Every Friday, Case the Producer rounds up the most exciting new tunes in music and serves them up in one easy-to-find blog for you, the Q101 Crew Members.
Bleachers: Me Before You
Bleachers never slowed down after their epic performance at Twisted XMAS last December. Frontman Jack Antonoff racked up another GRAMMY for Producer of the Year in the midst of the rollout for Bleachers’ upcoming self-titled album. This week, they gifted us “Me Before You”, a track detailing a lonelier point in the frontman’s life. Bleachers is due out March 8.
Glitterer: Rationale
Ned Russin is an underground icon. He spent the 2010’s fronting Title Fight, a band that paved the way for the overwhelming success of acts like Militarie Gun and Turnstile. Since 2017, his time has been spent as the driving force behind Glitterer, a simplistic, albeit noisy project that will release their fourth full length record on Friday. Russin proved with this project that his songwriting skills are just as sharp as ever.
Grouplove: Chances
Our friends in Grouplove are gearing up for their upcoming date at The Riv with a new single in “Chances”, a feisty, aggressive number from the band who packed The Cubby Bear last year for a Q101 Pop-Up Performance.
iDKHOW: Gloom Division
iDKHOW haven’t released a full length album since 2020, which is far too long for a band that rocks as hard as they do. They have a chance to turn heads, just as they did at Twisted XMAS 2019 with Cage the Elephant and Angels & Airwaves, with Gloom Division.
Linkin Park: Friendly Fire
Linkin Park is back with another new track from their archives. Today, the band has unearthed “Friendly Fire”, a song from 2017’s One More Light sessions. Talking to Consequences, guitarist Brad Delson said, “Friendly Fire’ was always one of our favorite songs from the One More Light sessions. Something about it wasn’t quite right so as close as it got to the finish line, we chose to set it aside for later. When we started looking for an unreleased track to include on our greatest hits collection, I was blown away by the power of the song, the power of the storytelling, the power of the vocal, the sonic landscape and I actually thought that it was closer than maybe we had realized at the time.”
Linkin Park have announced their new career-spanning greatest hits album, Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000-2023), out April 12th via Warner Records.
MGMT: Loss of Life
February 9, 2018 was the last time that MGMT gave us a new record. The wait is finally over. After a slew of excellent singles, the big enchilada is here with Loss of Life, the group’s fifth studio album. It simply doesn’t get better than this.
