The Menzingers are releasing a drastically reworked, stripped down version of 2019’s Hello, Exile which will be titled From Exile and will be available digitally on September 25 via Epitaph and physically on November 13.

Listen to two songs from the upcoming From Exile and The Menzingers‘ recently released protest song America Pt. 2 below.

Like most artists, Malkmus was forced to cancel his Spring 2020 tour due to COVID-19.  The new dates begin on March 2 in Minneapolis at Fine Line Music Cafe. Malkmus will make stops at venues such as New York City’s Webster Hall, Dallas’ Granada Theater and San Francisco’s The Fillmore.

In March, Malkmus released the folk-leaning Traditional Techniques. It was his third record in as many years, following last year’s Groove Denied and 2018’s Sparkle Hard, which he released with the Jicks.

2021 Tour Dates:

03-02 Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line Music Cafe
03-03 Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall
03-04 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
03-05 Louisville, KY – Headliners
03-06 Nashville, TN – Cannery Ballroom
03-07 Atlanta, GA – Terminal West
03-09 Asheville, NC – Orange Peel
03-10 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
03-11 Richmond, VA – The National
03-12 Washington, DC – Black Cat
03-13 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
03-14 New York, NY – Webster Hall
03-16 Boston, MA – Royale
03-17 Burlington, VT – Higher Ground
03-18 Montreal, Quebec – L’Astral
03-19 Toronto, Ontario – Danforth Music Hall
03-20 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom
03-21 Detroit, MI – Majestic Theatre
04-09 Denver, CO – Gothic Theatre
04-10 Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room
04-11 Lawrence, KS – Granada Theater
04-12 Tulsa, OK – Cain’s Ballroom
04-13 Dallas, TX – Granada Theater
04-14 Austin, TX – The Mohawk
04-16 El Paso, TX – Lowbrow Palace
04-17 Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom
04-18 San Diego, CA – Belly Up
04-19 Los Angeles, CA – El Rey
04-20 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
04-22 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
04-23 Vancouver, British Columbia – Imperial
04-24 Seattle, WA – The Showbox

Fake It Flowers is due out later this year via Dirty Hit. The announcement comes with the release of the new single “Care.” Watch the retro-styled music video below.

beabadoobee said of ‘Care’ in a press release:

“This song has end-of-a-’90s movie vibes, like you’re driving down a highway. It is pretty much me being angry at society, or people around me who I just don’t think know me and don’t care. I don’t want you to feel fucking sorry for me. I just want you to understand what I’ve been through. I never expected to be making the first video from my album during a pandemic! I was so lucky to be locked down with the bedroom guys, it feels like it turned out as one of the most personal, real videos I’ve made. I’m so excited to share it!”

They previously dropped the track ‘Living in a Bubble.’

“Introducing different voices throughout the song added a new dimension to telling the story,” says the band’s bassist Marc Perlman, who co-wrote the song with Louris. “We approached it much like we did the whole record — more collaboration in the writing and more sharing of lead vocals than in the past.”

The Jayhawks have continued their success since returning to the core members from the late-90’s lineup, releasing Paging Mr. Proust in 2016 and Back Roads and Abandoned Motels in 2018 to widespread critical acclaim. The culmination of five years spent growing even more together, XOXO is a sonically and emotionally cohesive album that stands as a testament to The Jayhawks’ consistent forward motion.

XOXO will be released on July 10th via Sham/Thirty Tigers.

Doe said on Twitter that the album was written in the last 18 months.

“When your heart is broken you think every song is about that. These songs were written in the last 18 months & it blows my mind how timely they are,” the singer and musician said.

“We want all our family, friends & fans to hear our records as soon as it’s finished. This time we could do that,” he said. “Thanks to [our label] Fat Possum & our audience.”

Last year, X reissued their first four albums on vinyl and teamed up with Violent Femmes for a co-headlining tour.

Episode 1, ‘Look Alive,’ can be viewed here.

Episode 2, ‘The Recipe,’ is premiering today with two new songs: the title-track as well as ‘Not Everything Grows,’ can be viewed below.

The studio versions of the songs featured on Look Alive were all recorded at Hello Gorgeous and produced by Rose-Garcia. The title track ‘Look Alive’ was co-written by Finneas O’Connell (Billie Eilish) and Rayland Baxter and co-produced by Shakey Graves drummer and longtime collaborator Chris “Boo” Boosahda.

Look Alive EP
1. Look Alive
2. The Recipe
3. Not Everything Grows
4. Under the Hood

Of making the series, Rose-Garcia explains, “I made ‘Hello Gorgeous’ without goal—not to create a TV show, not to make music videos, simply to document and create something that meshed all the worlds of my creative life into one. It was an experiment of sorts, trying to peel back that personal veil of secrecy. How many bad takes happen before a good song emerges? If an idea enters a room, can you see it in real time? I was weary of spending hours and months working behind closed doors only to emerge with a handful of carefully crafted songs to then sit on and promote until you can’t stand hearing them, all before anyone in the public had heard a single note. I wanted to create a unified project, a song that was the video, a video that was the story, the story that was the point.”

The songs and subsequent videos were being constructed furiously with no deadline in mind but coincidentally, as soon as production wrapped, the pandemic hit and the shelter at home order began. “I felt stunned, fearful, tingly. Things were changing and all at once I realized that I had been spending all of my creative efforts working on a thing that was suddenly not only viable, but one of the only methods of expression allowed in this current crisis,” Rose-Garcia reflects. “In more ways than I realized, I was ready for a reset. I’m always urging myself to view things differently, everything from global politics to household politics. Right now, the unsustainable aspects of life have never been clearer and I know the world can’t live on song alone. I’m racking my brain to find ways to help where I am, pledging myself to work at the food bank in this time, and trying my best to raise funds for different industries and individuals in need. I feel genuinely honored that there are people in the world who are soothed in any way by me playing a ditty or talking to them through a computer screen and that something that I’ve created from thin air can actually help potentially feed someone, and more than ever it feels like maybe that was always the point. I feel terrified and optimistic at the same time and its not like COVID-19 is the one glaring issue with life as we know it, but in a way it is a crucial reminder that things can and will always change at the drop of a hat, for worse and for better. We are now all trying to wake up each day in the same four walls with a new view of the world. I can share a little bit of my isolation with you, and I hope for the same in return. And with that in mind I welcome whatever terrifying awesome thing comes next. Hello Gorgeous!”

“Weird times indeed… As the news seems to turn ever more grim by the hour, we’ve found ourselves vacillating wildly between feeling like there may be hope at times to utter despair — often changing minute to minute. Although each of us defines ourselves as antisocial-types who prefer being on our own, this situation has really made us appreciate the power and need for connection,” Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross said of the release. “Music — whether listening to it, thinking about it or creating it — has always been the thing that helped us get through anything — good or bad. With that in mind, we decided to burn the midnight oil and complete these new Ghosts records as a means of staying somewhat sane.”

Parts I-IV in the Ghosts series were released as an album in 2008. It included “34 Ghosts IV,” which was later sampled by producer YoungKio for the track that Lil Nas X eventually made into “Old Town Road.”

Anybody out there?
New Nine Inch Nails out now. Ghosts V – VI. Hours and hours of music. Free. Some of it kind of happy, some not so much.https://t.co/Q7VZ1z8gFi

— Trent Reznor (@trent_reznor) March 26, 2020

Ghosts V: Together:

01 Letting Go While Holding On
02 Together
03 Out in the Open
04 With Faith
05 Apart
06 Your Touch
07 Hope We Can Again
08 Still Right Here

Ghosts VI: Locusts:

01 The Cursed Clock
02 Around Every Corner
03 The Worriment Waltz
04 Run Like Hell
05 When It Happens (Don’t Mind Me)
06 Another Crashed Car
07 Temp Fix
08 Trust Fades
09 A Really Bad Night
10 Your New Normal
11 Just Breathe
12 Right Behind You
13 Turn This Off Please
14 So Tired
15 Almost Dawn

The clip, directed by Mat Whitecross, takes a behind-the-scenes look at the songwriting and recording process for “Orphans.” We hear audio of Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and a kid (presumably one of his children) working out the drum rhythm for the song, followed by footage of Martin performing the melody of “Orphans” on acoustic guitar outside of Penn Station.

The four-piece announced  that their eighth studio album, the double LP Everyday Life, is due out on Nov. 22 via Parlophone/Atlantic Records and will be divided into two halves, Sunrise and Sunset. They also dropped the dual lead singles: “Orphans” and the Stromae-assisted “Arabesque,” both produced by The Dream Team, with the latter also featuring horns by Nigerian saxophonist Femi Kuti and his backing band.

The band revealed the LP’s 16-song track list via the classified sections of the hometown newspapers of its four members, and the sepia-tinged cover art is based on a 1919 photo of guitarist Jonny Buckland’s great-grandfather’s band, The Wedding Band and Dance Orchestra.