Sleigh Bells have announced new tour dates for this coming fall and winter, dubbed the Unannounced Album Tour. As the name suggests, the band will be supporting an as-of-yet-unannounced new album, although they’ve not revealed any further details beyond, “New music coming very soon.” https://thisforall.net/sleighbells/status/1407007137356828674?s=20 The first leg of the …
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No space is safe from the heaviness of our times — even, it appears, a Maroon 5 record. The tone of Adam Levine and company’s seventh LP is downright elegiac. “Toast to the ones that we lost on the way,” Levine offers on “Memories,” a sweet, somber, genuinely felt ballad, …
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