Ahead of his upcoming double album release, Jack White has released a new collaboration with A Tribe Called Quest’s Q-Tip. On “Hi-De-Ho,” White channels Cab Calloway by way of a sample of his song “Hi-De-Ho Man.” White and Q-Tip both scat over a haunting drum beat with samples of saxophones throughout.
White heard Calloway’s original version on the radio and decided to sample it and compose a bass line for his version. White then sent his track to Q-Tip, who, within minutes, sent back a version with his vocals.
“I love synthesizing different moments, different areas of music, different time periods,” White said in an interview with Rolling Stone. “The best part about it all is everybody I played to kept thinking that Cab Calloway was me. And I thought, ‘No, it’s obviously not me. Do I actually sound like that?’ So that was bizarre. ”
“Hi-De-Ho” marks the second collaboration between Jack White and Q-Tip, the first being “Solid Wall Of Sound” from A Tribe Called Quest’s We Got It From Here…Thank You For Your Service.
White will release Fear Of The Dawn, the first of two albums he has planned for this year, in April. The second album, Entering Heaven Alive, is set for release in June. “Hi-De-Do” will be on Fear Of The Dawn‘s tracklist and another new single, “Queen Of The Bees,” will be featured on Entering Heaven Alive.
Check out “Hi-De-Ho” above and “Queen Of The Bees” below.
Fear Of The Dawn is out 4/8/2022 via Third Man Records. Pre-order it here.
Entering Heaven Alive is out 7/22/2022 via Third Man Records. Pre-order it here.
We’re positively hyped for our March round-up of artists to watch. This column looks at artists from across the cultural spectrum that are rising in unique ways. And this month, we’re jumping from indie pop to electro soul, to Chicago R&B and a rapper on the tip of The Weeknd’s tongue. Check it out.
Deb Never
You might’ve already heard the commanding Korean-American vocalist on “Push” from Slowthai’s album Tyron, or perhaps you peeped last year’s sneaky excellent Where Have All The Flowers Gone? EP. Now Deb Never just dropped her first new tune of the year, “Crutches,” a hopeful, happy-go-lucky indie-electro pop jam about embracing your individuality and channeling your inner-drive. “No matter what they say ya, better hold your head up. No way out,” the now LA-based Never sings on the anthemic track over a shower of effects, strings and thunderous drum and bass that invite you to express yourself.
Yeat
When The Weeknd was celebrating his birthday in Vegas earlier this month, a clip surfaced of him singing along to Yeat’s “Get Busy.” The track, with its syrup-soaked video game beat, features the now-viral lyric “This song already was turnt but here’s a bell,” followed by clanging church bells. Portland-raised and now LA-based, Yeat’s career was born from SoundCloud, and then blew up on TikTok with tracks like “Sorry Bout That” and “Money Twërk.” His latest album, 2 Alivë, came out on February 18th and features appearances from Young Thug (on the melodic drums and bells of “Öutside”) and Gunna (on the woozy keys-driven “Rackz Got Më.) Unsurprisingly, the album’s LA listening party prompted a shutdown for crowd control issues illustrating that the hype is real. Now signed to Field Trip/Geffen, all the elements for a continued breakout are here.
On both Classical Notions of Happiness and Something To Say To You, Jordana’s first two releases, we were introduced to a witty songwriter, with an intrinsic knack for cynical, tongue-in-cheek indie pop. Now the 21-year-old has announced her proper debut studio album, Face The Wall, (out May 20th on Grand Jury) and she’s armed with an even sharper pop music knife. “Catch My Drift” is a catchy, glitzy jam with buoyant vocals that she says is “about going back and forth with your feelings for someone when they make you question whether they are even reciprocated.”
Khazali
When we highlighted Khazali’s track “Passion Controller” last month, we called it “a good fit for both the dance floor and the afterparty.” And the deeper I dive into the UK electro-soul singer’s catalog, the more he feels like a worthy star student of Sampha and Sbtrkt’s breed of vocal productions. But there’s a far more rhythmic step from Khazali and his second EP, The Rush, is made up of pieces of his dream journals expressed in the sonic universe of the romantically-woven characters he’s created. His latest jam, “Dance In The Rain,” is a liquid groove that further builds the anticipation for the release of The Rush, out March 11th via Kitsuné Musique.
Kaina
A Chicago native of Guatemalan and Venezuelan descent, Kaina’s take on R&B celebrates love, lineage, and heritage. The silky-voiced singer recently signed with City Slang and her latest two singles, “Casita” and “Apple,” were both co-written and co-produced with fellow Chicagoan Sen Morimoto. “Casita” is a bi-lingual ode to being with family and friends in simpler times, with Kaina singing “I’ve always dreamt about a place, big enough for us all to stay, so that we could be together.” While “Apple,” with a video that links it to a linear story that begins to unfold on “Casita” — has an upbeat swing over Morimoto’s guitar and Kaina’s layered vocals. She’ll be joining Helado Negro on tour in May and we’ll be keeping tabs on more heat from Kaina no doubt.
Keeping track of all the new albums coming out in a given month is a big job, but we’re up for it: Below is a comprehensive list of the major releases you can look forward to in March. If you’re not trying to potentially miss out on anything, it might be a good idea to keep reading.
Friday, March 4
Allegra Krieger — Precious Thing (Northern Spy)
Babehoven — Sunk EP (Double Double Whammy)
BabyTron — Megatron (The Hip Hop Lab/EMPIRE)
Bahamas — Live To Tape, Volume III EP (Brushfire / Republic Records)
Band Of Horses — Things Are Great (BMG)
Benee — Lychee EP (Republic Records)
Bob Moses — The Silence In Between (Astralwerks)
Broken Field Runner — Runner (Secret Audio Club)
Cécile McLorin Salvant — Ghost Song (Nonesuch)
Ceramic Animal — Sweet Unknown (Easy Eye)
Charlotte Adigéry And Bolis Pupul — Topical Dancer (Deewee)
Chelsea Carmichael — All We Know EP (Native Rebel Recordings)
Chief Cleopatra — Luna EP (Royal Mountain Records)
The Dip — Sticking With It (Dualtone Records)
Diplo — Diplo (Higher Ground)
Dolly Parton — Run, Rose, Run (Butterfly Records)
El Ten Eleven — New Year’s Eve (Joyful Noise Recordings)
Fieh — In The Sun In The Rain (Jansen Records)
The Flower Kings — By Royal Decree (InsideOut Music)
Guided By Voices — Crystal Nuns Cathedral (GBV Inc.)
Ilhan Ersahin, Dave Harrington, and Kenny Wollesen — Invite Your Eye (Nublu)
Jody And The Jerms — Flicker (JATJ)
Jordan Rakei — Bruises EP (Ninja Tune)
Klangstof — Ocean View EP (Northern Transmissions)
Kojey Radical — Reason To Smile (Asylum/Atlantic)
Léon — Circles (LL Entertainment/BMG)
LEYA — Eyeline (NNA Tapes)
Luna Li — Duality (AWAL/In Real Life)
Madi Diaz — History Of A Feeling EP (ANTI-)
Matt Anderson — House To House (True North Records)
Maylee Todd — Maloo (Stones Throw)
Melissa Aldana — 12 Stars (Blue Note Records)
Michelle — After Dinner We Talk Dreams (Canvasback Music/Transgressive)
Morgan Harper-Jones — While You Lay Sound Asleep EP (Play It Again Sam)
Morgan Reese — Letters From The Invisible Girl EP (Empire)
Nashvillains — Tumbling Down (Fate Entertainment)
Nilüfer Yanya — Painless (ATO Records)
Olovson — Storytelling (1136 Diamond)
Peach Pit — From 2 To 3 (Columbia Records)
RZA And DJ Scratch — Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater (36 Chambers ALC/MNRK Music)
Scott Hardware — Ballad Of A Tryhard (Telephone Explosion)
Scott Metzger — Too Close To Reason (RPF Records)
Shane Parish — Liverpool (Dear Life Records)
Songs: Ohia — Live: Vanquishers (Secretly Canadian)
Stereophonics — Oochya! (Ignition Records)
Stromae — Multitude (Mosaert)
Wah Together — Let’s Wah Together (Dedstrange)
The Weather Station — How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars (Fat Possum)
Zander Schloss — Song About Songs (Blind Owl Records)
Friday, March 11
A. Billi Free & The Lasso — Holy Body Roll (Mello Music Group)
Alex Cameron — Oxy Music (Secretly Canadian)
Amber Lewis — Lips & Teeth (Day Off Recordings)
Apollo Ghosts — Pink Tiger (You’ve Changed Records)
Bodega — Broken Equipment (What’s Your Rupture)
Brad Armstrong — Heart Like A Sigil (Flower Moon Records)
Bryan Adams — So Happy It Hurts (BMG)
Charlie Collins — Undone (Island Records Australia/UMA)
The Districts — Great American Painting (Fat Possum Records)
E-L-R — Vexier (Prophecy Productions)
Ella Henderson — Everything I Didn’t Say (Atlantic Records)
Ferris & Sylvester — Superhuman ([Integral]/PIAS)
Franz Ferdinand — Hits To The Head (Domino)
Fly Anakin — Frank (Lex Records)
Goose (BE) — Endless (Universal Music)
Holo — In Limbo EP ( Ellipse Records Artist)
Hoodoo Gurus — Chariot Of The Gods (Big Time)
The Human Tornado — Love Is Démodé (Rockshots Records)
Jackson Dean — Greenbroke (Big Machine Records)
Jeremy Ivey — Invisible Pictures (Anti)
Junk Drawer — The Dust Has Come To Stay EP (Art For Blind Records)
Lil Durk — 7220 (Sony)
Maia Friedman — Under The New Light (Last Gang Records)
Mary Simich — How Does One Begin (Ernest Jenning)
Messa — Close (Svart Records)
MoE — The Crone (Vinter Records)
Nicolas Rage — Personal Party EP (Revival Recordings)
Orion Sun — Getaway EP (Mom + Pop Music)
Paul Cherry — Back On The Music (Sunset Music Productions)
PJ Harvey — The Hope Six Demolition Project — Demos (Island/UMC)
Rex Orange County — Who Cares? (Sony)
Rust n’ Rage — One For The Road (Frontiers)
Shenseea — Alpha (Rich Immigrants/Interscope)
The Sully Band — Let’s Straighten It Out! (Blue Élan Records)
Summer Salt — The Juniper Songbook (Cherry Lime Records)
Tanya Tagaq — Tongues (Six Shooter Records)
Thomas Headon — Victoria EP (Elektra)
Tony Price — Mark VI (Telephone Explosion Records)
Viji — Cali EP (Dirty Hit)
Widowspeak — The Jacket (Captured Tracks)
The Wiggles — ReWiggled (ABC Music)
Young Guv — Guv III (Slumberland Records)
Friday, March 18
250 — PPONG (Beasts and Natives Alike)
Alai K — Kila Mara (On The Corner Records)
Audio Karate — ¡OTRA! (Iodine Recordings)
Babeheaven — Sink Into Me (Believe)
Ben Lukas Boysen — Clarion EP (Erased Tapes)
Berthold City — When Words Are Not Enough (WAR Records)
Blanck Mass — Ted K (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Sacred Bones)
Blue States — World Contact Day (Memphis Industries)
Suffolk, England’s Latitude Festival took 2020 off for COVID reasons, but the fest actually went ahead in 2021. Things are a go in 2022 as well, as organizers have announced the lineup for this year’s event, which is set to go down at Henham Park from July 21 to 24.
The headliners are certainly true to the festival’s UK setting, as at the top of the bill are Lewis Capaldi, Foals, and Snow Patrol. Other highlights include Phoebe Bridgers, Maggie Rogers, Little Simz, Modest Mouse, Fontaines DC, Caroline Polachek, Rina Sawayama, Mdou Moctar, Nilüfer Yanya, Let’s Eat Grandma, and Bartees Strange.
Your first @cinchuk presents Latitude 2022 announcement is finally here!
Elsewhere on the poster are A Certain Ratio, The Afghan Whigs, Akala, Azure Ryder, Bad With Phones, Berwyn, Bessie Turner, Beth Orton, Billie Marten, Cassia, Cavetown, Cktrl, Example, Freya Ridings, Gaffa Tape Sandy, Groove Armada, Hudson Taylor, Hurray For The Riff Raff, JP Saxe, James Arthur, Joe Armon-Jones, John, Kae Tempest, Katy J Pearson, Keg, Larkin Poe, Los Bitchos, Mahalia, Manic Street Preachers, Mark Owen, Maximo Park, Melt Yourself Down, Oklou, Orlando Weeks, Penelope Scott, Porridge Radio, Rumer, Self Esteem, Shed Seven, Tamzene, Tina Boonstra, and Tribes.
Check out the poster above. For more information on attending the festival, check out the Latitude website.
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Those who are intimately familiar with the New York subway system will find Michelle’s “Pose” video highly relatable. Hey, if stars like John Mulaney and LCD Soundsystem can venerate the storied public transportation system on SNL, why wouldn’t the six-piece turn to it as a backdrop themselves? The video, which is for a song taken from upcoming project, After Dinner We Talk Dreams, was choreographed by band member Emma Lee. The album will be released on March 4, just in time for the band’s upcoming tour dates opening for Mitski, as well as several headlining shows in North America and Europe.
Back in September, the group announced their album with the lead single, “Syncopate,” and followed that track up with “Mess U Made,” before releasing “Expiration Date” at the top of the year. The band features the rare of four female vocalists, Sofia D’Angelo, Layla Ku, Emma Lee and Jamee Lockard, who sing in layered harmonies, while members Julian Kaufman Charlie Kilgore are mostly focused on production. Although a press release notes that “predominantly POC and queer collective mix and match the writing and production groups amongst the six of them.” Check out the “Pose” video up top and look for Michelle’s new album coming in just a few days.
Anybody who thought the vinyl resurgence was just a fad was mistaken: The industry has experienced a legitimate revival. As a result, music fans are interested in physical media in ways they may not have if the decades-old medium hasn’t made a comeback. That doesn’t mean everybody is listening to just their parents’ old music, though. That’s part of it, sure, thanks to rereleases that present classic albums in new ways. A vital part of the renewed vinyl wave, though, is new projects being released as records, of which there are plenty.
Whatever you might be into, each month brings a new slew of vinyl releases that has something for everybody. Some stand out above the rest, naturally, so check out some of our favorite vinyl releases of February below.
Beach House — Once Twice Melody
Once Twice Melody is Beach House’s first album since 2018’s 7, and now the expansive project has gotten an expansive vinyl box set edition; check it out in the unboxing video above. In her review of the album, Uproxx’s Caitlin White notes, “Once Twice Melody might expand their palette a bit, but it’s no experimental reach or brand new direction. Why mess with perfection? Their gauzy soundscapes are vague enough to sustain quite a bit of emotional projection, but there’s depth of meaning lurking within the songs that few other bands yield.”
Tkay Maidza — Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 2 & Vol. 3
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The Last Year Was Weird trilogy came to an end with the final two volumes, which are now available in a gorgeous gold pressing, exclusive to Vinyl Me, Please. Maidza recently told Uproxx of naming the series, “The term ‘weird’ is the way I described the plunge of going into the deep end and knowing that where I was. What I wanted was like a big leap forward, but I would have to start from nothing again. I was at that lowest point every day: ‘What the hell is going on?’ But in a way, I always had a feeling that it would work out because this was the only way it could be.”
Paul McCartney And Wings — Wild Life (50th Anniversary Limited Edition)
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Last December was the 50th anniversary of the debut album from Paul McCartney’s Wings, a major project in the immediate aftermath of The Beatles’ dissolution. To mark the occasion, the album gets a fresh reissue, with this edition having been mastered at half speed for supreme audio quality.
Yusuf/Cat Stevens — Harold And Maude (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Harold And Maude has become one of the defining films of its era, and Yusuf/Cat Stevens played a part in that with his soundtrack. That first came out 50 years ago, and now this vinyl reissue of it combines Stevens’ songs with dialogue from the film for the first time.
In June 2004, Pixies took to London’s Brixton Academy for four sold-out shows that marked their UK reunion, and now those shows are preserved in a new box set. This eight-LP release marks the first time these recordings are officially available, and on top of that, they’ve also been freshly remastered.
Sturgill Simpson has been in a productive stretch that most recently featured the 2021 album The Ballad Of Dood And Juanita. Now, it’s finally available on vinyl, and since this may be the final Sturgill Simpson album, this one’s worth grabbing.
Keef’s debut album was a big moment in hip-hop in that it helped popularize drill music. Vinyl Me, Please has now honored the album by making it one of their rerelease picks for March, which marks the first time the record has ever been made available on vinyl.
Modest Mouse — The Lonesome Crowded West (Vinyl Me, Please Reissue)
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Modest Mouse is going on tour this year, but if you’re unable to catch one of those shows but still want to throw a few bucks at a cool Modest Mouse experience, Vinyl Me, Please has a fresh reissue of one of their iconic albums, The Lonesome Crowded West. This version comes pressed on “Bottom Of The Sky”-colored vinyl and is accompanied by fresh listening notes.
Sasami got a Haim co-sign as she’s heading out on tour with the sister trio, and indeed, her new album is worth checking out. It’s a diverse effort that touches on everything from nu-metal to folk to classical, and now it’s available on a gorgeous translucent red vinyl pressing.
Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard curated a collection of Yoko Ono covers for the new Ocean Child project, and now the endeavor is available to grab on vinyl. It’s a strong get if you want to add some variety to your vinyl library, as the collection features recordings by Death Cab, Japanese Breakfast, Sharon Van Etten, David Byrne, and a heaping handful of others.
UK indie group The Pocket Gods decided to protest Spotify’s royalty rates for artists with 1000X30 – Nobody Makes Money Anymore, an album that, as the title indicates, consists of 1,000 songs that all run for about 30 seconds. Spotify actually caught wind of the project and have since changed some part of how they do things.
Pocket Gods leader Mark Christopher Lee was inspired to take on the project by a 2015 article from The Independent, which ponders the future of music given that royalties are paid on a Spotify stream after a track has been played for at least 30 seconds.
“I saw the article and it made me think, ‘Why write longer songs when we get paid little enough for just 30 seconds,” Lee told i News. He continued, “We wrote and recorded 1,000 songs, each a shade over 30 seconds long for the album. The longest is 36 seconds. It is designed to raise awareness about the campaign for fair royalty rates.”
He also noted his band earns about £0.002 (about a quarter of a US cent) from each Spotify stream of their songs.
The project was first presented earlier this month and Spotify has been paying attention, as Lee now says he was invited to meet with Spotify’s head of artist relations. He said that since the release of the album, the streaming platform has changed one of its rules: “Spotify said we’re ahead of the curve as shorter songs are the future — just look at TikTok. They said that I can pitch 30-second tracks to their playlists for consideration — I wasn’t able to do this previously as the songs were considered too short. So next week I’m releasing a 30-second single called ‘Noel Gallagher Is Jealous Of My Studio.’”
Lee says he was also told songwriters would see increased pay rates when Spotify rolls out an increase in its subscription price.
Hot Press notes The Pocket Gods are used to dropping atypical sorts of albums like this: They’ve released 74 albums since 1998, multiple of which have over 100 tracks.
Every second of a show’s season finale is precious, especially when it’s a show with such a jam-packed plot and massive audience like Euphoria. This is why watchers found it funny and a little weird that Dominic Fike, playing the role of Elliot, took up a whole scene performing a song.
When Rue (Zendaya’s character) visits Elliot, she’s coming to forgive him for snitching on her; his response is to play a song he wrote on acoustic guitar… for five whole minutes. The song, which remains untitled, is about creating distance from someone you care for with the hope that they’ll use the time to improve themselves and return as a better person.
While many fans were fawning over this emotional moment, most were posting memes to Twitter about how he was getting too much screen time for promoting his own music rather than being his actual character. (A lot of fans were also wondering what happened to the plotline with the suitcase…). All in all, the online conversation made Fike and other Euphoria-related keywords trending topics on Twitter.
sam levinson after leaving half the storylines this season unfinished while still managing to spend 3 whole minutes of the finale having dominic fike sing an original song unprompted pic.twitter.com/pTqKk0v8ZV
To be fair, Fike has previously said that his character Elliot is “exactly like me.” So maybe Elliot is just the type of guy to break out into song at the most inappropriate of times. You know the type. The situation, at least, provided a lot of meme content, so check out some more of that below.
They sacrificed Kat’s entire storyline for a 4 minute Dominic Fike spotify unplugged performance I’m gagging
Not Dominic Fike tryna plug his music career right now when all we want is to see Maddy beat Cassie’s ass after that perfect slap #Euphoriapic.twitter.com/MyEOy5ENva
What else should he be proud of achieving? Enlisting LCD Soundsystem as his guardian angels! Well, it was just for a sketch on the show, but the “Subway Churro” episode, which is, of course, also somehow a musical, casts Mulaney as a newsstand worker in a subway station. At one point, he adopts the stylings of Fiddler On The Roof to wax poetic on the joy of going off the grid, and as more characters emerge, LCD shows up as “Guardian Angels” a group who emerged in reaction to the lawless atmosphere in the New York subway during the ’80s. It’s a perfect casting choice for the rockers, and puts them at the center of one of the funniest sketches of the night. Check it out above.
Well here’s one that nobody had on their 2022 bingo card: Kanye West and Beach House appear to be in the studio together. Or maybe we could have seen this coming? Does anything surprise us with Kanye anymore these days? On the heels of releasing 16 tracks from Donda 2 directly onto his stem player this week, Ye posted a series of photos on Instagram from a studio session with two people who are very clearly Beach House’s Alex Scally and Victoria Legrande.
Beach House, who just released their double album Once Twice Melody last week, had a tour stop at The Sylvee in Madison, WI last night, and tonight, they’re performing at The Palace Theatre in St. Paul, MN. So assuming the series of photos aren’t from an old shoot, then it’s a good bet that these were taken in or near Madison or St. Paul.
West was in Miami this past Tuesday for the Donda 2 listening party and could be back in Chicago at this point. It’s also plausible that Beach House made a two and a half hour drive to Chicago after the Madison show to link with West and then took an hour and a half flight to St. Paul before tonight’s show.
Donda 2 co-producer John Cunningham took to Twitter to confirm the validity of the photo:
Regardless, even though you didn’t ask for it, we have proof that Kanye and Beach House linked in the studio. And for what it’s worth, this wouldn’t be the first time a prominent rapper has taken an interested in the dream-pop duo. The Weeknd famously sampled “Master Of None” for “The Party & The After Party” on his 2011 debut, House of Balloons, while Kendrick Lamar sampled “Silver Soul” on “Money Trees” off of his 2012 breakthrough, Good Kid m.A.A.d City.
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