Uniform & The Body reveal new single “Not Good Enough” from their second monolithic collaboration, Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back, coming August 16 via Sacred Bones. Of the track, Uniform’s Michael Berdan explains, “There is no deeper meaning to Not Good Enough outside of what the title spells out. It is a song about my relationship with my worst enemy: myself. So much of who we become is shaped in our early childhood. For me, my identity was that of a heavy set kid with a learning disability from a broken home in a rougher neighborhood. I may have grown up. My physical body may have changed. I may…
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Photo Credit: Rick Rodney Ceremony hit us with their new track “Presaging The End.” Of the single, lyricist and frontman Ross Farrar notes, “Change is a hard topic to unravel. In one version, people don’t like it much because it tampers with original design. But on the other hand, change is something that is a necessity and also absolutely inevitable, so it’s one of those things we have to embrace by default.” In the Spirit World Now, out August 23 on Relapse, sees Ceremony at the height of their creative output, as the always-evolving Cali quintet take various influences from post punk and rock to create one of the…
Photo Credit: Jessie Morgan Afghan singer Elaha Soroor and award-winning music/producer duo Kefaya (Al MacSween & Giuliano Modarelli) have joined forces for a mighty and mesmerising new album, Songs Of Our Mothers; a fresh, vibrant take on Afghan folk music filtered through myriad forms, from spiritual jazz and dub to Indian classical music and electronica. The album will be released September 27 via Bella Union and is available to preorder here. Today, they share the second single to be taken from the album, titled “Charsi.” According to the collective “Charsi is typical of northern Afghan music, a style made famous by folk musician Mir Maftoon. A charsi is a weed smoker…
Communicant (L-R): David Von Bader (bass), Dylan Gardner (lead vocals, guitar) and Mark Gardner (drums). Photo Credit: Kristin Cofer. WATCH| LISTEN Communicant have dropped their brand new single and official music video for “Spotlight,” on FLOOD Magazine (Watch/Listen/Share: Here). “Spotlight” fuses the group’s playful mix of trippy electronics, R&B and pop and debuts the multi-instrumental, multi-tasking talents of Dylan Gardner, leader and brainchild of Communicant. The hotly-tipped, psych-pop trio who bridge the gap between 60’s psychedelia and R&B-tinged indie pop will release their self-titled debut LP on October 25, 2019. Watch Music Video HERE Communicant’s forthcoming, self-titled debut album features contributions from collaborators including Ben Goldwasser of MGMT–on production duties alongside Dylan Gardner–newcomer, singer-songwriter Syndie Jo who adds a sultry vocal to “New…
Written by Hero Magnus “I don’t need more things / I just wanna talk about it,” sings Sam DeRosa in her newest single, “Baby I Know.” I’m so excited to share this sweet slice of earnest pop with you all. Sam DeRosa is a Berklee College of Music graduate. Soon after college, she went to one of her first co-writing sessions in New York City and wrote a song called “broken.” Two years later, the song became a viral hit by lovelytheband (“I like that you’re broken / broken like me / maybe that makes me a fool” it begins,…