the UK based band, Jungle, have returned with two new songs and the accompanying music videos. “Happy Man” and “House in LA” are singles off of Jungle’s upcoming sophomore album. Watch the videos below. The songs will be officially released on June 22nd via XL Recordings as a 12″ double-A-side vinyl single.
Jungle, led by Josh Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland, stated that the LP is like “a post-apocalyptic radio station playing break up songs,” according to a press release.
Senegalese music legends Touré Kunda are returning with their first album in a decade, called Lambi Golo, which will be out May 25th via Shellshock.
The LP will see Touré Kunda returning to their roots, aka the Casamance region of Senegal. The songs “have been cultivated over many years and recorded in ‘village studio’ conditions to preserve the essence of life and evoke the loss of values for confused generations.” The album is being characterized as “a musical thiéboudienne that is both energetic and tender…a vibrant mix of m’balax, casamancais rhythms, funk, pop rock, and reggae and an open invitation to dance, to dream, and to hope.”
Listen to a preview of Lambi Golo below before pre-ordering it in a different language and find the cover art above and full tracklisting below.
Lambi Golo tracklisting:
01. Demaro ft. Manu Dibango
02. Oustache
03. Emma Salsa ft. Carlos Santana
04. Malang
05. Lambi Golo
06. Sene Bayo
07. Fatou Yow
08. Mister Farmer ft. Kiddus I
09. Ka Badiyassi
10. Soif de Liberte ft. Lokua Kanza
11. Deuk N Do
12. Sotolal
Childish Gambino has released a new song, “This is America” with an adjoining music video which can be watched below below. The political video, directed by Hiro Murai, shows Glover dancing while chaos unfolds. It is Donald Glover’s first release since 2016’s full-length “Awaken, My Love!.”
Bainbridge Island, Washington-based psych rock band, Weeed, are coming out with a new album called This and is set to be out June 1st via Important Records The album is a described as “outgrowth” from their previous release, as described by the band, and the label described it as containing “an expansive musical vision and an astonishingly mature sound…[full of] tight syncopations and pulsing polyrhythms.”
You can preorder the LP’s vinyl and cassette at Important Records and listen to the previous release, META, below.
This tracklisting:
01. Haze II
02. Our Song
03. Wave
04. This
Trevor Powers announced the end of Youth Lagoon after three albums, however, he has returned under his own name. Watch the video for his new single “Playwright,” out via his label Baby Halo.
Powers also shared a handwritten note along with the new music. “i ended youth lagoon because it became a mental dungeon, & i was its captive. my intention was never to keep it going—only to serve as a nod to the blooming years.” Read the note below.
Angel Olsen has announced a solo tour after a number of shows in May and June in Europe. Check out her full itinerary below. A press release stated that Olsen will perform “new unreleased material” during these solo shows. She will play shows throughout the tour with the likes of Hand Habits, Julianna Barwick, and Dick Stusso.
Olsen has partnered with PLUS1 for this tour where $1 from every ticket sold except in Vancouver and North Adams will go to Direct Relief, a humanitarian aid organization that helps “ improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty and emergencies.”
Angel Olsen:
05-01 London, England – Union Chapel
05-03 Istanbul, Turkey – Salon IKSV
05-04 Istanbul, Turkey – Salon IKSV
05-05 Rome, Italy – Auditorium Parco della Musica – Sala Petrassi
05-06 Padova, Italy – Anfiteatro del Venda
05-08 Madrid, Spain – Teatro Calderón
05-09 Barcelona, Spain – BARTS (Guitar BCN)
05-10 San Sebastian, Spain – Teatro Principal
05-12 Santiago De Compostela, Spain – Auditorio Abanca
05-13 Guimarais, Portugal – Centro Cultural Vila Flor
05-14 Lisbon, Portugal – ZDB at Teatro da Trindade
05-15 Lisbon, Portugal – ZDB at Teatro De Trindade
05-20 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel (Festival of Disruption)
06-05 Asheville, NC – Masonic Temple ^
09-07 Big Sur, CA – Henry Miller Library !
09-08 Sonona, CA -The Old Redwood Barn !
09-10 San Francisco, CA – Nourse Theater !
09-12 Portland, OR – Newmark Theater !
09-13 Portland, OR – Newmark Theater !
09-14 Seattle, WA – The Moore Theater !
09-15 Vancouver, British Columbia – Vogue Theater (Westward Music Festival)
09-17 Denver, CO – Paramount Theater !
09-20 Austin, TX – Paramount Theater !
09-27 Harrisburg, PA – Harrisburg Arts Center %
09-28 Tarrytown, NY – Tarrytown Music Hall %
09-29 North Adams, MA – Mass MOCA – Hunter Center %
^ w/ Dick Stusso
! w/ Hand Habits
% w/ Julianna Barwick
Frankie Cosmos have a new music video for their track “Apathy” which was directed by Tom Scharpling. In the video, another band named Frankie Cosmos find it has already been taken and things begin to take a strange turn. Watch it below. Greta Kline said about working with Scharpling, “I trusted him entirely and just wanted to let Tom and his team do their thing. We had so much fun making it…I was laughing so much that it probably took much longer than it should have to shoot my parts.”
Bob Dylan has come out with a whiskey line named Heaven’s Door and it will feature a straight rye, a Tennessee bourbon, and a double barrel whiskey. He partnered with the co-founder of Angel’s envy, Marc Bushala, for the release. “We both wanted to create a collection of American whiskeys that, in their own way, tell a story,” Dylan told The New York Times. “I’ve been traveling for decades, and I’ve been able to try some of the best spirits that the world of whiskey has to offer. This is great whiskey.”
Working with Dylan, for Bushala, involved figuring out what a lot of his comments about each sample whiskey meant.
George Clinton, the legend behind Parliament/Funkadelic has announced his retirement from touring starting May 2019, as Billboard reports. “This has been coming a long time. Anyone who has been to the shows over the past couple of years has noticed that I’ve been out front less and less,” Clinton said in a statement to Billboard. He went on: “Truth be told, it’s never really been about me. It’s always been about the music and the band. That’s the real P-Funk legacy. They’ll still be funkin’ long after I stop.”
Rome-based Halcyon Veil artist Cecilia, who guested on Rabit’s Le Fleurs du Mal LP last year, but is now releasing her own debut full length, Adoration, on the avant garde label on May 4th.
Adoration’s first track “Gros Animal” is available for streaming (below), and pre-order the record in digital, FLAC (wtf?), WAV, or vinyl formats.
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