Samia continues to ride an insane wave of online attention from her gut-wrenching NPR Tiny Desk performance of The Baby album-opener “Pool.” There are quite literally hundreds of thousands of TikTok videos using the audio, and fans old and new have been asking for the Tiny Desk songs on streaming ever since the clip went viral in late July.

Today we mark the fifth anniversary of her debut record with the announcement a special digital-only edition featuring performances from the NPR Tiny Desk Concert (thanks to NPR Music for helping make this happen!), alongside previously-released artist covers and remixes from the likes of Bartees Strange, Palehound, Anjimile, Briston Maroney, Christian Lee Hutson and more from The Baby Reimagined.

The collection is out September 5th – pre-save here.

Samia on the success of “Pool” and the anniversary of The Baby: “Tiny Desk is like the GRAMMY’s to me – I still can’t believe they let me do that. I was struggling to stay conscious during the concert but it was the honor of a lifetime. The NPR version of ‘Pool’ resonating online is just a giant cartoon cherry on top. I’m still proud of ‘The Baby’ five years later and feel grateful that it’s meant something to some people.”

Jordana’s music has always possessed a unique sense of place.

You can hear the stillness of a Kansas bedroom on her 2020 debut Classical Notions… Humid late night New York walks on her double EP Something To Say To You. There’s the kaleidoscopic otherworldliness of Summer’s Over, her collab release with TV Girl. The unmistakable sunshine of LA on 2024’s Lively Premonitions. But on her new semi self-titled project, Jordanaland, the 25-year-old songwriter has officially crafted a place all her own.

Out on November 7th via Grand Jury, the EP was recorded with her friends Charlie Kilgore & Julian Kaufman of offkilter pop group MICHELLE, the EP drops Jordana in her most brightly-colored surroundings yet. Mixed by a pair of Grammy Award winners in Olli Jacobs (Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift, beabadoobee) & David Pizzimenti (Ella Mai, Ed Sheeren, Travis Scott), these songs soar with a sonic confidence that has previously only made occasional appearances in her discography.

Lead single “Still Do,” out today, is a study in the begrudging love we maintain for the people who let us down, as she sings “Made a father from a young girl / When you left I had to be what you ought’ve been / Now you’re back and I’m your whole world / And I know I better not let you in again.” Listen now HERE and watch Jordana claim her independence in the OTIUM-directed music video courtesy of news anchor Jordana Nye below.

Jordanaland Tracklist:
01 Burning Me Down
02 Like That
03 Still Do
04 Blouse
05 I Wanna Be
06 Hard Habit to Break
07 Jordanaland

Late last month, a user on TikTok uploaded a snippet from Samia’s 2023 NPR Tiny Desk Concert. It was the heart-rending climax of the song “Pool,” the album opener from her 2020 debut The Baby. In a matter of days, the sound had been used over 15K times, SZA shared the performance on her IG story, and fans clamored for a stripped back version a’la the viral clip on streaming services.

Today, fans get exactly what they asked for, as Samia releases “Pool (Stripped),” a live-in-the-room re-record featuring an all star cast of her musician friends from Minneapolis and beyond: touring keyboardist Sam Calvoro, Bloodless tour opener Raffaella, bassist Lily Belle Govrik, and Hippo Campus’ Whistler Allen and Jake Luppen. The result somehow makes the heartbreak even harder…

Watch the original performance that started it all below.

And, if you haven’t already, grab your tickets to Samia’s upcoming US & UK headline shows – a lot of new people are discovering the world of Samia, so tickets are going fast.

Sex Week release their new EP, Upper Mezzanine, today. Of the unpredictable, sometimes gloomy, sometimes playful EP, the band says “’Upper Mezzanine’ was chosen as our second EP title because it represents a level that doesn’t really exist. Somewhere in between. You’re grateful to not be in the nosebleeds, but you’re also not in the orchestra seating. We’re still discovering our identity with every song we make, and so this batch of songs helped shape us and hopefully potential future songs.”

To mark the release the band has shared a video for EP highlight “Moneyman,” directed by Poppy Shaw. “‘Moneyman’ is about having to pay the “money man” money, all while keeping love alive. Everyone in America has a moneyman, a stranger waiting to be paid, whether it be an actual person or a credit card company.” The video was shot in Vegas earlier this year.

The band celebrates the EP release in their native NYC tomorrow night at TV Eye, before heading over to the UK later this month. Dates and tickets on the artist page.

Today marks the release of blue bird rain cloud, the new EP from dog eyes. The Oakland folk duo of Hailey Firstman & Davis Leach made their Grand Jury debut last year on the tranquil yet scrappy Holy Friend. Here, they open the aperture up thematically and ground the sonics in even more organic instrumentation and more inveterate Americana. The results are rewarding.

The band started the celebration earlier this week with the music video for semi-title-track “bluebird.” Like the song itself the clip, directed by Angela Zamora, is a gentle rush of nostalgia & yearning.

The EP is available on limited edition cassette here. The band plays a sold out release show next week in Oakland.

Today Brooklyn’s Sex Week release another teaser single from their forthcoming Upper Mezzanine EP, due on August 1st. “Lone Wolf” is maybe the best distillation of what the duo of Pearl Amanda Dickson and Richard Orofino do best: a witchy brew of sinister slowcore and truly tuneful melody. “We wanted the song to sound how a dungeon feels,” muses the band. Mission accomplished. Go lock yourself inside of this one right now here.

Meanwhile, the band has also made a limited-edition CD version of the EP available for pre-order starting today on Bandcamp. Comes in a classic jewel case with an 8-page booklet. Get yours here.

Last, but certain not least for our friends over the pond, the band has also announced a slew of UK dates to compliment their upcoming festival appearances. All dates below. New UK shows go on sale tomorrow morning. Tickets here.

08/02 – Ridgewood, NY @ TV Eye
08/14-17 – Wales, UK @ Green Man Festival
08/20 – London UK @ Shacklewell Arms
08/22 – Liverpool, UK – Rough Trade Liverpool
08/23 – Nottingham, UK – Rough Trade Nottingham
08/24 – London, UK @ All Points East
08/30 – Manchester, UK @ Manchester Psych Fest

Last month, dog eyes announced their new EP blue bird rain cloud. It’s the follow up to last year’s holy friend, a song cycle with a distant and fragile quality that worked like a magnifying glass for life’s tiniest moments. On their new EP, the band maintain their light touch while approaching their arrangements with a newfound sense of adventure. This was immediately evident on the pulsing background synths of the EP’s first single “i remain,” and the duo’s sonic palette expands further on their latest single “nano,” everywhere today.

“nano” is a song about an ancient iPod re-envisioned as a lighthouse. Built around a looped piano, from which Firstman and Leach’s vocal layers expand outward, the track has a hypnotic beauty that recalls Sung Tongs-era Animal Collective, a spacier Florist, or a slightly gentler @.

Firstman says of the track: “Nano was born from Davis sending me some guitar he’d written and I experimented with singing over it. The lyrics were very stream of consciousness and culminated into a sort of dreamlike feeling, zooming in and out quickly from small to big. “Nano iPod, lighthouse in the fog,” is my favorite line, thinking back to childhood holding my beat up pink nano, it felt like I was holding a whole world. That concept in general feels very woven throughout the whole ep. Small feeling big and big feeling small.”

Get the limited edition cassette over on Bandcamp now.

Upper Mezzanine is the second EP from Sex Week, coming August 1st.

Where the music of Pearl Amanda Dickson & Richard Orofino’s self-titled debut felt like momentarily glimpses of something scary and exciting – here things feel far more visceral, each track a focused punch delivered directly from the gut. Today they share “Coach,” a melange of mutant bluegrass rave music, animatronic Americana, and putrified pop.

“I still want people to be singing along and taking the melodies away with them, but the darkness of this EP is obviously there,” says Dickson. “The world is scary right now. I’m scared in lots of ways, and I think that omnipresent feeling definitely snuck into Upper Mezzanine.”

Pre-save the EP now.

Tracklist:
01 Coach
02 Lone Wolf
03 Beethoven
04 Coat
05 Moneyman

dog eyes return today with “i remain,” the first single from their forthcoming EP, blue bird rain cloud, set for release on July 25th. Where their debut for Grand Jury, holy friend, kept its focus small, the latest EP from the Bay Area duo of Hailey Firstman and Davis Leach expands the aperture while maintaining the delicate sensibility of their last album.

“Many of these songs are about extremes, powerful joys and grievances,” says Firstman. “But they are not set right in the middle of the moments, the action, rather they are told like memories, hazy and gentle.”

Lead single “i remain” is built from simple parts: a patient acoustic guitar, hand claps in another room, and a swirling breeze of Firstman and Leach’s vocal. “You’re gonna give your loving heart away or I’ll remain, you stay the same,” goes the refrain. “It feels like a coming of age moment,” says Leach. “Coming to terms with how all things, including love, have to change over time for better or worse.”

The EP is available for pre-order now, on a limited edition run of 200 pink cassettes over on our Bandcamp, with artwork pulled from a painting from the bands own Hailey Firstman.

blue bird rain cloud Tracklist:
01 bluebird
02 trophy, honey
03 nano
04 i remain, you stay the same
05 eyes

Running a record label is the most rewarding on days like today, when months of hard work culminate in the release of something truly special. And special doesn’t even begin to describe Bloodless. Samia essentially began work on it the moment Honey was released in January 2023. She labored over song after song. Toiled in studios in Minneapolis & North Carolina. Agonized over every detail. What she eventually emerged with is a stunning thirteen track collection, woven together by a deep introspection about the nature of the self. Who are we? Do we even exist outside of the perceptions of others? Heavy material, made even more intriguing by the music paired with it. Working once again with Grand Jury compatriots Caleb Wright (Baby Boys) & Jake Luppen (Hippo Campus, Lupin & Baby Boys), the album is just as fluent in the language of folk or Americana as it is in hulking indie rock, finding ways to adorn both with darings textures and sonic adventurousness.

Like the already-classic line on “Proof” – “you don’t know me, bitch” – pigeon-hole Bloodless at your own risk.

But enough about how much we love this thing! Now you can listen. Today it’s everywhere. On streaming services. In record stores. Tomorrow it’s on tiny stages in the UK at a sold-out in-store tour. And next month it’s on massive stages across the US. Speaking of those stages, alongside the Tuesday release of album-highlight “Carousel,” Samia announced an entire second run of American tour dates this time alongside Hank Heaven & Renny Conti. See them all below, and get tix here.

Tour Dates:
04-25 – Brighton, UK – Resident SOLD OUT
04-26 – Bristol, UK – Rough Trade SOLD OUT
04-28 – Liverpool, UK – Rough Trade SOLD OUT
04-29 – Leeds, UK – Jumbo SOLD OUT
04-30 – Nottingham, UK – Rough Trade SOLD OUT
05-01 – London, UK – Rough Trade East [Matinee Show] SOLD OUT
05-01 – London, UK – Rough Trade East SOLD OUT
05-20 – Portland, ME – Portland House of Music SOLD OUT
05-21 – Boston, MA – House of Blues *
05-22 – Northampton, MA – Academy of Music *
05-24 – Toronto, ON – Opera House * LOW TIX
05-25 – Montreal, QC – Le Studio TD *
05-26 – Burlington, VT – Higher Ground *
05-28 – Philadelphia, PA – TLA * LOW TIX
05-30 – New York, NY – Brooklyn Steel *+ SOLD OUT
05-31 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club * SOLD OUT
06-02 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall *
06-03 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall * SOLD OUT
06-05 – Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall *
06-06 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue * LOW TIX
06-07 – Kansas City, MO – Truman * LOW TIX

++JUST ANNOUNCED++
09-08 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West +
09-09 – Birmingham, AL – Saturn +
09-11 – Dallas, TX – Echo +
09-12 – Austin, TX – Scoot Inn +
09-13 – Houston, TX – Heights +
09-16 – Phoenix, AZ – Crescent +
09-17 – San Diego, CA – Music Box +
09-19 – Los Angeles, CA – Fonda +^
09-20 – San Francisco, CA – Fillmore ^
09-22 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom ^
09-23 – Vancouver, BC – Hollywood ^
09-24 – Seattle, WA – Neptune ^
09-26 – Salt Lake City, UT – Soundwell ^
09-27 – Denver, CO – Ogden ^
09-29 – Omaha, NE – Waiting Room ^
09-30 – St. Louis, MO – Delmar Hall ^
10-01 – Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl ^
* w/Raffaella
+ w/ Hank Heaven
^ w/ Renny Conti

The limited Blood Red Deluxe Edition 12″ including an 8-page lyric booklet is available for claiming now over on the GJ Bandcamp. Less than 40 copies remain. An even more limited Bone Deluxe Edition 12″ including lyric booklet just went up today over there too. Clear Smoke indie retail exclusive 12″ is available at your local record store, and maaaaaybe there may be a few left of the Bloodshot Rough Trade exclusive 12″. Links below.