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Week in Pop: Daddy, Mike Sempert, VA Violet

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Delivering some of the brightest & best headlines weekly, Impose’s Week in Pop brings the world a handful of the latest breaking media exclusives & more. Providing you first with a quick news rundown of some of the big buzz you may have missed, Brian Eno & Kevin Shields dropped their collaborative track “Only Once Away My Son”; DOOM & Kaytranada are producing Bishop Nehru’s upcoming album Elevators: Act I & II coming soon; Open Mike Eagle dropped the Brent Bishop video for “No Selling (Uncle Butch Pretends It Don’t Hurt)” starring Human Tornado, Trauma & Kimmy Gatewood; Pussy Riot protested at a certain executive golden bronzed NYC Tower; Frank Ocean’s photo feature; John Maus dropped the Jennifer Juniper Stratford video for “Touchdown”; Migos dropped “Motorsport” ft. Nicki Minaj & Cardi B off the upcoming Culture II; Aaron Maine announced the new Porches album The House available January 19 through Domino & dropped the Nick Harwood co-directed video for “Find Me”; Killer Mike endorsed ATL mayorial candidate Senator Vincent Fort & dropped a new episode of “Talking Shop”; Angel Olsen dropped the video for “Special”; Kanye West curated a zine for his new Yeezy Calabasas fashion line; Earl Sweatshirt’s new fashion line DEATHWORLD; Young Dolph dropped the video for “Point Across” produced by Zaytoven off the recently released Thinking Out Loud album; BIG K.R.I.T. released 4EVA Is A Might Long Time; NSTASIA dropped the video for “Trap or Die”; PARENTZ dropped “Ghost” off the Chill Mega Chill Record compilation The Chiller 5: Call Of The Chiller; RL Grime dropped the mix titled Halloween VI; SOPHIE dropped the Nicholas Harwood co-directed video for “It’s Okay To Cry”; dd elle, aka Dan Casey, dropped the debut self-titled album via Slow Release; Jeezy dropped “Bottles Up” ft. Puff Daddy & Cold Summer” ft. Tee Grizzley; Hovvdy dropped the video for “Petal” off Cranberry available February 9 via Double Double Whammy; Big Shaq, aka Michael Dapaah, dropped “Man’s Not Hot” visual; Boston, MA’s Birthing Hips joined the NNA Tapes family with news that Urge to Merge & dropped “Urge to Merge”; Sremmlife Crew’s Riff 3x dropped the Myles Harris video for “Oh Yeah!”; Alissia, a collaborator of Bootsy Collins, dropped the Bo Mirosseni video for “Get Away”; new Eminem album apparently titled Revival might be imminent; The War on Drugs dropped the Ben Fee video for “Nothing to Find” starring Sophia Lillis; Kevin Morby dropped “Baltimore (Sky at Night)” & “Baltimore (County Line)” as a charity for Baltimore’s Belive in Music; T-Pain dropped the video for “Goal Line” ft. Blac Youngsta; Molly Brazzy dropped the video for “Big Brazy”; Lil Durk dropped the Bama Boy Buck video for “No Fear” off Signed To the Streets 2.5; Gun Outfit dropped the Carrie Keith video for “Sally Rose” off the album Out Of Range available November 10 via Paradise Of Bachelors; The Soft Moon signed to Sacred Bones & dropped “Burn” off the upcoming album Criminal available in February; TUSKS dropped Dissolve on One Little Indian; Br’er dropped Brunch IS for A$$holes via BLIGHT. Records; Bad History Month announced Dead And Loving It: An Introductory Exploration of Pessimysticism available November 3 via Exploding In Sound Records & dropped “A Platitude and a Final Understanding”; Ezra Furman announced the new album Transangelic Exodus available February 9 via Bella Union & dropped “Love You So Bad” & the Joseph Brett video for “Driving Down to L.A>“; Lucianblomkamp dropped part one of the album Sick of What I Don’t Understand; Sufjan Stevens dropped “John My Beloved (iPhone demo)”; Cody Simpson & The Tide dropped the video for “Waiting for the Tide”; The National dropped Allan Sigurðsson & Ragnar Kjartansson video for “I’ll Still Destroy You”; the Knife’s Karin Dreijer announced the new album Plunge available February 23 through Mute/Rabid; celebrating the release of their Bigneck Records self-titled album, Madison, WI’s Fire Heads (ft. members of The Hussy, Proud Parents, Dumb Vision) announced tour dates; Bitchin Bajas announced December tour with their new double album Bajas Fresh available November 17 via Drag City; Franz Ferdinand announced the new album Always Ascending available February 9 through Domino & dropped the title track; They Might Be Giants announced the new album I Like Fun available January 19 & dropped “I Left My Body”; Kicking Giant to reissue This Being the Ballad of Kicking Giant, Halo: NYC/Olympia 1989 – 1993 on vinyl November 17 via Drawing Room Records; Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart announced the new solo album
RAMU available November 10 through Verve Forecast & dropped “Wayward Son” ft. Avey Tare & “Big Bad Wolf” ft. Tank; Tom Waits announced new reissues; Starsailor announced a digital deluxe edition of their album All This Life & dropped an acoustic video for “Listen To Your Heart”; Taylor Swift dropped the Joseph Kahn video for “…Ready For It?”; Sam Smith dropped “Burning”; Charming Liars dropped the video for “Insomnia”; I, Us & We dropped “Tryst”; Thurston Moore & Charles Hayward from This Heat announced collaborative album Improvisations; Japandroids covered Tragically Hip’s “Nautical Disaster”; Billy Corgan covered Miley Cyrus’s “Wrecking Ball”; Against Me! covered the “Squidbillies” theme; Flight of the Conchords announced UK tour; Northern California fire benefit Band Together Bay Area benefit to feature Metallica, G-Eazy, Dave Matthews Band & more; Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis is selling a plethora of musical gear; Aphex Twin track “Windowlicker” featured in a UK safety ad; Gucci Mane & Keyisha Ka’oir’s breathtaking wedding; Macklemore got his astrological chart read by Jessica Lanyadoo; Justin Timberlake to return to the 2018 Super Bowl Halftime show (but what about Janet?); Nicki Minaj called out sexism in the music industry; Drake’s More Life not submitted for 2018 Grammys consideration; Lil B allegedly got jumped by Boogie Wit Da Hoodie at Rolling Loud in Miami; Alice Glass revealed further details of abuse from Crystal Castles’ Ethan Kath (oka Claudio Palmieri); Tori Amos released a statement about a Terry Richardson photoshoot; more R. Kelly abuse allegations surface; Death from Above’s Jesse F. Keeler denied being a part of the alt-right; Kid Rock is apparently not for senate; our warmest thoughts are with Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ Conway Savage for a speedy recovery; we remember Scott Putesky, aka Marilyn Manson co-founder Daisy Berkowitz; we remember Outrageous Cherry’s Larry Ray; we continue to celebrate the life & works of Fats Domino; Morrissey announced a 2018 tour & dropped “I Wish You Lonely”.
Switching gears now to our regularly scheduled content & programming—it is now our pleasure to present interviews, exclusives & insights from Daddy, Michael Sempert, VA Violet, Air Max ’97 x Saturn Rising, Adam Lempel, Cameron Blake, Dream Wife, Drifting in Silence, MERCH, Stimulator Jones, Street Joy, featuring guest selections by Armand Hammer (comprised of Billy Woods & ELUCID) & more—in no particular order.