This Week’s New River Music
Song: Mustang
Artist: Kings of Leon
Kings of Leon stormed back after several years of silence with their raucous new single “Mustang.” The song is the first taste of the sibling group’s upcoming ninth studio album, Can We Please Have Fun. The band’s team had this to say of the new album: “a document of one of this era’s great rock & roll bands cutting loose, trying new things, and, yes, having some fun.” It’s described as a return to the group’s “gritty origins while simultaneously finding new gears. It’s the sound of a band unified in vision and purpose, freed from any expectations, and the album the band says they’ve always wanted to make.”
Song: Texas Hold ‘Em
Artist: Beyoncé
With this twangy new single, Beyoncé has become the first Black woman to lead Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. “Texas Hold ‘Em” features a driving acoustic beat (provided by Rhiannon Giddens) and interjections of ‘woo!’ that make the track feel like a “real life hoedown.” Country is arguably more of a departure for Beyoncé than the house and disco sound of Renaissance: Act One, but the heartache and drinking songs of the genre are actually a great fit for her. Like country greats, she has such skill in delivering both wistful poetry and plainspoken sentiment in this song.
Song: Hands Up to the Sky
Artist: Michael Franti
Michael Franti says that his new song “Hands Up to the Sky” is a special song to him. The whole world experienced a lot of loss the past few years, time apart from loved ones, worry, stress; and he lost his father to COVID. It’s a song of release, letting go of emotions that he’s held on to for too long, and it’s a song about finding ease of joy and the triumph of the joy that follows when we come out the other side.
List of Recent River Music
Title | Artist | Album |
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Glue Song | beabadoobee feat. Clairo | Single |
Wanting and Waiting | Black Crowes | Happiness Bastards |
Beautiful People (Stay High) | Black Keys feat. Beck | Ohio Players |
Ice Cream (Pay Phone) | Black Pumas | Chronicles of a Diamond |
More Than a Love Song | Black Pumas | Chronicles of a Diamond |
Modern Girl | Bleachers | Single |
One More Time | blink-182 | Single |
Cool About It | boygenius | the record |
Neon Pill | Cage The Elephant | Single |
Loving You | Cannons | Heartbeat Highway |
White Horse | Chris Stapleton | Higher |
Break Free | Dave Matthews Band | Walk Around the Moon |
Daylight | David Kushner | Single |
Love You Anyway | Devon Gilfillian | Love You Anyway |
Eyes Closed | Ed Sheeran | Minus(-) |
The Glass | Foo Fighters | But Here We Are |
Rescued | Foo Fighters | But Here We Are |
The Tower | Future Islands | People Who Aren’t There Anymore |
The American Dream is Killing Me | Green Day | Saviors |
Hello | Grouplove | I Want It All Right Now |
Eat Your Young | Hozier | Eat Your Young EP |
Francesca | Hozier | Unreal Unearth |
Off My Mind | Joe P | Single |
Wish You The Best | Lewis Capaldi | Broken By Desire to be Heavenly Sent |
Don’t Forget Me | Maggie Rogers | Don’t Forget Me |
Bug Like an Angel | Mitski | The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We |
My Love Mine All Mine | Mitski | The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We |
Dial Drunk | Noah Kahan | Stick Season |
Road To Joy | Peter Gabriel | I/O |
Lose Control | Teddy Swims | I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 1) |
Your Side of Town | The Killers | Single |
Nothing Matters | The Last Dinner Party | Prelude to Ecstasy |
Sinner | The Last Dinner Party | Prelude to Ecstasy |
Mother Nature | MGMT | Loss of Life |
The Alcott | The National feat. Taylor Swift | First Two Pages of Frankenstein |
Good Old Days | The Revivalists | Pour It Out Into The Night |
Angry | The Rolling Stones | Hackney Diamonds |
Lose Control | Teddy Swims | I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part I) |
In Your Love | Tyler Childers | Rustin’ In The Rain |
Atomic City | U2 | Single |
Evicted | Wilco | Cousin |
The Walk Home | Young the Giant | American Bollywood |