Tuesday Music News

06/21/2016

Britta Plyler

Drive-By Truckers have shared some new details about their upcoming album American Band (out September 30). The Southern rockers drew inspiration from last year's mass shootings in South Carolina and Oregon and our country's relationship with the NRA. Listen to the albums first single "Surrender Under Pressure," which is about the struggle to remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Statehouse. [Stereogum]

On July 8, electronic music mastermind Aphex Twin will drop his latest EP, Cheetah. Today he's debut the video for the song "CIRKLON3," this is his first music video in SEVENTEEN YEARS. And it was directed by a 12 year old. Amazing. [Pitchfork]

Teenage Fanclub dropped "I'm In Love," the lead single off of their upcoming, 11th studio album Here. It's a breezy love song, that will stick in your head all day. Here will be available on September 9. [Stereogum]

Girl Band endure the tedious hell of airport security in the video for their Holding Hands with Jamie track "In Plastic." Director Bob Gallagher describes the video as "obviously totally ridiculous in many ways, but it touches on themes of surveillance, paranoia, and how arbitrary the construct of a border can seem, which are all very contemporary anxieties. When I see clips of Donald Trump talking about deporting people and building walls I have to remind myself that I’m not watching an absurd alternate reality." Check it out below. [SPIN]

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