Tame Impala showcased three songs off their new album, Deadbeat, for A24‘s “Sound Check” live series. The set, held at New York’s Cherry Lane Theatre and directed by The Iron Claw filmmaker Sean Durkin, featured renditions of “My Old Ways,” “Dracula,” and “Loser.” The Australian group, led by Kevin Parker, …
Read More »See Tame Impala Go All-Acoustic for First Time for NPR Tiny Desk Set
Tame Impala released their new album, Deadbeat, today, and to celebrate the arrival, Kevin Parker and company visited NPR’s Tiny Desk to deliver the band’s first-ever all-acoustic performance. Armed with six acoustic guitars — one of which was used as the percussion — Tame Impala played four songs over 20 …
Read More »Tame Impala Go Dancing in the Dark
The last couple decades have been lousy with bearded musical visionaries. Yet despite all that heavy traffic, Tame Impala‘s Kevin Parker has easily carved own his own unique lane. He’s the Australian sonic explorer with the stretchy falsetto and plush, funky space-rock style whose studio scientist skills have landed him …
Read More »Tame Impala, Haim, Ayra Starr, Rema, and All the Songs You Need to Know This Week
Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, Tame Impala return back to their chill electro-pop ways, Haim continue to unravel the complexities of fuckin’ relationships with two new tracks for their I Quit deluxe, …
Read More »Drake, Lady Gaga, Tame Impala, and All the Songs You Need to Know
Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, Drake stokes the anticipation for his next album with a new track featuring Cash Cobain, psych-pop kingpin Tame Impala floats back into our world, and Lady Gaga …
Read More »Tame Impala Announce U.S. Arena Tour
As Tame Impala, Kevin Parker has spent the last ten years influencing musicians as seemingly disparate as Atlanta rapper Lil Yachty and British pop princess Dua Lipa. But now it’s time to focus on himself (and his band). With a new album on the way, Tame Impala has announced a …
Read More »Tame Impala Recruits Joe Keery to Star in New 'Loser' Video
Fresh off the “End of Summer,” Tame Impala is back with another single, enlisting actor Joe Keery for the new video “Loser.” The Sam Kristofski-directed video follows the Stranger Things star and Djo singer in the moments after a breakup, tracking him as he walks over to a local bodega …
Read More »Tame Impala Officially Announce New Album 'Deadbeat'
Tame Impala have escalated from “Loser” to Deadbeat in the span of one day: After the Kevin Parker-fronted band’s latest single arrived on Wednesday, the group has officially announced their upcoming fifth studio album. Deadbeat arrives on October 17 via Columbia Records — Tame Impala’s first LP on the label …
Read More »Tame Impala Preview Their Rave Era With New Song 'End of Summer'
Tame Impala hint at their “new era” with the single “End of Summer,” the Kevin Parker-fronted outfit’s first new song in two years. Parker stated that the band’s follow-up to 2020’s The Slow Rush would be “kind of a future primitive rave act,” and the seven-minute “End of Summer,” Tame …
Read More »Did Kevin Parker Just Preview Tame Impala's Impending Comeback?
At a Barcelona club on Saturday night, Kevin Parker uttered the words fans had been hoping to hear for years: “Do you guys want to hear a new Tame Impala song?” With that, Parker gave clubgoers — and the world — an unexpected preview of Tame Impala’s impending return with …
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