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  • Honey Dijon Enlists Rochelle Jordan, Madison McFerrin, and More for New Album

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    Honey Dijon has a new album, Nightlife, on the way. Out April 17, the Chicago house producer’s follow-up to 2022’s Black Girl Magic and 2024 DJ Kicks compilation features Rochelle Jordan, Madison McFerrin, Greentea Peng, Chlöe, Mahalia, and, on the January single “Slight Werk,” Bree Runway. Check out the full tracklist below.

    Nightlife:

    01 The Nightlife [ft. Chlöe]
    02 Slight Werk [ft. Bree Runway]
    03 Just Friends [ft. Adi Oasis, Danielle Ponder, Suni Mf]
    04 International [ft. Mette]
    05 I Like It Hot [ft. Greentea Peng]
    06 Private Eye [ft. Rochelle Jordan]
    07 Smoke and Mirrors [ft. Madison McFerrin]
    08 New Wave Groove [ft. Rochelle Jordan]
    09 Rush Me [ft. Mahalia]
    10 Satisfied [ft. Jacob Lusk]
    11 Welcome to the Moon [ft. Cor.Ece, Dave Giles Ii]
    12 Okay Daddy [ft. Rush Davis, Gavin Turek, Cor.Ece]

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  • Gnarls Barkley Announce Final Album Atlanta, Share New Song

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    CeeLo Green and Danger Mouse have revived their Gnarls Barkley alias for one more album. Atlanta is due out on March 6 on Atlantic-affiliated imprint 10k Projects; a lead single shared today (February 25), “Pictures,” marks the pair’s first new studio release in 18 years. Give it a listen below.

    “Pictures” takes its inspiration from the many hours Green spent riding Atlanta’s MARTA public transit system as a kid, he shared in a press statement. “I had a middle school principal who,
    every Friday, would tell me to go when I would get to school,” he said in a press statement. “I was in eighth grade and I would leave school and ride the train alone from 8 A.M. until 2:30 P.M.”

    Although Green and Danger Mouse haven’t dropped a Gnarls Barkley record since 2008’s The Odd Couple, both have released music solo. Green shared his sixth studio album, CeeLo Green is Thomas Calloway, in 2020; it followed 2015’s Heart Blanche and 2012’s CeeLo’s Magic Moment. He also spent multiple years as a judge on The Voice, and appeared on tracks from Eminem, Tyrese, T.I., and Asher Roth.

    Danger Mouse, meanwhile, has spent the past near-decade rolling out collaborative albums with artists including Sparklehorse, Daniele Luppi, and Karen O. Most recently, he shared the record Cheat Codes with Black Thought in 2022; he and MorMor also linked up for a song, “Wonder,” in 2025.

    Atlanta:

    01 Tomorrow Died Today
    02 I Amnesia
    03 Pictures
    04 Line Dance
    05 Turn Your Heart Back On
    06 Let Me Be
    07 Cyberbully (Yayo)
    08 Perfect Time
    09 Sweet Evil
    10 Boy Genius
    11 The Be Be King
    12 Sorry
    13 Accept It

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  • Bon Iver to Launch Archival Series With New Live Album

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    Bon Iver has announced a series of archival releases, Volumes, launching with an anthology of live recordings. Titled Volumes: One “Selections From Music Concerts 2019–2023 Bon Iver 6 Piece Band,” that first installment arrives in digital and physical formats on April 3, via Jagjaguwar. Watch a live video of the rarity “Heavenly Father,” recorded at Milan’s Mediolanum in 2022, below, and scroll down to see the full tracklist.

    Justin Vernon began combing through live recordings in 2020, modeling the concept on Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series and the Neil Young Archives, a press release notes. He says of the first volume, “This particular set of 10 songs is like, ‘Here, if you’ve never heard Bon Iver, or you have and you didn’t like it, this might be for you.’ This is what we became. This is really us at our best. This is it.”

    The titular six-piece band includes Andrew Fitzpatrick, Jenn Wasner, Matthew McCaughan, Michael Lewis, and Sean Carey, assisted by live engineer Xandy Whitesel. Vernon spoke about the record and Volumes series on his debut NTS Radio show yesterday.

    Earlier this month, Bon Iver announced the return of Eaux Claires festival this summer after 8 years. Dijon and Aimee Mann are among the acts, as well as an artist winkingly billed as Bon Dylan—no news yet on what that performance will entail.

    Volumes: One “Selections From Music Concerts 2019–2023 Bon Iver 6 Piece Band”:

    01 Intro – The Forum, Los Angeles, CA. Sep 15 2019
    02 Man Like U – The Forum, Los Angeles, CA. Sep 15 2019
    03 We [ft. Bizhiki] – Xcel Energy Center, St Paul, MN. Oct 03 2019
    04 Jelmore – Tennis Indoor Senayan, Jakarta, ID. Jan 19 2020
    05 666 – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory, Irving, TX. Apr 03 2022
    06 Heavenly Father – Mediolanum, Milan, IT. Nov 05 2022
    07 P.D.L.I.F. – Red Hill Auditorium, Perth, AU. Feb 26 2023
    08 Hey, Ma – Pitchfork Music Festival, Chicago, IL. July 23 2023
    09 A Satisfied Mind – State Theatre, Portland, ME. Dec 08 2017
    10 33 “God” – WOMADelaide Festival, Adelaide, AU. Mar 10 2023
    11 Sh’Diah (Boardmix) – Scotiabank Arena, Toronto, CA. Oct 06 2019

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  • Pulp Share New Song “Begging for Change”

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    Pulp have released a new song, “Begging for Change.” It’s the latest single off War Child UK’s charity album Help(2), which is due out March 6. The track was recorded while the British band was working on their 2025 album, More. Listen to it below.

    The original Help album was released in 1995, featuring Oasis, Paul McCartney, Radiohead, and more. The record raised £1.25 million for children affected by the Bosnian conflict. The following year, War Child and Pulp were both up for a Mercury Prize. Although Pulp won, the band decided to donate their prize money to the organization. “Thirty years ago we gave our Mercury Prize (and the prize money) to War Child,” frontman Jarvis Cocker said in a recent press release. “This year we have given more. How much more? You’ll have to wait and see…”

    Read Pitchfork’s review of the 2025 album, More.

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  • Grace Ives Readies New Album Girlfriend and Tour

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    Grace Ives is back with a new album and tour. The Brooklyn singer-songwriter and producer will release Girlfriend on March 20 via True Panther/Capitol. Written and produced alongside Ariel Rechtshaid and John DeBold, with mixing by Dave Fridmann, Girlfriend follows 2022’s Janky Star and the trio of singles Ives released last November. Listen to new song “Stupid Bitches” below and scroll down for the tour dates.

    Ives says of the album in a press release, “I shifted from escaping to exploring. Having some personal freedom made me realize that I’m allowed to take up space—to be social, to talk about how I feel, to try new things. This album is about giving myself room to fail, to experiment, and to become more honest in the music.”

    Read Cat Zhang’s profile Grace Ives’ Hot Mess Anthems.

    Grace Ives:

    04-17 Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts
    04-18 Montreal, Quebec – Bar Le Ritz PDB
    04-20 Toronto, Ontario – Longboat Hall
    04-21 Detroit, MI – El Club
    04-22 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
    04-23 Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry
    04-25 Lawrence, KS – The Bottleneck
    04-27 Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater
    04-28 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
    04-30 Portland, OR – Polaris Hall
    05-01 Seattle, WA – Neumos
    05-02 Vancouver, British Columbia – Fox Cabaret
    05-05 San Francisco, CA – The Independent
    05-07 Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom
    05-08 Santa Ana, CA – Constellation Room
    05-09 Phoenix, AZ – The Rebel Lounge
    05-11 Austin, TX – Brushy Street Commons
    05-12 Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall (Upstairs)
    05-13 Dallas, TX – Club Dada
    05-15 Nashville, TN – Blue Room at Third Man Records
    05-16 Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade
    05-17 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle Back Room
    05-19 Washington, DC – The Atlantis
    05-20 Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
    05-21 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
    06-06 Barcelona, Spain – Primavera Sound
    06-08 Paris, France – Hasard Ludique
    06-10 Brussels, Belgium – Rotonde/Botanique
    06-12 Berlin, Germany – Kantine am Berghain
    06-14 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso (Small Hall)
    06-16 London, England – Village Underground

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  • Listen to SZA’s New Song from Pixar’s Hoppers

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    SZA has shared a new song, “Save The Day.” It appears on the soundtrack to the forthcoming Disney-Pixar film Hoppers, which premieres next month. Give it a listen below.

    Due out March 6, Hoppers takes place in a world where “scientists have discovered how to ‘hop’ human consciousness into lifelike robotic animals” per a synopsis. The film was co-directed by Daniel Chong and Nicole Grindle; the voice cast features Meryl Streep, Dave Franco, Kathy Najimy, Jon Hamm, Sam Richardson, and more.

    In an interview with Laughing Place, Chong said he and Grindle decided to reach out to SZA for their soundtrack after using “Good Days” and “Saturn” as placeholder music in Hoppers’ credits. “I think there was an intuitiveness in talking with SZA that when she saw the movie, I think she immediately knew what the movie needed,” Chong explained.

    Although SZA technically shared her most recent album, SOS, in 2022, she hasn’t been stingy with new music. A 2024 expanded edition of SOS, SOS Deluxe: Lana, featured fifteen new tracks. In 2025 alone, SZA toured with Kendrick Lamar and joined him at the Super Bowl; sang with Elmo on Sesame Street; and starred with Keke Palmer in the buddy comedy One Of Them Days. She also reunited with Lamar for the GNX track “Luther,” which won the pair a Grammy for Record of the Year earlier this month.

    Read more about SOS at No. 1 on The 50 Best Albums of 2023.

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  • Baby Keem and Kendrick Lamar Link Up for New Song “Good Flirts”

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    Cousins, hillbillies, and range brothers Baby Keem and Kendrick Lamar have teamed up for another song. “Good Flirts” appears on Keem’s new album, Ca$ino, which is out now. Check out the track, and the rest of the record, below.

    “Good Flirts” plays out like a playful and flirtatious message to a supposed ex Keem just can’t quit, set over a downtempo beat. Lamar’s verse finds him hanging on the couch watching Sinners, worshipping his girl’s booty, and wondering if God might be a woman. “Good Flirts” features vocals from the singer Momo Boyd, of the New York-based soft rock outfit Infinity Song.

    The song is just the latest of Keem and Lamar’s joint releases, which include “The Hillbillies,” “Vent,” “Range Brothers,” and the Grammy-winningFamily Ties.” Lamar also co-produced a series of documentary shorts Keem released during Ca$ino’s rollout and appeared on-camera for interviews, where he spoke about watching Keem grow into his talent.

    “When he started first sending me beats and shit, I was like, ‘OK, I can see you do this,’ and he was really good,” Lamar shared. “What I was surprised at was when he started rapping…I was like, ‘Damn, you actually good at this, too.’ That threw me for a loop, because he understood melodies and patterns more than any young cat that I’ve heard.”

    Ca$ino is Keem’s second studio album, and follows 2021’s The Melodic Blue. The largest tracklist features Too $hort and Che Ecru. Keem will support the album later this year on an extensive tour, which will bring him across the US, Canada, Europe, and the UK between April and September.

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  • Fontaines D.C.’s Grian Chatten Covers Massive Attack for Peaky Blinders Movie

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    Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man – Soundtrack from the Netflix Film:

    01 Antony Genn, Carlos O’Connell, & Martin Slattery: “Opening Scene / The Currency”
    02 Antony Genn, Carlos O’Connell, & Martin Slattery: “The Immortal Man”
    03 Antony Genn, Martin Slattery, & Grian Chatten: “Ruby’s Scarf” 04 Amy Taylor, Tom Coll, Antony Genn, & Martin Slattery: “Nobody’s Son”
    05 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “No Heaven No Hell for Duke Shelby”
    06 Andrew Falkous, Jack Eggleston, & Damien Sayell: “People Person”
    07 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “Duke and Beckett Strike a Deal”
    08 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “An Intruder In The House”
    09 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “Ada and Duke”
    10 Antony Genn, Martin Slattery, & Grian Chatten: “Opium Dreams”
    11 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “Tommy, Kaulo and Zelda”
    12 Grian Chatten, Antony Genn, & Martin Slattery: “Black Dahlia”
    13 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “Beckett Tests Duke”
    14 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “Close the Door”
    15 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “Dukes Descent”
    16 Grian Chatten, Carlos O’Connell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan III, & Tom Coll: “A Hero’s Death”
    17 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “Pig Pen”
    18 Grian Chatten, Antony Genn, & Martin Slattery: “Puppet”
    19 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “A Gun Is No Good”
    20 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “Tommy vs Duke”
    21 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “St Elizabeth’s Mortuary”
    22 Carlos O’Connell, Antony Genn, & Martin Slattery: “Confession”
    23 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “Stable Shootout”
    24 Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, & Thomas Wydler: “Red Right Hand (Immortal)”
    25 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “The Bullet”
    26 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “The Coin”
    27 Girl In the Year Above: “Teardrop”
    28 Grian Chatten, Carlos O’Connell, Tom Coll, Conor Curley, & Conor Deegan III: “Romance”
    29 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “The Map”
    30 Grian Chatten, Antony Genn, & Martin Slattery: “Angel”
    31 Antony Genn, Martin Slattery, & Grian Chatten: “The Tunnel” 32 Grian Chatten, Antony Genn, & Martin Slattery: “Medusa”
    33 Carlos O’Connell, Antony Genn, & Martin Slattery: “Tommy vs Beckett”
    34 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “Father and Son”
    35 Lankum with Grian Chatten: “Hunting The Wren (The Immortal Man Version)”
    36 Grian Chatten, Antony Genn, & Martin Slattery: “Ellipsis”

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  • Foo Fighters Announce New Album Your Favorite Toy

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    Foo Fighters will release a new album, Your Favorite Toy, on April 24 via Roswell/RCA. The title track of the follow-up to 2023’s But Here We Are is out now; check that out below, along with the album tracklist. Foo Fighters co-produced the home-recorded LP with Oliver Roman.

    Grohl said of the single in a press release, “‘Your Favorite Toy’ really was the key that unlocked the tone and energetic direction of the new album. We stumbled upon it after experimenting with different sounds and dynamics for over a year, and the day it took shape I knew that we had to follow its lead. It was the fuse to the powder keg of songs we wound up recording for this record. It feels new.”

    Last October, Foo Fighters shared the album closer, “Asking for a Friend,” along with a batch of stadium tour dates. Your Favorite Toy is the band’s first album with new drummer Ilan Rubin, who replaced Taylor Hawkins’ replacement Josh Freese. Mark “Spike” Stent resumed mixing duties.

    Foo Fighters: Your Favorite Toy

    Your Favorite Toy:

    01 Caught in the Echo
    02 Of All People
    03 Window
    04 Your Favorite Toy
    05 If You Only Knew
    06 Spit Shine
    07 Unconditional
    08 Child Actor
    09 Amen, Caveman
    10 Asking for a Friend

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  • Snail Mail Performs in a Hot-Air Balloon in New “My Maker” Video

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    Snail Mail is back with a new song. “My Maker” is the latest track from her next album Ricochet, and it arrives alongside a one-take music video where she’s playing live from a hot-air balloon. You can watch that below.

    In a press statement, Lindsey Jordan said the “My Maker” lyric “Above us, it’s just sky” inspired the video’s in-air location. “It took six canceled rides for that to happen, but we finally got up there,” she added. “I wanted the video to reference the lyrics about mortality, but also about the freedom that comes with realizing fate is out of your hands.” Jordan and Elsie Richter directed the visual, and Momma’s Aron Kobayashi Ritch co-produced the track.

    “My Maker” follows “Dead End,” the lead single Jordan shared when she announced Ricochet back in January. This spring, she’ll support the new record with an international tour, featuring support from Sharp Pins, Avalon Emerson & The Charm, Swirlies, and more. Jordan’s most recent LP, Valentine, came out in 2021.

    Revisit Quinn Moreland’s 2021 profile Snail Mail Can’t Help But Confess.

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  • Miley Cyrus Announces Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special

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    Miley Cyrus has announced a previously teased 20th anniversary special for Hannah Montana, the Disney Channel series that made the singer a star.

    “Going back to where it all began,” she wrote in the announcement.

    The special, which will be filmed in front of a live studio audience and premiere on Disney+ on March 24, will celebrate the show’s legacy and “offer an intimate look at the creation of one of pop culture’s most iconic characters and the lasting impact the show and character have had on fans around the world.” It will also include an interview between Cyrus and Call Her Daddy podcast host Alex Cooper.

    ‘“Hannah Montana’ will always be a part of who I am,” Cyrus said in a statement. “The fact that it still means so much to people all these years later is something I’m very proud of. This ‘Hannahversary’ is my way of celebrating and thanking the fans who’ve stood by me for 20 years.”

    Hannah Montana featured Cyrus as Miley Stewart, a teenager living a double life as the titular pop star. The series ran for four seasons between 2006 and 2011 and featured five soundtrack spin-off albums—including Cyrus’ musical debut, Hannah Montana, which was credited to her character. Four of the five projects topped the Billboard 200.

    Read Pitchfork’s review of Cyrus’ 2025 album Something Beautiful.

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  • Visible Cloaks Return With New Album Paradessence

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    Visible Cloaks are back with their first full-length album in nine years. The Portland-based ambient duo of Spencer Doran and Ryan Carlile will release Paradessence on May 22 via RVNG Intl. They’ve also shared a lead single, “Disque,” which features Motion Graphics playing synthetic woodwinds. Check out a music video for that below.

    We last heard from Visible Cloaks in 2019, when they shared serenitatem, a collaborative album with ambient artists Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano. Doran and Carlile released their last solo LP, Reassemblage, in 2017, and followed it up with a mini-LP, Lex, the same year. In 2019, Doran also curated the Grammy-nominated compilation Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990.

    Paradessence draws its title from a portmanteau of “paradoxical” and “essence,” coined by author Alex Shakar. Per Visible Cloaks, the word embodies the oppositional-but-coexisting concepts they’re trying to explore with the new album. “Instead of creating pieces that function horizontally as environments, we wanted to conceptualize them as living material changing in space, continually in flux,” Doran shared in a press statement.

    Revisit Philip Sherburne’s 2017 profile Big in Japan: Visible Cloaks and the Power of Cultural Exchange.

    Paradessence:

    01 Apsis
    02 Skylight
    03 Disque (feat. Motion Graphics)
    04 Balloon
    05 Slippage
    06 Telescoping
    07 Shapes (feat. Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano)
    08 Thinking (feat. Félicia Atkinson, Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano)
    09 Zinna
    10 Swirl
    11 Steel
    12 Intarsia (feat. Ioana Șelaru)
    13 Capgras
    14 System (feat. Componium Ensemble)

    Visible Cloaks: Paradessence

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  • Labi Siffre Announces First Album in 28 Years, Shares New Song

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    Labi Siffre, the 80-year-old British folk musician, is back after spending decades out of the spotlight. He just announced his first new album in 28 years; the appropriately titled Unfinished Business is out later this year on Demon Music Group. He’s also shared the new song “Far Away,” a piano ballad that leans into Siffre’s soul influences, with a music video. Check it out below.

    Siffre took a sporadic approach to releasing music over the years, dropping six albums in a five-year span during the ’70s, including his standout LP Crying Laughing Loving Lying, before retiring. However, he returned for brief stints in the ’80s and ’90s. His last records, the full-length album The Last Songs and the spoken-word poetry collection Monument, both came out in 1998.

    Still, Siffre hasn’t been totally silent this decade: he released the single “(Love Is Love Is Love) Why Isn’t Love Enough?” in 2020, and the 2022 BBC documentary Labi Siffre: This Is My Song featured a version of “Far Away,” but the song was never officially released before today. What’s more, Siffre made a rare live appearance in the BBC Radio 2 Piano room to promote his upcoming album, tapping the BBC Radio Orchestra to accompany him for live renditions of “My Song,” “Far Away,” and a cover of the Four Tops’ “Baby I Need Your Loving.” Watch those clips below.

    It seems the recent surge of renewed interest in Siffre’s music, including licensing syncs in films like The Holdovers and Sentimental Value, may be to thank for his big comeback. In 2024, official YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok channels were finally launched for Siffre’s music, as were new interviews and restored videos, as Stereogum points out. That following year, Demon Music Group released a Best Of collection gathering Siffre’s work.

    Read Eric Torres’ Sunday Review of Siffre’s 1972 classic Crying Laughing Loving Lying and read about “It Must Be Love” in 50 Songs That Define the Last 50 Years of LGBTQ+ Pride.

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  • Irreversible Entanglements Announce New Album Future Present Past

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    Irreversible Entanglements are back with a new album. The free-jazz quintet led by Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother, will release Future Present Past on March 27 via Impulse! Helado Negro and New York-based vocalist Motherboard each guest on multiple tracks. Listen to “Don’t Lose Your Head” and “Vibrate Higher,” both featuring Motherboard, below.

    Composed of Ayewa, bassist Luke Stewart, trumpeter Aquiles Navarro, saxophonist Keir Neuringer, and drummer Tcheser Holmes, Irreversible Entanglements shared their last record, Protect Your Light, in 2023. Future Present Past was engineered by Jonathan Schenke and mixed by Andrew Lappin.

    Read about Protect Your Light in The 30 Best Jazz and Experimental Albums of 2023.

    Irreversible Entanglements: Future Present Past

    Future Present Past:

    01 Juntos Vencemos [feat. Helado Negro]
    02 Don’t Lose Your Head [feat. Motherboard]
    03 Vibrate Higher [feat. Motherboard]
    04 Panamanian Fight Song
    05 We Know [feat. Motherboard]
    06 Hold On [feat. Motherboard]
    07 Keep Going [feat. Motherboard]
    08 The Messenger
    09 The Spirit Moves
    10 We Overcome [feat. Helado Negro]

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  • Sturgill Simpson Unveils New Johnny Blue Skies Album

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    Sturgill Simpson is keeping good on his 2021 promise to release only five studio albums under his own alias. Mutiny After Midnight, the second record by the singer-songwriter’s Johnny Blue Skies moniker, arrives March 13 via Atlantic Outpost on physical formats only (vinyl, CD, cassette).

    In a letter posted ahead of the official announcement, Simpson says he and his band—now known as Johnny Blue Skies & the Dark Clouds—“decided to make an album centered firmly on groove,” adding that the songs on the album break down “into two categories—the dark state of the world and the bright state of love.” As for the title, Simpson notes, “this mutiny is really more about the primary dance. The dance of all creation. To be clear it is a protest against oppression and suppression, and the only tried & tested true antidote to that is pure, unfiltered, unapologetic, relentless disco-hedonism.”

    Also included in the press release are Simpson’s lyrics from opening track “Make America Fuk Again”:

    Been learning lessons and getting bubbles busted
    Learning how to turn ADHD into hyper-focus
    Getting my heart broke by people I trusted
    Weaponizing my autism to shit out an opus
    Been coming to terms with my obsolescence
    Taking ketamine to kill my depression
    It beats being fogged out on anti-depressants
    Wait, that reminds me, time to book another session…
    Maybe things have been worse but I can’t remember when
    Wanna start a revolution and watch it begin

    Johnny Blue Skies released their first album, Passage du Desir, in 2024. Simpson’s last album as Sturgill Simpson was 2021’s The Ballad of Dood & Juanita. You can read his full letter introducing Mutiny After Midnight, along with the new album tracklist, below.

    Johnny Blue Skies & the Dark Clouds: Mutiny After Midnight

    Mutiny After Midnight:

    01 Make America Fuk Again
    02 Excited Delirium
    03 Don’t Let Go
    04 Stay on That
    05 Viridescent
    06 Situation
    07 Venus
    08 Everyone Is Welcome
    09 Ain’t That a Bitch


    What’s Behind the “Mutiny After Midnight?”

    In a word, kinship…

    The majority of this band has been on the road together on and off and on again for over thirteen years. We have all grown sometimes together and sometimes apart. But we’ve never felt more “together” than right now. I couldn’t be happier.
    This is the band I’ve dreamed about being in since middle school. Last year we did two complete laps around the U.S. and a tour of Western Europe. Between gigs this past September, we went into a brand new gorgeous studio in Nashville, Tennessee. Inspired heavily from endless hours on the bus watching old clips of the great fusion-funk band ’Stuff, and revisiting off-the-beaten-track concept records like Marvin Gaye’s “In Our Lifetime”, where, in what looks like the end of the world, the artist’s response is, “Let’s dance and make love.”…we decided to make an album centered firmly on groove.
    We started every day from scratch with a basic groove, I wrote the songs and lyrics in the moment on-the-spot, and everyone established their individual parts servicing the songs and not the individual ego.

    You can break down the songs on this album into two categories-the dark state of the world and the bright state of love. Light lives in darkness just as darkness lives in light. I have come to find over time that it’s far easier to just embrace contradictions rather than attempting to resolve them.
    Hence “Johnny Blue Skies & the Dark Clouds”…

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  • Jane Remover Drops New Venturing Song “In The Dark”

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    Jane Remover has released a new song as Venturing. It’s called “In The Dark,” and it arrives just ahead of the first anniversary of her debut album under the alias, Ghostholding. Check out the song, and its cover art, below.

    The artist shared her most recent Jane Remover LP, Revengeseekerz, in April 2025, following it up with a surprise EP, , in December. In the spring of 2025, she also toured Revengeseekerz around North America with support from Dazegxd, D0llywood1, and Lucy Bedroque.

    Revisit Sasha Geffen’s review of Revengeseekerz, and read about Jane Remover’s debut album Frailty in The 100 Best Albums of the 2020s So Far.

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  • Listen to Charli XCX and Sky Ferreira’s New Wuthering Heights Song

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    For the first time since 2019’s “Cross You Out,” Charli XCX and Sky Ferreira have collaborated on a song together. It’s called “Eyes of the World,” and it appears on Charli’s new soundtrack for Emerald Fennell’s film Wuthering Heights. Listen to it below.

    Ahead of the soundtrack’s release, Charli also shared the songs “Wall Of Sound,” “Chains Of Love,” and the John Cale-featuring “House.” Fennell’s adaptation stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as the fated lovers Cathy and Heathcliff, with Hong Chau, Alison Oliver, Shazad Latif, and Owen Cooper also in the cast.

    In a November 2025 Substack post, Charli described Wuthering Heights as a “dive into persona, into a world that felt undeniably raw, wild, sexual, gothic, British, tortured and full of actual real sentences, punctuation and grammar.” It’s her first album of all-new music since 2024’s Brat; that album’s rollout recently became the subject of Aidan Zamiri’s mockumentary The Moment.

    Ferreira’s most recent new song also appeared on the big screen: her 2024 track “Leash” featured in Halina Reijn’s film Babygirl, which starred Nicole Kidman as a high-powered executive who enters into a sadomasochistic relationship with her charismatic subordinate (Harris Dickinson). Before that, Ferreira released the single “Don’t Forget” in 2022. Her last full-length LP was 2013’s Night Time, My Time.

    Read more about The Moment in Anna Gaca’s review, The Pop Music Satire This Era Deserves.

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  • Lykke Li Details Final Album The Afterparty, Shares New Song

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    Lykke Li’s final album is coming this spring. The Afterparty lands via Neon Gold Records/Futures on May 8, and a Max Richter-sampling lead single, “Lucky Again,” is out now. You can listen to that, and peruse a full tracklist, below.

    The Swedish singer’s new record marks her first LP since 2022’s EYEYE. She recorded The Afterparty in Stockholm with a 17-piece orchestra and what she describes, in a press statement, as “apocalyptic bongos.”

    “I find that we’re in an era where everyone is talking about, ‘My higher self.’ Fuck that,” Li added. “This is an album dealing with your lower self: your need for revenge, your shame, despair, all of it.”

    During a recent listening party in Los Angeles, Li noted that the new project “is my sixth album, and maybe my final.” The star’s representatives have since confirmed to Pitchfork that Afterparty will indeed be her last.

    To support the record, Li has lined up a series of live performances, including a London show with Wolf Alice and a Mexico City show with Robyn. She’ll also perform at both weekends of Coachella this April. Check out her full itinerary below.

    Revisit Carrie Battan’s 2014 profile of the singer, Lykke Li: Better Off Alone.

    Additional reporting by Alex Suskind.

    The Afterparty:

    01 Not Gon Cry
    02 Happy Now
    03 Lucky Again
    04 Famous Last Words
    05 Future Fear
    06 So Happy I Could Die
    07 Sick Of Love
    08 Knife In The Heart
    09 Euphoria

    Lykke Li:

    04-10 Coachella Music Festival – Indio, CA
    04-17 Coachella Music Festival – Indio, CA
    05-22 Vivo Rio – Rio de Janeiro
    05-24 Parque Ibirapuera – São Paulo
    06-19 Metronome Festival – Prague
    07-05 Finsbury Park – London^
    07-10 Pohoda Festival – Slovakia (Headline)
    09-19 Palacio de los Deportes – Mexico City, MX*

    * with Robyn
    ^with Wolf Alice

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  • Scritti Politti to Reissue Rare Debut Album

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    Scritti Politti are reissuing their 1982 debut album, Songs to Remember. A remastered version of the record, which is currently unavailable on streaming and has been out of print on vinyl since 1985, arrives April 10 via Rough Trade in digital, LP, and CD formats.

    Of the reissue, Rough Trade founder Geoff Travis said in a statement:

    “Mark E Smith a Rough Trade artist at the time once said to me, ‘Scritti have the best rhythm section in rock music.’ He didn’t mention Green Gartside, so I don’t know what he thought of him. I do know that at Rough Trade we were all in thrall to Green’s honeyed voice and his brilliant lyric writing. These were heady days when the amount of sheer talent walking into the Rough Trade universe was simply overwhelming. None more so than Green who epitomised the intelligent assault on the citadel of pop music perfection. I remember being very proud of Songs to Remember during a time when it was still a fairly new experience for us to be releasing full albums into the world.”

    Green Gartside, Scritti Politti’s frontman and songwriter, recorded Songs to Remember with bassist Nial Jinks, drummer Tom Morley, and a suite of guest musicians. The record’s three singles—“The Sweetest Girl,” “Faithless,” and “Asylums in Jerusalem / Jacques Derrida”—all charted in the UK. The new edition was remastered by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road.

    Revisit the review of Scritti Politti’s 2011 best-of compilation, Absolute.

    Scritti Politti: Songs to Remember (2026 Remaster)

    Songs to Remember:

    01 Asylums in Jerusalem
    02 A Slow Soul
    03 Jacques Derrida
    04 Lions After Slumber
    05 Faithless
    06 Sex
    07 Rock-a-Boy Blue
    08 Gettin’ Havin’ & Holdin’
    09 The Sweetest Girl

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  • Bleachers Reveal New Album, Drop Song “You and Forever”

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    Bleachers are back with another new album. The band’s fifth studio LP, Everyone for Ten Minutes, is out May 22 via Dirty Hit. Their lead single, “You and Forever,” is out now along with an Alex Lockett-directed music video starring Margaret Qualley and Jack Antonoff. In the clip, the Bleachers singer paces around the city while taking punches and crawling in the rain, while Qualley dances across her apartment and plays with a tiny dog. Watch it below.

    Although Everyone for Ten Minutes has its moments of darkness, a press release largely describes the album as being “an optimistic record that feels lovestruck and hopeful.” It arrives over a decade into Bleachers’ career and two years after they dropped their most recent self-titled LP.

    Since releasing Bleachers, Antonoff has been as busy as ever — especially as a producer. He co-wrote and co-produced the majority of Sabrina Carpenter’s albums Short n’ Sweet and Man’s Best Friend, and hopped behind the board to work on songs by Kendrick Lamar (“6:16 in LA”), Gracie Abrams (“Us”), and Paramore (a remix of “Sanity”). Antonoff also co-wrote and produced 11 of the 12 songs that made up Lamar’s Grammy-winning album GNX.

    Revisit the essay Jack Antonoff, Polarizing Nice Guy.

    Everyone for Ten Minutes:

    01 Sideways
    02 The Van
    03 We Should Talk
    04 You and Forever
    05 Dirty Wedding Dress
    06 Take You Out Tonight
    07 I Can’t Believe You’re Gone
    08 Dancing
    09 She’s From Before
    10 I’m Not Joking
    11 Upstairs at Els

    Bleachers: Everyone for Ten Minutes

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