Photo Credit: Torso Four years since their critically acclaimed album, Escape From Evil, Lower Dens recently announced their newest creation — The Competition — which will be released on Ribbon Music on September 6, 2019. Lower Dens share a third taste of the album in the form of a glistening, synth-pop careen called “Galapagos.” CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO “GALAPAGOS”CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE LYRIC VIDEO FOR “GALAPAGOS” Lower Dens also recently announced they will be hitting the road upon the album’s release date supporting Of Monsters And Men in addition to three very special release shows in Los Angeles and…
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ENJOY / SHARE “PA’ PODER VIVIR” LYRIC VIDEO Ani Cordero will release El Machete on Sept 20 via Panapén Records, a full-length album of deep emotional range, with songs about feminism, colonialism, anger, love, loss, and healing. Today, she releases the feminist anthem “Pa’ Poder Vivir,” a reckoning with the societal norms that suffocated her as a child. “Pa’ Poder Vivir” is a really important song for me,” declares Cordero. “The song talks about reconstructing the society like you would a house — to make space for us as women to live the lives we want to live. We’ll have to break down walls, create windows to…
Photo Credit: Natalia Mantini Multi-disciplinary artist Kim Gordon announced her first-ever solo album, No Home Record, to be released October 11 on Matador Records. The announcement of No Home Record follows the recent opening of Gordon’s solo exhibition “She Bites Her Tender Mind” at IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) in Dublin and “Lo-Fi Glamour” at Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA. Among its nine tracks, No Home Record features new single “Sketch Artist” accompanied by a video directed by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Loretta Fahrenholz who notes “‘Sketch Artist’ is a haunted car ride. Kim drives as ‘Unter’ Pool summons passengers throughout nighttime LA. The city drifts by,…
LISTEN HERE August 21, London Birmingham-born and Jamaican-reared Stefflon Don is an award-winning, multi-lingual, and multi-talented rapper, singer and songwriter. She’s recently added an NME and MOBO Award alongside BRIT’s Critics Choice. BET and Sound Poll nomination to her name; secured a top 10 platinum selling debut single; and has collaborations under her belt with the likes of Drake, Mariah Carey, Skepta, Raye, Giggs, and Mabel. Stefflon has now surpassed 1 billion streams; 1 million subscribers on YouTube; 640 million video views. Now, fresh off the back of her recent banger “Phone Down” with Lil Baby, the Don is back again with yet another summer anthem “HIT ME up” featuring her signature attitude-tinged vocals against summery instrumentation. 2019 is proving to be a…
LISTEN“NEVER-ENDING SUMMER” CYN returns today with a brand new single, “Never-ending Summer” and news of her highly-anticipated debut EP, Mood Swing which is out September 20 via Unsub Records. Fusing a skittering beat and lush production with sunburst melodies, “Never-ending Summer” was produced by Lars Stalfors (Cold War Kids, Cuco, St. Vincent).Talking about the new single, CYN reveals “With this song, I had aimed to embrace themes that felt like summer: friendship, living in the moment, and youth. I’m really happy and excited to be releasing a song with undeniable optimism and appreciation for the good times in life.”Listen to “Never-ending Summer” HERESpeaking about her forthcoming debut EP, CYN shares “In the flurry of so…