Guided By Voices Announce New LP, Share "We Outlast Them All" Single via Rolling Stone | 'Crawlspace Of The Pantheon' out 5/29 via GBV Inc Records

Guided By Voices Announce 44th Album Share "We Outlast Them All" Single via Rolling Stone, Read Bob Pollard Interview Crawlspace Of The Pantheon out 5/29 via GBV Inc Records

Photo credit: Sandlin Gaither PRE-SAVE/PRE-ORDER: Guided By Voices - Crawlspace Of The Pantheon Pre-Save | Pre-Order LISTEN & SHARE: Guided By Voices - "We Outlast Them All" Stream | YouTube Guided By Voices today have announced their new album Crawlspace Of The Pantheon, due out May 29th via GBV Inc Records. The announcement arrives alongside new single "We Outlast Them All," which premiered today via Rolling Stone. The piece includes an interview with Bob Pollard, read it HERE. Guided By Voices' last album Rich And Delicious (October 2025) was lauded by NPR’s All Things Considered and picked #1 on Magnet Magazine’s Best Albums Of 2025. "We Outlast Them All” is an anthemic victory lap on album #44 from the indie rock stalwarts.  Robert Pollard told Rolling Stone:  "'We Outlast Them All' could be our 'We Are The Champions' but it's not necessarily about us.  It’s about anyone who perseveres over a long period of time." "I worked much more diligently on this set of lyrics.  I chiseled away at lines and sections and phrasings...   I wanted them to have an overall emotionally conceptual feel. At times it feels somewhat autobiographical."  Guided By Voices will not be on tour in 2026.  Pollard recently told Magnet:  "Why would we stop playing live and make these kinds of records? I don’t know. We do what we wanna do." "We Outlast Them All" by Guided By Voices is out today via GBV Inc. Records. Crawlspace Of The Pantheon - TRACK LISTING Lost in the Sun Out With a Theory One Last Blow We Outlast Them All A Grand Ceremonial Jester Dagon's Plunger Advance Without Dropping No Shoe Fits (Floating Babies) Arthur Square Landscaping (How Would You Like a) Chariot Ride When You're My Clown (Nothing Happens) GUIDED BY VOICES LINKS Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Spotify | Apple Music

Irmin Schmidt Announces New Album 'Requiem' & Shares An Excerpt || Out 4/24 On Mute

IRMIN SCHMIDT  ANNOUNCES NEW RELEASE REQUIEM  OUT 4/24 ON MUTE LISTEN TO AN EXCERPT

Photo credit: Robin Maddock   Today IRMIN SCHMIDT has announced details of a new album, Requiem, set for release on vinyl, CD and digitally on April 24th, 2026 via Mute / Future Days Music (Spoon). Requiem is an album of exquisite balance between human-made and nature-produced sounds. The album, presented in two sections, sees Irmin Schmidt playing prepared and unprepared piano alongside environmental recordings of the sounds of nature that surround his home in Southern France. Listen to an excerpt of Requiem HERE. “In nature,” Schmidt explains, “I find so much music, and that becomes a kind of dialogue.” After hearing a nightingale sing in his garden that he felt compelled to record, Schmidt began to build up these sounds - recording water, bird and frog noises and his local surroundings – in a form of personal ritual. The piano that accompanies his environmental recordings – prepared and unprepared – was spontaneous and, in the tradition of Can’s recordings, some of these spontaneous compositions were edited at a later date, with the help of long-time collaborator René Tinner.  Schmidt, who will be 89 years old in 2026, explains that Requiem is a meditation on remembrance, on loss and commemoration. The slow melding and manipulation of these environmental and piano recordings creates a liminal space that allows the listener to embark on their own journey of contemplation. The preternatural, meditative movement between Schmidt’s piano and recordings brings both present and distant memories into view, their symbiosis creating one of Schmidt’s most affecting and inspiring works to date. After an extensive classical education as pianist, conductor and composer, Irmin Schmidt, who studied under Stockhausen and Ligeti, co-founded Can in the late 60s, combining classic new music with rock and jazz. Outside of his work with Can, Schmidt has released over a dozen solo albums and written an opera, Gormenghast, based on the novels of Mervyn Peake. The opera, which originally premiered in 1998, was recently performed at the Linz Opera in Austria. For his contribution to art and culture he was awarded the highest honours in France, the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and in Germany, the Bundesverdienst Orden. In 2018 Faber Social published Can – All Gates Open, a two-part book – the first section is Can’s biography, written by Rob Young, and the second section is Can Kiosk, a collage of diary entries and interviews edited and written by Irmin Schmidt. His new album, Requiem, follows 2018’s 5 Klavierstücke, a piano work using prepared and unprepared piano and 2020’s Nocturne, a live album documenting his Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival performance followed. Requiem will be released on vinyl, CD and digitally on April 24th, 2026 via Mute. Pre-order Requiem HERE.

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deary Share Cinematic Dreampop Epic, “Alfie” Single/Video | Debut LP 'Birding' out April 3 via Bella Union

deary Unleash Cinematic Dreampop Epic, “Alfie” Single/Video Available across platforms here Debut Full-Length Album, Birding due out April 3 via Bella Union Birding album pre-order link “a gorgeous cloud of ethereal dreampop” - BrooklynVegan "So many bands have been trying their hand at dreampop in the wake of the shoegaze revival, but few are pulling off those celestial sounds as effectively as deary do on "Seabird." - Stereogum "The debut full-length album from London shoegaze 3-piece is full of shimmering guitars  and blown-out atmosphere." - Bandcamp Singles: “Seabird” “Alfie” Photo Credit: Josh Hight  London-based three-piece, deary will release their hotly anticipated debut full-length album Birding on April 3 via Bella Union. Helmed by Rebecca "Dottie" Cockram (guitar, vocals), Ben Easton (guitar) and Harry Catchpole (drums), they shared lead single “Seabird” to widespread acclaim and today share a second taste of the collection with the brand new seven-and-a-half-minute long dreampop epic “Alfie”. What started as a tender ode to Ben’s family dog who had just passed and an emotional release of the reins of childhood blossomed into a Sigur Ros-esque stunning wall of intricately crafted noise. The single is accompanied by a beautifully shot video directed by their friend Limb. Watch / Share: “Alfie” Video Formed in 2020 over a shared love of Cocteau Twins, Slowdive, and MBV, the band wears these influences on their sleeve with the self-produced album’s dreamy shoegaze beauty and trip-hop beats, incorporating their modern touch to make something unique their own. The result is a collection that washes over listeners as the band explore their own life experiences in the context of the modern world and through religious iconography, dealing with innocence, grief, mental health, nature and the human experience. Birding aims to draw attention to the direct impact humans have on the world around us, whether that be nature, or ourselves. The importance of protecting the inner child or someone more vulnerable, holding hands, learning from past mistakes. “I was writing the record in one of the worst periods of my life,” Ben shares. “I was not in a good space at all. Our last EP, Aurelia, was about transition, and how it's cool to change. And Birding is, ‘Oh no, I‘ve made some really disruptive life decisions.’ The album came from an isolated, almost hopeless space, and you can hear that in parts of the record. But there are also moments that are very self-loving and meditative, and a bit more uplifting.” Across 11 tracks that run the gamut from ocean-deep shoegaze riffs to cloud-light sprinkles of ethereal indie, Birding is the sound of a band who have definitively found their groove. “Our last EP was us trying to be deary,” says Ben, ‘and this album is us being deary.” Coming off a UK #1 (Vinyl Singles Chart) with their debut single “Fairground", the band has supported Slowdive and Cranes and worked with the likes of Saint Etienne, The Murder Capital and Emma Anderson (Lush). deary have announced a number of UK and EU live shows to follow the album’s release. Tour dates here. Website | Facebook | Instagram Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple Music

La Doña announces new album + shares "Tus Besos"

LA DOÑA ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM CORRIENTES DUE APRIL 29TH SHARES NEW SINGLE & VISUALIZER “TUS BESOS” ANNOUNCES BERKLEY ALBUM RELEASE SHOW AT UC THEATRE

track artwork "La Doña’s vision has paid off" Rolling Stone "generates invention within traditional Latin forms…fizzes with embodied, improvisational energy” The New York Times Magazine "Breathes and expands as a celebration of rhythm and resilience" NPR “La Doña is the S.F.-Born Musician for This Moment” SF Weekly “Tus Besos”  WATCH: https://youtu.be/y2a-_w4xRPU LISTEN: https://ffm.to/tus-besos (February 25th, 2026) - Musician and social activist La Doña returns to announce her new album Corrientes. Corrientes means currents. Just as water flows through, shapes, and blesses the land, Corrientes the album was born on a current of transcultural connection and celebration. The album is a deep engagement with Afro-Indigenous musical traditions including cumbia, rumba, bachata, merengue, and son jarocho. Alongside the album announcement La Doña shares a new single “Tus Besos.” Speaking about the song La Doña says, “Tus Besos is a corrido tumbado about finding the person who makes every moment feel like a blissful eternity.” The song combines lush bolero style harmonies with the bright force of banda and corrido. “Tus Besos” also comes alongside a visualizer where La Doña couples her unique approach to regional Mexican music with a steamy queer love story that plays out across a noche de parranda at the bailes in deep-east Oakland. “Tus Besos” visuals feature Louie el Ser and work by Amelia Alemayehu, Rose D'Amato, Theo Schear, and Bobby Gordon. The new single follows “La Mentira y La Verdad,” a song rooted in bachata offering La Doña’s own assertion of truth-telling in the face of the censorship and repression of artists in our current political climate. La Doña is also announcing her album release show in Berkley CA at the UC Theatre on May 15th. Over the past year, La Doña traveled throughout Latin America, collaborating with cultural bearers across Colombia, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and the United States. Speaking about the album, La Doña shares, “Love, pain, beauty, healing, resistance, joy, and loss are all captured in this album Corrientes, which celebrates trans-border solidarity and collaboration. From collaborations with Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto, Son Rompe Pera, Rumba All-Stars, and more, you will hear seeds of culture as they have been carried across time and space on the winds of human resilience and self-determination. In this moment of suppression and catastrophe, Corrientes is an ethnography, a ceremony, a revolution.”  The forthcoming album follows La Doña’s acclaimed debut Los Altos de la Soledad and celebrated EPs Can’t Eat Clout and Algo Nuevo, as well as standout singles including “Penas Con Pan,” featured on President Obama’s playlist, and “Quién Me La Paga,” which earned praise from The New York Times as one of their “19 Songs That Matter Now.” In recent years, La Doña has cemented herself as a vital artist to watch, touring internationally with Cuco, Helado Negro, Durand Jones & The Indications, and Kaina. Listen to “Tus Besos” now and stay tuned for more from La Doña coming soon.

Album Artwork La Doña  Corrientes  April 29th 2026 Connect with La Doña: Instagram | Youtube | Website

Cherie Currie Teams With Rising Star Essex For Explosive New Single “When You're Young”

CHERIE CURRIE TEAMS WITH RISING STAR ESSEX FOR EXPLOSIVE 

NEW SINGLE “WHEN YOU'RE YOUNG”




Los Angeles, CA — Fresh from her no-holds-barred contributions to last year’s Yacht Metal collection - a breathtaking cover of Walter Egan’s “Magnet and Steel,” Runaways legend Cherie Currie is back with both a dynamic new single, and a cross-generational collaboration that cross-pollinates the legacy of classic new wave with a confrontational take on contemporary modern-rock edge.

A glorious slab of early eighties UK new wave, originally recorded by Victims of Pleasure, “When You'e Young” also features - and for many listeners, introduces - special guest Essex, the singularly-named superstar-in-waiting poised to land at the precise intersection of Duran Duran’s sleek pulse, Billy Idol’s swagger, and Joy Division’s shadow.

It's a potent combination. Hailing from Chicago, IL, Essex is a dynamic rock'n;'roll singer, dedicated to reviving the raw, unapologetic spirit of rock for the masses. Drawing inspiration from icons like Idol, Marc Bolan, David Bowie, and James Brown, his sound draws from a time when guitars and synths hit hard, songs were built to last, and authenticity mattered more than trends, or being flashy and glammy.

Essex’s swagger blends exquisitely with Currie’s mystique and majesty, and Die Krupps mainman Jurgen Engler's electrifying production to creates a bold, uncompromising sound custom built for today’s alternative landscape.

Cherie says, "I have recorded with Cleopatra Records for over 27 years so when I was approached to sing 'When You’re Young,' I thought it was business as usual until Brian, the president decided this was to be a duet with a new, up and coming talent named Essex.

"When we met for the music video I was completely convinced of his talent. Billy Idol would be proud with this man’s presence. By the time the shoot was finished, I was in love! What a talented, and beautiful human being. After 50 years in this crazy biz it’s a breath of fresh air to find such a grateful and gracious man. He gives me hope for this nutty music business."




Essex adds, “it was an unbelievable honour to work with somebody that has inspired me since I was a kid. Working with her was insanely easy. we got along just naturally.”

Exciting, too, is the news that Essex himself is currently at work on both an upcoming single and, later in the year, his full length debut album, its dark-edged fulled guitars and synths, commanding melodies, and sharp, aggressive bite channeling the raw electricity of the MTV-era ’80s at their peak , even as they charge forward with modern grit and venomous danger. This is music built on volume, emotion, and conviction, hooks you can shout, grooves you can feel, and a presence that refuses to be ignored.

Learn more about Essex in a brand new Pirate Radio Cleopatra podcast - Introducing Essex - available on Mixcloud, YouTube and your favorite podcast platform.

And, as you will discover, “When You're Young” is the ideal introduction to Essex, and a welcome return for Currie, a supercharged collision of eras, attitude, and influence, as momentous as it is memorable, and as unique as the talents that voice it. Or, as Essex puts it, “I think the song is very brilliant. It applies to everything right now, just by looking back to good times, when people were young and having fun.”


VIDEO: https://youtu.be/ kRM0sDK8Ick
SINGLE: https://orcd.co/ essexcheriecurrie_ whenyoureyoung

NEW GERMAN CINEMA shares new single "Swirling Pain" taken from new album of icy pop 'Pain Will Polish Me', out March 27 on Felte.

NEW GERMAN CINEMA - Shares new single "Swirling Pain" - Second single from forthcoming album    ‘Pain Will Polish Me’ out March 27 on Felte - Debut solo album from Fear of Men’s Jessica Weiss

Photo credit: Conor J Clarke   Following the announcement of her debut solo album 'Pain Will Polish Me', today New German Cinema, the solo project of Fear of Men songwriter and vocalist Jessica Weiss, shares the record’s second single, “Swirling Pain”. The slower, brooding, icy pop track offers a deeper glimpse into the album’s emotional core. The album lands March 27th via Felte. Following the beat-led single “My Mistake” featuring Merchandise's Carson Cox, new track “Swirling Pain” stands as one of the album’s emotional anchors, built around restrained production, glacial atmospheres and intimate vocal delivery. Weiss describes it as central to the spirit of the record: “Swirling Pain is my favourite song on the record. It lives in that strange Kafkaesque space between longing and withdrawal, where closeness feels both necessary and dangerous at the same time. Jag, my bandmate, and I made this video when we were staying in Berlin last summer - it started off as a take on Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon from 1943 - a piece of cinema history that feels perfectly suspended from time, and really captures the fragmentation of self that comes with memory looping back on itself. We’ve stripped that back to focus on repetition, dislocation and that uneasy sense of watching yourself from the outside.” "Swirling Pain" on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nthg0-TGqlk ‘Pain Will Polish Me’ album links: https://felte.lnk.to/new-german-cinema Weiss carries lyrical precision and emotional intensity into the stormy dark-pop gems on her debut solo album. ‘Pain Will Polish Me’ has been five years in the making, stretched between London and LA, built from late-night files, long silences and the quiet persistence of trying to finish something beautiful. Produced with Alex DeGroot (Zola Jesus, Cate Le Bon), it feels both forensic and devotional, the product of someone who doesn’t rush catharsis. It presents both solitary and connective, as if built from long-distance transmissions between two dream states.   Weiss calls the album a meditation on pop and European art-house auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It tracks the ways intimacy and control fold into one another until it’s impossible to tell where one ends. The songs are about the parts of yourself that dissolve in love, and the small acts of violence that come with being known. They move through claustrophobic relationships, obsession, surrender, cycles of suffering that start to feel like devotion. The language is pop but the feeling is something stranger, colder, more interior.   The songs on ‘Pain Will Polish Me’ move in shadow. Layers of synth, vocal and guitar fold over one another, drawing from the cinematic tension of Fassbinder’s New German Cinema and the quiet dissonance of modern Berlin, where Weiss recorded fragments of the record, drifting between places that carry uneasy ghosts. Between dinner conversations about the city’s buried history and the surreal comfort of its present, she found herself tracing the outlines of love and loss, identity and dissolution. “Germany’s history is everywhere but it’s unsaid,” she notes. “Fassbinder brought it into view. I wanted to approach the same sense of unease through sound.”   The album artwork picks up these themes, hovering between the everyday mundanity of a Fassbinder domestic scene, and something less recognisable, punctuated by surreal elements that move us into dreamscape, both familiar and disquieting. The shell and sea reference Botticelli's Venus: a figure born from sea foam created when Uranus’s severed genitals fell into the ocean - an image of creation through destruction. The shell becomes her vessel of birth, representing transformation, protection and fertility - the bridge between divine creation and human life. Weiss extends this theme of renewal to the personal; her baby daughter's babbles feature on the record.   Weiss has long been fascinated by the seam between pop and theory, art and feeling. While Fear of Men continue to work on their next record, this solo project opens up her own private language- a collection that feels at once personal and archival, haunted and alive. Between finishing a Masters in Early Modern Literature at Oxford, starting a PhD, moving countries and jobs many times, she’s been piecing together a body of work that sits somewhere between diary, research and séance.   It’s an album about losing yourself in order to see what’s left. A document of love as obsession, repetition, survival.  A meditation on love as both mirror and undoing, crafted in fragments, then pieced together into something whole.   New German Cinema live dates: 28 February - London, UK @ Sebright Arms (Free show - tickets here) 15 April - Brighton, UK @ The Folklore Rooms ‘Pain Will Polish Me’ track list: 01. Sub Rosa 02. Swirling Pain - Lyric video 03. Being Dead 04. I Become Heavy 05. Hera's Theme I 06. Eyes 07. Water Drops 08. Hera's Theme II 09. My Mistake - Video 10. All That Heaven Allows 11. Pain Will Polish Me 12. Perfect Secret    ‘Pain Will Polish Me’ album artwork (click for high res):   Links: https://www.instagram.com/newgermancinema  https://newgermancinema.bandcamp.com