Frog Announce New LP With Lead Single

Cult New York-based band Frog announce The Count, their seventh album, with the ‘Bitten By My Love Var. XI’ single. The new record will be released on September 19, preceded by the “Spanish Armada Var. XV” (September 5) and “Sax-a-ma-phone Var. XII” (September 12) singles.

Following February’s 1000 Variations on the Same Song, Daniel Bateman and brother Steve (drums/percussion) offer another ten variations, locking into a style and sound, stretching its limitations and exploring the possibilities.

The eleven variations released six months ago brought Frog back to the Indie rock and alt country sounds of previous albums like Kind of Blah and Count Bateman, earning them Stereogum’s Album of the Week, sessions for KEXP and WFMU, as well as praise from Pitchfork, FLOOD Magazine, KLOF Mag, and airplay from stations like KCRW, WFUV, WKDU, and WNYU, which saw them reach the top 30 of the NACC 200 chart, on top of national airplay in Europe from FM4, Kosmos, and the BBC.

However, The Count takes a left turn from even Frog’s most idiosyncratic past material, with Bateman assuming the titular role of a mysterious New Yorker turned piano man for one impromptu and unforgettable performance. While Bateman’s skill for penning songs about love, loss, and lust remains unchanged, this is a Frog album like no other.

The expanded Frog lineup, featuring founding member Tom White on bass, will be touring in October after a September 4 performance at Hopscotch Fest in Raleigh, NC.

Tour Dates:

September 4 - Hopscotch Fest (Moore Square), Raleigh, NC

October 15 - First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia, PA

October 16 - Bottlerocket Social Hall, Pittsburgh, PA

October 17 - Third Man Records, Detroit, MI

October 18 - The Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL

October 20 - Grog Shop, Cleveland Heights, OH

Las Nubes Weather the Storm

Las Nubes return with Tormentas Malsanas, their first LP since 2019’s SMVT debut. Formed by Miami DIY music mainstays Ale Campos and Emile Milgrim, their fuzzy, bilingual, ‘90s-influenced punk rock meets dream pop sound received significant acclaim and earned them opportunities to tour and record sessions all across the US and Mexico with the likes of Shannon and the Clams, Jens Lekman, The Coathangers, Sheer Mag, Mark Sultan, Torche, and Alice Bag. They even backed Iggy Pop as his first-ever all-female incarnation of The Stooges (as captured on the Live Nubes collection).

Tormentas Malsanas translates to “unhealthy storms,” a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the reality of living through Miami summers. Similar to the way a clear day turns gray, the new album addresses common and uncommon struggles through the energetic buoyancy of Las Nubes’s trademark loud as hell, garage pop sound. The heavy emotions addressed through the lyrics crossed with their vibrant and dynamic instrumental arrangements give the album a sense of hopefulness that reminds listeners: even the most turbulent moments don’t last forever.

The album’s lead single, ‘Enredados’, was released through Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace / Daydream Library in late 2023 as a preview of the sonic experience to come, and was followed with the dreamy punk rock of ‘Would Be’ and sludgy stoner stomper  ‘Pesada’. Tormentas Malsanas was released via Sweat Records, Spinda Records (EU), and Godless America on vinyl, CD and cassette.