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Richard Ashcroft shares first single in seven years ahead of UK tour with Oasis

SHARES FIRST SINGLE SINCE 2018


JOINING OASIS ON UK / IRELAND TOUR

STARTING JULY 4TH


"LOVER" OUT NOW


"Lover"

LISTEN: https://richardashcroft.lnk.to/lover

WATCH: https://youtu.be/a0jxbliRYg0


(May 22, 2025) - Richard Ashcroft, vocalist of The Verve, returns to share "Lover," his first single since his 2018 album Natural Rebel. Debuted on BBC Radio 2 with Vernon Kay, "Lover" arrives ahead of the rocker's big summer where he will be joining Oasis on their highly-anticipated reunion tour for the UK and Ireland dates.


Written by Richard and co-produced alongside Emre Ramazanoglu, "Lover" incorporates elements of one of Richard's all-time favorite works, "Love and Affection" by Joan Armatrading, whom he approached before recording the arrangement. The track represents his first new material since his 2018 album Natural Rebel debuted at #4 on the UK Official Album Chart. Since then, Richard also released the career-spanning Acoustic Hymns Vol 1 set, which hit #2 and became his highest charting record in fifteen years.


Richard’s vision for an immersive project was realized with a mobile LED virtual production courtesy of CUBE StudioX. It matched the emotion of Richard’s songwriting and performance by surrounding him with striking visuals displayed on an 18 x 4 meter led volume in a large studio space. The video was co-produced by Roy Kimani, CUBE Studio’s co-founder and Director of Innovation. 


A two-time Ivor Novello Award winner (Songwriter of the Year and Outstanding Contribution To British Music), Richard Ashcroft has become one of the most accomplished and influential songwriters around over the course of a career that spans three decades. His first chapter with The Verve reached a remarkable peak with Urban Hymns, a hit-laden set ("Bitter Sweet Symphony," "The Drugs Don’t Work," "Lucky Man," "Sonnet") which is one of the biggest selling albums in UK history with 11 x Platinum certifications. The band achieved a second #1 album with Forth and won three BRIT Awards.


His solo career continued that acclaim with his debut Alone With Everybody shooting to #1 and all five subsequent studio albums landing between #2 and #5. Between The Verve and his solo work, he has achieved three UK #1 albums and another five Top 10 records, plus a #1 single and five Top 10 hits.  


News of Richard’s special guest set on the upcoming Oasis tour continues a long-term mutual admiration between the two. The Verve and Oasis played shows together both before Oasis’s breakthrough and at their absolute peak, leading to a continuing friendship between Richard and the Gallagher brothers. Noel dedicated "Cast No Shadow" from (What's the Story) Morning Glory? to Richard, before Richard provided backing vocals on All Around The World from 1997’s Be Here Now. In 2021 Liam featured on a reworked version of Richard’s "C'mon People (We're Making It Now)."


Check out "Lover" above and see full live dates supporting Oasis below.


Upcoming Live Dates

7/4 - Cardiff, UK @ Principality Stadium

7/5 - Cardiff, UK @ Principality Stadium

7/11 - Manchester, UK @ Heaton Park

7/12 - Manchester, UK @ Heaton Park

7/16 - Manchester, UK @ Heaton Park

7/19 - Manchester, UK @ Heaton Park

7/20 - Manchester, UK @ Heaton Park

7/25 - London, UK @ Wembley Stadium

7/26 - London, UK @ Wembley Stadium

7/30 - London, UK @ Wembley Stadium

8/2 - London, UK @ Wembley Stadium

8/3 - London, UK @ Wembley Stadium

8/8 - Edinburgh, UK @ Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium

8/9 - Edinburgh, UK @ Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium

8/12 - Edinburgh, UK @ Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium

8/16 - Dublin, IRE @ Croke Park

8/17 - Dublin, IRE @ Croke Park

9/27 - London, UK @ Wembley Stadium

8/28 - London, UK @ Wembley Stadium

5/25 - Stevenage, UK @ SMR 2025 at Lamex Stadium

6/7 - São Paulo, BR @ Blues & Rock Festival

6/19 - Oxfordshire, UK @ Blenheim Palace

7/27 - Newmarket, UK @ Racecourses

8/23 - Cornwall, UK @ Live at Scorrier House




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Forth Wanderers To Release The Longer This Goes On Their Third Album, July 18th, 2025 Worldwide From Sub Pop

Forth Wanderers To Release The Longer This Goes On Their Third Album, July 18th, 2025 Worldwide From Sub Pop

Forth Wanderers – Ava Trilling, Ben Guterl, Zach Lorelli, Noah Yu Schifrin, and Duke Greene – will release The Longer This Goes On, their third album, worldwide through Sub Pop on Friday, July 18th, 2025. The album, which includes the standouts “To Know Me/To Love Me,” “Bluff,” ‘Barnard,” and today’s offering, “7 Months,” was produced by Dan Howard at Chateau Grand Studios and Future Sounds in New York, and mixed and mastered by Al Carlson at Gary’s Electric in New York. The Longer This Goes On is the group’s first recorded output since the release of Forth Wanderers, their beloved 2018 Sub Pop debut.
 
Watch the dizzying official video “7 Months” directed by band member Schifrin and his sister Elisabeth Schifrin.
 
The Longer This Goes On is available to preorder now on CD/LP/all DSPs from Sub Pop. LP preorders from megamart.subpop.com in North America, MM2 in the UK + EU, and your local record store, will receive the limited Loser Edition on Milky Clear (NA) or White (UK/EU) vinyl (all vinyl color editions whilst stock lasts!).
 
About Forth Wanderers The Longer This Goes On:
There’s one thing Forth Wanderers want to make clear as they prepare to release their third album The Longer This Goes On: “We’re not back,” guitarist Ben Guterl says emphatically. It’s perhaps an unexpected sentiment to pair with the band’s first album since they parted ways seven years ago, but the band insists it’s just an honest answer—they came together to record the ten intricately constructed gems that make up this new record, and they’re still figuring out what being in Forth Wanderers means to them, over ten years after the project’s conception. Listening to these songs, each a glittering celebration of vocalist Ava Trilling’s urgent and intuitive lyrics and the band’s natural musical chemistry, though, it’s hard to feel like there’s much of anything left unsaid. Filled with spit-shined melodies, chiming vocal harmonies, and slinky, slanted rhythms, the album is more expansive than just a return to form. Here, the band aren’t afraid to take the scenic route to a hook, layering instrumental flourishes to fill in the empty spaces, creating room for Trilling’s haunting range, or repeating a riff or a lyric until it becomes a Zen koan. On The Longer This Goes On, Forth Wanderers sound more self-aware and self-assured than ever before. Just don’t call it a comeback.
 
The road to The Longer This Goes On began in a Brooklyn coffee shop during the summer of 2021. There, Guterl and Trilling met for the first time since Forth Wanderers’ dissolution in 2018. “We talked for four or five hours about everything under the sun,” Trilling explained. “At the tail end of our conversation, Ben asked if I wanted to try making music again.” The question took her by surprise, but Trilling agreed. The three years they’d been apart had deflated some of the pressures the band felt when they were touring their previous music: “It felt like there wasn’t as much riding on the band,” Guterl added. “We all felt free to mess around and have fun.” Guterl remembers the reassurance he felt when he reconnected to play music with bassist Noah Schifrin, guitarist Duke Greene, and drummer Zach Lorelli: “It felt the best it had between us since we had started the band. It felt like we were just in high school again.”
 
From the bottom up, the band reimagined the way they were used to working. “Prior to this, the band built songs from demos Ben would send us,” Schifrin explained. “This is the first time where a lot of the music was formed organically.” “All five of us really contributed to the writing process in ways that we hadn’t before in the past,” Guterl added.
 
There’s evidence of this collaborative environment throughout the album: Take the simmering slowburn “Honey,” which opens with just a reverberating guitar and Trilling’s honeyed vocals, weaving a languid, lazy melody, before a drum fill introduces a gallop. By its end, the song sounds something closer to a blissed-out disco, a honky tonk in heaven. On “Springboard,” the guitar’s melody seems to sizzle, melt, and burst as Trilling’s lyrics twist the voyeuristic gaze on her imagined observer: “Do you like to watch me dance?” But for every slow, sauntering groove, there’s the ebullient pop rush of “Barnard,” which opens with the fervent march of a drum and never looks back, stacking guitar riffs like the fireworks as the song careens towards its explosive conclusion. “Bluff,” by contrast, opens with the cool tones of the keyboard and auxiliary percussion, Trilling’s voice guiding the song through to its melancholic core. These moments, under the watchful eye of producer Dan Howard, capture the band at their most present and unburdened, creating their sound in real time for the very first time.
 
The distance since the band’s initial split also allowed for some much needed time for growth and reflection. “To be able to apologize for things and address things, to acknowledge how hard it must have been to be a young woman in a band of dudes—we were working through a lot, and it was hard,” Schifrin added. They were, at various points, still only teenagers when their music started gaining traction with musicians like Lorde, and the distance between that adolescent fame and their adult lives has allowed for reflection. “Seven years later, we’re coming together as… not different people, but adults. There’s not the pressure to be labeled a certain way or stay in your comfort zone,” Trilling said. “We had more fun with style and testing what we could get away with, whether it’s bluesy, country, slower, or darker; whatever sounded good.”
 
Indeed, the fiery spirit of country and blues is present across the record—from the swaggering bassline of “Make Me” to the spun-out melodies of “Spit”—a fitting mode for Trilling’s lyrics, which are at turns wry, painfully honest, and always burning with an undeniable forthrightness. “Don’t pull me up / I’d rather we lie down. Move my tongue / so I can make a sound,” she sings on “To Know Me/ To Love Me,” sounding equal parts overwhelmed and over it, as if overcommitting oneself is just the price of entry for a life worth living. On “7 Months,” she sings of sleepless nights and weeks spent lying in bed, only to hope that the nameless “you” in the song will stick by her side. These kinds of confessionals—broad enough to make anyone lost in the mess of an uncertain romantic limbo feel understood, yet so precisely written that it must have clearly come from lived experience—are exactly what made Forth Wanderers songs both so universally relatable and specifically felt. On The Longer This Goes On, they’ve deepened that ability to pull at potent threads of romantic ennui with minimalist lyrics and lush instrumentation.
 
Forth Wanderers aren’t sure what’s next—they’re not sure if they’ll continue to record new music or if they’ll ever perform these songs live. These recordings, then, are ten fleeting yet invaluable impressions of the time spent as a band; rekindling of friendships between high school buddies whose dreams catapulted them into the spotlight before they were old enough to drive; songs that capture the uncertainty of the future as much as their music cements their own self-confidence in the present. On The Longer This Goes On, Forth Wanderers are making music on their own terms.
 
What People Have Said About Forth Wanderers:
“Forth Wanderers Made An Indie Rock Record For The Ages” [Forth WanderersSTEREOGUM

“… Guterl’s spry and smoky guitar lines and Trilling’s blunt, diaristic lyrics gave the band an urbane sensibility, one that feels not just older in age, but in sound.” [Forth WanderersPitchfork
 
“Forth Wanderers are built on warm and weathered guitar hooks complementing vocalist Ava Trilling’s dreamy and apprehensive voice, which is drenched in suburban ennui and hazy sweetness.” [Forth WanderersEXCLAIM!
 
“‘Taste,’ in particular, came from diametrically opposed places in their young love lives. … Still, the distance — emotional and physical — doesn’t undercut the dizzying intimacy of the song.” NPR MUSIC
 
“A driving slice of indie-rock that’s propelled by clashing drums and vocalist Ava Trilling’s powerful, sometimes swooning vocals.” [“Not for Me”] DIY
 
“As wholesome and heartening as we’ve come to expect, led, as always, by Ava Trilling’s tremendous lead voice which leaps between glowing energy and something altogether more melancholic, but always pushed to sumptuous heights by the muscular backing of the band, which continues to be a bold and pertinent facet of the band’s stature. A woozy, wonderful return”. [Not for Me] Gold Flake Paint   
 
“A feral dose of guitar noise that somehow holds itself together over that four minute span.” [“Not for Me”] CLASH


Forth Wanderers
The Longer This Goes On


Tracklisting:
1. To Know Me/To Love Me
2. Call You Back
3. Honey  
4. 7 Months       
5. Spit      
6. Springboard  
7. Make Me    
8. Barnard
9. Bluff     
10. Don’t Go Looking 

Jane Remover shares new single featuring funeral + 'Revengeseekerz' out everywhere now via deadAir

JANE REMOVER SHARES NEW SONG

“SUPERNOVA” FEATURING FUNERAL


CURRENTLY ON SOLD OUT TURN UP OR DIE HEADLINE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR


PERFORMANCES AT PRIMAVERA AND OUTBREAK NEXT MONTH


REVENGESEEKERZ OUT NOW VIA deadAir

"Supernova" feat. funeral single artwork


“Supernova” featuring funeral

APPLE MUSIC | SPOTIFY


Revengeseekerz

https://stem.ffm.to/revengeseekerz


Everyone is talking about Jane!


“shape-shifting”

Billboard


simultaneously their most maximalist yet most direct music yet”

Pitchfork


“Jane Remover makes the hellish landscape of digicore, hyperpop, hardcore, and hip-hop deliriously fun and equally insightful.”

Stereogum


“a boundless album with no visible outer edges”

The FADER


“It isn't just auto-tuned, glitchy music evoking a sentient, malfunctioning DDR machine — it is also distinctly anarchic, even by hyperpop standards.”

NPR


“a popping culmination of Frailty’s most digital moments and Census Designated’s heaviest strains of chaos”

Paste


“a furious, fiery explosion of polyrhythmic synths glittering like space debris”

Vogue


(May 22, 2025) - On the heels of the release of their highly praised third full-length album RevengeseekerzJane Remover shares the new single “Supernova” featuring funeral, today. The track, originally only available on the physical Revengesekerz CDs sold on tour, is now available on all streaming platforms. “Supernova” arrives on the final date of Jane’s sold out headline North American TURN UP OR DIE tour, which wraps up in Phoenix tonight.


Jane is set to perform their first ever shows across the pond this summer with their inaugural performance at Primavera A La Ciutat on June 8th. Directly following the Primavera performance in Barcelona, Jane will perform two sold out headline shows in London at ICA on June 11th and 12th ahead of their performance at OUTBREAK festival in London on June 13th alongside Turnstile, Alex G, Knocked Loose, Model/Actriz, Sunny Day Real Estate, Glass Jaw, julie, Danny Brown and more. 


Revengeseekerz arrived as a surprise following a trail of breadcrumbs left by Jane via cryptic socials posts and includes the standout tracks “JRJRJR,” “Dancing with your eyes closed,” “angels in camo,” and “Psychoboost” featuring Danny BrownRevengeseekerz was written, performed, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jane Remover in Chicago this winter. To get better insight on Revengeseekerz and its genesis, check out Jane’s feature with PAPER Magazine, where interviewer John Norris stated, “On the ferocious new ‘Revengeseekerz,’ the electro-indie-digi-punk savant that is Jane Remover comes in hot — as well as relentless, slightly mad, funny, and liberated like never before.”


Revengeseekerz follows their groundbreaking debut album Frailty, which rose up from the underground music community in 2021, cementing Jane as one of the brightest stars during the height of the digicore and hyperpop explosion. Their 2023 follow-up Census Designated, a foray into guitar-centric music, arrived to much critical acclaim, including The Guardian donning it with 5/5 stars.


This February, Jane’s artist project venturing released the debut album Ghostholding via deadAir, which received praise from the likes of UPROXX, The FADER, and Pitchfork, who described the album as “full of sprawling, fearsome beauty.” 


Check out “Supernova” featuring funeral and Revengeseekerz above, see upcoming live shows and full album details below.


Upcoming Live Dates

** = w/ Lucy Bedroque


5/22 - Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom**

6/8 - Barcelona, Spain @ Sala Apolo

6/11 - London, UK @ ICA [SOLD OUT]

6/12 - London, UK @ ICA [SOLD OUT]

6/13 - London, UK @ OUTBREAK Festival

7/12 - Queens, NY @ Outline Festival

Revengeseekerz album artwork


Revengeseekerz

Jane Remover

April 4, 2025

deadAir


1. TWICE REMOVED

2. Psychoboost feat. Danny Brown

3. Star people

4. Experimental Skin

5. angels in camo

6. Dreamflasher

7. TURN UP OR DIE

8; Dancing with your eyes closed

9. Fadeoutz

10. Professional Vengeance

11. Dark night castle

12. JRJRJR





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Isabella Lovestory announces sophomore album + shares new single & video

ISABELLA LOVESTORY ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM

VANITY


SHARES NEW SINGLE & VIDEO “GORGEOUS”

Isabella Lovestory by Polina Boyko 


“Gorgeous”

WATCH: https://youtu.be/9N3Y2pEL49Y

LISTEN: https://found.ee/gorgeous


Vanity

PRE-SAVE: https://found.ee/lovestoryvanity


(May 22, 2025) - Honduran experimental popstar Isabella Lovestory announces her sophomore album Vanity, out June 27th. Vanity subverts any expectations of an overly polished sonic facelift that its title might suggest, instead reflecting the intoxicating nuances of beauty and its decay. Stripping away all pretenses, Isabella’s new album playfully experiments with different sounds and palettes, exemplifying her collage-like approach to music that ponders every turn of the radio dial from her childhood across Honduras, Virginia and Montreal. Isabella explains the album as follows: “Vanity has a metallic analog vibe: a robotic funeral. Ghost in the Shell mixed with a pop-y ultra-feminine sound. Shiny yet rusty, fancy yet trashy, like ancient encrusted diamonds. Thematically this album explores fragility, how easily a mirror shatters, but it also explores the indestructible and eternal essence of beauty. I don't mind when things break, I like to collect the pieces and create something new.”  


That playful disdain for genre boundaries is front and center on new single “Gorgeous”, which also releases today. Produced by Chicken, Isabella opens the new track with an inescapable hook reminiscent of early 00’s R&B before violins signal a shift toward her immersive experiment of molding modern pop in her image. Paired with a minimalistic and sleek music video directed by Jim Alexander, purposely different from her usual maximal approach. “I wanted the video to feel timeless and elegant, not tied to any specific aesthetic. What does being gorgeous even mean? To me it might mean a dusty car garage, a stray cat, or hot pink acrylics. Tarkovsky vibes.”


Vanity turns its eye directly on navel gazing itself, playing on the horror innate in the idea of beauty and the fractured identities it entails. The announcement arrives fresh off of starring in her own campy body horror drama with “Telenovela”, directed by Charlotte Rutherford, which The FADER called “a pure assertion of dominance from a pop star at the top of her game. The album is a transgressive and addicting medley that embraces the darker side of her sound, aligning itself with Latin trap and goth electronica, while also developing all of the creative direction for the visual elements of her own gothic novela. Isabella began the year with the single “Putita Boutique” featuring Argentina’s TAICHU, pouring gasoline on the flame that she started with last summer’s standout singles “Botoxxx”, “VIP” and “Puchica”. 


Announced earlier this month, Isabella will play LadyLand Festival in Brooklyn at Under The K Bridge, joining a lineup that features the likes of FKA Twigs, Cardi B, Pablo Vittar, Eartheater, and more. Fans can also catch her at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound and Paris’ We Love Green Festivals this June. 

 

Born in Honduras before moving to the US and then Canada at 17 years old, Lovestory has positioned herself as a trailblazing force paving her own way at the cross-section of pop and reggaeton, making her an icon in experimental music. In 2022, she made her mark with her debut Amor Hardcore, which Pitchfork characterized as “playful, maximalist, and flirtatious to the core.” With an experimental reggaeton sound equally influenced by Spanish trap and goth electronica, Isabella’s forthcoming body of work extends her maximalist sonic experiment even further outside the lines, drawing on her beloved Y2K pop influences, textured synth-wave, her K-pop peers, and the defiant unapologetic women she looks up to, such as Lady Gaga and Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon.


Check out “Gorgeous” above, see below for more details on Vanity, and stay tuned for more details on Isabella's next album coming very soon.



Isabella Lovestory

Vanity

Giant Music

June 27, 2025



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AGAPE LODGE POETRY SOCIETY this sunday May 25th 2025

I am reading again this sunday! AGAPE LODGE POETRY Society Come one, come all! 621 St. Vincent Ct. 90014 7PM Sharp!