4/29/2026

Listen To The Bug Club’s New Single “A Good Day For Dying”

Today, The Bug Club shares the humorously apathetic new single “A Good Day For Dying,” available now on all streaming services from Sub Pop.

The track is from Every Single Muscle, which is The Bug Club’s punkiest offering yet. It recalls both the short, sharp snaps of their very first singles and the grunt of recent releases. So packed is the album with wall-to-wall riffs and lyrical hooks rammed into tight confines that Sam actually asks permission to squeeze in a solo during “A Good Day for Dying.”

He’s given two seconds.

With regard to the lyricism, while Very Human Features did an excellent job of pointing at everyday things and highlighting their absurdity, on Every Single Muscle, The Bug Club looks more closely at themselves. Not so much in an introspective way, though. More in a way an alien might probe a captive specimen on an intergalactic gurney. Horror movies get their “body” subgenre; now, garage rock albums get theirs, too. Self-interested in an entirely new sense of the term, the human form and condition is prodded and inspected from every angle throughout the course of the album. “A Good Day For Dying” is another excellent example of this.

The Bug Club previously announced tour in support of Every Single Muscle begins Saturday, May 9th in Wrexham, UK at The Rockin’ Chair and currently runs through Friday, July 10th in Chicago, IL at Lincoln Hall. Please see a full list of dates below.

May/June/August 2026, UK Shows
Sat. May 09 - Wrexham, UK - The Rockin’ Chair
Thu. May 14 - Manchester, UK - The Eagle
Fri. May 15 - Manchester, UK - The Eagle
Sat. May 16 - Glasgow, UK - The Glad Cafe
Sat. May 23 - London, UK - O2 Academy Brixton*
Mon. Jun. 01- Norwich, UK - Arts Centre
Tue. Jun. 02 - Brighton, Uk - Concorde 2
Wed. Jun. 03 - Bristol, UK - Lantern Hall (Bristol Beacon)
Thu. Jun. 04 - Liverpool, UK - Hangar 34
Fri. Jun. 05 - Leeds, UK - Project House
Sat. Jun. 06 - Barry, UK - Memo Arts Centre
Sat. Aug. 22 - Crickhowell, UK, Green Man Festival
* supporting Super Furry Animals

June/July 2026, CAN/US Shows
Thu. Jun. 18 - Toronto, ON - The Garrison ^
Fri. Jun. 19 - Picton, ON - Matron Brewing ^
Sat. Jun. 20 - Burnstown, ON - Neat ^
Sun. Jun. 21 - Montreal, QC - Foufs ^
Mon. Jun. 22 - Quebec City, QC - Le Centre ^
Wed. Jun. 24 - Charlottetown, PE - Trailside Inn ^
Thu. Jun. 25 - Fredericton, NB - The Cap ^
Fri. Jun. 26 - Halifax, NS - Seahorse ^
Sat. Jun. 27 - Sydney, NS - Daniel’s Ale House ^
Mon. Jun. 29 - Portland, ME - SPACE Gallery
Tue. Jun. 30 - Medford, MA - Deep Cuts
Wed. Jul. 01 - Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere Rooftop
Thu. Jul. 02 - Philadelphia, PA - Ukie Club
Mon. Jul. 06 - Washington, DC - DC9
Tue. Jul. 07 - Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle Back Room
Wed. Jul. 08 - Asheville, NC - Static Age
Thu. Jul. 09 - Nashville, TN - Blue Room @ Third Man
Fri. Jul. 10 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
^ w/ Boojums

Every Single Muscle will be out May 29th, 2026 worldwide from Sub Pop, and is available to preorder now on CD/LP/all DSPs. LP preorders from megamart.subpop.com in North America, Mega Mart Europe in the UK + EU, and your local record store, will receive the limited Loser Edition opaque blue (NA) and blue vinyl (UK/EU) (all vinyl color editions whilst stock lasts!). Every Single Muscle also features what is likely the band’s most BONKERS cover art to date, illustrated by Ross Willmett.

Every Single Muscle features today’s offering “A Good Day for Dying,” along with approximately 17 other tight and engaging garage-punk numbers like “Watching the Omnibus,” “Yours (If You Want Me),” “Make It Count,” and “My Uncle Warren Drives a Passat.” Every Single Muscle was produced and mixed by Tom Rees at Rat Trap Studios in Cardiff, Wales, and mastered by Mikey Young.

More on The Bug Club here.

What People Are Saying About The Bug Club
“a near-constant stream of two-minute rippers that blend musical urgency with wicked humour and big hooks.” [Every Single Muscle] UNCUT

“Welsh duo The Bug Club have become one of the most reliable DIY-style indie rock groups of the last few years, and the first single from their upcoming album Every Single Muscle does not disappoint. “Watching the Omnibus” is a patented Bug Club ripper that clocks in at just over a minute, packed with hooks and self-deprecating lyrics.” “Indie Basement: Best Songs & Albums of February 2026” - BROOKLYN VEGAN

“There’s another Bug Club single, you see, one that finds them raucously rocking out and harmonizing like it’s the ’60s and “Twist And Shout” is next up on the setlist…see if you don’t fall in love.” [“Yours (If You Want Me)”]. STEREOGUM

The Bug Club
Every Single Muscle

Tracklisting:
1. Miss Wales 2012
2. A Good Day for Dying
3. Make It Count
4. Cut to Black
5. Full Range of Motion
6. Pretty as a Magazine
7. Look Like Me
8. How Can We Be Friends
9. Every Single Muscle
10. Shiny and Wet
11. Semi-Automatic
12. In My Short Life
13. Watching the Omnibus
14. It’s Our Manager David
15. Yours (If You Want Me)
16. All My Clothes Fell Off
17. Third Best Friend
18. My Uncle Warren Drives a Passat

ZOON Shares New Single + Video, "I Was Younger" via FLOOD | 'Happy Thought School' LP Out 6/19 via Paper Bag Records

ZOON Shares Single + Video "I Was Younger" via FLOOD

HAPPY THOUGHT SCHOOL LP Out 6/19 via Paper Bag Records

Photo by ZOON

PRE-SAVE/PRE-ORDER: ZOON - HAPPY THOUGHT SCHOOL LP
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LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: ZOON - "I Was Younger"
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LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: ZOON - "One Too Many Nights" (feat. Sam Jr.)
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PRAISE FOR ZOON

"In their brief yet prolific tenure as Zoon, the Toronto-based composer Daniel Monkman has reoriented shoegaze away from an insular, obfuscating aesthetic into a modern form of folk music—a vehicle through which they can tell their story, commune with friends, and catalog the human condition."
-Pitchfork

“The music arrives in dusty, amorphous gusts of sound — sometimes revealing a strummed acoustic guitar, sometimes swelling with tremolo strings, sometimes surrounding Monkman with high, delayed vocals — that make every perception sound fragile and precious.”
-The New York Times

"One Too Many Nights" feels like a fitting introduction to Happy Thoughts School, which seems to itself reframe a difficult time in Monkman's life by passing on the hard-won wisdom of how they got through it. Like any Zoon record, unsettling identity-formation processes remain at the core, but pop-forward melodies seeping in pay homage to a timeless shelter."
-Exclaim!

"Perhaps the first thing that strikes you about Daniel Monkman's music is the storytelling."
-The Fader

"With a hint of psychedelia and a plethora of prowess, Zoon immerses the listener in a world they can call their own, one built on the back of experimentation without alienating a single soul. There is an unpredictability to “One Too Many Nights” that keeps the listener coming back, with each listen revealing another layer of this single. HAPPY THOUGHT SCHOOL is shaping up to be a landmark release for Zoon if this first single is any indication of what is to be expected. The artist raises the bar with a beautifully crafted, warping ballad that balances Zoon’s singularity with their infectious tendencies."
-Glide Magazine

"Zoon’s music is dreamy, atmospheric and beautifully incorporates traditional elements. There are superficial comparisons to My Bloody Valentine and Yo La Tengo, but Zoon’s sound is distinctively unique, gently psychedelic and highly emotional."
-Post-Punk

"...the experimental Anishinaabe musician weaves the past, present and future together into a symphony of sound, light and storytelling. The results are both moving and kaleidoscopic."
-CBC

"Monkman is the entity behind the atmospheric band Zoon, is on a journey to understand life’s complexities, and uses music to heal, learn, and evolve, all while staying true to being a two-spirit being and carrying on the rich heritage of the Anishinaabe people."
-Quip Mag

"Monkman was once a kid who kept their angst bottled up and tried to pass without notice. Now it’s difficult to look away from their joyful rebellion."
-Range

Last month, ZOON the Anishinaabe-Canadian shoegaze project returned with the announcement of their highly anticipated third long player, HAPPY THOUGHT SCHOOL out June 19, 2026 via Paper Bag Records.

Lead single, "One Too Many Nights" feat Sam Jr. (of Broken Social Scene) was met with critical acclaim, with Exclaim! noting that track, "embraces a grunge-pop bent on Zoon's career-defining moccasin-gaze sound," and Glide Magazine predicted that HAPPY THOUGHT SCHOOL will be a landmark release for the artist.

Today, ZOON shares, "I Was Younger," a triumphant and ethereal anthem centered on reflection, forgiveness, and self-compassion.

"I Was Younger is about the break up of two people who wanted the same thing but there was a force that just wouldn’t let it happen," ZOON shares.
"In those moments we try and try to make anything work, but in the end people fall in and out of love. This was my interpretation of something similar I went through as a young person.

They add, "I teamed up with Chris Chu of the 2010’s indie band called “The Morning Benders”. Their album Big Echo showed me that I wanted some of that pop and lo-fi influence."

On HAPPY THOUGHT SCHOOL, ZOON delivers their most emotionally forensic and compositionally expansive statement to date. The album refracts heartbreak, relapse, racial trauma, and spiritual recalibration through a cosmic moccasin-gaze pop, shaped by memory and tape hiss.

"I Was Younger" is out April 29th. HAPPY THOUGHT SCHOOL is out June 19th via Paper Bag Records.

ZOON - I Was Younger (Official Video)

Single Artwork

HAPPY THOUGHT SCHOOL TRACKLISTING

1. Beautiful II
2. One Too Many Nights (feat. Sam Jr.)
3. Atactic
4. I Was Younger
5. Happy Thought School
6. OMNI II
7. Olivia's Tears
8. You Can't See Me (This Low)
9. How Many More Times
10. Used and Stapled (One Last Dance)

ZOON BIO:

On HAPPY THOUGHT SCHOOL, ZOON delivers their most emotionally forensic and compositionally expansive statement to date. Releasing June 19, 2026 via Paper Bag Records, the album refracts heartbreak, relapse, racial trauma, and spiritual recalibration through a cosmic moccasin-gaze pop, shaped by memory and tape hiss. The title references their experiences at a school in East Selkirk, Manitoba, where despite its optimistic name they endured racism as one of the only Native students. Pop radio became refuge: early-2000s Top 20 hits blasting through headphones while they stood alone in a field. That contradiction joyful surface, painful sublayer defines the record’s architecture.

Whisper Doll share "Am I a Knife," sign to Take Care Records

WHISPER DOLL SIGN TO TAKE CARE RECORDS

NEW YORK CITY BAND RETURN

WITH MELODICALLY CHARGED NEW SINGLE “AM I A KNIFE” - LISTEN

OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO PREMIERES TODAY,

CO-DIRECTED WITH OWEN LEHMAN - WATCH

PERFORMING AT NIGHT CLUB 101

IN NEW YORK CITY ON MAY 4

Photo Credit: Riley Nalatova

Today, New York City’s Whisper Doll, the project of bandleader and musician Fiona Tagami, is excited to announce their signing to Brooklyn-based indie label, Take Care Records. Heralding the news is their first release in over 2 years, “Am I a Knife,” which cascades twinkling synths over a driving bassline. Fiona’s intense emotionality shines through in her fully expressive vocals, which reach new heights in the song’s thunderous chorus. “Oh, take me as I am, Oh, you know that you can,” she sings, reflecting on the severed reality of the male gaze from feminine desires.

Speaking about the new song, Fiona shares, “This song is my reaction to seeing men get indoctrinated into an ideology that tells them lust is sin and seeing the blame get placed on women. This makes me feel like a knife because I am in the body of a woman and can inspire feelings of desire separate from my own soul. Seeing the bodies of women become detached from their minds. Like dolls… “

An official music video for the track premieres today, which was co-directed by Fiona and creative Owen Lehman, who has previously worked with Geese and MX LONELY. The video features the four-piece band performing in a wood-drenched, gothic church, interspersed with spiritual visions and increasingly intense imagery as the song bursts at the seams. Mirroring the pressurized burden of sexuality placed on women, blood begins to spill from the grasp of a knife as the emotional toll worsens.

LISTEN TO “AM I A KNIFE”

WATCH “AM I A KNIFE”

Fiona has a central analogy to describe the way that Whisper Doll’s world should feel. She asks listeners to imagine sneaking into a park after hours; the adrenaline combined with calm and quiet, the darkness both unnerving and comforting, the satisfaction of solitude intensified by the lateness of the hour and the knowledge that nobody’s coming to break it. There’s an otherworldliness to the feeling that is nevertheless rooted in space and time. More of this feeling can be expected on the band’s upcoming new album, which is expected later this year.

Known for their captivating live performances, Whisper Doll has built a following within NY’s rock scene and toured across the U.S. and Japan. Last week, the band previewed new material throughout a short East Coast run with shows in Boston, MA, Kingston, NY, and New Hampshire. Next week, Whisper Doll will play Night Club 101 in New York City with support from speedfriending and Panik Flower. For more information on upcoming performances, see below and follow the band on Instagram at @whisperd0ll.

★ WHISPER DOLL LIVE 2026 ★

MAY

4 - Night Club 101 - New York, NY @

13 - Elsewhere - Brooklyn, NY #

@ - w/ speedfriending and Panik Flower

# - w/ Juliana Chahayed #

CORNELIUS opens long-awaited new chapter with new single “Yumenemi” - out now on Eat Your Own Ears Recordings

CORNELIUS

- Returns with first glimpse at new work
- Shares single “Yumenemi”
(Yosui Inoue cover)
- Out now on Eat Your Own Ears Recordings

Photo credit: Hideaki Hamada

Today, Cornelius returns with his first new music in years, opening a long-awaited new chapter on Eat Your Own Ears Recordings. His new single, a cover of “Yumenemi,” was originally released in 1989 by one of Japan’s most iconic singer-songwriters, Yosui Inoue, and remains a cult Balearic classic.

Reimagined through Cornelius’s singular lens, the track marries his signature collage-like production, intricate rhythmic detail and soft-focus electronics with a lilting tropicalia inflection, for a swirling, heady track befitting of it’s title, which roughly translates to “dreaming”.

Watch the video for “Yumenemi” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sqPMEL21PE
Other streaming links: https://cornelius.lnk.to/yumenemi

The new track arrives following a recent resurgence of interest in his work, including a viral TikTok moment and a nod from Rosalía, who featured “Typewrite Lesson”, originally a b-side from Cornelius’s iconic 1997 album ‘Fantasma’, in her Met Gala–themed Vogue playlist of all-time favourites.

Cornelius is the musical project of Japanese multi-instrumentalist Keigo Oyamada, who began his career in his teens and launched the Cornelius name in the early 1990s after his band Flipper’s Guitar. The project takes its name from Planet of the Apes.

He broke internationally with 1997’s Fantasma, a genre-blurring album of cut-and-paste production that drew comparisons to Beck and The Beastie Boys and was released worldwide by Matador Records. Often dubbed a “modern-day Brian Wilson,” Oyamada became a sought-after producer and remixer, a "musician's musician", collaborating with artists including Blur, Beck, Sean Ono Lennon and Yoko Ono's Plastic Ono Band, Haruomi Hosono, James Brown and many others.

With 2002’s Point, Cornelius shifted toward intricate loops of organic sound sources, from water droplets to vocoder-heavy reinterpretations, pushing his meticulous sound design further on 2007’s Sensuous. His live shows are renowned for precision-synced visuals, custom lighting, and immersive, band-led performances that treat the stage as a fully integrated audio-visual system.

The companion release Sensurround + B Sides was nominated for Best Surround Sound Album at the 2009 Grammy Awards.

“Yumenemi” marks the start of a long-awaited new body of work, set to unfold over the coming months.

Cornelius links:
https://www.corneliusjapan.com/
https://www.instagram.com/corneliusofficial/
https://www.facebook.com/corneliusofficial
https://x.com/corneliusjapan
https://www.eatyourownears.com/releases
https://eatyourownearsrecordings.bandcamp.com/

DANIELA LALITA RETURNS WITH NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO “TIROTEO” FT. MURA MASA

DANIELA LALITA RETURNS WITH NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO “TIROTEO” FEATURING MURA MASA

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Today, Peruvian singer-songwriter and producer Daniela Lalita makes a resounding reemergence with the release of a powerful new single and video, "Tiroteo", featuring frequent collaborator Mura Masa. Meaning "gunfire" in Spanish, "Tiroteo" embraces pain as a catalyst for transformation — an exploration of the choice to surrender completely to suffering rather than resist it, in hopes of stripping away an old self and being remade entirely. Brooding and atmospheric at its core, the track pulses with slow-burning, hypnotic rhythms that feel equal parts sensual and heavy, carrying a spiritual, almost baptismal quality where pain becomes a sacred and welcome force for rebirth and renewal.

Known for blending experimental electronic sounds into immersive, richly imagined worlds, Lalita expands her storytelling on "Tiroteo" with a cinematic black-and-white video directed by herself, and shot entirely in Peru with local collaborators. In the visual, Daniela moves through stark industrial landscapes — dancing alone in expressive choreography, riding in the back of a pickup truck — before the camera finds a crowd gathered around an open fire, an image that feels elemental and timeless, wholly in step with the song's themes of ritual, release, and collective transformation. Listen to “Tiroteo” HERE and watch the official music video HERE.

Daniela shares about the single, “Tiroteo is about finding empowerment by using the pain of loss and catastrophe as a dissolving element that allows oneself to die, regenerate, and be born again with the use of one's own ammunition. I took inspiration from the way caterpillars liquefy inside their cocoon, turning into a nutrient-rich soup through digestive enzymes that break down their own tissue to rebuild into an entirely different insect.”

Born and raised in Lima, Peru, Daniela’s multidisciplinary art practice has always been rooted in sound—an integral foundation to her work despite her focus moving to visual art and couture early on. She studied piano as a child, later attending design school and a graduate music technology program at NYU. In New York, she studied under CalArts founder and Buchla modular synthesizer pioneer Morton Subotnick. Since her debut Trececerotres EP in 2022, Daniela has carved out a distinct lane through her high-concept storytelling and immersive world-building, earning praise from i-D, Office Magazine, Paper, Pitchfork and more. Daniela’s early music introduced a self-contained world rooted in ritual, memory, and generational lineage, built through layered vocals, raw production, and an immersive visual language. Self-produced and emotionally expansive, the project established Daniela Lalita as a singular voice in experimental electronic, fusing folktronica, art pop, and avant pop, while laying the foundation for the next chapter of her evolving universe.

LISTEN TO “TIROTEO” FT. MURA MASA

https://orcd.co/tiroteo

WATCH THE OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO FOR “TIROTEO” FT. MURA MASA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=HZ-LNmVV3mE

“Tiroteo” still by Daniela Lalita

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ZEP ANNOUNCES NEW PROJECT 'NO ENEMIES' OUT MAY 8TH; 'NO ENEMIES' NORTH AMERICA + EU TOUR ON SALE NOW

ZEP ANNOUNCES NEW PROJECT NO ENEMIES OUT MAY 8TH VIA PULSE RECORDS; PRE-SAVE HERE

PRE-ORDER NO ENEMIES CD & VINYL HERE

NO ENEMIES NORTH AMERICA + EU TOUR ON SALE NOW; TICKETS HERE

Dutch artist and producer ZEP has announced his upcoming project NO ENEMIES, out May 8th via PULSE Records — PRE-SAVE HERE.

The announcement comes on the heels of his latest single “TRYNA DO,” released last week alongside an accompanying music video, and continues a breakout run of releases leading into the project. That run began with “NOBODY,” his self-acceptance anthem that has amassed over 7.8M streams and debuted live during his sold-out NYC rave and 66GREENE performance, followed by the explosive “DON’T BREAK,” which gained traction online—particularly within the breakdancing community—and his Apple Creator Studio global campaign feature. Most recently, “FIGURE IT OUT” expanded his sonic range, underscoring his genre-blurring approach and building momentum ahead of the full project.

ZEP’s NO ENEMIES North America + EU headline tour is on sale now, kicking off May 20 in London with stops in Amsterdam, Warsaw, and Berlin before returning to North America for dates in Toronto, New York, Chicago, and more. The run wraps with a sold-out two-night stand in Los Angeles on June 18 & 20 — tickets HERE.

Dutch artist and producer ZEP is breaking rules, bending genres, and paving his own lane in modern music. The son of Bazz Barnasconi, frontman of Dutch alternative rock band Vankatoen, ZEP grew up surrounded by live music and developed an early passion for drums before studying at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. Rooted in the skate, fashion, hip-hop, and electronic communities, his work channels an authentic, boundary-pushing energy that thrives both in his recordings and immersive 360-audio live shows. Keeping the rebellious spirit of rock, hip-hop, and punk alive, ZEP continues to emerge as a true artist’s artist with a sound entirely his own.