Stone live in Liverpool, April 2023 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
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Stone have premiered the video for their latest single Left Right Forward.
“The Left Right Forward video is for sure one of our favourite music videos we’ve ever done,” the band responded.
“The director Abigail Wilson was amazing to work with as well as the crew. We loved the idea of playing off of the idea of a Rocky-style training montage and subverting that with the whole arcade dance machine in such a fun way that didn’t take itself too seriously (much like the song itself).”
The Gaslight Anthem have shared Positive Charge, their first new single in nearly a decade.
New music was promised to be a part of the return confirmed by frontman Brian Fallon on social media back in March 2022, and a long-awaited follow-up to 2014’s Get Hurt has now duly arrived.
“Positive Charge began as a message of joy to ourselves and to our audience,” the band said.
Louis Culture has shared his latest track City – described as, ‘an extension of my and YAMA//SATO’s relationship’:
“I feel like artistically his sonics push me into new spaces but very much reflect nostalgia. The song encapsulates the pace of London life to me. But I feel like it can speak to anyone no matter where they are.”
Going further on his work with the producer, Culture added: “Mine and YAMA//SATO’s relationship started just through mutual respect for each other’s work.”
Protomartyr have shared the video for their new Formal Growth In The Desert single Elimination Dances.
It stars dancer Kota Yamazaki and has been directed by Yoonha Park, who’s said: “My dad once told me ‘Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end the faster it goes.’“
“That idea along with the lyrics led to the idea of a choreographic pattern that repeats as it grows outward in an expanding spiral. The choreography repeats with each cycle but has to be danced faster and faster to keep pace with the ‘pale youth’ until eventually devolving into chaos. I recently learned that the toilet paper quote was actually by Andy Rooney.”
Neon Waltz have announced the release of their new album Honey Now on September 1st.
Its lead single is Thoughts / Dreams / Regrets, of which the band said.
“After the first album, the band changed from 6 members to 4 in a really short space of time, it felt like it was falling apart. In a way it literally was. Some of the lines are so directly about our band situation but almost all of them were written to be applied to any situation in life that can be made better by a simple reframing.”
Do Nothing‘s debut album Snake Sideways has been set for release on June 30th.
The long-awaited announced has come with a new single entitled Amoeba, of which vocalist Chris Bailey said:
“As far as I remember Amoeba is about my girlfriend leaving the house to go to work and be useful, and me laying on the sofa feeling dumb and watching annoying news on TV. It muses about how the media decides what we all care about on a two week rotation – sometimes it feels like we all get angry about something for a few weeks until the TV/internet decides it’s time for us to think about something else.”
