Soulful Sunday

WOLF ALICE Drop Introspective Power Ballad ‘THE SOFA’ From Their New Upcoming Album

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13 July 2025


New album artwork

London‘s guitar pop stars WOLF ALICE revealed details of their new,
4th longplayer 2 months ago. It’s named The Clearing and will show
up on August 29th.

Following the peppy lead single Boom Baby Boom
we get a second appetizer with the introspective power
ballad THE SOFA.

Ellie Rowsell (frontwoman) “It’s about not trying so hard to figure everything out,
reflecting on getting older and trying not to agonize over things that have or haven’t
happened in your life. It’s also about trying to get to grips with the polarizing aspects
of one’s life when you’re in a band.

You’ve just played a huge tour and you come home, and you have your dinner on the sofa.
For me, it’s summed up in how I treat TV. I used to never watch the same thing twice because
I thought I’ve got so much to discover! And now I’m like, It’s OK if I just want to rewatch Peep Show for the 13th time.”

Have a seat, Ellie.

Instagram – Tour Dates

BIG THIEF Have Wonderful Single ‘INCOMPREHENSIBLE’ Out – New Album In September

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29 June 2025


Press Photo by Genesis Báez

It’s already 3 years since Brooklyn‘s folk-pop-rockers BIG THIEF released their
5th LP, titled Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You. An enthralling
20-track record with Adrienne Lenker‘s angelic voice as the star.

But great news for the fans (including myself). Number 6,
named Double Infinity is ready to be shared with the world
on September 5.

The first single Incomprehensible is a wonderful and soulful musing.

Instagram – Spotify

RACHEL BOBBITT – Canadian Songstress Enthralls With New Moody Beauty ‘DEER ON THE FREEWAY’

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After a collaborative album with hip hop musician Justice Der and 4 EPs over the past
5 years Canadian songstress RACHEL BOBBITT just released her third single of 2025,
yet no news about an album.

DEER ON THE FREEWAY is a moody beauty that enthralls and captivates.

All 3 singles


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Instagram – Bandcamp

NEIL YOUNG Duets With Beach Boy AL JARDINE On Romantic Gem ‘MY PLANE LEAVES TOMORROW (AU REVOIR)’

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1 June 2025

AL JARDINE, the now 82-year-old, former beach boy co-vocalist/co-founder
has no plans to retire. He just released a 4-track EP titled Islands In The Sun .

It’s his first new music since his 2010 LP, named
A Postcard From California. Actually his only
solo album.

It features two tunes written by Jardine himself, and two reworked
versions of The Coasters’ Leiber/Stoller classics ‘Smokey Joe’s Café’ and
‘Crumple Car’.

One of the two Jardine written songs, a romantic tearjerker named MY PLANE LEAVES TOMORROW (AU REVOIR) features vocals by living legend Neil Young and a short trumpet moment by Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea. Their parts were already recorded during the ‘Posctard From California’ sessions, but Jardine only finished the song recently.

Have a listen. It’s a beauty.

The whole EP is a nostalgic beauty.


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Jardine will play a handful of gigs with his Pet Sounds Band this summer.

7/04 – Lake, MN @ Mystic Amphitheater at Mystic Lake Casino Hotel
7/18 – Cohasset, MA @ South Shore Music Circus
7/23-24 – Phoenix, AZ @ Musical Instrument Museum
8/23 – Des Plaines, IL @ The Des Plaines Theatre
8/24 – St. Charles, IL @ The Arcada Theatre
9/05 – Atlantic City, NJ @ Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa
9/07 – Concord, NH @ Chubb Theatre at Capitol Center for the Arts

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NEIL YOUNG And THE CHROME HEARTS Talk To The Trees

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25 May 2025

Every NEIL YOUNG fan (including me) knows for a couple of months now, that their
79-year-old rock idol has recorded an album with his new band The Chrome Hearts .
It’s namedTalkin’ To The Trees, and shows up on June 12th.

Press info: “Talkin To The Trees is a personal and powerful album featuring ten new compositions by Young. “Big Change”, the first song from the album, was released in January 2025, with a message that left no doubt where Neil Young stands in these challenging times.

The Chrome Hearts are Spooner Oldham (Organ); Micah Nelson (Guitar and Vocal); Corey McCormick (Bass and Vocal); Anthony LoGerfo (Drums); with Neil Young (Guitar, Harp, Piano, Vibes). The album is co-produced by Lou Adler and Young, and recorded at Shangri La Studios in Malibu.”

Following the racy lead single Lets Roll Again we can enjoy a vintage,
heart of gold ballad with the LP’s title track TALKIN TO THE TREES.


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BRIAN ENO And BEATIE WOLFE Enchant With 3 Beauties From Their 2 Upcoming Collaborative Albums

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

11 May 2025


Photo by Cecily Eno

Former Roxy Music alien BRIAN ENO and songstress BEATIE WOLFE met for the first
time in 2022 at the SXSW festival. They met again while exhibiting visual and conceptual art pieces in London and began recording together early last year.

The result is not one, but two albums, named
Luminal and Lateral, both out on June 6th.

Eno/Wolfe: “Music is about making feelings happen. Some of those feelings are familiar,
while others may not be—or may be complex mixtures of several different feelings. There
are many beautiful words for such feelings in other languages and cultures—words that
don’t exist in English.

By giving a feeling a name, we make that feeling more likely to be felt, more tangible.
Art is able to trigger feelings, or feeling mixtures, that we’ve never quite felt before. In
this way, a piece of Art can become the ‘mother’ for a type of feeling, and a place you
can go to find and re-experience that feeling.”

Listen to the three atmospheric, enchanting and
musing beauties they shared recently (so far).

– WHAT WE ARE –

– SUDDENLY –

– BIG EMPTY COUNTRY –

ENO: Linktree
WOLFE: Instagram

BEN KWELLER And THE FLAMING LIPS Get Together For Heartbreaking Ballad ‘KILLER BEE’ For The Late 17 Year Young Talent NELL SMITH

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4 May 2025

Artist: BEN KWELLER
Who: Renowned San Francisco-born
singer-songwriter.

Track: KILLER BEE

Last year, highly talented 17-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter
Nell Smith, was hit by fatal fate, when she died in a car crash accident.

A couple of years ago, as a dedicated The Flaming Lips fan she got in contact
with the Oklahoma band and they recorded a Nick Cave covers album together
in 2021, she was just 14. Her solo album Anxious was posthumously released
2 weeks ago.

Unfortunately, Kweller knows the pain of losing a teenage child. His 16-year old son
also passed away after a car accident. It happened two years ago. Via the Flaming Lips,
Ben met Nell‘s family, and afterward he wrote this goosebumps song for her. It’ll be on
his new album Cover The Mirrors, that appears on 23rd May, on his lost son’s birthday.

Heartbreaking.

Instagram – Linktree

MATT BERNINGER Shares 2nd Track From His Upcoming Solo LP – Hear ‘BREAK INTO ACTION’

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20 April 2025


Press photo by Chantal Anderson

It’s already 5 years since The National maestro MATT BERNINGER released
his praised solo debut album Serpentine Prison. The LP was recorded with
the legendary musician/producer Booker T. Jones.

But finally the Cincinnati crooner returns with a follow-up.
New album Get Sunk will see the day of light on May 30.
More info here.

With romantic ballad BREAKING INTO ACTION we get the
second taster off the LP. It features songstress Hand Habits.

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BEN KWELLER Dedicates New Ballad ‘KILLER BEE’ To The Unfortunate 17-Year Old Songstress NELL SMITH

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13 April 2025


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Back in 2021, highly skilled UK-born and US-based, musical teenager NELL SMITH recorded at the age of 13-year an album, named Where The Viaduct Looms with Oklahoma’s eccentric legends The Flaming Lips.

Frontman Wayne Coyne spotted her at one point as she attended several gigs with her father. They got in touch with each other and after Coyne found out that she’s a singer he proposed her to work with the band on a Nick Cave tribute album he already had in mind for some time.


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Last October, the worst happened when Nell died in a vehicle motor crash,
only 17. Her debut LP, titled Anxious was released posthumously last Friday.

Also now, San Francisco songsmith BEN KWELLER has shared a goosebumps ballad, named KILLER BEE. A track from his upcoming 7th full-length Cover The Mirrors. It features backing vocals by The Flaming Lips.

His first new music since the sudden passing
of his 16-year-old son Dorian Zev in 2023.

Kweller: “Today we release the song ‘Killer Bee’ in memory of Nell Smith. Nell was
a gifted artist who marched to the beat of her own drum. Like my son Dorian, she was
taken from us out of nowhere, driving alone, freak car accident, 17 years old. Grief makes
us feel isolated and the weight seems too heavy to carry alone. Community reunites and
lifts us up. Love on your people today and every day.”

Heartbreaking.

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