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Lost Under Heaven Return with New Single “Alpha Omega”: Stream
LUH. Lost Under Heaven, aka LUH., have returned with a new song called “Alpha Omega”. After releasing their previous albums, 2016’s Spiritual Songs for Lovers to Sing and last year’s Love Hates What You Become, via Mute, LUH. have decided to go the independent route. “Alpha Omega” marks their first release under their new label/arts platform, LUH.international. The single was entirely funded via the band’s Patreon, where subscribers got an early listen a few days ago. Today, the heavy swirling lament has been released wide for all to hear. As LUH. detailed in a statement, “Alpha Omega” was born out of exploring existential questions during lockdown. “After reflecting on our rapturous moment, from the sensational and quickly suppressed alternative narratives (or ‘conspiracy’ theories) to th...
Nick Cave Debuts New Song “Euthanasia” in Idiot Prayer Concert Film: Watch
Following its initial digital premiere earlier this year, Nick Cave’s concert film Idiot Prayer will screen in select theaters across the world on November 5th. Recorded at London’s Alexandra Palace in June 2020 as the UK slowly emerged from lockdown, the solo piano performance was conceived as a reaction to the confinement and isolation of the preceding months.” The 22-song set included material ranging from early Bad Seeds and Grinderman through Cave’s most recent album, Ghosteen. He also premiered a previously unreleased song called “Euthanasia”, which is now being released as a standalone video. Watch below. Following the film’s theatrical screening, Cave will release a companion live album on November 20th. It’ll feature four unaired performances. Pre-orders are now ongoing. Mean...
The Weeknd Teams With Kenny G for Jazzy ‘In Your Eyes’ Remix
The Weeknd’s “In Your Eyes” is already pretty popular on fans’ playlists. But on a new remix of the track, he sprinkles in some smooth jazz feels featuring none other than Kenny G. After the two performed together at TIME100 last month, the Weeknd just couldn’t help but release the new jazzier rendition. And you know what? It works! “In Your Eyes” is off his latest album, After Hours. Aside from “In Your Eyes,” the Weeknd also previously dropped the title track, “Scared to Live,” “Snowchild” and “Blinding Lights,” which performed at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards. To celebrate the new LP, he also released an accompanying film. And in June, the Weeknd also made a $1 million donation to COVID-19 relief efforts that included MusiCares and funds given directly to the front-line hospital wo...
beabadoobee Releases Debut Album Fake It Flowers: Stream
Artist of the Month and London-based indie rocker beabadoobee has released her highly anticipated debut album, Fake It Flowers. Stream it below via Apple Music or Spotify. Fake It Flowers is Bea Kristi’s first full-length record under the moniker beabadoobee. It follows five EPs, including her 2019 releases Space Cadet and Loveworm. The 12-track record includes the previously released singles “How Was Your Day?”, “Worth It”, “Sorry”, and “Care”, the latter of which stole the Song of the Week spotlight. Not only is Fake It Flowers one of the most anticipated albums of 2020, but it’s also a long-but-short time coming milestone for beabadoobee herself. While talking with CoS in a new interview, Kristi revealed that she was surprised how quickly songwriting came to her, especially considering ...
Lana Del Rey Drops New Song “Let Me Love You Like a Woman”: Stream
Lana Del Rey has released a new song called “Let Me Love You Like a Woman”. It’s the first single from her upcoming album, Chemtrails Over the Country Club. Stream it below. On Thursday evening, the pop star teased the track in Instagram post alongside what appears to be the single artwork. It’s the first song we’ve heard from Chemtrails Over the Country Club despite Del Rey initially claiming that the full-length would be out on September 5th. She’s now targeting a release on either December 10th or January 7th. Whenever it’s actually released, it will be her seventh studio album overall, following 2019’s excellent Norman Fucking Rockwell!. Over the summer, Del Rey published her first poetry collection, titled Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass. Featuring music by her frequent coll...
Sturgill Simpson Releases First-Ever Bluegrass Album Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 1: Stream
Modern country songwriter Sturgill Simpson has released his first-ever bluegrass album, Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 1 — The Butcher Shoppe Sessions. It’s streaming in full below via Apple Music or Spotify. His fifth studio effort to date, it sees Simpson reinterpreting his own music in the style of bluegrass. The jam-packed project consists of 20 tracks pulled from across his discography, including Metamodern Sounds in Country Music (2014) and A Sailor’s Guide to Earth (2016). The Grammy winner skipped reworking any music from 2019’s Sound & Fury, which makes sense given that it’s a more experimental record with harder rock and electronic influences. Luckily, there’s plenty of his classic disaffected country songs that lend themselves wonderfully to solo bluegrass sessions, like “Breakers Roar”...
Local Natives Announce New EP, Share Sharon Van Etten Collaboration “Lemon”: Stream
Local Natives will return next week with a new EP titled Sour Lemon. Out through Loma Vista Recordings, it’s being teased today with the almost-title track “Lemon”, a collaboration with Sharon Van Etten. The upcoming EP comes a little over a year after Local Natives’ 2019 album, Violet Street. In a statement, the California indie rockers talked about how the effort’s four tracks materialized in their own time, and separate from a proper album cycle. “There’s something freeing about writing without the goal of an album in mind. It feels like waking up for class only to realize that it’s Saturday and you can sleep in as long as you want,” they remarked. “The songs on Sour Lemon each have their own long histories but they all finally decided to arrive at the same time. Rather than waitin...
Ty Dolla $ign Enlists Jhené Aiko, Mustard for Motivational Track ‘By Yourself’
With Ty Dolla $ign’s appropriately titled upcoming record, Featuring Ty Dolla $ign, dropping next week, the singer decided to give fans a taste of the record before its ‘featured’ presentation. Ty’s latest single, “By Yourself,” hit streaming services on Friday in advance of his third solo studio album. The track has the vocalist linking with fellow R&B star Jhené Aiko and, once again, with his tag-team partner Mustard. The world knows the two best for their years of collaborations, including “Down On Me” and the breakout smash “Paranoid.” As for the new track, Dolla $ign wants to make sure it uplifts fans before the album is released. He also hopes it serves as an ode to women everywhere — single women especially — who are doing their thing. “One of my favorite parts of maki...
Local Natives Share New Single With Sharon Van Etten, Announce EP
Local Natives have shared a new collaboration with Sharon Van Etten, and its timing is quite good. “Lemon,” out now, tackles themes of longing for connection in a world of isolation, something most listeners can get behind right now. And its gentle acoustic instrumental and duet-style delivery mesh well with the Kenny Laubbacher-directed video, which takes place at the L.A. River. “From the time we started writing to recording to shooting the video, I have moved to L.A., Taylor [Rice] had a child who is now 10 1/2 months, and Ryan is now engaged,” Van Etten said in a statement. “I connected with the song at each stage: collaborating and getting to know each other, receiving their openness and generosity, recording the song and feeling the camaraderie and accepted as a part ...
Lana Del Rey Shares Piano Ballad ‘Let Me Love You Like a Woman’
After a month of teasing her next single, Lana Del Rey has officially released the piano-laced track “Let Me Love You Like a Woman.” The single is Del Rey’s first from her upcoming album, Chemtrails Over the Country Club, which she originally announced back in May. It features Del Rey’s classic vocal layering over delicate piano chords, feeling almost like it could’ve been a cut from 2019’s Norman Fucking Rockwell. And, as any Del Rey song should, it shows the artist flexing her pen, too, fresh off the release of her poetry book. (Let me be who I’m meant to be/Talk to me in songs and poems/Don’t make me be bittersweet/Let me love you like a woman). Earlier this month, Del Rey surprised fans with a Los Angeles book signing for Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass. The singer-turne...
Justin Vernon Plays New Big Red Machine Song in Latest ‘Visit With Vernon’
Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon launched his “Visit With Vernon” voting initiative with his Eaux Claires last month to “talk thoughtfully about why voting matters” and in the second installment, where he sat with two new Milwaukee voters, he performed a new Big Red Machine song titled “Latterdays.” The singer-songwriter says the tune is “about what it’s going to feel like in the future when we look back and wonder if we did enough.” Big Red Machine is his side project with the National’s Aaron Dessner and he wrote this song with Dessner and Anais Mitchell. After a brief conversation, Vernon performed the tune on a Milwaukee rooftop for contest winners Vic and Mary Jane, who have different political opinions. Watch it below. [embedded content] You Deserve to Make Money Even When you a...
Chromeo Remixes Dirty Projectors’ “Lose Your Love”: Stream
Felicia Douglass of Dirty Projectors (photo by Jason Frank Rothenberg) and Chromeo (photo by Heather Kaplan) In May, the Dirty Projectors released the perfectly effervescent new single “Lose Your Love”, fronted by keyboardist and percussionist Felicia Douglass. That little slice of heaven has already attracted one remix from Jimmy “The Senator” Douglass, a Grammy-winning producer who also happens to be Felicia’s father. Now, electro-funk duo Chromeo have dropped remix number two, giving the track their own disco-ball spin. The original “Lose Your Love” used warm synths and whimsical, chipmunk-soul samples to put some bounce in your step. In contrast, the Chromeo remix finds a harder, sweatier approach, the better for dancing all night. In Club Chromeo, the strutting bass line holds the flo...
