This is your daily song calendar - every day there is a new song or music video waiting for you. Maybe you hate it, maybe you love it - maybe you already know it or maybe you'll just discover something new! Either way, it's all about the music and a little bit about the lyrics.
And since you're here, I will share what I've learned over the years: An apple a day keeps the doctor away but if the doctor is cute - screw the fruit!
Nothing screams summer more than a new The Darkness single, at least it did in 2003, when Permisson To Land landed on this planet. And somehow that feeling still hangs around this band, or summer, or both. Stay tuned for the album Pinewood Smile which is set for release on October 6.
Oldie but goldie. I've had this song stuck in my head for weeks now, you know, that German word Ohrwurm aka Earworm that makes no sense translating it. Either way, I've decided to spread this musical infection.
The Seattle indie-folk group have dropped a music video for 'City of Angels' off their latest record Signs of Light. Somewhere between behind the scenes and making-of, the uplifting track plays over footage of the band on the road. Happy Saturday y'all.
Little Dragon's Celebrate is just the sort of slightly hazy version of a celebration
you’d expect from the band. There are distinctly ’80s
reverberations on the percussion and synths, and frontwoman Yukimi
Nagano’s cadence adds to the Prince-like vibes. The track also features a
guest appearance by Agge, who played guitar on No Love from Little
Dragon’s self-titled debut. Enjoy.
This is just the beginning, sings Adam Olenius
on Jumbo Jet, the opening track on Shout Out Louds' new album, Ease My Mind,
the band's first in four years. The song, which is premiering below,
signals a rebirth for the Swedish act, largely ditching the heavy synths
of 2013's Optica for something more acoustic and organic,
potentially an extension of the sound Olenius honed on his great 2016
under-the-radar EP, Looking Forward to the New Me.
Barcelona-based band Evripidis and His Tragedies, fronted by queer artist Evripidis Sabatis, is once again on that romantic journey tip, on new track Dreamboat. The perfectly pop tune at first seems to be just another sappy missive about boys. But the video plays with NSFW surrealism and dark humor.
... I dream all day of all those things we do…If only you were mine’.
Rhye have resurfaced with their first piece of new material in four years. Following up on 2013’s acclaimed Woman album, the R&B duo has shared a pair of songs in Please and Summer Days. This one is an aching cut and comes complete with a black-and-white music video directed by the group’s own Michael Milosh.
With Obama out of office and Drumpfi being the funkless shitbag he is, Spotify had to turn north and look for a head of state to come up with this year's summer playlist. And while Trudeau is no Barack, you can see him dancing away his funky socks away.
Juanita Stein has unveiled a new song and music video from her upcoming solo album, America, out on 28th July. A fab, dreamy journey into the dark heart of country-noir, says The Sunday Times and I would find it hard to argue against that.
Sometimes, I guess, for some of us, the numbness simply becomes too overwhelming. Constantly hiding behind an electronic device, only touching metal
and glass, can't help much either. I think we miss that touch so much, that we need to crash into each
other, just so we can feel something.
... every step that I take is another mistake to you.
Feist has released the video for Century, off her latest album Pleasure. In the video, Feist and a gang of supporters face off against a doppelganger, played by Maria Doyle Kennedy (Orphan Black). There’s also a cameo from Jarvis Cocker, who appears on the song. Enjoy.
Sokol is an adventurer. Entranced by nature, the performer
travelled to Mongolia, embarking on a four day trek deep into the Altai
Mountains. He comments: "It’s a retour à la nature! In a fast-paced world like
the one we live in, where technology is controlling our lives, it is
easy to get out of touch with yourself and everything and everybody
around you. I strongly believe that we have to preserve the human
elements in meeting face to face and not get lost in the virtual world."
Remember this? It was the summer of 2003, which was aa very hot summer and also the summer of Lumidee's Never Leave You (Uh Oh). So all together it was a pretty neat and fly, who would have thought where we would end up 14 years later.
A: The Pains Of Being Pure at Heart
S: When I Dance With You
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart are coming back this summer with the new album The Echo Of Pleasure, their follow-up to 2014’s Days Of Abandon. And after sharing first single Anymore, they’re letting the world hear a new one called When I Dance With
You. It’s a jittery, hiccuping track, in short: really good.
Two Fridays ago, Lipa released her music video for New Rules, a song technically about making new rules for relationships. However, interpreting the anthem as a go-to for the new rules of summer
style isn't a bad idea either. Shot at Miami's Confidante Hotel, the pastel-hued video depicts a
prodigiously well-dressed squad of BFFs helping Lipa get over a no-good
guy.
...if you're under him, you ain't getting over him.
Arcade Fire
have shared their new song Electric Blue. They’ve also shared the
accompanying music video, directed by Cousin Club. The
track appears on their forthcoming album Everything Now—the follow-up to 2013’s Reflektor, which arrives July 28.
Alt-J has released another haunting, beautiful, music video, this time
for their single Deadcrush off their recently released studio album Relaxer. When writing the song, the trio started with imagining what
historical figure they would go on a date with. Frontman Joe Newman chose Lee Miller and drummer Thom Sonny Green selected Sylvia
Plath, while keyboardist Gus Unger-Hamilton strangely decided upon Anne
Boleyn.
The music video for The Story of O.J. was uploaded to Jay Z's YouTube account - becoming the first piece of 4:44 to become available to the general public. A commentary on the history of racism in America, the vintage animated visuals reference racist cartoons from studios like Warner Bros and Disney, as they flesh out Jay's politically-charged message.
Last week, Tyler, the Creator announced his long-awaited new album Scum Fuck Flower Boy, which has reportedly leaked online. The most interesting take-away from the leak is the album’s lyrics,
which can be interpreted as Tyler coming out. As well as pointing out
the album’s name itself perhaps being indicative of this, Twitter users
highlights bars such as, I been kissing white boys since 2004 on I
Ain’t Got Time.
... dollar sign was my favorite number at the time.
Last month, ’90s R&B greats TLC returned with their new self-titled and crowdfunded album, which they say will be their back and the summer record you didn't know you want. TLC also made a video for the warm, easy first single Way Back.
The clip, the group’s first in 14 years, takes place at an outdoor
barbecue full of dancers, and it features guest rapper Snoop Dogg
appearing in a literal cloud of smoke.
Apparently summer is also a time for mosquito bites - I'm learning today. Anyway, fresh of Bob James' album Three, which was actually his fifth, comes this swooning track ready to improve your Sunday coffee morning to the max. Enjoy.
Summer is the perfect time for sun, fun, and a trip down memory lane. And no band does it better than Travis. So without further ado, here's a band of four funky Scotsmen, and a song so fresh you wish it wasn't 16 years old already.
Absolut is a brand with one of the longest, proudest histories of supporting LGBTQ rights. So here to celebrate the brand, the commitment, the love and the kisses, is Absolut's new ad, proving that long known fact, that kissing is contagious.
Wake up, the Foo Fighters are back. Dave Grohl and
Co. play with a soft-loud-soft dynamic on the single Run, which
opens as a dreamy, slow burner then, as you’d expect with the Foos,
quickly turns heavy as thunder. How heavy? So heavy your mom will hate
it and your neighbors will tell you to turn it down. So heavy it might
just feature some of the most hulking moments in the Foos’ canon.
Bringing together the best and most sultry of tones from across the electro pop, R&B and soul genres, Jessica 6 sings over a Severino & Nico De Celia disco track for the brand new Dance For Love release. Of course, the track is being released in celebration of Pride Month, so the message is simple: dance for love.
Just like Berlin last week, Moses Sumney was submerged in water in his video Doomed, which he released last Tuesday to celebrate a record label deal with Jagjaguwar. The clip is set underwater and shows Sumney floating in a tank of water as he performs the atmospheric ballad.
Arcade Fire
have released their new video for Signs of Life. The clip features a pair of spesh agents enjoying a day of cultural
activities. In the end, they find a pair of mysterious life forms in a
suitcase. Check it out below. Their new album, Everything Now, is out July 28.
The xx have shared a new video for their I See You
track I Dare You. Shot in Los Angeles, the video involves a cast of
teenagers involved in various fragmented conversations and scenarios.
Actors featured in the video include Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven in Stranger Things), Moonlight star Ashton Sanders, Paris Jackson, and more.
