Jordana recently announced her new EP Jordanaland, out November 7th. She previously shared “Still Do” and today she reveals a new song entitled “Like That.”  A reminder of the promises we make to others about caring for ourselves, “Like That” is accompanied by a Alex LaLiberte-directed music video that cheekily finds Jordana exploring the wonderful world of content creation. Los Angeles Hype House! Ring Lights! Choreographed dances! Your influencer besties! What more could you want? Unless…

Jordana says “Like That” is “a song about being totally encapsulated in someone, but at the same time, feeling as though they want you only for superficial reasons. It’s about knowing the situation you’re in is bad for you, even promising to others that you wouldn’t ever degrade yourself again, but your feelings are so intense, it’s difficult to navigate.” 

“If I got what I wanted, would I want the thing I got”

2025 has been a good year for Samia. A critically-adored new record this Spring, a viral breakout for one of her most devastating songs, “Pool,” this Summer, and a Fall that’s kicking off with headline dates across the US & UK, the announcement of her first ever stop at Coachella, and incredibly… a brand new song!

Recorded in Minneapolis only a few months after Bloodless sessions wrapped, “Cinder Block” finds Samia directly weaving a long-time love of legendary songwriter Leonard Cohen into her lyricism. Here, she interpolates two classics, “Suzzane” and “Hallelujah,” singing “I’ve touched your perfect body with my mind” and “this is my Hallelujah.” All over a gentle electric guitar strum that anchors a song swelling with tender persistence and patient intensity.

In other news, Samia was announced for next year’s Coachella – just the first of what is sure to be a busy festival season. She’s on the road right this minute – hit the artist page for tickets.

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