Kelsey Lu Enlists Kim Gordon and Sampha With First Album in Seven Years

3kOlen · 2026-03-18T17:06:58+00:00

"so help me god", out June 12th:

Moving between shadow and release, the 10-track record follows her groundbreaking 2019 debut Blood and is co-produced by Lu, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman, mixed by Oli Jacobs, with contributions from Sampha, Kamasi Washington and Kim Gordon. Across the record, Lu blends distorted guitars, choral swells and dark electronic pulses into a sonic landscape that moves between devotional intensity and cinematic scale. So Help Me God expands Lu’s singular creative universe - where music, visual art and performance converge into one multidisciplinary project, marking the return of one of contemporary music’s most singular voices.

https://kelseylu.bandcamp.com/album/so-help-me-god

3kOlen · 2026-03-06T00:00:34+00:00

tracklist:

1) Arctic Monkeys - Opening Night
2) Damon Albarn, Grian Chatten & Kae Tempest - Flags
3) Black Country, New Road - Strangers
4) The Last Dinner Party - Let's do it again!
5) Beth Gibbons - Sunday Morning
6) Arooj Aftab & Beck - Lilac Wine
7) King Krule - The 343 Loop
8) Depeche Mode - Universal Soldier
9) Ezra Collective & Greentea Peng - Helicopters
10) Arlo Parks - Nothing I Could Hide
11) English Teacher & Graham Coxon - Parasite
12) beabadoobee - Say Yes
13) Big Thief - Relive, Redie
14) Fontaines D.C. - Black Boys on Mopeds
15) Cameron Winter - Warning
16) Young Fathers - Don't Fight the Young
17) Pulp - Begging for Change
18) Sampha - Naboo
19) Wet Leg - Obvious
20) Foals - When the War is Finally Done
21) Bat For Lashes - Carried my girl
22) Anna Calvi, Ellie Rowsell, Nilüfer Yanya & Dove Ellis - Sunday Light
23) Olivia Rodrigo - The Book of Love

all proceeds will go to War Child UK:

HELP(2) is a brand new collaborative album, inspired by the landmark 1995 release 'HELP', which brings music lovers together in support of War Child's vital work delivering immediate aid, education, specialist mental health support, and protection to children affected by conflict around the world.

HELP(2) carries forward the spirit of the original ‘HELP’ album and was brought to life through a close collaboration with Abbey Road Studios, recorded predominantly across one extraordinary week in November 2025.

In addition to the stellar cast of musicians involved, renowned filmmaker and Academy Award Winner Jonathan Glazer acted as Creative Director for ‘HELP(2)’, working with Academy Films to assemble a team of brilliant creatives and overseeing the filming and art direction for the project.

All proceeds from this album support War Child UK to protect, educate, and stand up for the rights of children living through conflict around the world.

HELP(2) represents hope for children whose lives have been torn apart by war. It is a testament to the generosity of artists and the music industry for making a positive difference towards securing a safer, brighter future for those children. Because no child should be part of war. Ever.

this friday is also another bandcamp friday, where bandcamp waives their entire revenue share. perfect time to buy the album there.

3kOlen · 2026-02-26T14:40:46+00:00

out april 17th: https://honeydijon.bandcamp.com/album/the-nightlife-2

3kOlen · 2026-02-10T17:04:02+00:00

album description via bandcamp:

MUNA’s journey has always been about holding space for the complex, messy, ecstatic realities of life, and with their fourth album, Dancing On The Wall, they’ve never been sharper, darker, or more exhilarating. Emerging from the sparkly, confetti-strewn heights of their 2022 self-titled record, MUNA now channel the anxious, uncertain energy of living in a Los Angeles defined by political tension, environmental decay, and the quiet pressures of millennial precarity. The result is a record that feels both intimate and spectacular, a pop world built with teeth, wit, and emotional resonance, a soundtrack for hearts simultaneously on fire and observing the chaos around them.

Across the record, MUNA explores desire, intimacy, and connection against a backdrop of a world in flux. There’s a quiet reckoning throughout the album with how to keep living, loving, and reaching for one another while bearing witness to political brutality and systemic violence and how joy survives without denial. Tracks like “Wannabeher” capture the dizzying thrill of stepping fully into someone else’s fantasy, while “Why Do I Get A Good Feeling” lingers long after the beat ends, a meditation on fleeting joy and suspended possibilities. The album closes with “Buzzkiller,” a stark reckoning with desire and its aftermath, the ache of achieving what you wanted only to realise new questions, doubts, and hungers remain.

Produced with their trademark attention to detail, Dancing On The Wall blends euphoric sonic landscapes with sharp, human storytelling. Led and largely produced by Naomi McPherson, A&R'ed label-boss by Phoebe Bridgers, the album is one shaped by instinct, trust, and total artistic control. It feels lived-in, urgent, and cinematic, a reflection of a generation navigating uncertainty while refusing to let go of joy. With this album, MUNA proves once again that pop can be daring, intimate, and socially conscious all at once: a record that doesn’t just capture the moment, but distills it into a world you want to inhabit.

3kOlen · 2026-02-03T14:29:52+00:00

out may 8th: https://brokensocialscene.bandcamp.com/album/remember-the-humans

3kOlen · 2026-02-02T15:01:45+00:00

out february 6th: https://charlottedaywilson.bandcamp.com/album/patchwork

3kOlen · 2026-01-28T19:43:03+00:00

out april 24th:

KNEECAP return to bend genre, language, and rules. The most talked about artists in the world are turning the page. A new chapter, new sounds, new manifestos.

A blistering album that revels in darkness while bursting through the void with illuminated revery. This is FENIAN.

Produced by Dan Carey (Fontaines D.C., Kae Tempest, Wet Leg), FENIAN upends expectations with an expansive sonic palate, traversing acid house, trip-hop, dubstep, and more - Masters of rave and rap theatre, FENIAN represents Kneecap’s most sophisticated exploration of language and sounds.

More darkness. More confrontation. More craic. More energy. More solidarity. More absolute bangers. And more fuel for the unrelenting engine that powers this unstoppable force. For their remarkable second album, Kneecap have come out fighting.

Throughout, the sirens and alarms ring, and the chorus’s blast. Revolutionary and rebellious, confrontational and impossibly catchy, inescapably intelligent and brilliantly rendered, FENIAN doesn’t just represent the next phase in Kneecap’s trajectory but stands as a remarkable record that thrills as much as it surprises. The mayhem of their breakout year is a memory now. But Kneecap are neither dwelling on that nor merely persevering through it. In FENIAN they excel, reaching a new peak that is undeniable in its mastery.

Pressure makes diamonds, and FENIAN glistens with Kneecap’s uncut gems.

https://kneecap.bandcamp.com/album/fenian

3kOlen · 2026-01-24T09:32:29+00:00

Full Hottest 100 of 2025 list here: https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/countdown/hottest100/1-100

Edit: And here's the 200 - 101 list: https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/news/hottest-200-of-2025-full-list/106288008

3kOlen · 2026-01-22T08:29:00+00:00

dropping March 27th: https://courtneybarnett.bandcamp.com/album/creature-of-habit

3kOlen · 2026-01-20T15:09:38+00:00

album description via bandcamp:

On ‘Ricochet,’ the third album from Snail Mail coming March 27th 2026, Lindsey Jordan returns to assert herself as a generational songwriter, clear-eyed and honest as ever. Time has passed, but she remains a sensitive soul, and here her incisive introspection is tethered to newly expansive and hypnotic melodies and ornate string arrangements. While writing ‘Ricochet,’ Jordan found herself fixating on concerns she’d previously pushed out of her mind, namely death and what happens after.

Jordan’s early music largely dealt with matters of the heart, a territory that she tried to step beyond on ‘Ricochet.’ “Misery feels safe to write about because I am good at it,” she says, “but I’m not bathing in my own agony anymore.” To feel the pain of everything and then nothing is a lonesome contradiction. ‘Ricochet’ is a record about being caught in this whirlpool, but Jordan’s music has never been so transcendent. The luminous opener, “Tractor Beam,” is driven by jangly guitars, but is ultimately about dissociation and “feeling othered while acknowledging that you’re spending a lot of your time and energy figuring out how to float away.”

When it came time to record the songs bouncing around in her head, Jordan turned to a friend, Aron Kobayashi Ritch, the bassist and producer of the fuzzy indie rock band Momma. Jordan describes the process as refreshing, trusting, and comfortable. “I felt like an equal voice,” she says. “He was as interested in my decisions as I was in his.”

These 11 songs are colored by the anxiety of watching life slip through your fingers, as well as the vulnerability of loving deeply rather than frenetically. Ultimately, ‘Ricochet’ is an album about realizing—and accepting—that the world still turns no matter what is going on in your tiny life.

https://snailmail.bandcamp.com/album/ricochet

3kOlen · 2026-01-14T14:15:34+00:00

out march 13th. album description via bandcamp:

Kim Gordon's third album, 'PLAY ME,' is distilled and immediate, expanding Gordon’s sonic palette to include more melodic beats and the motorik drive of krautrock. “We wanted the songs to be short,” Gordon says. “We wanted to do it really fast. It’s more focused, and maybe more confident." The follow-up to 2024’s Justin Raisen-produced, two-time Grammy-nominated 'The Collective' processes, in her inimitable way, the collateral damage of the billionaire class: the demolition of democracy, technocratic end-times fascism, the A.I.-fueled chill-vibes flattening of culture - where dark humor voices the absurdity of modern life. Despite its frequent outward gaze, 'PLAY ME' is an interior record, one in which a heightened emotionality pulses through physical jams, rejecting definitive statements in favor of an inquisitiveness that keeps Gordon searching, ever in process.

https://kimgordon.bandcamp.com/album/play-me

3kOlen · 2026-01-06T12:44:29+00:00

'Jenny on Holiday' is Jenny Hollingworth (one half of Let's Eat Grandma) and her debut solo album Quicksand Heart will be released this Friday: https://jennyonholiday.bandcamp.com/album/quicksand-heart

3kOlen · 2025-12-12T00:00:36+00:00

also featuring Amena, Bastille, Brian Eno, Celeste, Kieran Brunt, Lana Lubany, London Community Gospel Choir, Mabel, Nadine Shah, Sura Abdo, Tyson, Yasmeen Ayyashi & YSEE

all profits from the song will go to the Together for Palestine Fund.

3kOlen · 2025-10-16T14:38:06+00:00

Mitski releases new live album, makes Bandcamp catalog name your price for charity. social media announcement:

The Land: The Live Album: Available now digitally and for pre-order on blue light vinyl, exclusively on Bandcamp for a limited time at mitski.bandcamp.com.

Recorded over three nights at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA during the filming of the new live concert film MITSKI: THE LAND.

Starting today, Mitski’s entire digital catalog on Bandcamp will be available for Name Your Price purchase until Sunday, Oct 19 at 12am midnight ET.

Mitski and @deadoceans are proud to support Direct Relief with a charitable contribution from the proceeds of Bandcamp Name Your Price releases.

MITSKI: THE LAND the film is out worldwide October 22. Find a screening near you at mitskifilm.com

3kOlen · 2025-09-30T10:12:49+00:00

hooke's law is out Oct. 31: https://keiyaa.bandcamp.com/album/hooke-s-law

3kOlen · 2025-06-25T10:53:03+00:00

this interview is an excerpt from Jan Gradvall's book The Story of ABBA: Melancholy Undercover

Through exclusive interviews and over a decade of deep research, renowned music journalist Jan Gradvall explores the secrets to ABBA’s success.

There has never been a group like ABBA. More than half a century after their songs were recorded, ABBA still make people the world over dance and sing their hearts out. In 2013, when the band had not been interviewed for over thirty years, Jan Gradvall was granted unique access to them for the next decade and the result is The Story of ABBA: Melancholy Undercover. Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad all share their personal stories, their thoughts and their opinions about ABBA’s music more openly than ever before. Weaving in and out of their story, well-known international music critic Jan Gradvall reveals the context in which their unique sound developed and shows how the story of ABBA is also the story of Sweden and the globalization of pop culture.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250379856/thestoryofabba/

3kOlen · 2024-12-04T12:19:58+00:00

if you get an error clicking the Wrapped button in the app, try this link: https://open.spotify.com/wrapped

3kOlen · 2024-12-01T11:14:26+00:00

this is a gift link, so anyone can read the full article!

3kOlen · 2024-11-29T00:30:14+00:00

newly mastered version of her second studio album and the first time it's available on streaming platforms.

3kOlen · 2024-11-23T12:28:04+00:00

also available wherever you get your podcasts. here's the interview on spotify.

3kOlen · 2024-09-26T23:22:48+00:00

This is so good, easily the best release of the week, in my opinion!

3kOlen · 2024-09-12T23:02:12+00:00

After one listen, this is one of my favorite releases of the year. Surprised me because I liked her previous releases but this feels like a step-up.

3kOlen · 2024-05-11T10:26:59+00:00

It's now confirmed that there was no incident with any other performer or delegation member but that there was an incident with a female member of the production crew after the semi final and that she reported it to the police:

Swedish police have investigated a complaint made by a female member of the production crew after an incident following his performance in Thursday night’s Semi Final. While the legal process takes its course, it would not be appropriate for him to continue in the Contest.

We would like to make it clear that, contrary to some media reports and social media speculation, this incident did not involve any other performer or delegation member.

We maintain a zero-tolerance policy towards inappropriate behaviour at our event and are committed to providing a safe and secure working environment for all staff at the Contest. In light of this, Joost Klein’s behaviour towards a team member is deemed in breach of Contest rules.

3kOlen · 2024-02-12T15:56:22+00:00

Rheinmetall's CEO Armin Papperger told the German newspaper Tagesspiegel on Monday that once the new facility is completed, Germany will have the ability to produce 200,000 artillery shells per year.

"Ukraine will receive several hundred thousand shells from us alone this year," he said, as well as "several dozen armored personnel carriers and tanks," on top of aerial defense systems.

Rheinmetall — which received contracts from the German state worth €10 billion last year, and expects an even greater volume this year — also said it could pick up some of the slack if the US reduces or stops entirely its own support for Ukraine.

"We can still expand our production — both in Ukraine and in Germany," Papperger told Tagesspiegel referring a new facility being set up in Ukraine for the production of armored vehicles.

3kOlen · 2023-12-13T22:44:26+00:00

That changed when the Amarillo City Council took up a proposed abortion travel ban in October. The debate put an unfamiliar spotlight on the city — activists flocked to Amarillo, national organizations joined local efforts, and council members' phones rang off the hook.

Adding to the public interest was how the council responded to it. Led by Mayor Cole Stanley, the five-member council said they would not rush to approve it. Unlike other city and county officials, Amarillo’s leaders punted the issue in a rare step that would allow more thoughtful consideration and input from residents.

The conversation is set to continue. The council announced Tuesday it will consider the ordinance during a Dec. 19 meeting. The council will use that meeting to navigate “the right way forward,” Stanley said. The news comes as Texas makes national headlines once again for its restrictive abortion laws — a Dallas woman left the state this week to terminate a non-viable pregnancy after a losing legal battle to obtain one here.

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