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Brooklyn-based May‘s latest single ‘Baby Save Me Tonight’ is a smokey and fragile exploration of longing for love, longing for someone who will always be there to save you from the world and yourself.

The song’s rich, luxurious production and cinematic climax is a joy, but it is the intimacy of the track that makes it timeless – a soul truly laid bare.

May’s upcoming debut EP will be out later this year on the consistently fantastic Best Laid Plans.

May – Baby Save Me Tonight is out now

Hear May – Baby Save Me Tonight and other great new tracks on the new music blog The Blue Walrus.

Winnipeg’s Royal Canoe are set to release their new album, Waver, on January 25 via Paper Bag Records. Take a listen to “RAYZ” from the forthcoming release.

“Whenever we begin working on a new album we throw everything out, even if it worked last time, just so we have no chance to rest on our laurels,” says singer Matt Peters, “On ​Waver ​we set out to create leaner arrangements and clearer melodies – less between us and the listener.”

Take a listen to “Hotel Delmano” from Saguenay, Quebec’s Josianne Boivin (aka MUNYA).  Beautiful stuff.

This on repeat today. Here’s “Bridges” from Sydney group Erthlings.

Take a listen to “Something New Something Blue” from LA artist Neek, off the EP, Words I Shouldn’t Have, which is due out on Oct. 19 via Mateo Sound.  Head to the 405 to get more familiar with this artist.

After returning from hiatus with a new single this past June, Folly & the Hunter have announced their new album.  Titled Remains, the Montreal duo’s latest will arrive October 26 through Outside Music.   Check out album track ” Now I Know”.

Today Maggie Rogers debuts the video for her new track “Give A Little” from her forthcoming debut album on Capitol Records.  Filmed in Pacoima, CA the video was co-directed by Rogersand Alan Del Rio Ortiz and features Rachel Matthews, Camila Mendes, Myriah Rose, Firefly, Makayla Menard and Bridget Gamble.

Artists such as Lorde, Sparks, the Moody Blues and Metallica bring changes of pace to a prog-heavy playlist with twists and turns

Here is this week’s playlist – songs picked by a reader from hundreds of stories and suggestions on last week’s callout. Thanks for taking part. Read more about how our weekly series works at the end of the piece.

When choosing this week’s topic, I neglected to take into account that period, in the early 1970s, when suburban, middle-class music fans keen to impress with their intellectual prowess listened to what is now termed prog rock. We – mostly men – would don greatcoats, grow our hair into greasy bangs and wander around with album covers under our arms in the vain hope girls would marvel at our good taste and braininess in liking Uriah Heep or Gnidrolog.

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Augusta Holmès’ compositions won awards and acclaim from admirers including Liszt and Saint-Saëns, so why is she, and so many of her female contemporaries, all but forgotten today?

Augusta Holmès was a remarkably gifted French composer, pianist and singer with a voice of extraordinary range and colour. Rossini told an audience after one of her early concerts: “Mark my words, you will hear a lot more from her. Remember that Rossini told you this.” Liszt wrote that the works by her male contemporaries were mere trifles compared to her 1870 opera Astarté.

She was a prolific composer of music conceived for large forces. She wrote her own texts and libretti, and took part in designing sets and costumes for her operas. She was well connected in Paris’s cultural circles, counting among her friends and supporters Saint-Saëns (who repeatedly proposed marriage), César Franck, Vincent d’Indy, Stéphane Mallarmé, Rodin and Renoir, who painted her three daughters.

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Matt Bellamy and Dominic Howard joined us to chat about their favourite conspiracy theories, secret side projects and what exactly Thought Contagion is

EmersonRR asks:

When will the new album come out?

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