the Los Angeles-based duo MOVIESTARZ put out their glittery new pop single “1.M FREQUENCIES” that includes Cali Rodi. That is the ultimate single off their forthcoming debut album FANTASY > REALITY set for launch on November seventh.
From the inventive minds of finest pals Tyler Nichols and Alex Pombar, MOVIESTARZ attracts on EDM, hyperpop, and early-2000s pop-rock influences to make one thing completely their very own. Their newest single is simply one other instance of the genre-bending sounds that may be anticipated on their new file.
“’1M Frequencies’ is without doubt one of the high contenders for my favourite music on the album. We made the demo for this music 2/13/24 and purposely saved this to be the final single earlier than the album drops for a purpose. I hope we’re enjoying this music on levels 20 years from now,” shares lead singer Tyler Nichols.
“I’m so excited to be part of ‘1.M FREQUENCIES’! I used to be immediately drawn to the music the second I heard it, with the best way it combines each pop punk and digital parts to create a synergy that I personally haven’t actually heard earlier than. I grew up listening to artists like blink-182, Avril Lavigne, and 3OH!3 so it was enjoyable to channel my teenage self in these vocals,” provides featured pop vocalist, Cali Rodi.
Punk/alt-rock firebrand Package Main has dropped the music video for her new single “Teenage Wannabe” out now through Futureless. A snarling, cinematic observe brimming with horror-punk vitality, it’s a tongue-in-cheek anthem of identification, chaos, and survival in a world that thrives on manufactured personas. The clip was directed by longtime collaborator Noël Dombroski and brings the camp and spectacle of B-horror and sci-fi movies to vivid life.
That is Lily’s most intimate and expansive work so far, an evolution from her earlier work fronting the 5-piece rock outfit Vakili Band. On Oceans of Kansas, she presents blues-soaked guitar riffs, delicate ballads, fiery rock anthems, hushed confessionals, and strikingly seductive Bossa Nova rhythms. Her voice strikes effortlessly between grit and charm, roaring with ferocity one second and whispering with vulnerability the subsequent. It was on her most up-to-date solo tour, whereas driving via the continental US with one in every of her brothers (a former submariner) as roadie, that she discovered the inspiration for this new period, signaled by her return to utilizing her personal identify, Lily Vakili, slightly than Vakili band, in addition to the album’s title.
On that tour, opening for John Douglas of Garbage can Sinatras, an in a single day cease led to the Sternberg Museum of Pure Historical past in Hays, Kansas, and Lily discovered herself in entrance of an exhibit in regards to the prehistoric inland sea that after lined the Nice Plains. “I understood one thing,” she displays.“That I’m the archivist, the archaeologist, of my very own life.” The album attracts on that revelation, honoring what’s been unearthed, what’s been misplaced, and what’s nonetheless surfacing. As Lily places it, “Every part is fleeting, every thing is right here.”
This album is Lily’s “locations album,” an ode to areas tied to emotional experiences, in addition to a house for her “orphan songs” that by no means appeared to suit elsewhere. Whereas there’s not an ocean in Kansas, Lily Vakili has given us an album crammed with recollections honoring what’s occurred earlier than, in addition to pleasure for what’s but to come back.
Berlin-based singer, songwriter, producer, and visible artist, bat zoo is a real multi-hyphenate inventive. His African-American roots and eclectic upbringing formed a sound the place R&B melts into folks, soul into atmosphere. Identified for his work with Majestic Informal-affiliated duo GOLDAand vocal ensemble A Track For You (Rhythm Part), bat zoo now steps into full focus with The Upward Chicken, a end result of years of trial and error, development, and self-discovery. His long-awaited debut EP ‘The Upward Chicken’ is a six-track meditation on reminiscence, vulnerability, and transformation. Mixing R&B, soul, folks, and experimental digital textures, the undertaking captures the total vary of bat zoo’s artistry – emotional, cinematic, and unapologetically human.
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A stunning, but haunting reflection of the adjustments we bear as human beings, Meredith Adelaide‘s “What Do I Know” is an indie folks anthem that tugs on the heartstrings. Demonstrating a tossup between being clever past your years and holding your self accountable to your previous flaws, the tune’s lyrical swells of melancholy are on par with these of Phoebe Bridgers or Adrienne Lenker. “What Do I Know” invitations these listening to just accept change, though it may be scary at first. Produced by Khushi (James Blake, Monica Martin, Ruti), the combo is completely barren, that includes primarily Adelaide‘s heartfelt vocal supply alongside a easy folks guitar.
Seattle, WA-based eight-piece psych funk outfit Cytrus publicizes their punchy sophomore album Duality due out November 14 and out there for pre-save now. With the announcement, the band shares the primary style of the undertaking with “Outta Management,” out now. Plus, the band will carry out reside through YouTube and later, in individual, this winter throughout Oregon and Washington–see dates.
Duality pays homage to Nineteen Sixties & Seventies rock, soul and psychedelia, whereas exploring themes of excellent, evil, mortality, immortality and time. Over six tracks, the group finds their groove with flowing instrumentals, hovering solos, hard-hitting riffs. With these songs, the band discovered their identification, their inventive path and paved their path ahead.
Jared Squires (guitar/vocals) says making the album “felt tangible, pressing and liked. I believe this shines via within the closing product. This can be a sophomore album from a band that has the utmost respect for consideration to element of their craft. I’m simply actually happy with what we created.” The group hopes to take listeners on a journey that delicately balances nostalgia with present-day and the acquainted and the international
Gradual, sludgy and melancholic, “Outta Management” appears to be like on the decisions one makes and the way one spends their time. Because it unfolds, it reminisces on how these decisions performed out. It was with the making of this observe that the band discovered their path for the undertaking as a complete. It’s turn into a staple within the excessive vitality reside present, so capturing the magic in a studio proved to be a problem, however the band is happy with the outcome. Owen Mayo (guitar/keys) says, “The studio rendition appears to keep the true essence of our performances from the previous 2 years, whereas additionally benefiting from the polish and maximalism which you can get from a completed file. We’re very happy with how this one turned out, and that’s a giant purpose why we selected it as our lead single for this album.”
Cincinnati indie-rock singer/songwriter Maura Weaver (Mixtapes, Ogikubo Station, The Mimes) proudly releases her sophomore album Unusual Devotion through Really feel It Information, now out there on main streaming platforms.
Following her 2023 debut I Was Due For A Heartbreak (Don Giovanni Information), Unusual Devotion continues to lean into Weaver’s melody-driven and thought frightening lyrics. Her confidence flows via the ten distinct tracks suffused with intentional and delicate storytelling whereas presenting a sonic palette that spans the Feelies, Teenage Fanclub, Liz Phair, and even the Vehicles. From “Prince,” a shiny and light-weight music destined for blasting with the automobile home windows down, to the infectious “Do Nothing” to the impeccable riffs on “The Face,” each molecule of this file displays Weaver’s continued maturation as a solo artist, a band chief, a participant, and a songwriter.
“Unusual Devotion could be very particular to me,” says Weaver. “I challenged myself to maintain going till issues had been good and never be passive within the studio—I performed extra devices, the performances had been tighter, and creatively John Hoffman and I had extra enjoyable within the studio. We acquired superb individuals enjoying on the file (members of Trip, The Afghan Whigs, WHY?, Spoils, Beef, The Ophelias). I wrote music nearly daily throughout the course of. We recorded round 15 or 16 songs and solely the ten finest ones made the lower. I hope you adore it as a lot as I do.”
During the last three a long time singer/songwriter/guitarist Tom Hamilton has made a profession of pushing rock n’ roll boundaries, fronting a cadre of bands together with Brothers Previous, American Infants and Ghost Gentle. Hamilton additionally sings and performs lead guitar within the juggernaut up to date Grateful Useless cowl band, Joe Russo’s Nearly Useless.
Right this moment, Hamilton is thrilled to announce his debut solo album I’m Your Vampire, due out on January 23 through AWAL/Relix. The primary single off the album, “Don’t Give Up On Me” is out now with accompanying music video directed by Joe Lee. The album was co-produced by Hamilton and Alex Farrar (MJ Lenderman/Wednesday).
It wasn’t till just lately {that a} sequence of non-public and societal crises compelled the Philadelphia primarily based musician/songwriter/producer to rethink his method and eventually forge forward underneath his personal identify.
“Once you’re in a van on the street for 20 years, you reside in your bubble, you suppose that your world is a technique — and it’s not. The pandemic break gave me the time to see that. Then my band broke up and my dad acquired sick. The one respite I had was the studio.”
recent off a whirlwind launch of their irreverent new album Bonanza, Portland, Oregon’s The Macks share the official music video for “Cypher Sore Eyes.” This standout lower from the latest file is a droning, dissonant and disillusioned observe the place they query how we’re supposed to maneuver about life when each motion appears to help a trigger we don’t stand behind.
Within the video, directed by Jake Thiessan and shot on 16mm and Tremendous 8, we see The Macks in uncooked kind; trudging via their hometown haunts, gear in hand. “The aim was to point out our appreciation for Portland and showcasing the areas that we see daily, not your customary vacationer areas,” shared vocalist Sam Fulwiler. “It’s additionally a vibe piece that reveals us carrying what we truly put on on stage, which was a pleasant distinction to the primary video [“Dually of Man” / “The Modern Grape”] which has us wearing a approach that we by no means do with hi-fi manufacturing.”
Irish folks quintet Some One’s Sons return with their newest single, The Probability to Really feel Alive, releasing October thirty first. The music is a uncooked folks anthem about escapism, the place fleeting moments of reduction are discovered on the backside of a glass. Amid hovering rents, pals emigrating, and the grind of recent life, the chorus “10 pints of porter and the possibility to really feel alive” turns into each a rallying cry and a lament.
Written by singer-songwriter Daniel Allen, The Probability to Really feel Alive blends ritual-like folks soundscapes with Celtic guitar backdrops and a touch of western affect. Drawing on textures paying homage to Ispíní na hÉireann, The Scratch, and The Highwaymen, bouzouki layers lend a cinematic spaghetti western edge, making a wealthy backdrop for a vivid, genre-spanning folks story that balances melancholy with levity. As Daniel notes, “Typically the simplest place to search out hope is on the backside of a pint” — a sentiment that resonates via each line and chord of the observe.
A putting characteristic of the observe is the road “And the drink is singing” adopted by the hypnotic repetition of “Na na na…”. Just like the regular pull of alcohol, this chant turns into inescapable, echoing each the consolation and hazard of distraction. The refrain embodies the fleeting phantasm of pleasure, reminding listeners how shortly indulgence can turn into ritual.
The hypnotic refrain captures the strain between indulgence and resilience — a distinction that resonates throughout Some One’s Sons’ work. The place The Banshee Wall grapples with emigration and the ache of absence, and Paddy O tackles office injustice and solidarity, The Probability to Really feel Alive confronts alcohol’s double function: companion and captor in a society weighed down by financial pressure.
Some One’s Sons are off the again of a summer time tour that included two performances at Galway Folks Fest, headlining the Friday evening gig rig at Fleadh Cheoil, and three reveals at Electrical Picnic, together with a set on the TodayFM stage. They’re now making ready for an upcoming EP launch, together with a UK tour in 2026.
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