Machine Gun Kelly (EST 19XX/Bad Boy/Interscope Records) releases the official music video for his latest hit single “Bloody Valentine,” the first single off his forthcoming Tickets to My Downfall album. In the video, we see an affectionate-twisted love story between actress Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly. Directed by Michael Garcia, the video shows off Machine Gun Kelly’s edgy persona while Megan Fox takes full control of their fictional romance. The music video made its broadcast premiere on MTV Live, MTVU and on the Viacom Times Square billboard. Over the last few weeks, “Bloody Valentine” has reached massive heights by landing #1 on the Billboard Rock Digital Song Sales chart and #3 on the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart. “Bloody Valentine” has also been streamed over 10 million times globally. Entertainment Weekly described “Bloody Valentine” as “propulsive lovelorn emo goodness.”
 
More recently, Machine Gun Kelly released a behind the scenes for the making of “Bloody Valentine” along with a lyric video on YouTube. He also made an appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden featuring a high-octane quarantine performance of “Bloody Valentine” with Blink-182’s Travis Barker. Never one to shy away from his love for his hometown, especially during these times, Machine Gun Kelly recently provided over 40,000 meals to the Greater Cleveland Food Bank and bought lunch for hundreds of Cleveland residents at twelve restaurants throughout the city dubbed “Machine Gun Kelly Feeds the City.” Additionally, he has been gearing up for the Tickets To My Downfall album release with his successful series Lockdown Sessions, which has amassed over 70M views. Covering classics, a few which include Paramore’s “Misery Business,” Oasis’ “Champagne Supernova” and a Rihanna approved “Love On The Brain.” Several of the videos have trended #1 across YouTube.
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​Following the release of their debut album ‘Highlights’ earlier this year, British alt-pop trio Flawes announce ‘Lowlights’ - an EP of four songs taken from the album, and stripped back to their rawest form. The EP is released via Red Bull Records on May 13.

The band have also unveiled a video of the ‘Lowlights’ version of one of their most anthemic songs ‘Look No Further’, the intimate recording revealing the intricacies and emotion of the track.

Flawes performed as part of the inaugural Red Bull Records Virtual Festival last weekend, joining label-mates Beartooth and The Aces among others. Their lockdown-filmed performance can be re-streamed here.

Known for their polished production, and huge awe-inspiring live performances, ‘Lowlights’ gives the listener an opportunity to get to know the band on a much deeper level. In addition, undeterred by lock down, the band have been recording and releasing a series of impressive ‘isolation sessions’, with each member performing remotely from their own home. Watch the sessions on their YouTube channel here.

“‘Lowlights’ is a selection of songs from our debut album that have been stripped right down to their bare bones. We love to create a huge wall of sound when playing live, so to mix things up we decided to challenge ourselves and take the complete opposite approach”explain the band “The songs are so exposed, there’s almost nowhere to hide. ‘Don’t Count Me Out’ in particular is literally just a piano and vocal, taking the song right back to where it started life.”

The band recorded the EP at Red Bull Studios in London, and some of the performances were recorded and left totally live for the final EP.

In what has been an exciting 3 years for the London based band, Flawes famously received support from Radio 1 even before they’d performed live. After the two years touring that followed (including shows with Ella Eyre, Maximo Park, Francis and the lights, Chloe Howl and Safia), JC, Huss and Freddie took a step back, re-calibrated, and crafted the sound that would go on to define them.

Their debut album ‘Highlights’ is the musical embodiment of this; the band's sonic evolution over the years. The result is a collection of the very best of their bolder, sleeker and uplifting sound, tailor-made for both dance floors and festival fields.

The band are currently working on brand new songs with more releases to be announced later this year.

‘Lowlights’ Track Listing:
 1. Here To Stay
 2. Don’t Count Me Out
 3. When We Were Young
 4. Look No Further

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GRAMMY® nominated, Southern California-bred sister band HAIM have released ‘I Know Alone’ today from their highly anticipated forthcoming album Women In Music Pt. III (Polydor Records). With its wild collage of warped vocal samples and 808 beats combined with wobbly cello notes and stark acoustic guitar, ‘I Know Alone’ replicates a certain sense of emotional unrest from feelings of loneliness. While the song was originally inspired by the band’s feelings of loneliness after coming home from tour, ‘I Know Alone’ and its lyrics like “been a couple days since I’ve been out” and “’cause nights turn into days that turn to grey” now take on a whole new meaning in today’s world as so many of us stay home and practice social distancing. In tandem with the song, Haim have shared a stark, yet precisely choregraphed video directed remotely by Jake Schreier (Chance The Rapper, Kanye West, Selena Gomez). The band co-choreographed the video with Francis Farewell Starlite.
 
Listen to ‘I Know Alone’ here and view the video here.
 
“’I Know Alone’ was always going to be the next song we released, but it feels eerily appropriate given what’s going on in the world right now,” Haim say about the new single, “We hope this song keeps you company.”
 
Speaking on the new album release date, the band add, “Now that we’re all starting to settle into our new normal, it feels like a more appropriate time for us to release this body of work. We’re so excited to announce that our new album will now be released on June 26.”
 
‘I Know Alone’ is the latest song Haim have shared from Women In Music Pt. III. Their new album, which was originally scheduled for release April 24th, will now be released on June 26th. Danielle Haim co-produced the new album along with longtime collaborators Grammy Award-winning producer Ariel Rechtshaid (Adele, Blood Orange, Carly Rae Jepsen) and Rostam Batmanglij (Charli XCX, Solange, Frank Ocean). The new album will also include ‘The Steps,’ which Haim released earlier this year and The FADER proclaimed, “has all the components of an essential HAIM track — all the yearning, all the embedded grooves, all the rip-roaring guitar.”  Previously released songs ‘Hallelujah,’ ‘Now I’m In It,’ and ‘Summer Girl’ will also be featured on the album.
   
Women In Music Pt. III is the follow up to Haim’s sophomore album, Something To Tell You, which was released in July 2017. Something To Tell You debuted at No.2 on the UK album charts and  No. 7 on the Billboard 200 following release and was critically acclaimed by NME, The FADER, NPR, and more. The album was declared “a gleaming triumph of artisanal pop music” by Stereogum, Pitchfork called the album “slyly complex” and The Observer noted that it “finds them adding a bittersweet edge to their fusion of retro pop styles."
 
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watch the video for their latest single here
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Preview By: Tyler Sams

​After taking 2019 by the scruff of the neck and making it their own, as well as a blistering trajectory in 2020, Sea Girls have come out
all guns blazing with the announcement of their emotionally charged, deeply personal, hook laden debut album Open Up Your Head - out August 14th on Polydor.

Featuring fourteen doses of memorable jagged guitar-pop brilliance, the LP was produced by Larry Hibbitt in London. Open Up Your Head is available in special coloured vinyl, limited edition picture disc, CD, cassette and digital.

Today also sees the band share a brand new single from the album entitled ‘Do You Really Wanna Know?’ which premiered as Annie Mac’s ‘Hottest Record’ on BBC Radio 1 last night, and follows the brilliant ‘Ready For More’ which has already enjoyed mainstream airplay and an addition to the Radio 1 B List.

With album Open Up Your Head, the band’s songwriting has elevated, with frontman Henry Camamile stepping into the spotlight as a genuine storyteller for his generation. The album is fit to burst with colourful melodies, guitar and synth hooks - an explosion of joyous indie rock held together to reflect Camamile’s darker songwriting on topics such as a previous traumatic head injury, the anxiety that ensued, and resulting adolescent vices.

In accessing those darkest and least comfortable parts of himself the record becomes one of hope.

Henry, Rory, Andrew and Oli, the bastard sons of The Killers & The Strokes, have created a debut body of work, including songs from lead guitarist Rory Young, that are stunningly uplifting, ferociously reflective, delicately vulnerable, and most importantly - brutally honest.

Henry admits his and Rory’s writing – and the bands performing – comes right from the heart. With storytelling being reminiscent of a young Brandon Flowers Henry explains; “I don’t buy all the love and flowers stuff. Real relationships fall apart, you get hurt and you have to deal with it so you do what you have to do to get over it. I think what has saved me is music.”


Sea Girls, one of the most enthralling young indie guitar bands to have emerged in recent times, are a band aiming first and foremost at being the singalong torch bearers for a whole new wave of UK guitar bands.

Taking their inspiration as kids, when The Killers, The Strokes and Arctic Monkeys debut albums were released, much of their success is driven by their energetic live performances and uncanny ability to write adrenaline-heavy guitar anthems with songs like  ‘Violet’  and ‘All I Want To Hear You Say’, and the release of their latest EP Under Exit Lights.

Renowned for their frenetic, sweat-drenched sold-out live shows, the band will kick off their rescheduled April UK dates by upgrading the venues to play their biggest headline shows to date in November 2020, it will see them play 3 upgraded venues including a career defining night at London’s legendary O2 Brixton Academy on 6th November.

Ticket holders for April’s postponed shows at London Roundhouse, Manchester Ritz, Glasgow Garage and Birmingham Academy will be valid for the now upgraded dates in November. Before that, the band will light up festival stages across the back end of summer, including prestigious spots at Reading & Leeds, TRNSMT, Spain’s Mad Cool, Berlin’s Lollapalooza, and more.

For details of a very special fan presale for the upgraded shows, head to the official Sea Girls store at seagirls.net Tickets on sale Friday
8th May.

November
Mon 2nd                      GLASGOW, Barrowlands
Thu 5th                         BIRMINGHAM, O2 Institute SOLD OUT
Fri 6th                           LONDON, O2 Academy Brixton
Sat 7th                         MANCHESTER,  Academy 1

FESTIVALS
July
Fri 3rd                                          POLAND, Open’er Festival
Wed 8th                                  SPAIN, Mad Cool Festival
Fri 10th                                       PORTUGAL, NOS Alive
Sun 12th                                   SCOTLAND, TRNSMT Festival
Sat 18th                                    LATVIA, Positivus Festival

August
Fri 7th                                         SLOVAKIA, Grape Festival
Thu 13th                                  SWEDEN, Way Out West Festival
Sat 29th                                   UK, Reading Festival
Sun 30th                                 UK, Leeds Festival

September
Sat 5th                                      GERMANY, Lollapalooza
Sun 6th                                     UK, Neighbourhood Weekender

‘Open Up Your Head’ - Track Listing
1.         Transplant
2.         All I Want To Hear You Say
3.         Do You Really Wanna Know?
4.         Lie To Me
5.         Call Me Out
6.         Closer
7.         Forever
8.         Weight In Gold
9.         Ready For More
10.       Violet
11.       Shake
12.       Damage Done
13.       You Over Anyone
14.       Moving On


Preview By: Tyler Sams

Declan McKenna has launched the second track to be lifted from his
forthcoming second album, Zeros.

The Key To Life On Earth is streaming now alongside a new video
featuring a special guest role by Alex Lawther from Netflix/C4’s smash
hit series, The End Of The F***ing World.

Declan’s new album “Zeros”, previously scheduled for release in late
May, now moves back to 21st August.

Shot in East London pre-lockdown by director Will Hooper (who also
directed Beautiful Faces), the video brings together two young British
faces doing very good things in different worlds. That they look alike
proves fortuitous here, and something their fans have been quick to
point out at every conceivable opportunity.

It’s a record that instantly sounds bigger and bolder, and infinitely
wiser. Declan might not have received all those answers he had once
sought, but he’s moved on and around them, laterally speaking. The
world we find ourselves in is often considered hyper-surreal, almost
dystopian in its ridiculousness, and that’s the one Declan chose to
focus on throughout “Zeros”. It’s not stuck in the moment but
inhabiting a future with the emphasis on the absurd. Otherworldly.
Unreal. A reflection on our culture through a warped carnival mirror.

Zeros Tracklisting:
1 You Better Believe!!! 
2 Be an Astronaut 
3 The Key to Life on Earth 
4 Beautiful Faces
5 Daniel, You're Still a Child
6 Emily 
7 Twice Your Size
8 Rapture
9 Sagittarius A* 
10 Eventually, Darling

Preview done by: Tyler Sams

Today, Self Esteem announces her new EP, Cuddles Please, due for
release on May 1st via Fiction Records, and comprising three special
alternative versions of songs from her critically acclaimed 2019 debut
album Compliments Please, and a cover of Alex Cameron’s ‘Miami
Memory’. A first track from the EP, ‘Favourite Problem (Alternative
Version)’ is available to stream and download now.

The announcement comes a week after Self Esteem’s self-curated three
day digital festival PXSSY PANDEMIQUE with an all female-identifying
line-up featuring performance artists, poets, comedians and musicians.

Chatting about Cuddles Please, Rebecca says: “After doing a run of
special stripped back shows, I thought it would be nice to record some
of the songs that work best in that format. I really love to sing the
songs in their birthday suits. Neighbourhood Voices had been learning
some of the songs anyway and suggested singing with me live and of
course I jumped at the chance to have 30 women singing my feelings
with me.”

Cuddles Please EP tracklisting:
1. Favourite Problem (Alternative Version)
2. The Best (Alternative Version)
3. In Time (Alternative Version)
4. Miami Memory (Alex Cameron Cover)

Written by; Tyler Sams