Saturday, August 24, 2019

Around the Tubes: August 24, 2019



I have gotten a plethora of cool press releases have been flooding my inbox recently that you may find interesting. This post will include blurbs on The Avett Brothers, Clairo, chloe mk, The Cerny Brothers, Killer in Our Classroom: Never Again, Apple Music, and The L Word Generation Q.

- Grammy Award®-nominated collective The Avett Brothers performed “High Steppin’” and “Trouble Letting Go” on Jimmy Kimmel Live! The band debuted the artwork for their anticipated album Closer Than Together [American/Republic Records] out Friday, October 4, 2019, on the show. Watch “High Steppin’” Performance HERE. Watch “Trouble Letting Go” Performance HERE.

- Apple Music today announced singer-songwriter Clairo as the latest addition to its Up Next program, Apple Music's monthly artist initiative geared towards identifying, showcasing and elevating rising talent. Following the release of "Pretty Girl" and "Flaming Hot Cheetos", whose videos quickly garnered millions of views, Clairo's debut full-length release Immunity, released earlier this month via FADER Label, quickly earned her praise from fans and critics alike. Co-produced by Clairo with Rostam, the album achieves just the right balance of focus and fuzz, expanding Clairo's sonic vocabulary with melodic lo-fi arrangements, including the breakup lament "Bags" and the same-sex love anthem "Sofia".

- New York-based, “internet-pop” singer-songwriter chloe mk releases the official music video for “David Bowie” today. Watch HERE. Listen to Fantasy EP HERE via Republic Records. Refinery29 premiered the “David Bowie” music video, describing the new visual as “nostalgic” while adding “Chloe’s voice spells out a longing for something more and from a different dimension, as her lyrics are capsuled in static waves of blue and green.”

- Musicians, storytellers, midwestern philosophers, The Cerny Brothers has released their latest single, “Where I’m Going,” ahead of the kickoff of their long-awaited tour this fall where they will open for Christone “KINGFISH” Ingram and Justin Townes Earle on key dates. Already available for purchase and streaming, “Where I’m Going” will be impacting AAA radio on September 3rd as a follow up to "I Wanna Love You." Watch their performance of “Where I’m Going” live at Paste Studios NYC here.

- The newest installment of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning ‘Fuse Docs’ franchise, Minnow Films’ Killer in Our Classroom: Never Again follows students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida as they crusade for stricter gun laws in the aftermath of one of the worst mass school shootings in recent history. US Television Premiere Date: Friday, August 23 at 10p on Fuse.

- Every day deserves a new song to go with it. Today, Apple Music launched New Music Daily, the company's first premiere global editorial playlist to be updated with brand new music every single day. New Music Daily will feature more than 60 tracks that speak to Apple Music's editorial point of view on the best new music from around the world delivered... you guessed it! Daily. Consider it your carefully curated, hand-picked library filled with brand-new, fresh tracks from the best artists across every genre of music, from pop to rap to reggaeton and much more. Additionally Apple Music editors will choose one song each day to feature in the top spot on the playlist and the selected artist will be featured as the New Music Daily playlist cover star for the day. New Music Daily launches today with brand new music from cover star Taylor Swift as well as newly released tracks from Tainy (featuring Ozuna and Anuel AA), Missy Elliott, Jax Jones and 5 Seconds of Summer just to name a few. Check it out HERE and don't forget to add it to your library!

- Showtime has released a first-look teaser for its new series The L Word Generation Q premiering on Sunday, December 8 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The sequel to the groundbreaking drama series THE L WORD®, which originally ran on SHOWTIME from 2004-2009, continues to follow the intermingled lives of Bette Porter (Jennifer Beals), Alice Pieszecki (Leisha Hailey) and Shane McCutcheon (Katherine Moennig), along with new characters Dani Nùñez (Arienne Mandi), Micah Lee (Leo Sheng), Finley (Jacqueline Toboni), Sophie Suarez (Rosanny Zayas) and Gigi (Sepideh Moafi) as they experience love, heartbreak, sex, setbacks and success in L.A.

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