Touché Amoré’s Jeremy Bolm has debuted his new podcast, “The First Ever Podcast,” a look at the humble beginnings of all kinds of different artists. You can listen to the first two episodes (featuring Brendan Yates (Turnstile) and Reba Meyers (Code Orange) wherever you listen to your podcasts. (Overcast link.)
E for Explosion has released the new song “Mountain Climber” on Bandcamp.
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Coldplay have shared an alternate take from their “Yellow” video shoot.
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Advertisement have released their new album, American Advertisement, on Bandcamp.
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Mascots have released a video for “Figure It Out.”
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Read More “7/10/20 (Ten Songs)” This week’s newsletter looks at music and entertainment I enjoyed this week. This was a good week for singles, and I’m all about that new PVRIS album. This week’s supporter Q&A post can be found here.
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“You are a beam of light / maybe that’s why your battery runs dry,” Elizabeth Stokes sings on the penultimate track of Jump Rope Gazers, the highly anticipated sophomore album from New Zealand group, The Beths. “You Are A Beam of Light” is the sole acoustic song on the album, and what a song it is. In the hands of another pop-punk songwriter, the track could come across as corny; or worse, convey zero emotion in a story that should tug at your heartstrings. Stokes, though, is a songwriter who transforms the mundanity and nostalgia of life into something universal and wholly captivating, while highlighting her introspective mind.
The Beths’ debut album, Future Me Hates Me was a surprise hit. Well, it was a surprise to the band. To everyone listening, it was clear that the four-piece had created something extraordinary. According to Chris Taylor at The Line of Best Fit, “Future Me Hates Me was one of the most self-assured and exciting debuts in recent years.” It’s true: with their debut, The Beths had me enjoying pop-punk for the first time since my teens. The success of the album propelled the Kiwis to newfound heights, spending 2019 touring with Pixies, subsequent to a stint in Europe and the UK with their personal heroes, Death Cab for Cutie (The Postal Service’s Give Up is an album Stokes knows front to back).
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Acceptance have shared the new song “Midnight.”
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Dua Lipa has released a video for “Hallucinate.”
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The Beths have shared a video for “Jump Rope Gazers.”
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Super Whatevr have shared the new song “Carhartts & Converse” featuring Mark Hoppus.
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Anita ‘Lady A’ White has talked with Vulture about the lawsuit from the new Lady A:
With the pro bono support of intellectual-property attorneys from the Palo Alto–headquartered Cooley law firm, White is confident that justice will eventually prevail. If she has any concern about the way negotiations have crumbled for all the world to see, it is for the way she is being portrayed by the band, how she believes they are positioning her as “the angry Black woman.” But even that won’t stop her fight.
“I was quiet for two weeks because I was trying to believe that it was going to be okay and that they would realize that it would be easier to just change their name, or pay me for my name,” White says. “Five million dollars is nothing, and I’m actually worth more than that, regardless of what they think. But here we go again with another white person trying to take something from a Black person, even though they say they’re trying to help. If you want to be an advocate or an ally, you help those who you’re oppressing. And that might require you to give up something because I am not going to be erased.”
Into It. Over It. will release Figure on September 18th. Today they’ve shared the song “Living Up To Let You Down” and pre-orders are now up.
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Sarah Tudzin of Illuminati Hotties talks with Stereogum about her upcoming mixtape:
Yet this arrangement inspired one of 2020’s most brash, defiant, and flat-out righteous projects. It’s just not Illuminati Hotties’ second album: Described as a “mixtape,” Free I.H.: This Is Not The One You’ve Been Waiting For — out a week from now — is essentially Tudzin spitting in Tiny Engines’ hand before she puts money back into it