ex-Palma Violet members Samuel Thomas Fryer, Pete Mayhem, and Will Doyle, and The Big Moon's Celia Archer, feature in Gently Tender, whose new album Take Hold Of Your Promise! is out in August. The latest single is the soaring "Sunlight in Motion.
JIM JAMES - "READ BETWEEN (BEGIN AGAIN)" ....................this is superb.
Jim James of My Morning Jacket has announced a deluxe edition of his 2013 debut album, Regions of Light and Sound of God, including the previously unreleased new single "Read Between (Begin Again)."
Jade Bird covered Don McLean's iconic song as part of Paramount+ documentary The Day The Music Died: The Story of Don McLean's "American Pie," and she's donating a portion of proceeds to Planned Parenthood following the Supreme Court's overturn of Roe v. Wade.
UK-based Useless Eaters features members of indiepop groups Action Painting!, Secret Shine, and Even As We Speak. A little twee in an early-Pulp kind of way. This is from their debut
YARD ACT & ELTON JOHN - "100% ENDURANCE"......................would have never put these two together.
"Within our camp we have a saying: ‘Mad **** happens when you do art’ - it means what it means," says Yard Act frontman James Smith. In this case he's talking about the new studio version of their song "100% Endurance" they made with Sir Elton John.
SUFJAN STEVENS - "FOURTH OF JULY (APRIL BASE VERSION)
In honor of his birthday today, and the upcoming holiday, Sufjan Stevens shared two alternate versions of one of Carrie and Lowell's most haunting tracks.
Brooklyn Vegan says......................Glasgow band Humor have just shared their debut single for So Young Records. "yeah, mud!" is a since piece of shouty post-punk for fans of Yard Act and Fontaines DC......................................whatever its pretty good debut.