Today, New York City-based musician/producer Yuno is sharing the official video for “Unfair,” a new single from Blest, his forthcoming full-length debut album, out this Friday, May 16th, 2025, worldwide from Sub Pop.
Yuno is also announcing new headline North American tour dates for August in support of Blest, which begin August 15th in Pittsburgh, PA at The Funhouse at Mr Smalls and end on Wednesday, September 10th in Philadelphia, PA at John Brenda’s. Fan presale tickets are on sale Wednesday, May 14th at 10 am (local; pass: BLEST), with tickets on sale to general public Friday, May 16th at 10 am (local)
Preceding these shows are his three East Coast shows for June, which include Wednesday, June 18th in Cambridge, MA at Middle East Upstairs, a hometown album release show on Thursday, June 19th at Brooklyn, NY’s Baby’s All Right, and Friday, June 20th in Washington, DC at DC9.
Wed. Jun. 18 - Cambridge, MA - Middle East Upstairs Thu. Jun. 19 - Brooklyn, NY - Baby’s All Right Fri. Jun. 20 - Washington, DC - DC9 Fri. Aug. 15 - Pittsburgh, PA - The Funhouse at Mr. Smalls Sat. Aug. 16 - Toronto, ON - Sound Garage Sun. Aug. 17 - Chicago, IL - Schubas Tavern Mon. Aug. 18 - Minneapolis, MN - Turf Club Wed. Aug. 20 - Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge Thu. Aug. 21 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court Sat. Aug. 23 - Seattle, WA - Barboza Sun. Aug. 24 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios Tue. Aug. 26 - San Francisco, CA - Brick and Mortar Wed. Aug. 27 - Los Angeles, CA - The Echo Fri. Aug. 29 - San Diego, CA - Casbah Sat. Aug. 30 - Tucson, AZ - Club Congress Sun. Aug. 31 - Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar Wed. Sep. 03 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall (Upstairs) Thu. Sep. 04 - Austin, TX - Mohawk (Inside) Fri. Sep. 05 - Dallas, TX - Rubber Gloves (Indoor) Sun. Sep. 07 - Atlanta, GA - Aisle 5 Mon. Sep. 08 - Nashville, TN - Drkmttr Wed. Sep. 10 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s
All songs on Blest were written and performed by Yuno, co-produced by Yuno and Frank Corr, who also contributed keyboards, drums, and guitar throughout the record. The album also features additional production and instrumentation by Patrick Wimberly (“True,” “Massive”) at The CRC in Brooklyn, and Nick Sanborn at Betty’s in Durham, NC (“True”). Blest was mixed by Steve Vealey and mastered by Joe La Porta.
Blest is available to preorder on CD/LP/All DSPs from Sub Pop. LP preorders from megamart.subpop.com (North America), MM2 (in UK/EU), your local record store and at Yuno’s live shows will receive the limited Loser edition on White vinyl (Limited LP colors whilst stock lasts!).
About Yuno’s BLEST:
Yuno’s full-length debut, Blest, finds the enigmatic indie-pop visionary transforming the emo-tinged suburban malaise of his 2018 Moodie EP into more expansive, widescreen pop drama — suited for big moves and bigger stages. The kaleidoscopic sound he devised as a millennial hermit in his childhood bedroom in Florida has since broadened his horizons, taking him on tour with Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Superorganism, and soundtracking various series for Netflix and HBO. Imbued with elements of dream-pop, rock, trap, and psychedelia, his eclectic songs serve as bids for love and connection, which especially in the fractured era of social media, have resonated with many listeners who find solace in his vulnerability (read more at Sub Pop).
Yuno Blest
Tracklisting: 1. Blest 2. We Belong 3. Massive 4. Unfair 5. Perfect Pear 6. Fall Apart 7. Worst of Times 8. True 9. Gimme Ocean 10. Blitz!
Sub Pop Records (with headquarters in Seattle, WA) is currently searching for an organized, self-motivated, experienced individual to become our full-time Streaming and Digital Promotions (“SDP”) Manager. The SDP Manager position will be based in LA, working both remotely and from our LA office. This position will head up our interactions and presentations with the LA offices of Spotify, Apple, YouTube, and others.
We are accepting resumes through the position closing date of May 27, 2025.
The SDP Manager oversees pitching and strategy of all Sub Pop and Hardly Art releases at DSPs/digital music accounts, and works with Sub Pop’s Audience Development team to support music and video offerings at social accounts that have revenue-generating programs. They also work with the Digital Operations team to coordinate digital assets and set-up for all releases, and to gather assets that may be required for on-platform advertising or marketing. They also handle the hybrid sales/marketing/social YouTube account, managing Sub Pop’s YouTube presence, strategy, and analysis.
DSPs
Coordinate with VP of Sales on strategy for DSP conversations for all Sub Pop and Hardly Art releases. For key releases, send long lead music and email with key marketing points to initiate account marketing plan. Coordinate pitching strategy on weekly calls: servicing specific editors, identifying playlist targets, marketing drivers and evaluating analytics.
Manage digital pitching assets, including Apple, Spotify, and Amazon pitch tool, Youtube pitch tool, etc.
Send weekly update emails to Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Youtube, Tik Tok, Vevo, and Sonos with upcoming Sub Pop and Hardly Art track releases for the following 2 weeks. Follow-up on Thursdays with press, radio, marketing drivers, etc.
Send advance album links to DSP contacts for upcoming releases.
Participate in standing meetings with DSP reps (Spotify, Apple, Youtube, TikTok, Vevo)
Coordinate with the artist teams to maintain artist profiles on DSPs making sure all collateral (photos, bio, playlist, links, etc.) are current. Work with artists/managers for DSP and YouTube backend/admin access.
Coordinate with other US and ex-US Sub Pop team members in pitching to secondary and ex-US accounts.
Upload Spotify Canvas, Clips and Countdown.
Where possible, develop in-person relationships with label relations and programming teams at key DSPs including meeting at shows, industry events, etc.
Coach artists on DSP best practices and distribute DSP onboarding email to educate managers/artists.
Send US placement email updates to marketing staff, artist/manager teams for social sharing and maintain same info in weekly marketing notes.
YouTube
Determine YouTube strategy for all Sub Pop and Hardly Art releases including channel for video hosting, video publication strategy, etc.
Strategize to build subscription base for Sub Pop channel. Audit top 150 videos (standardize descriptions, update links if new music is out, add cards). Strategize to create community on Sub Pop YouTube channel
Update video description, video tags, video title, upload subtitle files, upload thumbnails, etc.
Set up YouTube video premieres manually, set up timed publishing of all other videos
Maintain relationships with YouTube reps to pitch artists for YouTube Marketing opportunities.
Coach artists on use of YouTube community pages, YouTube Shorts and profile management.
Submit artist channels for Official Artist Channel verification.
Social Music Accounts
Develop contacts with label relations teams at TikTok, Meta, Snap, and more as they come online.
Develop familiarity with features: TikTok banner, TikTok live, TikTok shop, Snap lens, Meta lens, Playlisting etc. Learn the landscape of these accounts, spending time on the services as a user, digging into analytics, monitoring what other artists are doing and pitching for opportunities.
Supervisor(s):
DSPs/YouTube: VP of Sales
Social Music Accounts: joint supervision by VP of Sales and Director of Audience Development
Salary Range:
$60,000-$75,000/yr
Description of Benefits:
PTO (Paid time off including sick time) beginning at 15 days per year, 14 paid holiday days, 401k plan with partial employer match, medical/dental/vision insurance paid for employees and partially paid for their family, transportation benefits, discounted merchandise.
Sub Pop Records is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran or disability status. Sub Pop Records will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.
To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to jobapplicants@subpop.com no later than May 27, 2025. Thanks, and good luck!
Today, May 8th, waterbaby has returned with “Amiss,” her lush new single and official video for 2025. The track was written by waterbaby, Marcus White, and Anton Fernandez, produced by White and Fernandez, and mixed by White. It is available today worldwide on all streaming services from Sub Pop.
“Amiss” is the Stockholm-based singer’s first new material since the release of Foam, waterbaby’s 2023 Sub Pop debut EP. That release, led by the hypnotic and evocative technopastoral songs “Airforce blue,” “911,” and “Wishing Well,” led to international acclaim, including the cover of Sweden’s music magazine GAFFA, and coverage from the likes of Bandcamp Daily, CLASH, The FACE, The FADER, The Guardian, The Line of Best Fit, The New York Times, NPR Music, PASTE, Stereogum, and more. Foam also earned waterbaby two 2024 Swedish Grammy Nominations, including “Newcomer of the Year” and “Composer of the Year” (for collaborator White).
What people have said about waterbaby: “waterbaby makes music that is funny, heartfelt and intimate, cramming earworm hooks into warped bedroom pop production.” The Guardian
With themes about love and loneliness, Egerbladh’s songs both break you and build you back up.” “Essential Releases” - Bandcamp Daily
“Under the gaze of auto-tuned vocals and alt-rock textures, waterbaby has forged something wholly original and swing.” [“911”] PASTE
“I was a big fan of ‘Airforce blue,’ the indie-pop-ish, R&B-ish Stockholm singer waterbaby’s first single for Sub Pop. I’m an even bigger fan of the next one. “911,” out today, heralds the impending arrival of waterbaby’s Foam EP. It’s a low-key love song built around a cozy little acoustic guitar figure that plays as a nest for waterbaby’s soft, digitally affected vocals.” STEREOGUM
“The emergency number in Stockholm, the home of the songwriter who calls herself waterbaby, is 112. But in this drowsily understated bedroom-pop song, she clearly has an eye on an American audience: “Call me when you need someone/I could be your 911,” she sings, adding “we-ooh, we-ooh” like a two-note emergency siren. It’s a tentative, guarded offer of affection — “Maybe we could go somewhere/Maybe we could be something” — sung breathily and hesitantly, trying to keep expectations modest.” [“911”] “The Playlist,” THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Airforce blue” flips waterbaby’s indie R&B into an electrified, auto-tuned collage with an easy intimacy.” BROOKLYN VEGAN
“An unguarded DIY R&B moment coming out of the Swedish capital.” [“Airforce blue”] THE FADER
“…a real jewel, a thrilling and evocative slice of future-facing pop.” [“Airforce blue”] “Track of the Day,” CLASH
“A black girl freeing herself through experimentation is inherently groundbreaking, and waterbaby is making comfortable room for herself in the lo-fi realm. Delivering wistful vocals and melancholic indie-pop on her latest EP Foam, we’re getting to know the singer through open veins and a raw lens.” Ones to Watch
Today, May 7th, Frankie Cosmos have shared an official video for their emotive new single “Bitch Heart.” Director, Eliza Lu Doyle shares about the song/video: “To me the song is about being torn between the comforts of domesticated life and your innate wildness. There’s a yearning for a more feral time––before you touched your fucking phone all day. So we made Greta into a dog-shepherd, someone who straddles those two realms. Meanwhile the band performs a line dance that’s somehow constrained and exuberant at once. Everything is shot in the dark using infrared and thermal cameras, hovering in the not-quite-real.”
Frankie Cosmos has announced a World Tour in support of the groups forthcoming long player Different Talking available World-Wide on CD/LP/DSP on June 27th via Sub Pop. The North American dates will begin on Sep. 03 and go through Oct. 25. Fantasy Of A Broken Heart and Moontype are supporting the first leg, Sep.03 -Sep. 20th, and Chris Cohen & Emily Yacina will support the second leg Oct. 09-Oct. 25th. The band will then return to the UK/EU for 7 shows with Babehoven on main support. See below for a full list of shows.
North America: Sat. Jul. 26 - Teulon, MB - Real Love Summer Fest Wed. Sep. 3 - Kingston, NY - Tubby’s # Thu. Sep. 4 - Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts # Fri. Sep. 5 - Washington, DC - Black Cat # Sat. Sep. 6 - Asheville, NC - Eulogy # Mon. Sep. 8 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl # Tue. Sep. 9 - Nashville, TN - Blue Room # Thu. Sep. 11 - Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon # Fri. Sep. 12 - Minneapolis, MN - Varsity # Sat. Sep. 13 - Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall # Sun. Sep. 14 - Detroit, MI - El Club # Mon. Sep. 15 - Toronto, Canada - Great Hall # Tue. Sep. 16 - Montreal, Canada - Bar le Ritz # Thu. Sep. 18 - Portland, ME - Space Gallery # Fri. Sep. 19 - Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall # Sat. Sep. 20 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg # Thu. Oct. 9 - Santa Ana, CA - Constellation Room @ Fri. Oct. 10 - San Diego, CA - Quartyard @ Sat. Oct. 11 - Pioneertown, CA - Pappy & Harriets Pioneertown @ Mon. Oct. 13 - Salt Lake City, UT - Soundwell @ Tue. Oct 14 - Boise, ID - Shrine Social Club @ Fri. Oct. 17 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile @ Sat. Oct. 18 - Tacoma, WA - The Spanish Ballroom @ Sun. Oct. 19 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom @ Tue. Oct. 21 - Sacramento, CA - Harlow’s @ Wed. Oct. 22 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall @ Thu. Oct. 23 - Santa Cruz, CA - Catalyst Club Atrium @ Fri. Oct. 24 - Ojai, CA - Deer Lodge @ Sat. Oct. 25 - Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroom @
UK/EU Sat. Nov. 15 - Dublin, IE - Button Factory $ Mon. Nov. 17 - Manchester, UK - YES (Pink Room) $ Tue. Nov. 18 - London, UK - Electric Brixton $ Fri. Nov. 21 - Paris, FR - Maroquinerie $ Sat. Nov. 22 - Amsterdam, NL - Bitterzoet Sun. Nov. 23 - Brussels, BE - Botanique $ Tue. Nov. 25 - Berlin, DE - Lido $ # Fantasy Of A Broken Heart & Moontype @ w/ Chris Cohen & Emily Yacina $ w/ Babehoven
Different Talking, the sixth and, so far, best album by NYC indie-rock four-piece Frankie Cosmos, exists across time and space, as we all do. It’s a collection of fragments and memories, remembered places, and reinterpreted feelings that adds up to a lucent, humming whole: a sturdy, worldly indie-rock record about aging and the passage of time that nonetheless manages to feel sharply current.
The current configuration of Frankie Cosmos features Greta Kline, Alex Bailey, Katie Von Schleicher, and Hugo Stanley. Kline is the only constant, but Stanley, Bailey, and Von Schleicher are crucial collaborators, and to use the names “Greta Kline” and “Frankie Cosmos” interchangeably would be incorrect. Kline remains the primary songwriter, and the music on Different Talking is arranged by the band as a whole, but this is the first album to be self-tracked by the unit with no external studio producers.
Different Talking is now available to pre-order on vinyl/CD/digital formats from Sub Pop. A Loser Edition LP on Opaque Red is available through the Sub Pop Mega Mart (North America) and White Vinyl via the Mega Mart 2 (UK/EU), and your local record store
Frankie Cosmos Different Talking
Tracklisting: 1. Pressed Flower 2. One of Each 3. Against the Grain 4. Bitch Heart 5. Porcelain 6. One! Grey! Hair! 7. Vanity 8. Not Long 9. Margareta 10. Your Take On 11. High Five Handshake 12. You Become 13. Joyride 14. Tomorrow 15. Wonderland 16. Life Back 17. Pothole
Today, Tuesday, May 6th, Guerilla Toss has released their latest earworm, “Psychosis Is Just a Number,” available worldwide on all digital service providers (DSPs) from Sub Pop. This stand-alone single was produced by Stephen Malkmus and mixed by Jorge Elbrect. It’s a glittering no wave skronk anthem about staying present in the chaos - imagine post-punk Pylon meeting the cheerleaders from the “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video, but they’re obsessed with The Contortions.
This track is the first new material since the release of their 2022 Sub Pop debut, Famously Alive, which Our Culture described as “…their most urgent, vibrant, and deliriously infectious effort to date… Guerilla Toss make being alive sound like a heavenly deal.” The band is currently working on their forthcoming long-player, which is expected to be released later this year.
Guerilla Toss have announced headline shows in NY this Fall - more dates to be announced soon.
Fri. Sep. 12 - Bethel, NY - Bethel Woods (Buildfest) Sat. Sep. 13 - Kingston, NY - Tubby’s Fri. Oct. 16 - Brooklyn, NY - BK Bowl
Debby Friday is announcing The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life, her kaleidoscopic new album out Friday, August 1st, 2025, worldwide from Sub Pop and in Canada from Royal Mountain Records.
In ancient Babylonia, stargazers looked up at the cloudless night sky and saw a blazing ball of light. Burning brilliantly, the celestial body appeared to be a luminous sign from the great beyond. They were looking at what we now call Vega, the fifth-brightest star visible from Earth. Debby Friday was learning about these heavenly bodies in between nonstop touring across Europe, following the otherworldly success of her thunderous debut album GOOD LUCK, which dominated dance floors and took home the auspiciously astrological Polaris Prize upon its release in 2023. She learned about Vega and the way its placement in a birth chart lends the gifts of creativity, acclaim and bravery—as long as its recipient is humble enough to receive them.
On The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life, Debby Friday defines success on her own terms. “I want to be a starrr, I can’t hide that desire,” she says. “But what I don’t want is to live someone else’s dream or to follow a pre-set path.” For the Nigerian-Canadian polymath, to be a starrr is to live at the extremes: public versus private, hubris versus humility, flying versus falling.
Part of being a starrr means embracing the apocalyptic hedonism of an all-night rave — like on the album’s epic pre-release single, “1/17,” and today’s new offering, the explosive dance pop anthem “All I Wanna Do Is Party.”
Co-directed with frequent collaborator Kevan Funk, Debby Friday stars alongside a troupe of dancers in the official “All I Wanna Do Is Party” video. Of the video, she has this to say, “The video is really about discipline and craft. It’s about the transformations that happen when you devote yourself to a process over time. The starrr is a metaphor for all these thoughts I have around fame, success, failure, love, power, god, death, life, everything. My starrr is in me, and your starrr is in you, and it’s just a matter of surrendering to it.”
Winning the Polaris Prize for GOOD LUCK only made Debby Friday want to grind harder. But life on the razor’s edge can only be sustainable for so long: During a nonstop tour schedule in support of the album, she fell violently ill. The diagnosis? Stress-induced shingles. That experience forced Friday to turn her focus inward. The next year saw a change in management, in her routine, and priorities.
To help bring her vision of radical honesty on the dance floor to life, Friday recruited Australian producer Darcy Baylis (Wicca Phase Springs Eternal). Returning to their de facto home base in London in between touring, the pair traded ideas in the studio from morning until midnight. Layered with meaning, The Starrr Of The QueenOf Life is brimming with coded, if-you-know-you-know references—weaving love letters and innuendos from the names of it-girl perfumes, French cognac, and Hellenistic prophetesses who speak in tongues. With additional production credits from Graham Walsh (METZ, Holy F*ck), Tayhana (Rosalia, N.A.A.F.I.) and Detroit ghettotech prodigies HiTech, it reads like a manifestation of Friday’s pursuit of an experimental pop sound that still feels distinctively hers.
“This album is about the idea of reaching towards something,” she says. “It’s about seeing the signs and following that impulse, always with the potential of either flying into the sun or falling back to earth.” On The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life, Debby Friday takes flight, fastening her wings, following the sound of her own voice (Read full bio at Sub Pop).
The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life is available to preorder from Sub Pop and Royal Mountain. LP preorders from megamart.subpop.com in the US, MegaMart 2 in the UK and EU, Royal Mountain in Canada and your local record store will receive the following limited color vinyl versions: the Sub Pop Loser editions on Graphite (US) and Bio Light Blue (EU/UK), and Royal Mountain’s edition on White (Canada) (All vinyl colors whilst stock lasts!).
Debby Friday has scheduled two performances for the Spring and Summer of 2025: Thursday, May 15th in Brighton, UK at The Great Escape Festival and Sunday, August 3rd in Montreal at Osheaga Festival—additional live dates to be announced soon.
Tour Dates Thu. May 15 - Brighton, UK - The Great Escape Festival Sun. Aug. 03 - Montreal, QC - Osheaga Festival
What People Are Saying About Debby Friday:
“The Toronto-based vocalist and producer Debby Friday won the Polaris Music Prize for her sharp 2023 debut album, Good Luck. She returns with the euphoric electro-pop single ‘1/17,’ a dance-floor confessional that shows off yet another side of her multifaceted talent. “I swear you’re a sign,” Friday sings in an airy atmosphere punctured by percolating synths. The track builds layer atop gauzy layer until it explodes in a burst of club-ready catharsis.”- New York Times
“The song brings back some of that old PC Music feeling. It’s a euphoric, unapologetically cheesy trance-pop confection. As synth-bloops whirl all around her, Friday chants, “Poetry and nude selfies, love the way that you know me.” It feels like it’s heading toward a climactic beat-drop…the drums do eventually arrive, and that moment is awesome. Friday co-directed the bare-bones ‘1/17’ video with Kevan Funk, and it makes a great case for her as a performer.” STEREOGUM
“Last time we heard a single from Debby Friday, the Toronto artist was commanding girls to the dance floor on a minimal club track co-produced by Detroit rascals HiTech. She’s in a totally different headspace on the hyperpop ballad ‘1/17,’ singing about love and sensuality over bubbling synths which eventually give way to a euphoric trance finale.” THE FACE
Debby Friday The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life
Tracklisting: 1. 1/17 2. All I Wanna Do Is Party 3. In The Club feat. HiTech 4. Lipsync 5. Alberta 6. Higher 7. ppp (Interlude) 8. Arcadia 9. Leave. 10. Bet On Me 11. Darker The Better
