- Indiana trio Houndmouth released this video revealing some of the details of the recording of their third album, Golden Age, out August 3. Frontman for the California band Foxygen, Jonathon Rado, and Shawn Everett, who has worked with War on Drugs, Kacey Musgraves, and Okkervil River, co-produced the album, though according to this video, they hadn’t even met before this.
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- Check out this new song from the film Hearts Beat Loud, starring Nick Offerman and Kiersey Clemons (pictured above). In the movie, the father/daughter duo make music together, and this is the first song they write, called “Hearts Beat Loud.”
- Last year, Rostam Batmanglij released his solo debut album, which followed a career as a writer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist in Vampire Weekend as well an album with Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen, and work with Carly Rae Jepsen, Frank Ocean, and Haim. Now, he’s released an EP of four songs from the album remixed.
- This is basically just cowardice on the part of Spotify. They announced a new policy to not promote and raise the profiles of artists who had engaged in ‘hateful conduct,’ and after a few of these ‘hateful’ artists pushed back, they have now reversed their position. It lasted for less than two weeks. The two biggest artists that we know pushed back are R. Kelly, who’s history of abuse, grooming, and pedophilia is well-documented, and XXXTentacion, who is facing charges for assaulting and strangling a pregnant woman and not just once; the abuse stretches over a period of time and includes elbows, headbutts, broken bottles, and eventually her imprisonment in his bathroom. These are the people Spotify have chosen to align themselves with.
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