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Leotrix Continues to Push Boundaries on Innovative “Honesty Trax” EP: Listen
Leotrix is making 2021 his year. January saw the arrival of his ROUND III EP on Never Say Die: Black Label. Only a few months later in March, he returned for his excellent Visions of The Leo EP on Disciple. He clearly has no intention of slowing down as the Australian producer returns today with his Honesty Trax EP out via NIGHT MODE. Honesty Trax strays from what fans have come to expect from the eclectic producer. The two-sided EP is a departure from his heavier work, taking on an airy, dreamy sound that feels incredibly personal. The innovation previously found in his releases remains, as his candidly named tunes embrace a fresh recreation of his sound. Side one contains “brief grip of creation,” which shines with blissfully soaring synths and playful p...
Subtronics’ Cyclops Recordings Unveils Latest Wonky Compilation
Subtronics’s meteoric rise can be attributed to his unmistakable signature sound as well as his keen ear. Since launching his Cyclops Recordings imprint, the Philadelphia-born has successfully signed tracks from incredible budding talents as well as well-established bass music veterans. Today his label has delivered yet another compilation packed full of unstoppable artillery. Entitled Planet Cyclops, the compilation features a handful of bass music champions including TYNAN, Ace Aura, Wreckno, Jkyl & Hyde, and Chassi as well as fresh faces like eliderp, JoeB, Dr. Lobster, DDD, and many more. As fans would expect, the compilation is low-end heavy but dabbles in a handful of genres. Though Cyclops Recordings is a newer imprint, this is its strongest showing yet. TYNAN’...
Cheat Codes Arrive With a Fresh Fusion of Pop and Electronic on Debut Album “HELLRAISERS, Part 1”
Cheat Codes‘ rise to fame skyrocketed through their bubbly production and frequent pop-electronic crossovers. The trio has an all-star list of previous collaborators including Liam Payne, Trippie Redd, Black Bear, Kaskade, and so many more. Today they’ve taken their rapturous songwriting to new heights on their debut album HELLRAISERS, Part 1. HELLRAISERS, Part 1 expands upon Cheat Codes’s diverse discography, though it mostly takes after their well-established pop sound. The LP features tracks with Tinashe, Marc E. Bassy, Bryce Vine, CXLOE, Lil Xxel, Au/Ra, and AJ Mitchell. The album title stems from a nickname given to them by their late manager Michael Theanne, who passed just over a year ago. “Lean On Me” with Tinashe serves as the focal point ...
Watch Elohim and Big Freedia Command the Runway in Unapologetic “Strut” Music Video
Electropop producer and singer-songwriter Elohim is back with another smashing collaboration. After releasing “Bring Me Back” with GRiZ just last month, she has now joined forces with the Queen of Bounce, Big Freedia. “Strut” features fierce lyricism and an unforgiving beat, with a message that serves up a powerful reminder to walk with confidence everywhere you go, imagining as if “it’s a runway.” The two pop luminaries bring out the best in each other here, holding nothing back and delivering a truly memorable track. The highly anticipated single dropped today alongside a music video directed by Chase O’Black. You can watch below. In addition to her renowned pop and electronic prowess, Elohim is known for her transparency with men...
Elephante Shares Pictorial Music Video for New Single “High Water”
Over the last 20 years high production value in music videos has become more and more of a prized and beloved quality. This week Elephante released his first single of 2021 titled “High Water,” and the track’s official video delivers a visual masterpiece that dynamically captures the meaning behind the song. “High Water” combines the signature characteristics of Elephante’s music: emotive vocals, dexterous electric guitar, and his warm sound design. The song also simultaneously leans towards a more indietronica sound than his previous releases. Elephante recently shared that he wrote the song during quarantine when reflecting back on his opioid addiction in his younger years. “It’s about my experience in my younger years withdrawing from opioids. The darkest moment i...
Coldplay Finally Unveil ‘Higher Power’ With Performance From the International Space Station
Last month, Coldplay began teasing a new project called “Alien Radio” with a series of mysterious symbols. Within hours, the code was cracked by fans and internet sleuths, who discovered that the band would be releasing a song called “Higher Power” on May 7. Now that it’s May 7 in certain parts of the world, the Max Martin-produced track has been released, and it’s out of this world (in a literal sense). Rather than dropping a simple lyric video or clips from quarantine, the Goop divorcee and crew partnered with French ESA astronaut (and current mission commander on the International Space Station) Thomas Pesquet to broadcast a special performance of the song from space itself. The recorded performance (appropriately titled “Extraterrestrial Transmission”) comes complete with hol...
Frank Turner Releases ‘The Gathering’ Featuring Jason Isbell and Muse’s Dominic Howard
Frank Turner hasn’t put out music in almost two years, but now he’s breaking that silence with a vengeance. Not only did he just release a brand new track, “The Gathering,” which features both Grammy-winning alt-country star Jason Isbell and Dominic Howard (the drummer of a little band called Muse), but the English folk-punk standout also launched both a limited edition beer and UK tour to go with it. Of course, after spending most of the last year streaming live shows from his living room, the singer-songwriter wasn’t looking to be like everyone else and write a song about life in quarantine. “[‘The Gathering’ is] about that moment when you come together in a room full of people, and you lean on a stranger and sing along with the chorus and get the words wrong,” Turner said in a statement...
HEALTH Team With Nine Inch Nails For New Single, ‘ISN’T EVERYONE’
After a couple of days of teasing a new collaboration on social media, the Los Angeles noise rock darlings and caps lock connoisseurs in HEALTH finally released their new track with Nine Inch Nails, “ISN’T EVERYONE” (via Loma Vista Recordings). The track is also produced by the two bands and mixed by Trent Reznor’s go-to collaborator for winning major awards, Atticus Ross. The track is HEALTH’s first since October’s Disco 4 :: Part I collaboration collection, and feels like a more proper followup to 2019’s Vol. 4: Slaves of Fear. Of course, even though the genre-bending trio aren’t exactly unknown or “underground” in a lot of circles almost 14 years after they first broke on to the scene with “Crimewave,” they still seem pretty stoked to be working with such a legendary band...
Los Lobos Share Beach Boys, Thee Midniters Covers Ahead of Native Sons LP
Veteran Los Angeles-based rockers Los Lobos shared a pair of covers — “Love Special Delivery” originally by Thee Midniters and the Beach Boys’ “Sail On Sailor” — ahead of their 13-song Native Sons album. Produced by the band, the album also contains one new song, which happens to be the title track. Los Lobos take on favorites and deep cuts by other Los Angeles luminaries, including War, Buffalo Springfield, Jackson Browne, the Blasters and more. The record is described as “a kaleidoscopic selection of tribute songs from their homeland, ultimately creating a crucial snapshot of L.A.’s musical heritage,” and will arrive July 30 via New West Records. East L.A. garage band Thee Midniters were one of the first Chicano rock groups to score a major hit in the U.S., and Los Lobos’ David...
Modest Mouse Share ‘We Are Between’ Single After Six-Year Hiatus Between LPs
Following a six-year hiatus, Modest Mouse is back with “We Are Between,” the first cut from the upcoming LP The Golden Casket, due out June 25 via Epic Records. The Golden Casket, Modest Mouse’s first album since 2015’s Strangers to Ourselves, was produced by Dave Sardy and Jacknife Lee and recorded in Los Angeles and at the band’s Portland, Oregon, studio. The songs see singer Isaac Brock exploring themes ranging from “the degradation of our psychic landscapes and invisible technology, to fatherhood,” according to the press materials, which also call the dozen songs as “amorphous organisms, undergoing dramatic mutations and mood swings that speak to the chronic tug-of-war between hope and despair that plays out in Brock’s head.” Check out the tune below. [embedded content] In 20...
Descendents Release ‘Baby Doncha Know’ From Upcoming Album, 9th & Walnut
It’s been almost 40 years since Milo Goes to College and 25 since Everything Sucks, but Descendents are coming back this summer with a (kind of) new album, 9th & Walnut. Named after their old practice space in Long Beach, California, the 18 tracks were recorded way back in 2002 by the band’s four original members, including the late guitarist Frank Navetta and bassist Tony Lombardo, along with the permanent fixtures of drummer Bill Stevenson and vocalist Milo Aukerman. Ahead of the July 23 release (on Epitaph Records), the band unveiled “Baby Doncha Know,” one of their early tunes that will be featured on 9th & Walnut. “’Baby Doncha Know’ was maybe the 5th song we learned,” Stevenson said in a statement. “We would go out to 9th & Walnut every weekend an...
Rostam Shares ‘From the Back of a Cab’ Single and Video Featuring HAIM, Charli XCX and More
Vampire Weekend founding member Rostam has released “From the Back of a Cab,” a new single that comes with a video featuring collaborators and friends HAIM, Charli XCX, Kaia Gerber, Seth Bogart, Remi Wolf, Bryce Willard Smithe, Samantha Urbani, Wallows, Ariel Rechtshaid and Nick Robinson. The tune is off Rostam’s upcoming album Changephobia, out June 4 on Matsor Projects/Secretly Distribution. He shared his thoughts about the song via a press release: From the Back of a Cab” is probably my favorite song that I’ve written. It started with the 12/8 drums — something you find in Persian music and African music. I built the song around those drums over time, writing the piano part in my living room, the melodies and lyrics on foot walking in New York and Tokyo, on California’s highways, and on...
