpl...
Black Label Society Announce Spring 2022 US Tour
Black Label Society have announced a Spring 2022 headlining tour with support from Nita Strauss and Jared James Nichols. The outing kicks off April 30th in San Diego and runs through a May 21st date in Indwood, West Virginia, with Zakk Wylde and company hitting smaller markets across the Midwest and South. Strauss and Nichols will open most dates, with Black Stone Cherry playing in place of Strauss at the final two shows. Buy tickets via Ticketmaster. Commented Strauss, who also plays lead guitar in Alice Cooper’s band: “We will be hitting the road at the end of April in support of the almighty BLACK LABEL SOCIETY!!!! Can’t wait to share the stage with these titans of guitar Zakk Wylde and Jared James Nichols… the blonde guitar brigade is coming!” Advertisement The trek will lead up to Bla...
Swedish House Mafia Links With The Police’s Sting on “Redlight” to Announce Its Next Album
Swedish House Mafia has returned and ahead of its upcoming Coachella appearance and the group’s first tour in 10 years, it has debuted “Redlight” featuring Sting. “Redlight” samples The Police’s legendary song “Roxanne,” centering around the lyrics “You don’t have to put on the red light/Those days over/You don’t have to sell your body to the night/You don’t have to wear that dress to night/Those days are over.” Naturally, Sting — who was the frontman, songwriter and bassist for The Police — supplies vocals for “Redlight,” before Swedish House Mafia applies its usual dance-infused wizardry to the track. The new song comes ahead of Swedish House Mafia’s sixth album Paradise Again, which sees the trio comprising of Axwell, Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso teaming up with Ty Dolla $ign an...
Popcaan Shares New Song “Skeleton Cartier”: Listen
Popcaan’s got a brand new single called “Skeleton Cartier.” The track is released via OVO Sound and will be featured in an upcoming campaign for Drake’s first official Nike x Nocta shoe release. Take a listen to “Skeleton Cartier” below. “This song is about how I was feeling after I ordered myself a Skeleton Cartier watch for my birthday,” Popcaan explained in a statement. “This was possible because I put in the work. The aim is always to be richer—in more ways than one!” Popcaan released Fixtape in August 2020. Since then, he’s shared the collaborative Link Up EP with Preme, as well as the February 2021 Gyalentine’s EP. Read about Popcaan’s Where We Come From in Pitchfork’s “The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s.” Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
Madi Diaz and Angel Olsen Share New Song “Forever (New Feelings Version)”: Listen
Madi Diaz has shared her new Same History, New Feelings EP via Anti-. The release includes four new versions of tracks from Diaz’s 2021 album History of a Feeling, each one also featuring a guest artist. The guests on the EP are Waxahatchee, Natalie Hemby, Courtney Marie Andrews, and Angel Olsen, who’s on the new “Forever (New Feelings Version).” Listen to the whole EP below. In a statement about her new EP, Madi Diaz said: I’ve been listening as a fan to these four women for quite awhile now. I’m honored to call them my friends and to have their voices singing these songs with me is something that I still can’t quite fathom. I’m so thankful for their artistry and their stories giving these songs a whole new world and a whole new life. To share this earth and make music with them in this l...
Kurt Vile Shares New Song “Hey Like a Child”: Listen
Kurt Vile has shared another new song from his forthcoming album (watch my moves). The latest single is titled “Hey Like a Child,” with the rest of the album arriving on April 15. Listen to “Hey Like a Child” below. (watch my moves) is the Philadelphia-based artist’s follow-up to 2018’s Bottle It In, and his first for Verve Records. He shared “Like Exploding Stones” from the project in February. Since his last full-length, he issued the EP Speed, Sound, Lonely KV in 2020. He’s set to tour the United States beginning in late April, followed by a European run in the fall. Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
