New to the Airwaves – Albums Out This Week (December 2nd)
New to the Airwaves – Albums Out This Week (December 2nd)
Happy Music Friday! It’s finally December, how is it already the end of the year?! Santa is peering around the corner, reindeers and buffing up on all the carbs for the big flight and all the mamas are frantically shopping and preparing new menus for the remainder of the holiday season.
What album are you most looking forward to? Comment below!
To wrap up this week, we’ve got some much-anticipated arrivals that have us tapping our toes, crossing our arms, and screeching, “Finally!” We’re sure you can see which ones we think you should grab and which ones we think may deserve a pass (cough). Dive in at your own risk, and let’s hear your picks!
**All dates are for U.S. releases unless otherwise noted. Dates are subject to change.
ALBUM RELEASE CALENDAR December 2nd, 2022
Friday, December 2nd
- Addie Brik — That Dog Don’t Hunt (Itza Records)
- Adeem the Artist —White Trash Revelry
- Amberian Dawn — Take A Chance — A Metal Tribute To ABBA (Napalm)
- Andy Bell — Untitled Film Stills EP (Sonic Cathedral)
- Årabrot — Heart EP
- Babyface Ray – MOB
- The Beach Boys — Sail on Sailor: 1972 (vinyl release)
- Black Ox Orkestar — Everything Returns
- brakence — hypochondriac
- Cat Stevens — Catch Bull at Four (50th anniversary reissue)
- Creed — My Own Prison (Vinyl Reissue)
- David Crosby & The Lighthouse Band — David Crosby & The Lighthouse Band Live At The Capitol Theatre (BMG)
- Destroyer 666 — Never Surrender (Season Of Mist)
- The Doors — Paris Blues (Rhino)
- Eliza McLamb — Salt Circle EP
- Elvis Presley — Elvis On Tour (6CD/Blu-ray box digital release)
- Esperanza Spalding — Radio Music Society (Reissue)
- Georgia Maq — Live at Sydney Opera House EP
- Gogol Bordello — Super Taranta! (Vinyl Reissue)
- half•alive — Conditions Of A Punk
- Hammers of Misfortune — Overtaker
- Hot Hot Heat — Make Up The Brjeakdown: Deluxe Edition
- Humble Pie — The A&M Box Set 1970-1975 (8CD box)
- J. Maya — Poetic License
- Kadhja Bonet — California Holiday EP
- Kevin Serey — Hard Truths & Tall Tales
- La Muerte — Sortilegia (Consouling Sounds)
- Leftfield — This Is What We Do
- Lightships — Electric Cables (Reissue)
- Maher Shalal Hash Baz — Blues du Jour (Reissue)
- MARCUS PAQUIN — OUR LOVE
- Metro Boomin — HEROES & VILLAINS
- Mick’s Jaguar — Salvation (Tee Pee/Totem Cat)
- Mynolia — All Things Heavy
- Nazz (feat. Todd Rundgren) — Lost Masters & Demos (3CD set)
- Neal Casal — Rain, Wind and Speed (Vinyl Reissue)
- Necrophobic — Bloodhymns Re-Release (Century Media)
- Neil Young — Harvest (50th Anniversary Edition)
- Noah Cyrus — The Hardest Part (Deluxe)
- NOFX — Double Album
- Ocean’s Edge Collective — Faith (Collective) – Independent
- Olly Murs — Marry Me
- Pablo Alborán — La Cu4rta Hoja
- The Pastels — The Last Great Wilderness (Reissue)
- Paul McCartney — The 7” Singles Box
- RichyRanger — 12.2.22 – EP
- RINI — UltraViolet EP
- RM (of BTS) — Indigo
- Robbie Williams — Life Thru A Lens (Deluxe Edition)
- Sam Platts and the Plainsman — West Side
- Sarchasm — Conditional Love
- Shame — The World Is Not Done Yet
- Sheryl Lee Ralph — Sleigh.
- Shira Elias — SERVICES the EP
- Snotty Nose Rez Kids — I’M GOOD, HBU?
- SoiSong (Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson of Coil) — qXn948s (Reissue)
- Sophie Jamieson — Choosing
- Stormzy — This Is What I Mean (0207 Def Jam/Interscope Records)
- Tarja — Best Of: Living The Dream (earMusic)
- Vanessa Bright — Movin’ On
- Vanessa Wagner — Mirrored (InFiné)
- Various Artists — A Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto – To the Moon and Back
- Various Artists — Southeast of Saturn, Vol. 2
- Victor Haynes — Love Is The Answer
- The Vince Guaraldi Trio — A Charlie Brown Christmas (Super Deluxe Edition)
- Virgin Prunes — …If I Die, I Die (40th Anniversary Edition)
- Waajeed — Memoirs Of Hi-Tech Jazz (Tresor)
- Wage War — The Stripped Sessions
- Walt Disco — Always Sickening EP (Lucky Number)
- WEYES BLOOD — AND IN THE DARKNESS, HEARTS AGLOW
- White Lung — Premonition (Domino)
- wifisfuneral — Until We Meet Again – EP
- Yes — Progeny: Seven Shows From Seventy-Two
- Yorke — ten feet tall – EP
- Yusuf / Cat Stevens — Catch Bull At Four (50th Anniversary Edition)
BJÖRK UNVEILS CAPTIVATING NEW VIDEO FOR ‘SORROWFUL SOIL’
Björk has shared her music video for ‘Sorrowful Soil’. Directed by Viðar Logi, it sees her singing at the recently erupted Icelandic volcano Fagradalsfjall on the Reykjanes peninsula. Dormant for six thousand years before 2021, the landscape’s torrid visuals make for an epic backdrop.
The track is taken from her new album, fossora, out now via One Little Independent Records.
“sorrowful soil is a song i wrote from random improvisations .. i kinda
thought i was writing another song but then when i edited it i threw away
most of the stuff and this is what stood there staring at me
for me, sorrowful soil and ancestress are the 2 songs on fossora written
for my mother … ancestress is my take on funeral-music but sorrowful soil
is written 2 years before and mirrors more that last chapter .
at the time i had been working with the fantastic hamrahlid choir and
wanted to give them the piece they deserved , and with that intention
unknowingly wrote what the conductor þorgerður ingólfsdóttir said was the
most difficult piece they ever sang . it has 9 voices, not the usual 4 ( sopran,
alt, teno , bass ) which took the choir evenings of a whole summer to rehearse,
i am so incredibly grateful to them for this sacrifice and you can hear all
of it in the recording
the lyric is an attempt for an eulogy and instead of the dry fact checking :
place of birth , job, marriage , i wanted to celebrate the biological data like
the fact that most girls are born with 400 eggs … and then in their lifetime
they make 2-3 nests…
when my grandfather passed away there was a pamphlet at the
hospital advising relatives how to talk to loved ones before they pass away.
i loved how it went really generic and universal and said that all of them
will give families to-do-lists (dry-cleaning and such)
but also ask if they did well .
the last part of the lyric is following this advice”
Björk is a multidisciplinary artist who, time and again, innovates across music, art, fashion and technology. From writing, arranging and producing an expansive music catalogue to her collaborations with scientists, app developers, writers, inventors, musicians and instrument makers, Björk continues to inspire and experiment, redefining the boundaries of what it means to be a musician.
Live dates – Tickets
March 3rd – Perth Festival, Langley Park, Perth, Australia – Cornucopia Live
March 6th – Perth Festival, Langley Park, Perth, Australia – Cornucopia Live
March 9th – Perth Festival, Langley Park, Perth, Australia – Cornucopia Live
March 12th – Perth Festival, Langley Park, Perth, Australia – Cornucopia Live
March 20th – Tokyo Garden Theatre, Tokyo, Japan – Orchestral Show
March 25th – Kobe World Memorial Hall, Kobe, Japan – Orchestral Show
March 28th – Tokyo Garden Theatre, Tokyo, Japan – Cornucopia Show
March 31st – Tokyo Garden Theatre, Tokyo, Japan – Cornucopia Show
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GRAMMY®-NOMINATED SINGER/SONGWRITER TO RELEASE SOPHOMORE ALBUM
BROKEN BY DESIRE TO BE HEAVENLY SENT ON MAY 19th
CAPALDI TO KICK OFF NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINE TOUR IN MARCH
ecember 2, 2022 — (Hollywood, CA) — Today, GRAMMY® Award-nominated singer and songwriter Lewis Capaldi premieres his passionate new single “Pointless” — download/stream HERE and watch the “Pointless” (Acoustic) video HERE. A gorgeously detailed portrait of love’s all-consuming power, “Pointless” is the second single released from the Scottish hitmaker’s forthcoming sophomore album Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent, due out via Capitol Records on May 19. Go HERE to pre-order the album now.
One of the first songs penned by Capaldi for Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent, “Pointless” took shape from a song fragment his co-writers Steve Mac and Snow Patrol’s Johnny McDaid had created with Ed Sheeran. “Ed had that lyric, ‘I bring her coffee in the morning, she brings me inner peace,’ and pretty much every other line of that opening was just banging,” says Capaldi. Immediately inspired to continue that narrative, Capaldi soon built “Pointless” into an epic reflection on the give-and-take in romantic relationships, beautifully capturing moments both small and profound. A piano-driven number laced with lush strings and powerful percussion, the result is an irresistible showcase for the raw yet graceful vocal work that has won Capaldi a massive global following in recent years.
“Pointless” follows Capaldi’s gold-certified smash single “Forget Me,” a September release that amassed over two million streams in just 24 hours and quickly marked his third consecutive UK No. 1 hit. With its unforgettable official video serving up a shot-for-shot remake of Wham’s 1983 hit “Club Tropicana,” “Forget Me” arrived as the lead single from Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent — a highly anticipated album that pushes forward with the piercingly honest songwriting and soul-stirring vocal work Capaldi first delivered on his 2019 full-length debut, Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent. Made with longtime collaborators including TMS, producer/songwriter Phil Plested (James Bay, Bastille) and heavyweights like super-producer Max Martin (Taylor Swift, The Weeknd), Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent ultimately finds Capaldi doubling-down on his longtime artistic mission. “I don’t want to create a new sound for myself, or reinvent myself,” he says. “The songs I want to write are emotional songs, about love or loss.”
Along with selling over 10 million albums worldwide — propelling Capaldi from bedroom musician to global pop superstar — Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent offered up such iconic singles as “Someone You Loved”: a platinum-selling ballad that recently emerged as the UK’s most streamed song of all time. In addition, “Someone You Loved” earned a GRAMMY® nomination for Song of the Year, won the Song of the Year prize at the Brit Awards, and reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and US Top 40 charts. Hailed by likes of Rolling Stone, The New York Times, GQ, Stereogum (who noted that Capaldi “wields those vocal cords like a velvet sledgehammer”), and TIME (who stated that “Capaldi’s talent is tugging at heartstrings – or rather, pulling at them with all his vocal might”), Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent also marked the biggest-selling UK album of both 2019 and 2020.
Having recently sold out his 2023 UK arena tour in a matter of seconds — with additional shows around the world selling out in record time — Capaldi will embark on a headlining tour of North America next spring. See the full list of tour dates and venues below, and go HERE for all ticketing info.
Dates for Lewis Capaldi’s 2023 North American Headline Tour
March 30 2023 – Nashville, TN Grand Ole Opry House
April 01 2023 – Atlanta, GA Coca-Cola Roxy
April 03 2023 – Washington, DC The Anthem
April 04 2023 – Philadelphia, PA The Metropolitan Opera House
April 06 2023 – New York, NY Radio City Music Hall
April 10 2023 – Boston, MA MGM Music Hall at Fenway
April 11 2023 – Laval, QC Place Bell
April 14 2023 – Toronto, ON Coca-Cola Coliseum
April 15 2023 – Detroit, MI Masonic Temple Theatre
April 17 2023 – Cincinnati, OH The Andrew J Brady Music Center
April 19 2023 – Chicago, IL Aragon Ballroom
April 20 2023 – Minneapolis, MN The Armory
April 22 2023 – Denver, CO The Mission Ballroom
April 25 2023 – Vancouver, BC Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre
April 26 2023 – Seattle, WA WaMu Theater
April 28 2023 – Portland, OR Theater of the Clouds
April 30 2023 – Berkeley, CA Greek Theatre
May 03 2023 – Los Angeles, CA Greek Theatre
May 06 2023 – Phoenix, AZ Arizona Federal Theatre
May 08 2023 – Austin, TX Moody Amphitheater
May 09 2023 – Dallas, TX South Side Ballroom
May 11 2023 – Houston, TX 713 Music Hall
The Stats
Over 25 billion global streams
1 million headline concert tickets sold
Biggest-Selling UK Album of Both 2019 & 2020
2 x BRIT Award Winner and GRAMMY™ Nominee
US Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 Single (“Someone You Loved”)
“Someone You Loved” is the UK’s Most Streamed Song of All Time
2 x Consecutive No. 1 US Radio Records (“Someone You Loved,” “Before You Go”)
Biggest-Streamed Week 1 Debut Album Of All Time (Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent)
5 x consecutive Top 10 UK singles including 3 x No. 1 (“Someone You Loved,” “Before You Go,” “Forget Me”)
More Weeks in UK Top 10 Than Any Song EVER By British Act (“Someone You Loved”)
Longest-Running Consecutive Weeks In Top 10 UK Album Chart For Solo Artist Album, at 77 Weeks
(Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent)
BUZZING ALTERNATIVE POP PHENOMENON STEPHEN DAWES RELEASES DEBUT SINGLE “IT COULD BE ME”
NEW YORK, NY (December 2nd, 2022) — After generating tens of millions of streams and views, buzzing New York-based alternative pop singer and songwriter Stephen Dawes unveils his debut single entitled “It Could Be Me” today via Republic Records.
He initially teased the song on TikTok where it drummed up widespread anticipation amongst fans. Now, the official version rides a boisterous distorted guitar riff through glowing chimes as his voice soars on the hook, “maybe I’ll never tell you but, It could be me.”
“It Could Be Me” just paves the way for more music to come from Stephen Dawes very soon.
It also arrives on the heels of his mega-viral cover of Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream,” which has inspired nearly 2 million creates and reeled in over 39 million Spotify streams.
About Stephen Dawes:
Stephen Dawes asserts himself as a different kind of pop singer and songwriter altogether. Armed with a guitar and a downright dynamic voice, he ignites instantly infectious anthems buoyed by live instrumentation and boisterous production. The 20-year-old grew up in San Francisco and initially gained traction on TikTok, attracting a fervent audience. His cover of Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream” jumped from virality on TikTok to tens of millions of streams on Spotify. Balancing a budding music career and college at New York University’s prestigious Clive Davis program, he introduces his signature style on the debut single “It Could Be Me,” setting the stage for his debut project 2023.
WE ARE SCIENTISTS Unveil Dazzling Indie Pop Number “Lucky To Just Be Here”
December 2, 2022 (NEW YORK, NY) — New York indie juggernauts WE ARE SCIENTISTS have teased more new material from their forthcoming record LOBES (release date: January 20, 2023 via Masterswan Recordings) with their dazzling single “Lucky Just To Be Here.”Reducing the tempo but ratcheting the intensity, the new track simmers before it boils, offering a contrast to the two breakneck tunes already released from the pair’s recently announced eighth studio album. You can stream the track here.
Starting off with a quiet bed of synth and a pulsing, heartbeat-like kick drum, “Lucky To Just Be Here” leaves room for vocalist Keith Murray to indulge in nostalgic rumination. Propulsively building to a musical crescendo, the song is catharsis in audio form, matching Murray’s devastating lyrics before disolving into a lonely and isolating denouement.. It’s vintage We Are Scientists and showcases their musicality, penchants for hooks, and creativity.
In addition to the new music, We Are Scientists have two special U.S. shows planned leading up to the release: One in Vegas and one in their hometown NYC. On December 3rd, the band will be playing a free rooftop show at the launch of BrewDog‘s Largest Bar in the World in Las Vegas, to be followed by a record release show for Lobes on January 20th at Brooklyn Made in Brooklyn More US dates to be announced in the coming months. Starting off with a quiet bed of synth and a pulsing, heartbeat-like kick drum, “Lucky To Just Be Here” leaves room for vocalist Keith Murray to indulge in nostalgic rumination. Propulsively building to a musical crescendo, the song is catharsis in audio form, matching Murray’s devastating lyrics before disolving into a lonely and isolating denouement.. It’s vintage We Are Scientists and showcases their musicality, penchants for hooks, and creativity.
The upcoming new album follows on from their acclaimed 2021 record HUFFY, and while the origins of songs written for Lobes began around the same time, the impression so far suggests they grew into an entirely different musical universe. The album’s lead single “Operator Error” and follow-up “Less From You” are an exciting taste of the fresh direction expected on Lobes.
“We consider Huffy our daytime record – it’s an upbeat rock album designed to soundtrack jetski rides to the Bahamas and piña colada in aquamarine-tiled jacuzzis,” says Murray. “Our new album, Lobes, however, is our nighttime album. Overall, it’s more electronic, dancier, more ominous, and way sexier than Huffy.”
“Lucky To Just Be Here” is out today, December 2, 2022. The band’s new album Lobes is due out January 20, 2023via Masterswan Recordings. Pre-order the album here. The band is available for interviews.
Tarah Who? Feat. Laura Chevalier – Royal Knight.
LA-based, French-born project, Tarah Who? who is, “not a question that needs to be answered. Tarah Who? is a rising statement in the progressive punk/grunge scene” (Carl Lawrence Knauf) Central songwriter Tarah Carpenter pits thrashy drums and discordant guitars against an assault of anthemic vocals: a musical concoction that has defined Tarah Who?’s discography since her self-titled debut in 2006. Fast-forward a decade and a half later, Carpenter finally met with long-time social media friend, a French musician and actress, who has lent her skills to electro rock bands Puss In Boots, Only for Disco, Dead Sexy Inc, Aloha Sun, Belair Polo Club, The videos, Aston Villa, to name a few. During COVID lockdown Carpenter began working on new material and Chavalier joined the collaboration, and Tarah Who?’s upcoming dark punk single “Royal Knight” was born. Due out December 2, 2022, an accompanying video shot in a Parisian castle, features many of Carpenter’s family members. Carpenter states, “The song is about the different states of mind of people during the lockdown. I wanted to do something different for this video and have different actors to illustrate what the song is about.” The song is the first single from the project’s forthcoming album, The Collaboration Project, due out April 28. 2023.
