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!
If Andy Warhol was right and three is a party, then I declare four being a playlist. Which is the amount of Maggie songs this blog counts now, aka the minimum. Anyway, with her signature indie pop feel, Rogers’ Fallingwater provides listeners with an onrush of passion as the terrifyingly thrilling story of change is told.
In 2017, a relatively unknown artist named Phoebe Bridgers released her debut album, Stranger in the Alps. She sings dark folk-rock lullabies about funerals and wanting to die, yet still manages to work in backhanded digs at past romances among the devastation. It’s a deep, well-rounded LP. Discover single Motion Sickness below.
Lizzo is releasing her major label debut, Cuz I Love You, in April, and the title track offers a fiery taste of her incredibly vocal and genre range. It’s the second single off the LP, following up the retro Juice. Cuz I Love You starts with a bang: Lizzo belts at the top of her longs before a horn and percussive-heavy band join in.
New Zealand’s Aldous Harding follows up her incredible 2017 record Party with the stunning first single from her forthcoming LP Designer, coming April 26. The quietly off-kilter video for The Barrel finds the artist singing her new song in an unusual outfit and environment and the clip has a trick or two up its sleeve, though, so you’ll want to see it through - as the payoff takes the video’s unsettling charm up a notch.
Lo-fi pop duo Malihini, a.k.a. Rome-based Giampaolo Speziale and Federica Caiozzo, have unveiled their new track If U Call, taken from their forthcoming debut album Hopefully, Again, which is out March 8. The song is about the beginning of a relationship, with grown-up behaviours hiding teenage feelings. Enjoy below.
Breakout pop star Ella Vos premiered her video for Empty Hands yesterday. The video shows Vos' last treatment for lymphoma, while the song was written during her first treatment session. Empty Hands is taken from Ella's new EP, Watch and Wait, which explores her illness and diagnosis through a deeply personal lens. Previously released EP tracks include Ocean, Temporary and Cast Away.
London trio Wovoka Gentle have announced the release of their debut album Start Clanging Cymbals on June 7. Today they share a new track from said debut. Of Sin is Crouching At Your Door is a psychedelic piece of cinematic experimental pop. Enjoy below.
Brandi Carlile has some famous friends, and they all seem to love her song Party of One. After Carlile released a duet version of the tune in which she’s joined by Sam Smith. Now, actress Elisabeth Moss has starred in and acted as creative director on a video for the original version of Party of One, the closing number of the album By the Way, I Forgive You, which got Carlile an unexpected six Grammy nominations and three wins.
Robyn returned with Honey last year, and now the Swedish pop star has unveiled a video for track Send To Robin Immediately. The clip follows a group of friends hanging between a gorgeous secluded forest and the bustling city. Essentially, it's an ad for Robyn's new gender-neutral clothing line, RBN, which is showcased on the hip youths in the video. Discover below.
Swedish audiovisual artist ionnalee has unveiled Open Sea, the first single off of her sophomore LP Remember the Future. The synth-pop tune is accompanied by an otherworldly video, which follows ionnalee sporting a slew of gold and silver looks as she explores the universe. Enjoy below.
As his Injured Generation Tour came to a close, A$AP Rocky decided to continue his theme of experimental visuals with a music video for his Testing deep cut Kids Turned Out Fine. The soothing instrumental allows listeners' minds to drift into another dimension. Rocky's trippy vision to life shows a diverse group of kids throughout the video having to deal with certain challenges thrown their way prior to having those experiences propel them into adulthood. Ah, life.
A: Ariana Grande
S: break up with your girlfriend, I'm bored
There’s just no stopping Ariana Grande this year. The global superstar dropped her fifth studio album Thank U, Next, as well as a brand new single Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored. Although it’s only been six months after her fourth studio album Sweetener was released, the songstress has continued to reshape and redefine pop music track by track. With 7 Rings continuing atop of the Billboard Hot 100 for a third week in a row, as well as her first ever Grammy win in the last week, there’s no denying that Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored is going to push even more boundaries and create new records. With a killer music video and playful lyrics, Ariana sets herself up for a smash hit like no other.
Ready or not, join Toro y Moi at a very chill house party in this extraordinary video for Ordinary Pleasure. Chaz Bear gives a dancing tour of his Oakland studio, introducing the members of the band, who begin to play the rosy, relaxed song. There’s a guy putting the finishing touches on a minimalist painting, people photocopying flyers, musicians messing around with their instruments.
In case you missed Kacey's fantastic SNL appearance last May and didn't get my fanboy memo about it on here, you might have wondered WhoTF won album of the year last Sunday. Anyway, I will always be a sucker for good country songs, and this works perfectly as your V-Day soundtrack.
A: St. Vincent & Dua Lipa
S: Masseduction / One Kiss
Think of the Grammy Awards or any other award show what you want, this amazingly raunchy appearance of St. Vincent and Dua Lipa is one of two performances of this year's ceremony you have to see. Or to put it on one comment on Youtube, acknowledging how they cured depression and homophobia in just three minutes.
Siblings Michel and Olivier Gondry co-direct this exuberant dance video for The Chemical Brothers’ new track Got To Keep On, with Olivier’s VFX work growing from peripheral glimpses into the main attraction. Got To Keep On can be found on The Chemical Brothers’ forthcoming album No Geography to be released April 12, just in time for your Easter dancetteria.
Rumor has it Roisin Murphy is up to not much these days besides copying every move Kylie Minogue makes. A feeling that was both fortified and refuted last night when the former Moloko singer made a not so surprise appearance in Berlin's Panorama Bar. Irony off.
To mark their live return in February, French psych duo The Limiñanas has shared a new video for Trois Bancs aka three benches, a track taken their latest album I've Got Trouble In Mind Vol. 2, a collection of rare recordings, 7" singles and unreleased materials. Discover the haunting track below.
... des gros titres disparaissent.
Take Tiffany diamonds, champagne and six best friends, and you have all the makings of an epic female empowerment anthem. That's Ariana Grande's latest gospel anyway, who's recently dropped her latest album Thank U, next - only six months after the previous one. 7 Rings comes alongside a fierce AF new music video inspired by female friendship.
A: Pet Shop Boys
S: What are We Going To Do About The Rich?
What Are We Going To Do About The Rich? described by Neil as a sort of mock-protest song, is the third new song this week from Pet Shop Boys' Agenda EP, which is available now digitally and physically on April 12.
Neil: “We’re talking about extreme rich – oligarchs and that kind of thing. The super-rich.”
A: Better Oblivion Community Center
S: Dylan Thomas
Uhhlala, the first single from the Phoebe Bridgers-Conor Oberst project is an earworm with a black heart. When the two artists conceived their debut album as Better Oblivion Community Center, they tried to avoid, as Oberst put it, anything too tender and folky. One good way to do that: Sing about living in a private hell and showering at the Bates Motel over rollicking, gold-dusted jangle.
Back when After Dark 2 hit iTunes in 2013, Portland group Glass Candy shared a video for album cut Beautiful Object..The footage, which showcases Johnny Jewel and Ida No making magic in the studio, was apparently taken straight from a documentary about the label, which we're still waiting for I guess.
Along with 2021, Harmony Hall is the first single released from Vampire Weekend’s fourth album Father of the Bride. The song breezes along with an infectious energy, with the lyrics interpolating a line from their 2013 song, Finger Back. The song seems to be about the change of impressions over time, possibly related to the spread or sudden resurgence of hate groups within high-class American universities, such as the Ivy League’s Columbia, where Vampire Weekend attended college and graduated.
... I don't wanna live like this, but I don't wanna die.
Bury A Friend is written from the perspective of Billie Eilish’s monster under her bed. The track details a confusing relationship with this entity and ambiguously sets her up to be the monster itself.The song itself features a Prismizer effect, which manipulates pitch and frequency characteristics to achieve a different, choral effect, much like Eilish’s track When I Was Older.
Nicki Minaj delivered her new Hard White video last Thursday and fan theories are running wild. Around the 1:32-minute mark, a black scorpion appears and is promptly ripped apart into several pieces. Considering Drake’s latest album is called Scorpion, fans are assuming it’s a shot at the 6 God.
Hello Saturday. Tic Boom off Leikeli47 second album Acrylic, has the mysterious Brooklyn rapper beginning to pull back the mask with vivid reporting about the trials and triumphs of her home and the resilience of black womanhood. Explode below.
Just like A Whiter Shade Of Pale was originally written by Procol Harum, No More "I Love You’s” was originally written by David Freeman and Joseph Hughes for their band The Lover Speaks. Annie Lennox covered the song in 1995, and it became a mega hit. She won a Grammy for the song in 1996 for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Anniejoy.
