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Chiiild Unveils “Good For Now” And Announces Release Date For ‘Better Luck In The Next Life’ Album

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Chiiild Unveils “Good For Now” And Announces Release Date For ‘Better Luck In The Next Life’ Album

Today, multi-talented and genre-bending artist Chiiild releases his latest track “Good For Now” featuring GRAMMY Award-winning R&B powerhouse Lucky Daye via Avant Garden/4th & Broadway (Def Jam Recordings, Inc.)/Universal Music Canada. The track will appear on Chiiild’s forthcoming album Better Luck in the Next Life, due out March 3, 2023.

This latest release sees Chiiild team up with GRAMMY-winning R&B star Lucky Daye, resulting in a mesmerizing ambient track with rich vocals and an otherworldly atmosphere. The two artists previously collaborated on “Compassion” on Daye’s 2022 GRAMMY-nominated album Candydrip.

About the track, Chiiild shares “Sometimes we get caught up in the feelings and start thinking about the future with the hope that the feeling lasts. This song is a reminder that whatever happens, we should be present in the moment because we don’t know what tomorrow brings.”

Chiiild first announced Better Luck in the Next Life with the release of his single “Bon Voyage.” The track offered a first glimpse into the album, which serves as an in-depth exploration of creative freedom, personal equilibrium, and a return home. Chiiild followed this up by releasing his next single “You Get Me (A Final Word),” which premiered on The Zane Lowe Show on Apple Music in December.

This spring, Chiiild will be embarking on his “Better Luck in the Next Life Tour,” kicking off on March 2, 2023, in Santa Ana, CA and stopping in major cities including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and many more. The full list of dates can be found below, and tickets are on sale now.

Better Luck In The Next Life will be the follow up project to Chiiild’s 2021 debut album Hope for Sale, which upon release was met with critical acclaim from NPR, Complex, NYLON, and more and has amassed over 58 million streams to date. The album was nominated for Alternative Album of the Year at the 2022 JUNO Awards, and Chiiild was also named one of VEVO’s 2022 DSCVR Artists to Watch. Chiiild delivered a soulful medley of two of his most well-known songs from this album, “Pirouette” and “Sleepwalking” on Jimmy Kimmel Live! – watch the performance HERE. Prior to Hope for Sale, Chiiild released his debut EP Synthetic Soul in early 2020.

In 2022, Chiiild embarked on Leon Bridges’ “The Boundless Tour” for select dates. Previously, Chiiild sold out his debut headline tour in the US, The Apocalyptic Optimistic Tour, which featured festival performances at Lollapalooza, Life Is Beautiful, and Governor’s Ball.

CHIIILD “BETTER LUCK IN THE NEXT LIFE TOUR” DATES:
March 2, 2023 – Santa Ana, CA – Constellation Room
March 3, 2023 – Los Angeles, CA – The Roxy
March 4, 2023 – Phoenix, AZ – M3F Festival
March 7, 2023 – Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court
March 8, 2023 – Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater
March 11, 2023 – Houston, TX – House of Blues Bronze Peacock
March 12, 2023 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues Cambridge Room
March 13-18, 2023 – Austin, TX – SXSW
March 19, 2023 – New Orleans, LA – Paris at House of Blues – New Orleans
March 21, 2023 – Atlanta, GA – Aisle 5
March 22, 2023 – Nashville, TN – The Basement East
March 24, 2023 – Washington, D.C. – Union Stage
March 25, 2023 – New York, NY – The Bowery Ballroom
March 27, 2023 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
March 29, 2023 – Montreal, QC – Virgin Mobile Corona Theatre
March 30, 2023 – Toronto, ON – The Axis Club
April 1, 2023 – Chicago, IL – Schubas Tavern
April 2, 2023 – Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry
April 6, 2023 – Seattle, WA – Neumos
April 7, 2023 – Vancouver, BC – Hollywood Theatre
April 8, 2023 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
April 11, 2023 – San Francisco, CA – The Independent

Sam Smith Debuts “Gimme” Single Featuring Koffee And Jesse Reyez

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Sam Smith Debuts “Gimme” Single Featuring Koffee And Jesse Reyez

Following hot on the heels of the explosive No.1 global smash, Unholy, Sam Smith returns with their new offering Gimme from their much-anticipated new album GLORIA.

For the dancehall infused Gimme, Sam has teamed up with other two female forces in Columbian-Canadian R&B singer songwriter Jessie Reyez and Jamaican reggae star Koffee.

Described by Smith as “filth!”, the track, which got its first play as Radio 1s Hottest Record, is a dubby hypnotic lover’s call. ‘Me and Jessie were basically drunk, drinking whisky in Jamaica, two in the morning, running around, like two girlfriends having a laugh, it’s a very sensual song.’ And Gimme was born.

Gimme comes off the back of the unprecedented success of Unholy, Sam’s eighth #1 hit, garnering over 1 billion streams worldwide, the record was Sam’s first Billboard Hot 100 #1, it has been nominated for a GRAMMY, and remained on top of the Spotify and Apple Music global charts over a month after release. Dominating Tik-Tok trends with the track, Sam is amongst only three other artists who debuted at #1 on the UK Official Charts in 2022; holding 4 weeks at the top.

Multi-Platinum, GRAMMY, BRIT, Golden Globe and Academy Award winning artist/songwriter Sam Smith is one of the most celebrated musical artists to emerge in recent history and holds a collection of remarkable successes. Having amassed 37 million album sales, 276 million single sales and 50 billion career streams. Their multi-platinum debut and sophomore albums, In the Lonely Hour and The Thrill of It All, both debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and UK charts.

Last year, Sam performed two very special shows at London’s iconic Royal Albert Hall and has since announced GLORIA UK and EU tour for 2023.

GLORIA, the album will be released on 27th January. Gimme is out on 11th January. GLORIA, The Tour is on sale now.

Sam Smith UK & EU Tour Dates
Wednesday 12 April 2023 – Motorpoint Arena – Sheffield, UK
Friday 14 April 2023 – 3Arena – Dublin, IRE
Tuesday 18 April 2023 – The O2 Arena – London, UK
Wednesday 19 April 2023– The O2 Arena – London, UK
Saturday 22 April 2023 – Ovo Hydro – Glasgow, UK
Tuesday 25 April 2023 – Birmingham Resort World Arena – Birmingham, UK
Saturday 29 April 2023 – Royal Arena – Copenhagen, Denmark
Monday 01 May 2023 – Mercedes Benz Arena – Berlin, Germany
Thursday 04 May 2023 – Avicii Arena – Stockholm, Sweden
Saturday 06 May 2023 – Spektrum – Oslo, Norway
Monday 08 May 2023 – Lanxess Arena – Cologne, Germany
Tuesday 09 May 2023 – Ziggo Dome – Amsterdam, Netherlands
Friday 12 May 2023 – Sportpaleis – Antwerp, Belgium
Saturday 13 May 2023 – Accor Arena – Paris, France
Tuesday 16 May 2023 – Hallenstadion – Zurich, Switzerland
Thursday 18 May 2023 – Wiener Stadthalle – Vienna, Austria
Saturday 20 May 2023 – Unipol Arena – Bologna, Italy
Sunday 21 May 2023 – Pala Alpitour – Turin, Italy
Wednesday 24 May 2023 – AO Arena – Manchester, UK

Watch David Bowie Do An Impression Of Mick Jagger

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Watch David Bowie Do An Impression Of Mick Jagger

“They weren’t very well known,” David Bowie recalls, on seeing The Rolling Stones perform for the first time around 1963. “There were about six kids rushed to the front. That was their fan base at the time. Everybody was there for Little Richard. It was priceless… I had never seen anything so rebellious in my life. A guy yells out, ‘Get your haircut!’”

And Bowie does the best impression of Mick Jagger.

The New Pornographers Announce New Album “Continue As A Guest”

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The New Pornographers Announce New Album “Continue As A Guest”

The New Pornographers have proven themselves one of the most excellent bands in indie rock. They’ve constantly offered new sonic surprises with every album, and Continue As A Guest, out March 31 via Merge, their first LP since 2019’s In The Morse Code Of Brake Lights, is their greatest leap to date. The group’s first album for Merge establishes them alongside modern luminaries like Yo La Tengo and Superchunk when it comes to their ability to evolve while still retaining what made them so special in the first place. A dazzling and intriguing collection of songs that are truly built to last, Continue as a Guest finds bandleader A.C. Newman and his compatriots Neko Case, Kathryn Calder, John Collins, Todd Fancey, and Joe Seiders exploring fresh territory and shattering the barriers of their collective comfort zone.

Continue As A Guest Track Listing:

1. Really Really Light
2. Pontius Pilate’s Home Movies
3. Cat and Mouse With the Light
4. Last and Beautiful
5. Continue as a Guest
6. Bottle Episodes
7. Marie and the Undersea
8. Angelcover
9. Firework in the Falling Snow
10. Wish Automatic Suite

The Murder Capital Announce North American Tour & Share New Single “Return My Head”

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The Murder Capital Announce North American Tour & Share New Single “Return My Head”

Today, Ireland’s The Murder Capital confirm a 13-date North American tour in support of their forthcoming album Gigi’s Recovery (January 20th, Human Season Records). The band, whose 2020 tour was cut short by the pandemic after just two sold out shows in NYC and Boston, will return to perform in cities including Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Chicago, Portland, and San Francisco in March and April. Tickets for all dates will go on sale this Friday at 10am Local Time.

The band recently shared “Return My Head,” the last single ahead of their forthcoming second album, as well as an accompanying video directed by the band’s own Gabriel Paschal Blake. The video was debuted by The Fader, who called the song “an instant hit and one sure to become a live favorite.”

“Return My Head” is perhaps the most visceral of the singles released so far, an immediate, direct slice of alt-rock that delivers both aggression and melody paired to a lyrical motif that slots firmly into the sense of reinvention surrounding the album as a whole, opening as it does with the following: “I had to realign, To begin, To survive.” Front man James McGovern explains further on the themes: “Return My Head was written in a place of pure frustration, feeling like our sanity had been unwillingly removed through periods of isolation. All I wanted at this point was to get my head back, and to throw it away again. But on my own terms. ‘Return my head, and throw it to the crowd.’”

The John Congleton produced Gigi’s Recovery, set for release on January 20th via Human Season Records, follows the Irish band’s celebrated 2019 debut album, When I Have Fears, which reached a #2 position in their native Ireland and Top 20 chart position in the UK, and featured in media end of year lists internationally with The Guardian calling it “an outstanding debut from a great new band who play it like they mean it.” The album will be available on CD, in several LP editions.

While the material on When I Have Fears captured the vital beginnings of the group, the 12 songs of Gigi’s Recovery push the band into ever braver sonic territories, oceans apart from previous peers. Ambition is put right at the front and center, with the inventive, expansive guitar work of Cathal Roper and Damien Tuit paired to a precise and intelligent rhythmic unit in bassist Gabriel Paschal Blake and drummer Diarmuid Brennan. Electronic elements are noticeably more prominent across the record, with industrial influences explored in greater detail than ever before, James McGovern’s bold melodies acting as a reassuring anchor so we never get totally swept away into the band’s new found soundscape.

The Murder Capital also made their live return this year performing at the likes of Primavera Sound, VYV Festival and Solidays, as well as opening for Pearl Jam at British Summer Time. The performances follow their largely sold-out EU / UK tours in 2020, which saw them sell out their biggest headline show to date at London’s Electric Ballroom.

The Murder Capital Tour Dates
Fri, March 24 Washington, DC DC9 Nightclub
Sat, March 25 Philadelphia, PA First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia
Sun, March 26 Albany, NY Empire Underground
Tue, March 28 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg
Thu, March 30 Cambridge, MA The Sinclair
Sat, April 1 Toronto, ON Horseshoe Tavern
Mon, April 3 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall
Tue, April 4 Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry
Fri, April 7 Denver, CO Lost Lake
Sat, April 8 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court
Mon, April 10 Seattle, WA The Vera Project
Tue, April 11 Portland, OR Mission Theater
Thu, April 13 San Francisco, CA The Chapel

The Murder Capital Gigi’s Recovery Track Listing
1 Existence
2 Crying
3 Return My Head
4 Ethel
5 The Stars Will Leave Their Stage
6 Belonging
7 The Lie Becomes the Self
8 A Thousand Lives
9 We Had to Disappear
10 Only Good Things
11 Gigi’s Recovery
12 Exist

Everything But The Girl Set To Release “Fuse,” Their First Album In 24 Years

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Everything But The Girl Set To Release “Fuse,” Their First Album In 24 Years

Fuse is the first new studio album from Everything But The Girl in 24 years and it gets released on April 23, 2023. Written and produced by Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn over the spring-summer of 2021, Fuse is a modern take on the lustrous electronic soul the band first pioneered in the mid-90s. Thorn’s affecting and richly-textured voice is once again up front in Watt’s glimmering landscape of sub-bass, sharp beats, half-lit synths and empty space, and as before, the result is the sound of a band comfortable with being both sonically contemporary, yet agelessly themselves.

The pair recorded in secret at home and in a small riverside studio outside Bath with friend and engineer Bruno Ellingham. Early takes focussed on ambient sound montages and improvised spectral piano loops recorded by Ben on his iPhone at home during his enforced pandemic isolation – ideas which later blossomed into atmospheric tracks such as “When You Mess Up” and “Interior Space”. Yet, as confidence grew, so did the pulse and rhythm of the album, culminating in the writing and programming of later songs, such as the new single “Nothing Left To Lose” and “Caution To The Wind”. Shot through with alternating hope, desperation and vivid flashbacks, the album’s lyrics – sometimes allusive, sometimes richly detailed – capture what it’s like to start again.

Tracks
1 Nothing Left To Lose
2 Run A Red Light
3 Caution To The Wind
4 When You Mess Up
5 Time And Time Again
6 No One Knows We’re Dancing
7 Lost
8 Forever
9 Interior Space
10 Karaoke

Conan O’Brien Interviews Neil Young for Hour-Long Special on SiriusXM’s Team Coco Radio

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Conan O’Brien Interviews Neil Young for Hour-Long Special on SiriusXM’s Team Coco Radio

Today SiriusXM announced a Team Coco Radio original special featuring Conan O’Brien in an hour-long conversation with Neil Young.

Premiering this morning at 8:00am ET exclusively on SiriusXM channel 106, with replays throughout the week, Conan talks with the music icon about his legendary career, his musical influences, and some of his most famous performances.

Throughout the special, Conan and Young discuss the songs that have inspired him the most, as the musician reflects on how each one helped shape his career and define his style. The hour gives listeners a unique look inside the mind of a truly legendary artist, hosted by one of his biggest admirers. This is the first original special to air on Team Coco Radio, a 24/7 SiriusXM channel executive produced by Conan, which launched in November.

During one part of the program, Conan and Young revisit a favorite song of Young’s, Johnny Cash’s “Ballad of a Teenage Queen,” leading to an in-depth conversation about what Young is looking for in a song and why he appreciates original recordings.

“I feel like it would be a blessing and a curse to have your ear, because I don’t pick that stuff apart, necessarily, but you hear it and if it’s in stereo or it’s been remixed, you’re like, ‘I’m out,’” Conan said.

“Well, I’m different. I’m going, when they did that, what else did they do? Things are different. They made more room for the bass, more room to spread things around,” Young responded. “For me, it’s the feeling of the mix. The feeling of the song…. And then as things get modified and changed, you get farther away from that. So that’s all I’m missing. It’s not so much the mix or one thing or the other, it’s the essence of the song that comes from the original.”

In another part of their conversation, Conan recalled watching Young “melt” Studio 8H with his infamous, intense performance of “Rockin’ in the Free World” on a 1989 episode of Saturday Night Live, calling it a “transcendent” moment that “punched through the television.”

“You can’t tell when that’s going to happen, but it was very focused. The band was very good,” Young responded. “And everyone was establishing themselves and a relationship with each other. It was four guys who’d never played together.”

Conan also remembered what a “big deal” it was for Young to be a guest on the early days of his NBC talk show, describing how much it meant to him, and the two laughed about another early TV appearance Buffalo Springfield made on an episode of the ‘60s TV show, Mannix.

In addition to its debut this morning, Conan’s Neil Young special will replay tonight at 9pm ET, as well as multiple replays throughout the week. Fans can also find the program on the SXM App.

Team Coco Radio (channel 106) is available to subscribers nationwide in their car and on the SXM App. The SXM App is available to subscribers on mobile devices and a wide variety of connected platforms in the home including smart speakers, smart TVs and streaming media players. Streaming access is included with all of SiriusXM’s audio trials and most popular plans.

Here’s Cher Playing ALL The Roles In A 12-Minute “West Side Story”

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Here’s Cher Playing ALL The Roles In A 12-Minute “West Side Story”

Cher performing a 12-minute version of West Side Story in her self-titled TV special from 1978 is just what you need today.

The White Stripes Set To Release “Elephant XX”

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The White Stripes Set To Release “Elephant XX”

The work an artist creates on the precipice of their star turn, with attention solidly focused on them…well, those are the moments that become truly magical. If ever a singularly magical moment exists in the history of The White Stripes, it is likely the release and ensuing hubbub behind their 2003 album Elephant.

As explosive initial releases are ever-deserving of further examination and celebration, it should come as no surprise that the 55th installment of Third Man Records Vault subscription series is the twentieth anniversary collection Elephant XX. You can sign up here to buy it, and the deadline to sign up is January 31st at midnight CT!

The centerpiece of this set is an all new, direct-from-the-original multitrack tapes MONO remix of the entire Elephant album. Mixed by Jack White and Bill Skibbe at Third Man Studio in Nashville, the work was executed on the same Calrec board used to complete the original stereo mix of Elephant at Toe Rag Studios in London back in 2002.

As these particular tapes had not been spun in nearly twenty years, little surprises and treasures slowly began to reveal themselves at every turn. An extra four bars at the end of the canonical “Seven Nation Army”? Completely forgotten by all involved until now. A long lost lyric edited out of “Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine”? Faithfully restored here. The snippets and snapshots of studio banter before and after takes? You bet we left it in. Revelations abound, truly gems to be discovered and dissected by die-hards and fairweather alike.

The idea here isn’t to try and COMPLETELY REIMAGINE the Elephant album. We know how near and dear it is to all of the White Stripes fans out there. The goal is to harken back to other similar experiments (like our first-ever Vault package, Icky Thump mono) while shedding light on the nuance and craft contained both in the performance and the mix of this album. In homage to the original US pressing of the album, Elephant mono is pressed on opaque white and opaque red discs.

Additionally, we’ve included Jack White’s original solo demo of “Hypnotize” in two markedly different mixes here. Recorded on 4-track reel-to-reel sometime in 1998 and “gifted” to the local Detroit garage band the Hentchmen as a song White felt was more in their style than his at the time. Come a few years later, with the Hentches having done nothing with the tune, Jack reclaimed it for he and Meg, and their frenetic take quickly became a long-standing fan favorite.

Furthermore, the original, first take version of “You’ve Got Her In Your Pocket” done seemingly as a mic check, is paired here on the flipside of “Hypnotize”, complete with additional flourish and fingerpicking more so than what ended up on the final album version.

All three of these aforementioned songs are shared together on a stunning 7-inch single pressed on glorious glitter red vinyl.

It wouldn’t be a twentieth anniversary collection without a DVD and here we’ve assembled a corker. Elephant-Era Video Artifacts is a simulacrum of the dubbed and traded VHS mixtape compilations that were pivotal to sharing of information and fueling fandom long before YouTubers begged you to smash that subscribe button.

The footage includes the exact album take of Jack and Meg and Holly Golightly singing their hearts out so jolly on “It’s True That We Love One Another” and a previously buried multi-camera Japanese live performance of a wild show kicked off with an impromptu cover of the Stooges “I Wanna Be Your Dog.” From the insightful, unseen interview with Jack and Meg (she talks a lot!) through beautiful 8mm film capture of the behind-the-scenes and making of “The Hardest Button To Button” music video, the collection here utilizes variety to convey the breadth and reach that The White Stripes covered in their dogged work supporting Elephant.

Tying it all together is a 28-page 12″ x 12″ booklet chock-full of previously unshared photos from the Elephant album cover shoot, candid backstage pics and all sorts of handwritten lyrics, concert posters, proposed/abandoned tracklists, blood chits, shopping lists, scraps of paper with Támam Shud written on them….you know, the works.

David Bowie’s “Aladdin Sane” Arriving As Limited Edition 50th Anniversary LP

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David Bowie’s “Aladdin Sane” Arriving As Limited Edition 50th Anniversary LP

April 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of David Bowie’s ALADDIN SANE, which was released only ten months after his breakthrough album THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS. The title track and songs such as ‘Lady Grinning Soul’ and ‘Time’ marked a significant musical progression from its predecessor, adding brass, woodwind, soulful backing vocals and the distinctive piano playing of Mike Garson.

On 14th April, 2023, one week before its Golden Jubilee ALADDIN SANE will be issued as a limited edition 50th anniversary half-speed mastered LP and a picture disc LP pressed from the same master.

The album was preceded by two singles ‘The Jean Genie’ and ‘Drive-In Saturday’, peaking in the U.K. singles chart at numbers 2 and 3 respectively, and was the first time he topped the U.K. album charts. It also marked his debut on the U.S. charts reaching the top 20 album chart there, where an edited version of ‘Time’ was released as a single.

The cover artwork has become one of the most famous sleeves of all time and was rumoured to be the most expensive produced up to that point. The cover photograph was taken by Brian Duffy, who would also shoot the sleeves for 1979’s LODGER and 1980’s SCARY MONSTERS (AND SUPER CREEPS) and features Bowie with the iconic red and blue lightning bolt make-up, an image which has now entered the planet’s cultural lexicon.

This new pressing of ALADDIN SANE was cut on a customised late Neumann VMS80 lathe with fully recapped electronics from 192kHz restored masters of the original master tapes, with no additional processing on transfer. The half-speed was cut by John Webber at AIR Studios.

Bowie described ALADDIN SANE as ‘Ziggy Goes To Washington: Ziggy under the influence of America’. The album was to be Ziggy Stardust’s last stand, and the persona was laid to rest three months after the album’s release in July 1973 at the infamous final show with the Spiders From Mars at London’s Hammersmith Odeon.

DAVID BOWIE – ALADDIN SANE TRACKLISTING

SIDE ONE
Watch That Man – 4:30
Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?) – 5:06
Drive-In Saturday – 4:33
Panic In Detroit – 4:25
Cracked Actor – 3:01

SIDE TWO
Time – 5.15
The Prettiest Star – 3:31
Let’s Spend The Night Together – 3:10
The Jean Genie – 4:07
Lady Grinning Soul – 3:45

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Eric Alper is a 6-time nominee for Publicist of the Year during Canadian Music Week and has overseen the publicity campaigns for over 183 JUNO Award-nominated albums (and 16 in 2025), 45 Grammy-nominated albums, including 47 JUNO Award, 58 Canadian Folk Music Award, 126 Maple Blues Award-winning albums and is also truly honoured to work with some of the biggest and most important artists of our time.

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