Lykke Li Releases "Sick Of Love" From Forthcoming Album "The Afterparty" Out May 8

THE COMEDOWN SETS IN WITH NEW LYKKE LI TRACK, “SICK OF LOVE” – OUT TODAY FORTHCOMING STUDIO ALBUM THE AFTERPARTY TO BE RELEASED ON MAY 8 – PRE-ORDER/ADD/SAVE HERE TO PERFORM AT COACHELLA THIS WEEKEND AND HEADLINE THE FONDA IN LOS ANGELES ON APRIL 14

WATCH | LISTEN “SICK OF LOVE” PRE-ORDER/ADD/SAVE THE AFTERPARTY (ALBUM) TOUR DATES 04/10 – Coachella Music Festival – Indio, CA 04/14 - The Fonda - Los Angeles 04/17 – Coachella Music Festival – Indio, CA 05/22 - Vivo Rio - Rio de Janeiro 05/24 - C6 Festival - São Paulo 06/10 - Malahide Castle - Dublin, Ireland* 06/19 - Metronome Festival, Prague 06/22 - Odeon of Herodes - Athens ,Greece 06/28 - Live is Live Festival, Belgium 07/02 - Roskilde Festival, Denmark 07/05 - Finsbury Park, London, UK** 07/10 - Pohoda Festival, Slovakia  08/14 - Way Out West, Sweden 08/16 - Flow Festival, Finland 09/19 - Palacio de los Deportes – Mexico City, MX*** 08/22 - Pstereo Festival - Trondheim, Norway * w/ Nick Cave ** w/ Wolf Alice *** w/ Robyn With one month to go until the release of her highly anticipated forthcoming album, The Afterparty, internationally acclaimed and beloved Lykke Li has dropped yet another irresistible tease, this time with her latest track “Sick of Love, out today with a visual – watch HERE. If “Lucky Again” was the euphoria and the high of the party, “Sick of Love” is when the endorphins fade and the comedown sets in. Drawing upon themes from earlier songs through uplifting metronomic Balearic percussion and a post-comedown lens, imagining herself lingering at the party as the cleaners sweep up the dregs. “It’s this moment of complete humiliation, and you’re trying to be strong,” she says. “I had a lot of fun writing these lyrics,” she says, “I laughed a lot.” That sense of mischief carries into the song’s closing: the voices of children laughing and playing, the echo of an inner child she refuses to let go Listen to “Sick Of Love” HERE “Sick of Love” comes just days ahead of her Coachella performance, where she will be hitting the stage on Friday, April 10 and again on Friday, April 17. This will be the first time Lykke Li performs music from her latest body of work and marks the beginning of her 2026 tour which will take her to The Fonda in Los Angeles on April 14, then to Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Mexico City Ireland, London and across Europe this summer. For more information, go to https://lykkeli.com/tour/ Executive produced and written by Lykke Li and longtime collaborator Björn Yttling in Los Angeles and recorded in Stockholm with a 17-piece string orchestra, The Afterparty blends disco-glowing strings, flute flourishes, and what Lykke Li calls “apocalyptic bongos,” with lyrics that confront shame, desire, and existential uncertainty. At just 24 minutes, the album is both expansive and exacting, a dance record for the end of the world, capturing the strange clarity that arrives once the party is over. Across nearly two decades, Lykke Li has carved a singular lane in modern pop defined by emotional extremity, melodic precision, and fearless intimacy. Since her breakout debut Youth Novels (2008) and the global success of “I Follow Rivers,” she has continued to evolve through the critically acclaimed Wounded Rhymes (2011), I Never Learn (2014), So Sad So Sexy (2018), and the immersive audiovisual album EYEEYE (2022). The Afterparty is out on May 8 – Pre-order/add/save

The Afterparty -  Track List Not Gon Cry Happy Now Lucky Again Famous Last Words Future Fear So Happy I Could Die Sick Of Love Knife In The Heart Euphoria Album artwork HERE Press shot HERE photo credit: Chloé Le Drezen

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Hyd shares new single "Watch You Cry", Hold Onto Me Infinity due May 22nd

HYD SHARES NEW SINGLE “WATCH YOU CRY”  NEW ALBUM HOLD ONTO ME INFINITY DUE MAY 22ND VIA CASCINE PERFORMING ACROSS NORTH AMERICA IN MAY

Press photo credit Meriem Bennani “Watch You Cry” LISTEN: https://hydmusic.lnk.to/WatchYouCry (April 8th, 2026) - Multidisciplinary artist Hyd (Hayden Dunham) shares new single “Watch You Cry.” The song opens with a stuttering production bed and a spoken word refrain that bleeds into an ethereal chorus release. An undeniably refined and subtle outing from Hyd, about which they share, “Tears are a special interest of mine. I love that the matter inside us is the same as the ocean. When I was working on this song I asked an astronaut who had returned from her first mission in space what it was like to cry in space and she said because of the surface tension, the tears collect around your eyes and it burns. You have to physically wipe them away and the molecules stay together in the air. They don’t drip or fall. I love thinking about suspended tears in space and the ocean below being held by gravity to earth. There is something about crying on earth where the liquid is returned upward. Where the tears evaporate on your hot face and go somewhere that then are returned again. I love being a part of this larger cycle. And I do that by crying.” “Watch You Cry” is another taste of Hyd’s dynamic, forthcoming album Hold Onto Me Infinity due May 22nd via Cascine. Zooming between the intimate and the infinite, the album is a powerful testament to music’s ability to cross timelines, physical thresholds, and lifespans, while dancing in between this physical world, and the one beyond. Dunham emerged with a powerful record that channels grief into a study of how love persists beyond the limits of flesh—and through a process of transmutation can be alchemized into heat, rhythm, vapor, and light. “Watch You Cry” follows previous single “Angel,” produced by Hudson Mohawke, which came alongside a video directed by Tourmaline, with creative direction by Bobbi Salvor Menuez, movement direction by Monica Mirabile, edited by Hedia Maron, and cinematography by Aimee Goguen.    With Hold Onto Me Infinity there is a physicality reflected in the album’s drum-forward sonic palette, where the vibrations are designed to be felt in the listeners’ bodies as much as they are heard. The album cover, shot by Michael Bailey Gates, reflects this liminal blur between the existential and elemental. Made without artificial effects, it uses a glass sculpture made by Dunham, pyrotechnics, mirror reflections, and a sunset poking through a pierced window to create a portal within the image that holds both this physical reality and another world. This analog approach was a necessity that emerged out of Dunham’s intermittent loss of vision over the past seven years, which made them extremely sensitive to artificial light. This condition continues to have profound impacts on their senses: when their sight receded, other (extra)-sensory skills emerged; when it returned, they felt extra-embodied in their body and the juiciness of being. Hold Onto Me Infinity is the follow up album to Hayden’s celebrated debut CLEARING. Informed by their wider artistic practice, Hyd’s music is the result of interior research, community dialogues and material exploration creating an immense ecosystem. Dunham’s work as a fine artist has been exhibited at museums including MoMA PS1 and the New Museum and their forthcoming show at Company Gallery in NY will be debuting April 30th.  track art

Album artwork Hyd  Hold Onto Me Infinity  Cascine May 22nd 2026 01. Angel 02. Freak 03. Grounded 04. Physical Stuff 05. Watch You Cry 06. Makeover 07. Looking Up I See a Cloud 08. Take Care Of Me 09. Light Span 10. Make Me Believe 11. Never Is Over 12. Shine It Tour Dates: 5/21 - Austin, TX @ Radio / East 5/23 - New York, NY @ Night Club 101 5/28 - Chicago, IL @ Sleeping Village 5/30 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo Montreal, QC - announcing soon Ottawa, ON - announcing soon

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Genre Is Death Share New Video Directed By Jasmine Hirst / Album Out May 1st Via In The Red Records

GENRE IS DEATH SHARE ‘I SEE RED’ SINGLE 

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‘ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE’ ALBUM OUT MAY 1ST ON IN THE RED RECORDS 

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Genre Is Death is a limitation-destroying noise duo formed by Ty Varesi (guitar, vox) and Tayler Lee (bass, vox). Their sound is abrasive yet melodic, using heavy distortion, dissonant riffs, and reverberating vocals to create music that feels both minimal and overwhelming. While comparisons to Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks are inevitable (and quite welcome), Genre is Death build’s on NYC’s legacy without repeating it… eschewing nostalgia and nihilism in favor of total sonic liberation. What sets them apart isn’t just their sonic intensity, but the force behind it: the sense that their music emerges from the mutual esteem they hold for one another.

 

‘I See Red’ was written a week before the band’s annual Black Tie Party last year at Madame X – a sultry burlesque club in the LES. The duo felt that the space demanded a new, sexy song from them to match its seductive interior and, having been listening to Rowland S. Howard and Lydia Lunch’s Shotgun Wedding in the weeks prior, ‘I See Red’ was written in a spontaneous flash, without pause or challenge. Appropriately, Lydia Lunch offered to produce the video, and called on Jasmine Hirst to direct and shoot it. The video features Genre is Death wandering through NYC’s LES, posing a critical aside question: how much has NYC really changed?

 

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The duo moved to NYC in August of 2023 looking for something more than their mundane lifestyle of day drinking and playing doom metal in friends' basements… Their move to NYC, coupled with their desire to express something, anything, led to the inception of Genre is Death. The pair hit the ground running, playing anywhere and everywhere they could… However, it was only after a chance encounter with 80s noise forerunners Live Skull that the pair was introduced to the strange underbelly of NYC noise and began playing regular gigs with The Art Gray Noizz Quintet and Lydia Lunch. In 2025 the pair played New Colossus Festival, toured with Gogol Bordello, embarked on their first East Coast tour, and played gigs with Cherubs, Bush Tetras, and Jon Spencer. Their upcoming record was recorded by legendary sound engineer Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Swans) and is out May 1st on In the Red Records.

 

 

Album out May 1st on In The Red Records
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4/16 Denton, TX - Rubber Gloves  

4/17 Austin, TX - Far Out Lounge

4/19 New Orleans, LA - Siberia *with Mike IX of Eyehategod

4/20 Birmingham, AL - Saturn Club *with Mike IX of Eyehategod 

4/21 Atlanta, GA - 529

4/22 Asheville, NC - Fleetwoods

4/23 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506

4/24 Washington, DC - Comet Ping Pong

4/25 Philadelphia, PA - Ruba Club

 

5/3 New York, NY - Madame X - A Red Tie Nite of Noizz & Words: ‘Attractive People’ Album Release Show

ft. Genre is Death, Sylvia Black, Skull Practitioners, Erica Mancini’s Electronium, Bob Bert, Martin Bisi, Stu Spasm, Liz Lamere, Ron Ward & More
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“Menacing and sexy, living in the dark urban corners where the roaches still roam” - Donita Sparks, L7

 

“Sexy Southern Fried Psycho-Sludge, Genre Is Death is heavy as hell, wonderfully weird and absolutely irresistible.” - Lydia Lunch

 

“A whirlwind of grinds, squalls, screams and power…”  - Cynthia Sley, Bush Tetras

 

“Genre is Death is smart, feral, uncompromising, and diametrically opposed to an indie scene populated by floppy-hatted nepo babies content to recycle milquetoast rock music until the inheritance comes through.” - Erick Bradshaw, Bandcamp Daily

 

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