Manchester Orchestra are dropping their anticipated new album, The Million Masks Of God, this week, and today, they’ve offered their final advance preview of it with “Telepath.” The track takes a gentler direction that previous singles, and the video — directed by Isaac Deitz and conceptualized by the band’s Andy Hull — is one long tracking shot that follows a couple from their young years to much later on in their life together.
Hull says of the song, “‘Telepath’ is ultimately about the ebb and flow of life long commitment to another person. Recognizing that even the best relationships in our lives can have extreme ups and downs. At the end of the day, it’s those that we have chosen to love and, more importantly, those that have chosen to love us that truly matter. This is my attempt to further commit for the long haul.”
Hull recently told Uproxx of the band’s upcoming album, “We knew we really wanted from the beginning for it to be all connected in a similar way as Black Mile, but more thought out, and allowing the songs to fold in on each other. And having repeated melodies and phrases that, at the end of the second song, is the same melody and lyrical nod to the fifth song. That happens all over the record. Throwing out the rule book that we had made for ourselves about even what a song can be. It’s been a really difficult record to pick a single and pick songs to play for people, because I do feel like it’s best served as a whole thing. The album’s the song.”
Watch the “Telepath” video above.
The Million Masks Of God is out 4/30 via Loma Vista Recordings. Pre-order it here.
The CDC has finally released new guidance for vaccinated Americans and it includes ditching face masks for almost every outdoor activity, aside from attending a crowded outdoor event like a concert or sports game. The new guidelines were issued Tuesday morning and advise fully vaccinated Americans to feel free to forgo masks when walking, running, or biking outdoors, attending small outdoor gatherings with other fully vaccinated and unvaccinated friends and family members, and when dining outdoors with friends from multiple households, though they still advise fully vaccinated people to wear masks at crowded outdoor events, anytime they’re in a large crowd and when doing pretty much every indoor activity you can think of. So, if you’re fully vaccinated, it’s probably smart to still keep your face masks handy.
Unvaccinated people are still advised to wear masks when doing indoor and outdoor activities except when walking, running, or biking with members of your household or when attending outdoor gatherings with fully vaccinated family and friends. The CDC considers individuals fully vaccinated two weeks after they receive their second dose of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine, or two weeks after receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
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The guidelines also include new rules for domestic travel, giving fully vaccinated people the go-ahead to travel without testing before or after, or self-quarantining, as well as when embarking on international travel, however, we’d like to point out that different countries have different rules about this, so you should definitely check each respective country’s guidelines if you plan on going overseas this summer.
According to the CDC, to date, 231 million Americans have been vaccinated and daily covid cases are on a sharp downward trend.
Sometimes dog owners might wonder what their canine companions do when they’re not around, but few would imagine a heroic rescue like the one that happened recently in a backyard pool in Boskburg, South Africa.
For Chucky the lucky toy Pomeranian pooch, the day could have ended tragically. The tiny 13-year-old pup accidentally slipped and fell into the family swimming pool, and though he was able to keep himself afloat, he couldn’t get out. If he were alone, he could easily have gotten worn out and drowned.
Thankfully, his best friend Jessie, a 7-year-old Staffordshire bull terrier, was there with him and noticed his struggle. Poor Jessie was desperate to get him out, as shown in the home’s security camera footage that captured the harrowing incident. In scenes from the footage, we can see Jessie trying to work out how to get Chucky out of the water without hurting him, and it’s seriously the sweetest thing. What we don’t see in this short clip is that it actually took Jessie 34 minutes to rescue him—she just wouldn’t give up.
Incredible moment hero dog saves best friend from drowning in swimming pool
After multiple gentle attempts at tugging him out of the water by his ear, Jessie succeeds, and the two doggos then scuttle off to play together, happy as can be.
The dogs’ owners, Byron Thanarayen and his wife Melissa, discovered the footage while trying to solve the mystery of why Chucky’s head was wet. Byron told The Times South Africa that Melissa insisted he might have been in the swimming pool, but he said the dogs never went into the pool unsupervised.
“We tried to look for clues as to where he could have wet his head,” he said. “We thought maybe he dipped his head in the water, but there was no mess in the house to support this suggestion.”
They finally checked the security cameras and discovered that Chucky had slipped, then watched the whole rescue play out.
“It was heart-wrenching to watch,” Byron told The Times. “We still struggle to watch that video today, just thinking of what could have happened if Jessie was not there.”
Jessie is a rescue dog that Byron and Melissa adopted from the SPCA four years ago. They are Jessie’s third owners, and oddly enough, the previous owners had returned her to the SPCA because they said she didn’t get along with their other dogs. That was not the case here, as Byron said Jessie got along with their other two dogs from the day they brought her home.
“Jessie is the best dog we have ever had,” Byron said. “I’m really proud of her, considering she’s the youngest.”
Byron told The Times that their dogs know how to swim, but they only swim when they’re in the pool with them. The incident is a good reminder that accidents can happen and that even if dogs know how to swim, leaving them unsupervised by a swimming pool isn’t a good idea. Byron and Melissa said they’ll be installing a pool cover now.
“It never occurred to us previously that we needed the cover, but since this incident we saw how important it is to have one,” he said.
There are no solid statistics on how many pets drown in family swimming pools because most incidents don’t get reported, but estimates are in the thousands. Northeast Animal Hopsital in St. Petersburg, Florida suggests knowing the risks for your own dogs, safeguarding the pool area with gates that animals can’t get over or around, teaching dogs to swim (but not relying on that alone), and making sure to supervise your animals when they are near any large body of water.
Thankfully, Chucky’s story had a happy ending, but not every dog will have a Jessie around to save them. This video is a good reminder that pets and pools can be a dangerous combo, as well as a good reminder that dogs are truly incredible creatures.
Atlanta-based songwriter Faye Webster is entering a new chapter. It started when Webster wrote her new single “Cheers,” which she notes is a standout track on her forthcoming LP. The singer dropped the song Tuesday and with it, she officially announced her upcoming album, I Know I’m Funny Haha.
The acerbic single arrives alongside an equally-witty visual. As Atlanta’s dirt bike crew Real Bike Life Only pops wheelies behind her, Webster delivers tongue-in-cheek lyrics about how her love interest writes song about someone else. The song is grittier than much of the tracks heard on Webster’s breakout 2019 album Atlanta Millionaire’s Club. It’s held up by grumbling guitar chords which offer an intentional contrast to Webster’s airy vocals.
Speaking about how “Cheers” marks a new era of songwriting, Webster says:
“This song has always felt like a standout from the record to me. It was the kind of song where you’re like ‘oh yeah, this is the one. Right after the first take. It felt different to me and it made it feel like I was entering a new era and chapter for myself. It’s kind of the outlier on the record but at the same time is still so original and identifying to myself. Also it just makes me feel like a badass for once.”
Watch Webster’s “Cheers” video above and check out her I Know I’m Funny Haha album art and tracklist below, as well as Webster’s upcoming tour dates.
Photo by Pooneh Ghana
1. “Better Distractions”
2. “Sometimes”
3. “I Know I’m Funny Haha”
4. “In A Good Way”
5. “Kind Of”
6. “Cheers”
7. “Both All The Time”
8. “A Stranger”
9. “A Dream With A Baseball Player”
10. “Overslept” Feat. Mei Ehara
11. “Half Of Me”
09/07 — Columbus, OH @ A&R Bar
09/08 — Cleveland, OH @ Mahall’s
09/09 — Indianapolis, IN @ Hi-Fi
09/13 — Detroit, MI @ El Club
09/14 — Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Cafe
09/15 — Buffalo, NY @ 9th Ward
09/17 — Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground
09/18 — Portland, ME @ Portland House of Music
09/20 — Boston, MA @ Sinclair
09/21 — New York, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
09/23 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry
09/24 — Washington D.C. @ Union Stage
09/25 — Charlottesville, VA @ The Southern
09/27 — Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge
09/29 — Athens, GA @ Georgia Theatre
09/30 — Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
I Know I’m Funny Haha is out 6/25 via Secretly Canadian. Pre-order it here.
Since their 2000 debut album Parachutes, Coldplay have remained consistent with their release schedule, pumping out a new album at least once every few years. Their latest full-length effort was 2019’s Everyday Life, and now, two years later, it appears there may be something new in the pipeline. At the very least, Chris Martin and company are up to something.
Earlier today, they shared a link to a website called Alien Radio FM. When accessing the site, the page features a rotating globe, which then turns into a four-pointed star. Moving the cursor across the globe plays multilingual messages from around the world. The site also features some mysterious letter-like symbols, which fans believe they have decoded. A prominent theory indicates the band is releasing a new song called “Higher Power” next Friday, May 7. If the band does release a single next week, it would be their first since Everyday Life and their first of 2021.
Adam Sandler is worth an estimated $420 million. He has enough money to fly in the world’s finest breakfast chef (the short-order cook from Not Another Teen Movie) every morning for his family to enjoy only the tastiest pancakes. Instead, he goes to IHOP in his gym shorts and leaves after being told there’s a wait.
Stars, they’re just like us!
“Pleaseee come back,” IHOP (International Hubie of Pancakes) employee Dayanna Rodas captioned a video on TikTok, along with security camera footage of herself informing Sandler, who she didn’t recognize, and one of his daughters that there would be a wait before they could get a table. The clown makeup and “Hamster Dance” song are nice touches. “Not realizing its Adam Sandler and telling him its a 30min wait and him ofc leaving bc hes not going to wait 30mins for IHOP,” she wrote.
The TikTok has been viewed nearly eight million times, but it’s not because Sandler gets angry for being told he has to wait. He doesn’t play the “do you know who I am?” card to cut the line; it appears he leaves and presumably goes somewhere else for mediocre omelettes, like you and I would. Also, check out his outfit. A baggy shorts-wearing king.
“He lives in my neighborhood and frequents one of the restaurants I do and he’s very down to earth,” someone on Reddit wrote (as spotted by Bro Bible). “Doubt he was mad he didn’t get preferential treatment, he’s always so chill.” I do have one question, though: What do you think his usual order at IHOP is? I bet it’s a short stack of pan… clocks.
Recently, HBO Max revealed a quick teaser for original comedy series That Damn Michael Che, and that title tells us (with absolutely no subtlety, which I appreciate) which SNL star will be front and center. However, several other SNL stars from today and yesteryear are right beside him, and that includes Colin Quinn, who previously admitted that he wasn’t the best fit for Weekend Update, but he seems to be a good fit for a priest who’s gearing himself up to hear all of Michael Che’s sins.
Are these comedic sins (recently, he did tell a controversial joke about Israel’s vaccine rollout), or sins in general? We’ll have to wait to find out the answer to that question, but elsewhere in this trailer, we learn that the six-episode season won’t shy away from tackling the all-too-timely issue of policing, and the series promises appearances from Cecily Strong, Heidi Gardner, Ellen Cleghorne, and Colin Jost. Also expect to see Billy Porter, Method Man, Omari Hardwick, and Geoffrey Owens as part of the seemingly endless lineup. From the synopsis:
This groundbreaking new original comedy series uses sketches and vignettes to illustrate what it feels like to experience various every-day situations including racial profiling, unemployment, falling in love and more, from Michael’s perspective.
HBO Max’s That Damn Michael Che will debut on May 6.
Indie music has grown to include so much. It’s not just music that is released on independent labels, but speaks to an aesthetic that deviates from the norm and follows its own weirdo heart. It can come in the form of rock music, pop, or folk. In a sense, it says as much about the people that are drawn to it as it does about the people that make it.
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Jeff Rosenstock – Ska Dream
Jeff Rosenstock surprise-released his latest album No Dream a little under a year ago, and now he’s gone ahead and done it again. Except this time, he re-made No Dream entirely as a ska album. Sounds like a joke, but it isn’t, and Ska Dream is actually an extremely fun listening experience and a nice momentary reprieve from near-constant mayhem. “As with most things ska in my life, what started out as a fun goof with friends eventually morphed into ‘Hey, what if we tried to make it good though?’,” Rosenstock wrote in a statement.
Dinosaur Jr. – Sweep It Into Space
Dinosaur Jr. have been around for nearly 40 years at this point, but their latest Sweep It Into Space shows no signs of slowing down for the veteran alt rockers. The new album was produced by breezy maestro Kurt Vile, and features some of Dinosaur Jr.’s most accessible work to date.
Remember Sports – Like A Stone
Three years after renaming themselves Remember Sports and releasing their first album under the moniker, the Philadelphia outfit is back for another round with Like A Stone. The group says that the making of the record was a truly collaborative experience, with each member’s musical influence making its way onto the final product. This collective experience definitely comes through across Like A Stone, which guitarist Jack Washburn described in a statement as “communal and loud and cathartic, but also kinda confidential and private.”
Dave Grohl & Violet Grohl – “Nausea”
Dave Grohl often speaks about his daughter Violet’s musical abilities, and even had her perform featured vocals on the latest Foo Fighters album. Now, the father and daughter have teamed up for a cover of X’s “Nausea,” which he called in an Instagram post “a moment that superseded anything musical. A life moment that I will cherish forever. A family moment.” I’m not tearing up, you are.
Chvrches – “He Said She Said”
Chvrches spent the last few weeks reactivating their social accounts in anticipation of something new, and now the moment has finally come for the band to launch their new era. Though there is no official album announcement just yet, the band shared “He Said She Said,” which Derrick Rossignol calls for Uproxx “a giant electro-pop tune with gigantic drum sounds and expansive synths.”
Hot Mulligan – “Pop Shuvit (Hall Of Meat, DUH)”
On their new EP, pop-punk heroes Hot Mulligan don’t sound very much like pop-punk heroes anymore. “Pop Shuvit” employs more pop sensibility than we’re used to from the Michigan band, and serves as a preview of their new EP I Won’t Reach Out To You,, which is all about deteriorating interpersonal relationships.
Pronoun – “I Wanna Die But I Can’t (Cuz I Gotta Keep Living)”
Pronoun released one of our favorite sleeper albums in 2019 with I’ll Show You Stronger. Now, Alyse Vellturo is prepping a short-form follow-up with a new EP entitled OMG I Made It. “I Wanna Die But I Can’t” is the first taste of the EP, and employs a similar lo-fi indie-pop vibe built upon harmonies and buzzing guitars that Vellturo perfected on I’ll Show You Stronger.
Ellis – “Hospital”
Just about a year after sharing her dreamy debut LP Born Again, Ellis is back with a new EP. “Hospital” is what Carolyn Droke calls for Uproxx a “cascading and tenderhearted track” that was inspired by the songwriter’s accident-prone tendencies.
Bachelor – “Sick Of Spiraling”
Two of the strongest songwriters in indie rock come together in Bachelor, which features both Jay Som’s Melina Duterte and Palehound’s Ellen Kempner. “Sick Of Spiraling” is the latest teaser from the duo’s forthcoming debut album Doomin’ Sun, which Derrick Rossignol describes for Uproxx as a “mid-tempo tune [with] some pleasing alt-country influences worked in.”
Jhariah – “Flight Of The Crows”
Jhariah is what you get when you mix the vocal grandeur of a band like Muse with the unpredictability of Radiohead? “Flight Of The Crows” starts out with a spastic drum beat before busting into an almost Broadway-worthy reprise. It’s something completely unique.
Frances Grove – “Get Well Soon”
Utilizing just a lone finger-picked guitar and layered vocal harmonies, Frances Grove delivers a full drama over the course of only four minutes. “Get Well Soon” is reminiscent of the most introspective numbers of Phoebe Bridgers’ Punisher, employing similar lyrical stylings and emotional weight.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
When Soccer Mommy released her anticipated sophomore album Color Theory in late February of 2020, she had no way of knowing that her album rollout would be cut short by the pandemic. But now that venues are getting ready to reopen their doors, Soccer Mommy is giving fans another chance to catch her new music on stage with a rescheduled fall 2021 tour.
After previously canceling her 2020 tour, Soccer Mommy offered fans a clever way to suffice. She shared a number of 8-bit videos for her track “Crawling In My Skin,” which showed the band performing at tourist destinations in five different cities. But of course, no video can replace the euphoria of experiencing music live and in a crowd, so Soccer Mommy has made sure to hit a number of major locations across North America with her upcoming tour.
Check out Soccer Mommy’s fall 2021 tour dates below.
09/15 — Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse *
09/16 — Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle *
09/17 — Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar *
09/18 — Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer *
09/19 — Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club *
09/21 — Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel *
09/22 — Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club *
09/23 — Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club *
09/25 — Montreal, QC @ Fairmount Theatre *
09/26 — Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre *
09/28 — Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop *
09/29 — Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall *
10/01 — Nashville, TN @ Cannery Ballroom *
10/21 — Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall ^
10/22 — Austin, TX @ Emo’s East ^
10/23 — Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater ^
10/26 — Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom ^
10/27 — San Diego, CA @ Music Box ^
10/28 — Los Angeles, CA @ Fonda Theatre ^
10/29 — San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore ^
10/31 — Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre ^
11/01 — Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall ^
11/02 — Boise, ID @ Olympic ^
11/04 — Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre ^
11/06 — Omaha, NE @ Waiting Room ^
11/07 — Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue ^
11/08 — Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre ^
11/09 — St. Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall ^
* with Squirrel Flower
^ with Emily Reo
Color Theory is out now via Loma Vista. Get it here.
At just 20 years old, Willow already has over a decade of experience in the music industry. With four albums to her name already, Willow is able to take her music in all sorts of directions. That’s why with her upcoming LP, Willow is showing off her pop punk side. The musician released her Travis Barker-featuring track “Transparent Soul,” ushering in a new era of music.
Willow’s “Transparent Soul” single arrived alongside an equally energetic visual. With expressive vocal delivery, Willow leans on raucous guitars to serve up a scathing critique of someone’s character. “I knew a boy just like you / He’s a snake just like you / Such a fake just like you / But I can see the truth,” she sings.
The musician’s new song is a callback to the artists she grew up listening to in the heyday of pop punk: Avril Lavigne, My Chemical Romance, and Paramore. Speaking about the new direction of her upcoming album, which she has yet to detail, Willow explained why she decided to explore a pop punk sound:
“I never felt like I could sing that kind of music because I was always trained to sing R&B and pop. I realized that it’s not my voice that can’t sing this kind of music. I was afraid to sing this kind of music because I wasn’t sure what people would think.”
Watch Willow’s “Transparent Soul” video above.
Some of the artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
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