Japanese Breakfast Releases Korean Version Of "Be Sweet" Featuring So!YoON! Of Se So Neon

Japanese Breakfast, the musical project of GRAMMY nominated artist and New York Times Best Selling author Michelle Zauner, shares a Korean language version of their hit single “Be Sweet” featuring guest vocals from So!YoON! of Se So Neon.

“We thought it would be fun to put out a special Korean version of ‘Be Sweet’ preceding our upcoming performance in Seoul. Im very grateful Yaeji helped me with the translation over a year ago,” says Zauner. “So!YoON! is one of my favorite indie artists in Seoul right now and I’m so happy we got to collab.”

Japanese Breakfast is currently on tour, dates include headline shows, festival stops at Newport Folk, Fuji Rock, Incheon Pentaport, Primavera, and dates with Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Florence + The Machine, Yo La Tengo, The Linda Lindas and Cate Le Bon. All dates below.

Two Friends and MOD SUN Drop Pop-Punk Perfection with “Timebomb”

The song is their second single of 2022, with an accompanying lyric video

Two Friends team up with MOD SUN on their latest release, “Timebomb,” a sunny song about the highs and lows of summer love. Out July 1st via Helix Records, the song draws inspiration from the pop-punk sounds of our youth, with MOD SUN’s playful lyrics painting a picture of romance that’s as explosive as it is exciting.

MOD SUN connected easily with the duo, explaining that “there's something special about the authenticity of Two Friends. They are clearly doing what they love + almost more importantly to me at least, being themselves. I love this song and had an amazing time making it with them. I got to leave my comfort zone of some of the vocal parts and in turn actually learned some new skills while creating it.”

Snakeships Join Forces With Duckwrth, Drops New Single “ALL AROUND THE WORLD”

Renowned DJ/production duo Snakehips make their return to the release radar with a highly-anticipated collaborative sonic endeavor, “All Around The World ”. Their latest original production boasts a flowing

vocal from rapper / songwriter Duckwrth, and directly follows up the pair’s recent hit single “WATER.” featuring Los-Angeles based talent Bryce Vine, released at the end of this April. The feelgood sonic offering is out July 1st to listen to across all streaming platforms via Helix Records.

Maya Hawke announces sophomore album “MOSS”

Maya Hawke has announced her sophomore album, MOSS, will be released on September 23rd (via Mom+Pop Music). The announcement was made during her appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”

Following the release of her critically acclaimed debut album Blush, Hawke returns with a stunning second album written by Hawke, and in collaboration with Benjamin Lazar Davis, Christian Lee Hutson, and Will Graefe. MOSS serves as Hawke’s meditation on rebirth and acceptance. 

“This record is called Moss because I’ve been gathering a lot in the last few years,” Hawke says about the album. “Sitting still and collecting a green blanket of memories and feelings. Making this record was me trying to get up and shake it off and look at all of it. It was the first step in untangling myself and really trying to look at the rock under the moss.”

Nickelodeon Celebrates Spongebob's Birthsay With Bikini Bottom Bash

Featuring a special line-up of your favorite SpongeBob shows and other surprises

From memes to movies, and most recently, merchandise collaborations with K-pop stars, SpongeBob SquarePants continues to be a big part of pop culture. In celebration of the inimitable sea sponge’s birthday month this July, Nickelodeon presents Bikini Bottom Bash – an epic bonanza of shows and surprises from the SpongeBob universe, now on the Nickelodeon channel and social media.

Kindness in the chaos: Daniels talk about the core of "Everything Everywhere All At Once"

Everything Everywhere All At Once" is now showing in over 80 cinemas in the Philippines

These days, filmmaker Daniel Kwan says, much of art is broadly struggling to confront two things: “One is this feeling of everything happening all at once—how can you put that in a story in a way that is meaningful? And the other is climate change.”

"Everything Everywhere All At Once" is most obviously Daniels' attempt at trying to encapsulate the first part, but you can sense the latter lurking in the background as well. Of course, in Daniels' language, if climate dread is an inspiration, it takes on a decidedly different look: in Jobu's (Stephanie Hsu) evil plan, everything bagel-void threatens to swallow the multiverse and destroy us all. “This project came out of our own anxieties about living in the modern world, and I think everyone I know is trying to capture that,” Kwan says. 

The feeling was already there when they were writing it in 2016, before the Trump Era and the pandemic. “We already felt overwhelmed. And, and as we were writing it, we were like, ‘Oh my God, what is happening? It's getting worse—how could it possibly get worse than this?’” Kwan says. “Everyone is trying to process that feeling, the backdrop of doom, the backdrop of chaos.”

Tove Releases New Single ‘TRUE ROMANCE’

Multi-platinum selling, GRAMMY® Award nominated artist Tove Lo released yet another irresistible earworm titled ‘True Romance,’ along with the news of a forthcoming fifth studio album DIRT FEMME to be released on October 14 (Pretty Swede Records / mtheory). The album tracklist, which was also unveiled today, boasts an impressive lineup of special guests, including SG Lewis (appearing on two tracks), Channel Tres and First Aid Kit.

Pre-order/add/save DIRT FEMME HERE.

Speaking on her highly anticipated forthcoming full-length, the Swedish superstar shared: “Dirt Femme is about me and my relationship with my femininity. When I started out as a writer and an artist, I used to view my feminine traits as weaker and would enhance my masculine traits to get ahead in life. I feel a big energy shift in my environment since then and this album reflects the various ways my feminine side has both helped and hurt me.” She continues “I’m a pansexual woman married to a straight man. I believe masculine and feminine lives on a spectrum in all humans. There are so many more interesting nuances than most people want to accept. Songs on this album will contradict each other, will probably upset some of you, will make you want to dance, cry, fuck and drive your car really, really, fast. It’s extremely personal as always which is why it’s so hard to describe in just a few words. It’s all my feelings, thoughts and questions put together in under 50 minutes with no answers. But I know that I always feel relief and connection when a song just speaks to my emotions without telling me what to do about them. I hope this album reaches that little secret pocket in your heart where all the real stuff is hiding.”

Global R&B star Giveon drops mega-anticipated full-length debut album, Give or Take

The American singer-songwriter releases the music video for new single “Lost Me”

Delivering the R&B event of the summer, GRAMMY-nominated multi-platinum star GIVĒON presents his anxiously awaited full-length debut album, Give Or Take, today via Not So Fast/Epic Records.  Available HERE.

To celebrate the arrival of the record, he just shared the energetic and cinematic music video for the new single “Lost Me.” Watch it HERE. Upbeat production sets the track in motion as guitar wraps around the simmering beat. It culminates on an instantly catchy chorus, “I’m not looking for the one, later but for now I’m having fun.”