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Flavorwire includes 8 Inch Betsy on their “5 Best Songs We Heard This Week” along with Grimes, Logic, Alan Vega, and Big Star’s Alex Chilton.

Despite a barely premature leak of an anticipated album, the scariest news this week has been Trump-related, with the Donald set to make his SNLdebut this Saturday, sharing a stage with takes-no-shit musical guest Sia.

In terms of new music, though, there was a plethora of exciting new options to choose from, but we managed to narrow it down to five of our favorites. There’s a new single from a promising young Def Jam MC, some South American vibes from an ascendant DJ/producer, an oddball supergroup reissue, and new blessings from the goddess known as Grimes. But first, a posthumous release from some influential Chicago scenesters:

8 Inch Betsy — “Get in the Van”

Chicago queer punk outfit 8-Inch Betsy certainly put in the time in their hometown scene, and after more than a decade together, are releasing their final LP, The Mean Days, next Friday, November 13. They’re the last 8-Inch Betsy recordings from singer and songwriter Meghan Gailbraith, who passed away earlier this year from a year-long illness. “Get in the Van” is a bouncy, crunchy pop-punk jam with a dark premise, a bittersweet triumph. LISTEN HERE…

by Baby Robot Media

Ian Fisher live session video of “Almost Darlin” at The Bluegrass Situation

Artist: Ian Fisher
Song: “Almost Darlin'”
Album: Nero
Release Date: Oct 27
Label: Snowstar Records

In His Words: “After playing a concert with Father John Misty, I woke up hungover the next morning and wrote this song while looking down from my old apartment window in Berlin on a street where the Wall used to be thinking about a girl I hoped to never spend the night with again.” WATCH HERE…

by Baby Robot Media

Paste Magazine debuts F.Y.I.’s new single “One Thang”

“One Thang”—the latest single from L.A. rapper F.Y.I.’s new EP Age / Sex / Location—is an urgent, propulsive anthem ready to spread its wings and take flight over the City of Angels. A fresh contribution to the current upper echelon of rappers in F.Y.I.’s hometown (including contemporaries like Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul and SchoolBoy Q), “One Thang” is an unapologetic sonic manifesto about putting every last ounce of energy into whatever it is that’s most important to you. For F.Y.I., it’s clearly his craft—inventive beats, sharp-tongued lyricism, Kareem-caliber skyhook choruses and all. And on “One Thang,” the SoCal emcee brings it all home on the song’s outro with a quick but ultra-satisfying nod to soul legend Etta James.

“The whole thing sounds like Mid-City Los Angeles on steroids,” F.Y.I. says of the new single. “The sound of the song is what the city is about—aggressive, fast-paced, funky, unfuckwitable. I’m basically saying, “Sound the trumpets!” Whatever wave is out right now, it’s my duty to create a tsunami coming from Mid City Los Angeles. Whoever people think is their “Top 5 MC,” I want to work hard to replace one of their favorites and be that person’s new favorite. That ‘one thing’ in my life can symbolize the mic, creativity, opportunity, my relationship with God, my goals to be a legend and well respected in hip-hop, and the intimate connection I want to share with humans who love my music. It can symbolize so much.” LISTEN HERE…

by Baby Robot Media

Louderthanwar interviews the always charismatic Ian Saint Pé before his CMJ performance at The Bowery Electric.

Former Black Lips guitarist, Ian Saint Pé has gone solo and has come out with a pop, almost sunny, garage trash single, entitled “Street Lights”, with vocals very reminiscent to that of Tom Petty, only with a New Orleans flair.

Moments before Ian was to take the stage at the CBGB – like venue Bowery Electric, in New York City, I was able to catch a few minutes with him. He appeared borderline mysterious, and certainly intriguing, reminding me of Tom Cruise in the movie, “I nterview With A Vampire“. I felt nearly compelled to cover my neck as we spoke about his new solo project. READ MORE…

by Baby Robot Media

Nylon calls 8 Inch Betsy “the coolest female-fronted queer band”

8 Inch Betsy is a female-fronted queercore punk band from Chicago. Earlier this year, the band’s frontwoman Meghan Galbraith passed away, leaving a finished album behind. In Galbraith’s honor, 8 Inch Betsy will be releasing their posthumous sophomore album, The Mean Days on November 13 via 307 Knox Records. Today, NYLON premieres their brand new single “Reformatory School.” It’s a song about falling in love too easily and being told who to be instead of knowing yourself. Bassist Eli Burke shared the following in an email:

“Meghan usually recorded new songs in Garageband. Then she would email them to me asking what I thought. We lived together, almost under the tracks of the Brown Line in Chicago. It was super loud. This is what she wrote about the Reformatory School demo: ‘I had a little fun recording this. You can hear the train like crazy cuz I was in the living room. There is a fuck up near the end that I don’t feel like fixing. And the end needs an outro still. Let me know if you like it, or don’t.’ LISTEN HERE…

by Baby Robot Media

Death+Taxes takes an in-depth looks at 8 Inch Betsy’s song “Uh Oh”

8 Inch Betsy will be releasing their posthumous sophomore album, The Mean Days, November 13 on 307 Knox Records. It will be the much-loved Chicago band’s first full-length since 2007’s This Time Last Time Every Time, andDeath and Taxes is honored to be premiering a track off the album: the blistering, emotionally raw “Uh Oh.”

“‘Uh Oh’ is like that moment where you realize the shit is going to hit the fan and you need to hold on,” bassist Eli Burke said of the song. That urgency is reflected in the recording, which begins with sharp, tense guitars before shifting into full-propulsion mode. Singer and guitarist Meghan Galbraith’s intense, howling vocals add impassioned weight to the song’s lyrics, which consider how tenuous a hold we actually have on the things we depend upon for stability and security: LISTEN HERE…