Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs announces first album in 10 years

Andrew Bird has announced details of his new album ‘Inside Problems’ – you can listen to his new single ‘Underlands’ below.The US singer/songwriter will follow up his 2020 solo album ‘Hark!’ with the new record, which is set for release on June 3 via Loma Vista / Concord.Speaking about ‘Inside Problems’, which was produced by Mike Viola and recorded live by Bird and his four-piece band, Bird said: “I have so much fun taking my ideas apart before they really have defined themselves as distinct songs, when they’re still in that amoeba-like state.“I love the feeling of chasing ideas and having them split off and go hang out with another idea and then butting them up against each other to see if they talk to each other.”Bird has previewed ‘Inside Problems’ this week with the single ‘Underlands’, which you can hear above.“You just don’t know what’s under the surface, be it the land, the sea, our skin,” Bird explained in a press release about the track. “You could be whistling away, projecting contentedness, when really there’s a swirling twisted mess underneath.

Embrace have announced details of their new album ‘How To Be A Person Like Other People’ and an accompanying UK tour.The forthcoming record, Embrace’s eighth studio album, will be the follow-up to the band’s 2018 LP ‘Love Is A Basic Need’.Produced by the band’s Richard McNamara, ‘How To Be A Person Like Other People’ is set to be released on August 26 via Embrace’s own Mo’betta label through Townsend Music. Pre-order is available now from here.Speaking about the record, McNamara said: “Whenever we put out a new album it’s always a really big deal to us, we put everything we have into it.

Hot Chip have announced details of their new album ‘Freakout/Release’ – you can hear their new single ‘Down’ below.The forthcoming record will be the follow-up to the five-piece’s ‘A Bath Full Of Ecstasy’, which was released back in June 2019.Hot Chip’s eighth studio album ‘Freakout/Release’ will be released on August 19 via Domino. Written and recorded in the band’s Relax & Enjoy studio in east London, the making of the album was particularly inspired by the band’s regular live cover of Beastie Boys’ ‘Sabotage’.“The idea of being out of control is always there in dance music, in a positive sense,” Hot Chip’s Al Doyle said in a press release in relation to the cover’s influence on the new album, with frontman Alexis Taylor adding: “By the time we were able to be back together, we were turning on a tap and having a lot of ideas being poured out quite quickly.”In regards to the lyrical themes of ‘Freakout/Release’, Joe Goddard said: “We were living through a period where it was very easy to feel like people were losing control of their lives in different ways. There’s a darkness that runs through a lot of those tracks.”‘Down’, the first single from ‘Freakout/Release’, has been released today (April 19), and you can watch the Douglas Hart and Steve Mackey-directed video for the track above.‘Freakout/Release’ also features contributions from Soulwax, Canadian rapper Cadence Weapon and the London-based DJ and musician Lou Hayter.You can see the tracklist and album artwork for Hot Chip’s ‘Freakout/Release’ below.1. ‘Down’2. ‘Eleanor’3. ‘Freakout/Release’4. ‘Broken’5. ‘Not Alone’6. ‘Hard To Be Funky’ (feat. Lou Hayter)7. ‘Time’8. ‘Miss The Blues’9. ‘The Evil That Men Do’ (feat. Cadence Weapon)10. ‘Guilty’11. ‘Out Of My Depth’Ho

Kendrick Lamar has announced the release of his new album...and it's coming sooner than you may think.

Kendrick Lamar is back!

Kendrick Lamar has finally revealed key details of his long-awaited fifth studio album. The Los Angeles rapper tweeted a link to his website oklama.com with a new press release announcing the album's title as Mr Morale & The Big Steppers with a release date of May 13, 2022.

tweeted a link to his Oklama website, where he revealed his new record’s title and release date.The new album will be out on May 13.He announced the news on his Instagram with a heartfelt note that said “appreciate your patience.”Back in August 2021, Lamar first poked fun at his new record on his website, which, at the time, he called “final TDE album.” “May the Most High continue to use Top Dawg as a vessel for candid creators. As I continue to pursue my life’s calling,” he scribbled on the site.

Kendrick Lamar has today (April 18) announced details of a new album, ‘Mr Morale & The Big Steppers’.The rapper, who is due to headline Glastonbury this summer alongside Paul McCartney and Billie Eilish, tweet out a new link to his Oklahoma website where he revealed the album’s new title along with its release date. The new album will arrive on May 13.The album will follow on from Lamar’s Pulitzer-winning 2017 album, ‘DAMN.’ which received four stars in NME and was described as “a powerful, potent look inside the troubled mind of a genius”.

Ethan Shanfeld Apart from a small number of guest appearances and live sets, Kendrick Lamar has kept quiet these last few years — but it seems the Pulitzer Prize-winning artist is returning with another album next month.According to a cryptic new press release, Lamar will release “Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers” on May 13.https://t.co/YVE5bZOBL2 https://t.co/UywGGKExb1— Kendrick Lamar (@kendricklamar) April 18, 2022Responding to an earlier tweet from SK that says, “Kendrick Lamar is officially retired,” the rap titan responded with a link: oklama.com, which leads to a note that reads:“The following statement was released today by oklama, through his company pgLang at 11:00 a.m.

The Interrupters have announced their return and details of their first album in four years.The follow up to 2018’s ‘Fight The Good Fight’ is titled ‘In The Wild’ and it will arrive on August 5 via Hellcat/Epitaph Records.The album has been previewed this week with first single, ‘In The Mirror’, which takes the group back to their ska-punk roots.Speaking about the new track, vocalist Aimee Interrupter said: “I fell into so many self-destructive patterns trying to come to terms with my childhood. I spent so long trying to run from the pain. No matter how far I ran, there I was…I realised I needed to make peace with who I saw in the mirror.”Listen to the new track below. Commenting on the record, the band added: “We are so excited to announce our 4th full-length album ‘In The Wild’.“We put so much love into this album.

Psy is finally back.

Mark Ronson has unveiled details of his new memoir, 93 ‘Til Infinity.The book is set to be published next year by Grand Central Publishing and is described as “a combination memoir-DJ study-New York celebration.”In a statement shared with The Associated Press, Ronson said: “Before smartphones hit the dancefloor and bottle service & VIP banquettes shrunk the club, in the 90’s people stayed all night in the same place to dance, hustle, politic, and party like no one was watching.“At that moment, New York was still the centre of the music game and in the land of Biggie, Wu-Tang and Tribe, we celebrated them every night. More importantly, this era also happened to be the most exciting time in my life.”No release date for the book has yet been set.Ronson released his new Apple TV+ series Watch the Sound earlier this year.

Lizzo has dropped a new single, About Damn Time, and announced the release of her upcoming fourth album. 

Built To Spill have shared details of their first album in seven years, ‘When The Wind Forgets Your Name’ alongside the release of new single, ‘Gonna Lose’, and tour dates – buy tickets here.The Idaho band’s last album was 2015’s ‘Untethered Moon’. ‘When The Wind Forgets Your Name’, the group’s first release through Sub Pop, arrives on September 9.‘Gonna Lose’ is the first taste of the band’s new record, which is accompanied by a psychedelic animated video directed by Jordan Minkoff and animated by him and Lee McClure. Watch it below.Per Pitchfork, the album was produced by the band’s guitarist/lead vocalist Doug Martsch, who also mixed the album with Lê Almeida, João Casaes and Josh Lewis.

Machine Head have shared details of their new album ‘ØF KINGDØM AND CRØWN’.The metal band’s 10th album is released on August 26 via Nuclear Blast and Imperium Recordings (pre-order/pre-save here). It’s previewed with first single ‘CHØKE ØN THE ASHES ØF YØUR HATE’, which you can stream below.‘ØF KINGDØM AND CRØWN’ is a concept record that’s set in a “decimated futuristic wasteland where the sky is stained crimson red,” according to a press release.“It’s centred on two rival characters: Ares, who loses the love of his life (Amethyst) and goes on a murderous rampage against the vile sect responsible for her murder; and Eros, the perpetrator, who loses his mother to a drug overdose and becomes radicalised in the aftermath, manifesting his own killing spree.”Frontman Robb Flynn said in a statement: “Thanks to my two teenage boys, my family has become obsessed with this awesome Japanese anime series called Attack On Titan. The album’s concept was loosely inspired by the series in the sense that in the storyline, there is no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ guy – both characters believe they’re doing the right thing as it applies to their being.

Noah Cyrus has announced her debut album ‘The Hardest Part’ with the new single, ‘I Burned LA Down’. She’s also announced her first-ever Europe tour – buy your tickets here.Released on April 8, ‘I Burned LA Down’ comes with a cinematic music video inspired by the end of a relationship and the threat of climate change. It sees Cyrus riding on a horse while a barn is set ablaze, set against her emotional country-tinged tale of heartbreak.Watch the music video for ‘I Burned LA Down’ below.Cyrus said of the track via a press statement: “All this internal, emotional pain I was feeling was intertwined with the anxiety around this out-of-control fire and climate change in general.

Black Star (Yasiin Bey and Talib Kweli) have announced details of their first album in almost 24 years, ‘No Fear Of Time’.The pair announced the new record, which has been produced by Madlib, on Friday (April 8). It was recorded in various locations from hotel rooms to dressing rooms, but never in an actual recording studio.Arriving on May 3, it’ll mark the follow-up to their 1998 debut ‘Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star’, but will only be available on the podcast app, Luminary. The platform is already home to two podcasts they’re part of, People’s Party with Talib Kweli and The Midnight Miracle with Dave Chappelle.

Jack Johnson has announced the release of his first new album in five years, ‘Meet the Moonlight’ – listen to lead single ‘One Step Ahead’ below.The US singer-songwriter’s eighth studio album – the follow-up to 2017’s ‘All The Light Above It Too’ – will arrive on June 24 via Brushfire/Republic Records.Johnson made the album with acclaimed producer Blake Mills (Lana Del Rey, Weezer, Norah Jones), recording it at Sound City and EastWest Studios in Los Angeles and Johnson’s Mango Tree studio in Hawaii.“When Blake and I first got in touch we’d send each other playlists, and over time we realised we were drawn to music that sounds effortless despite all the effort put into making it,” Johnson said in a statement.