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1. People pay to sit behind him. Sunday night, hundreds, maybe thousands of seats behind the stage at Nationwide Arena were filled by concert-goers who mostly could only see the backs of the performers, save for a few fleeting moments where the band turned around to acknowledge their presence. I go to a fair amount of concerts at arenas, and I rarely see a setup like that one. Normally there’s all kinds of stagecraft going on back there that would not be visible from the rear, video screens and…
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Ellis will release her album No Place That Feels Like on Friday, and today she’s sharing “Home,” the song that ostensibly completes the title phrase. It finds Linnea Siggelkow making tasteful of Auto-Tune, nudging her moody indie rock in a hyperpop direction without making any kind of ill-advised leap.
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Shannon Lay has a new single out today that doesn’t seem to be part of an album rollout. Or at least, if “Mirrors” is part of a new album, it’s getting its own little celebration first in the form of a release show next week in Los Angeles. Lay’s latest is a throwback pop song with a vocal melody and woodwind parts that send me back to at least the 1970s. It’s real soft and pretty, and she has this to say about it:
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The Montréal band Laughing — whose members have logged time in Nap Eyes, Monomyth, Human Music, and Fountain — call back to grunge-era power-pop a la the Lemonheads on “Bruised,” the jangly new single from their forthcoming debut album Because It’s True. The track’s got a contagious momentum and is packed with gorgeous musical flourishes; is that a violin back there amongst the guitars?
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The new London band Fat Dog put on one of our favorite performances at SXSW. Today the group has announced its debut album and shared a single that captures some of that show’s madcap energy.
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Through another mysterious website.
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The deluxe version of Taylor Swift’s new album The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology comprises 31(!) brand new tracks, and she has personally chosen “Fortnight” to be the one that debuts at #1 next week. It makes sense. The song is first on the tracklist, so it’ll be getting a lot of streams anyway, and it features the amiable Post Malone, who also knows a thing or two about racking up streams. Might as well give this one the requisite release-day music video to push it to new heights.
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Back in March, the brilliant Montréal balladeer Myriam Gendron released “Long Way Home,” the stirring lead single from her new album Mayday. This week she released another track from the album. “Terres brûlées” is spooky and enthralling, like an old maritime folk song that would sound phenomenal sung by Thom Yorke. Gendron herself, of course, delivers her own impeccably dreary performance of the French-language track.
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Another trademark lawsuit facing Skateboard P.
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The melodically charged NYC post-punks Big Bliss released their album Vital Return last year, and it lived up to its name. Today they dropped a B-side from the project. “You’re A Man” finds Wallace May sarcastically beckoning Tim Race’s character with praise, while Race obliviously laps it up. Like so many Big Bliss songs, it’s catchy as hell and it moves with purpose.
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Headie One dropped his exceptional single “Socials” on Leap Day, and he’s since announced his second album. It’s called The Last One, and its next new track reunites Headie with Stormzy, his fellow UK rap royal and “Ain’t It Different” duet partner. “Cry No More” also boasts production from Memphis’ own Tay Keith, who fucks us up a bit more delicately than usual here, in addition to Tommy Parker and Pooh Beatz.
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