New Music: Duvateen

           

The Afghan Whighs released another new track, "Duvateen." According to a press release, it's named for the light manipulating material, "which here serves as a symbol for morality." The song builds up a huge swell of sentimentality around Greg Dulli's peerless voice as he reflects on his own life journey. When I finished "Duvateen," it felt like my life passing before my eyes. The references to the teacher chasing me down the hall reminded me of my childhood. Digging a hole was an obvious allusion to a grave. I’m at a precipice in life where I can look behind and clearly see the forest of my youth, but I can also see the path to the other side. And it’s going to inform what I do for the rest of my days, said Dulli.

Primicia: Out Of Place

            

Trip hop pioneer Tricky will be releasing his 15th studio album, Different When It’s Silent July 17, 2026 through his own label, False Idols. The new album is the first full-length effort from the legendary and influential artist and producer under his own name in six years. Different When It’s Silent came about during a rather prolific period of activity. Since 2020’s Fall to Pieces, Tricky has released material under several different guises including, Lonely Guest‘s 2021 self-titled effort, a collaboration with Mike Theis, called Theis Thaws, which released 2024’s Fifteen Days and last year’s collaborative album with Marta Złakowska, Out The Way. Different When It’s Silent's first single "Out of Place" feat. Marta Złakowska features a brooding and cinematic string sample introduction before morphing to a breakneck middle section which features Tricky's imitable gravelly vocal with a punchy, almost punk-like deliver and Złakowska's sultry yet restrained crooning. The song closes with a boarding and cinematic string sample. The result is as song that’s simultaneously forceful, uneasy and gorgeous while evoking the sweaty, self-aware sensation of somehow being out of place in your environment through a shifting series of contrasts. Originally written for Złakowska’s own album, Tricky ultimately reclaimed the song for the forthcoming album. Directed and edited by Steve Gullick, the accompanying video for “Out of Place” features the collaborators shot in blurred and constant motion in the foreground. In the background we see stylishly shot footage of each artist singing their respective part — or just being in a brooding photo shoot. It further emphasizes the feeling of being out of place. 

New Music: Billy Says

           

Graham Coxon released the single "Billy Says," the first of ten songs from "Castle Park"  the never-heard-before 2011 album while reissuing all of his solo records. The Blur guitarist turned solo star and one half of The Waeve  will be reissuing all of his solo albums over the next 12 months, starting with his 1998 debut "The Sky Is Too High" and 2000 follow-up' "The Golden D" arriving on 19 June. produced by Ben Hillier, the album was recorded in 2011 as part of the sessions for 'A+E' and originally intended as a follow up his eight solo LP, but postponed due to Blur’s initial reunion and then abandoned as Coxon moved on to other projects. "Billy Says", a regular feature from Coxon’s live sets and echoing the album’s classic Mod sound with hints of The Kinks and the guitarists inimitable knack for a sweet and simple guitar-pop hook.

New Music: Free To Love

           

Duran Duran and Nile Rodgers are taking it back to the '70s with their new single "Free to Love." The British rockers released their joint new track, which features Rodgers, on Thursday, April 23 with an accompanying music video that's all sorts of disco fabulous. "Free to Love" is disco for the 2020s. It's upbeat and up-tempo,” singer Simon Le Bon said in a statement. "It's about freedom; it's about loving the modern world instead of hating it, and that is something we need right now. Be free! Be free to love!". Duran Duran first worked with Rodgers, on a remix of "The Reflex" more than 40 years ago. They teamed up to co-write the new song, and Rodgers appears in the video, too, which also stars British TV personality Clara Amfo as a host introducing the band's performance. The video was directed by Jonas Åkerlund, and was made in association with Italian perfumer Xerjoff, with whom the group worked to create their fragrance NeoRio.

New Music: Ride Lonesome

           

The talented eight-time Grammy-winner Beck has released a stunning new single, "Ride Lonesome," and announced a 2026 North American Tour. On the new single, Beck sings during the chorus, "You got to ride lonesome/ You got to try to find the road/ You got to cry a river/ And follow it all the way home/ Alone." The song was produced by Beck and mixed by Nigel Godrich. The single is accompanied by a video, directed by Mikai Karl and Beck. It features the artist walking through abandoned desert landscapes, across train tracks and among windmills. He also announced the Ride Lonesome Tour, a 25-date North American run set to launch this fall. The Ride Lonesome Tour, promoted by Live Nation, will kick off September 16 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver and run through October 31, concluding at The Truth in Nashville.

New Music: Boots On The Ground

           

Massive Attack and Tom Waits have shared a new collaborative single entitled “Boots on the Ground,” which marks the first new Massive Attack music distributed under what they’re referring to as a Spotify exemption policy. It’s also Waits’ first original music in 15 years and the first new tune from Massive Attack in six years. The protest anthem comes with a spoken-word B-side from Waits entitled “The Fly,” as well as additional spoken-word reflections from the Egyptian-Canadian-American writer Omar El Akkad. The single comes with a film made by Massive Attack in collaboration with the photographer thefinaleye. 

News: Massive Attack & Tom Waits Together For A New Collaborative Single

Massive Attack and Tom Waits have shared a new collaborative single entitled "Boots on the Ground," which marks the first new Massive Attack music distributed under what they’re referring to as a Spotify exemption policy. It’s also Waits' first original music in 15 years and the first new tune from Massive Attack in six years.

 

The protest anthem comes with a spoken-word B-side from Waits entitled "The Fly," as well as additional spoken-word reflections from the Egyptian-Canadian-American writer Omar El Akkad release this, April 17.

 

"It's a career honor to collaborate with an artist of the magnitude, originality and integrity of Tom, but this track is arriving in an atmosphere of chaos," Massive Attack shared of the collaboration. “Across the western hemisphere, state authoritarianism and the militarization of police forces are fusing again with neo-fascist politics. Seen within the American emergency, at home and overseas, this track contains pulses of callous impulse & abandoned mind."

 

Added Waits: "One day many years ago I accepted an invitation from Massive Attack to collaborate. Way back then, we sent them 'Boots on the Ground.' Their long release delay never worried me. Today, as in all of mankind’s yesterdays, guarantees this song will never go out of style. Man’s fiasco folly is a feast for the flies. Hence, the B side of Massive Attack's upcoming 12 inch 'The Fly' features my appreciation for the winged nuisance.”

 

The single comes with a film made by Massive Attack in collaboration with the photographer thefinaleye.

News: Duran Duran To Release New Single

Duran Duran will release a new single later this month, called "Free Love" the song features their old friend and collaborator Nile Rodgers and will be released on 23 April on the eve of the band's US/European/UK spring-summer tour.

The track ‘Free to Love’ appears to be a standalone single (most likely recorded a few years ago during the Danse Macabre sessions) and there's no word of any physical release, as a funny fact; Duran haven't issued a CD single since 2007's ‘Falling Down’, so apparently it seems things will be same again but who knows.

New Music: The Man Who Stole Your Soul

            

Legendary Scottish singer, songwriter and producer Midge Ure has released a new single, "The Man Who Stole Your Soul", offering the latest preview of his forthcoming album "A Man Of Two Worlds," due out on May 8 through Chrysalis Records. The track arrives as Ure prepares to launch a global tour spanning the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and New Zealand later this year. The new single "The Man Who Stole Your Soul" captures that perspective. According to Ure, the song reflects his concerns about social and political division, particularly in the United States, and the broader climate of tension shaping international discourse. About the album, "A Man Of Two Worlds" represents a significant addition to Ure's catalogue, not only because it ends a 12-year gap between studio albums but also because of its distinctive structure. The double album is divided into two conceptual halves. The first section, titled World One: Music, contains eight instrumental compositions. The second, World Two: Songs, features eight vocal tracks.

 

New Music: I Can Take The Sun Out Of The Sky

           

The incredibles Brigitte Calls Me Baby are sharing the video of their brand new single "I Can Take The Sun Out Of The Sky" taken off their second acclaimed studio album "Irreversible." Directed by Alec Basse, the video leans into a stylised, magazine-inspired concept—bringing the band's world to life through a nostalgic, print-era lens. "It's like a magazine where you can enter the world of the band," frontman Wes Leavins explained in a new Rolling Stone interview, hinting at a visual that doubles as a meta-commentary on the band's growing critical acclaim. The instantly gripping—balancing an open-road sense of freedom with an undercurrent of melancholic grandeur. Now this is one of the standout moments on Irreversible, a record that sees the band evolving into a more expansive, emotionally charged version of themselves.