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Olivia Rodrigo drops her debut albumÂ
Sour and, on Friday, the 18-year-old actress gave fans another taste by releasing her vengeful banger âgood 4 u.â
The single follows theÂ
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series starâs prior single, âDeja Vu,â but this new offering marks a major departure from the sound fans came to expect from her.
While âDrivers Licenseâ was a sorrowful ballad and âDeja Vuâ was a pop-infused breakup song, âgood 4 uâ sees Olivia playing the jilted ex and embodying the raw anger that comes with a broken heart.
âGood 4 uâ borrows themes fromÂ
P.H.F. Drops Acoustic Album Unplugged Annabel Kean / Friday 14th May, 2021 10:46AM
Clearly releasing an album, severalcollaborativesingles and a debut EP for an entirely new project is no biggie for a year in the life of
P.H.F. s
autocell just two months back, and today unveils acoustic collection
Unplugged. As you d expect from an album title like that, most of the tracks are stripped back versions of songs from previous albums;
Soft, with the delightful combo of acoustic guitar and whistling on album closers Sometimes and Drag Thru Urs . From what I could garner after a bit of fine-tooth internet combing,
Albums Out Today: Iceage, dodie, Weezer, Squid, Czarface and MF DOOM, Miranda Lambert, Nancy Wilson
Iceage,
Iceage are back with their fifth album,
Seek Shelter, out now via Mexican Summer. The Danish rock outfit recorded the LP over the course of 12 days with help from producer Sonic Boom (Pete Kember of Spacemen 3) at Namouche, a dilapidated wood-paneled vintage studio in Lisbon. It marks the first time the band have ever worked with an outside producer for one of their albums and their first full-length with guitarist Casper Morilla Fernandez. The follow-up to 2018’s
Beyondless,
Seek Shelter was mixed by Shawn Everett and was preceded by the singles ‘High & Hurt’, ‘Shelter Song’, ‘Vendetta’, ‘The Holding Hand’, and ‘Gold City’.
Ten years after uploading her first original song on YouTube, dodie has released her debut studio album,
Build a Problem. Though this marks her first full-length release, the 25-year-old British singer-songwriter, born Dorothy Miranda Clark, has established a strong online presence with nearly 2 million subscribers on her main YouTube channel, and her three independently released EPs – 2016’s
Intertwined, 2017’s
You, and 2019’s
Human – went on to reach the UK pop charts. One thing dodie’s videos and her music have in common is that they both can feel like soul-baring admissions of vulnerability. Throughout her career, she’s channeled that intimacy through lush folk pop built around soft vocals and plucky acoustic guitars, and her debut LP is no different – this time, though, the variations in sound and mood also reflect the contradictions she often speaks about in her discussions of mental health. Working with producer Joe Rubel as well as an 13-piece orches
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Van Halen s Sammy Hagar, left, and Eddie Van Halen perform at the United Center on July 19, 2004, in Chicago. (Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune/TNS)
Celebrating guitar heroes from Eddie Van Halen to Bonnie Raitt
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I just made it.
April has been the designated celebration of International Guitar Month since 1987, so before the calendar tiptoes into May, we’re going to hail the instrument most often played in invisible form in front of a mirror or behind a steering wheel (who is that so artfully tearing out the riff – sans instrument – to Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way?” Oh, certainly not I!).