However, weeks later, she made comments about trans athletes and youth, saying: “And you know with that LGBT, they’ll wish they never put the T on the end of it because, particularly in women’s sports, they’re going to have so many problems. You know, even that LGBT in the schools, it’s the devil, it’s not of God.”

Phoebe Bridgers saying “fuck that stupid cunt” about Margaret Court at Margaret Court Arena at her Melbourne show tonight

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While headlining Melbourne’s Margaret Court Arena, Bridgers took a moment to address the venue’s namesake. “So, Margaret Court,” she began. “Fuck that stupid-ass, dumbass bitch. Fuck that stupid cunt. Change your name!”

After Bridgers led the crowd in shouting, “Fuck Margaret Court”, she added: “I think hate is undervalued. I think it’s a fucking weird white supremacist idea that hate is bad or something. You know what I mean?

“It’s like hate is like what moves things throughout history. I hate that stupid bitch. Hate is how you protect yourself. What, are you never supposed to be angry, ever?”

Meanwhile, Bridgers has teamed up with jewellery brand Catbird for a new lyric-themed collection. The line features a variety of new and previously sold-out charms with designs that her music has inspired. As part of the collaboration, Catbird is donating $25,000 (£21,000) to the National Center for Transgender Equality.

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Bridgers’ supergroup boygenius – which also features Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker – will return in March with their debut album ‘The Record’. They recently shared three singles from the album in ‘$20’, ‘Emily I’m Sorry’ and ‘True Blue’, while Kristen Stewart is set to direct three upcoming music videos for the band.

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“It’s here!” Catbird wrote in a post announcing the collection. “A collection of charms that are a celebration of friendship, of feeing, and of the unknown.”

“I exclusively wear Catbird and have for years, because nobody makes jewellery small enough for my taste except for them,” Bridgers told Vogue. “Since my first tour I’ve been wearing this stuff, like the safety pin earring, and the tiniest, tiniest studs. An ex got me a little charm necklace that I wear all the time and people are always giving me skeleton stuff. It’s amazing — it’s like having my own wedding registry.”

Bridgers also told the magazine that the brand is donating $25,000 (£21,000) to the National Center for Transgender Equality.

“With such a historically gendered thing as jewellery, it felt special to be able to point to the stuff I care about and not participate in the archaic views around it,” Bridgers said. “Especially something that is so related to class. It’s cool to be using diamonds and pearls to pay for trans rights.”

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In other news, Kristen Stewart will direct three upcoming music videos for Bridgers’ indie supergroup Boygenius, which also includes Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker.

The collaboration was revealed in a recent Rolling Stone story compiling outtakes from the magazine’s recent interview with the trio. Stewart’s previous credits as a director include a video for a live, reworked version of Chrvches‘ ‘Down Side of Me’ that was released in 2017.

• READ MORE: The NME Big Read – Phoebe Bridgers: “I definitely feel a lot less apologetic than I did before”

While it’s not clear which songs from the band’s upcoming debut album ‘The Record’ Stewart will direct videos for, they did simultaneously release three singles from it – ‘$20’, ‘Emily I’m Sorry’ and ‘True Blue’ – last week.

‘The Record’ is set to arrive on March 31 via Polydor/Interscope. It will mark the trio’s first full-length project, following on from self-titled 2018 EP. In a five-star review of that EP, NME called it “a record that leaves you yearning for more”, adding that it “would be astonishing regardless of the length of time it took to make, but it becomes even more so when you learn these songs were created in a matter of days”.

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In 2019, Bridgers shared a version of the Simon & Garfunkel track ‘7 O’Clock News/ Silent Night’ with Fiona Apple and The National‘s Matt Berninger, while in 2018 she collaborated with Jackson Browne on a cover of McCarthy Trenching’s ‘Christmas Song’. Before that, she shared her take on ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas’.

Speaking to NME after her first performance as Sally in The Nightmare Before Christmas Concert, Bridgers explained: “I like fucked up holiday songs. I always have. I remember being so inspired when I went to Nashville and saw where Elvis had done his Christmas album and, because he’s a crazy person, he had to make it feel like Christmas in July.

“It’s also a cool thing to do for charity every year, and it’s fun. I like tradition,” she added.

Danny Elfman, who reprised his role of Jack Skellington for the concerts, then added, “Oh god, Fucked Up Holiday Songs. I just found the title of my next composition!”

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Elsewhere in the interview backstage at Wembley Arena, Bridgers spoke about how iconic The Nightmare Before Christmas was and talked about ‘Ghost In The Machine’, her recent collaboration with SZA.

Earlier this week, Bridgers appeared onstage with Billie Eilish to perform her breakout track ‘Motion Sickness’.

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Revealing that they were dropped by RCA for “not making enough money,” MUNA told NME that it’s “easier in certain ways” to work with an independent label, and that they have a “lot of creative freedom”.

Guitarist Naomi McPherson added: “It’s hard to compare [the two labels] because we’ve had such anomalous experiences at both labels, to be honest. At our old label, no one was creatively stifling us or telling us what kind of music we should make. And our departure from that label wasn’t really even contentious.

“You’re more likely to find people who you align with in terms of taste. You’re maybe less likely to find those people in a more, like, large corporate structure. That’s not to say those [major label] people don’t care about art, but they just might not have the same taste.​​”

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Of working with Bridgers, vocalist Katie Gavin added: “I mean, she’s our A&R person. We would send her songs and she would usually say which ones she was excited about.”

Gavin went on to explain how she asked Bridgers during the creation of the album why she hadn’t given the band any “critical feedback”. Bridgers’ response: “Well, if I had critical feedback, I would have given you it, but I just didn’t.”

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“It’s funny,” Gavin added, “because I do think you can tell that we come from a major label background, because we almost are like, ‘Where’s the bad thoughts?’ We’re hyper-critical and have this desire for things to be as good as they can be.”

MUNA’s self-titled album came out via Saddest Factory in June of this year. In a four-star review, NME wrote: “By now, it should be clear that this lot know how to pen a whopper of a pop anthem – that remains apparent here – but more crucially ‘MUNA’ also serves as solid evidence of a band with many more chapters of evolution up their sleeves yet.”

Next summer, MUNA will support Taylor Swift on her huge ‘Eras Tour’ of North American stadiums. Earlier this year, they covered Swift’s song ‘August’ on a new live EP from Electric Lady Studios.

Before that, the band will play Australian and New Zealand dates with Lorde as the latter’s tour behind 2021 album ‘Solar Power’ wraps up.

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Now, in a new interview with Mescal in The Guardian about his upcoming film Aftersun, the pair’s engagement was confirmed.

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New film Aftersun sees Mescal play young father Calum and his relationship with his 11-year-old daughter. It comes to UK cinemas from November 18.

A synopsis reads: “Twenty years after their last holiday at a fading vacation resort, Sophie reflects on the rare time spent with her loving and idealistic father Calum. At 11-years-old, as the world of adolescence creeps into Sophie’s view, Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood.

“Sophie’s recollections become a powerful and heartrending portrait of their relationship, as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t.”

Bridgers, meanwhile, is set to appear at two screenings of Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas with live musical accompaniment at London’s OVO Arena Wembley in December, in which she will provide the voice of Sally.

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In addition to Bridgers, Danny Elfman – who composed the music, lyrics and score for the 1993 film, and voiced protagonist Jack Skellington – will voice Skellington once again for the screenings. Original cast member Ken Page, who voiced Oogie Boogie in the film, will also reprise his role.

The singer also recently teamed up with Mumford & Sons frontman Marcus Mumford for a new track called ‘Stonecatcher’. The song features on Mumford’s debut solo album, ‘(self-titled)’.

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It comes as the US midterm elections take place next week (November 8). “The future of reproductive care is on the ballot these midterms. Fucking VOTE,” the post continued.

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Yesterday, Bridgers and Rogers confirmed that a further 18,000 people had downloaded the song, raising over £65,000.

“This is awesome, thank you so much for your support,” said the Brigid Alliance. “All of the funds raised from this track will support people forced to travel long distances for abortion care, which has surged since the June Supreme Court ruling.”

Originally their take on ‘Iris’ was released in celebration of Trump losing the last Presidential election, with proceeds going to Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight, an organisation promoting fair elections in Georgia and around the country.

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Speaking about the collaboration, Rogers said: “Bridgers understands culture and, with ‘Iris’, I was just following her lead.”

“It was all this weird, wild inside joke that somehow everyone else was in on. It’s funny to know a friend so well, but then as an artist getting to see her in the studio… seeing her work just makes everything make sense.”

Over the summer, both Maggie Rogers and Rina Sawayama joined Phoebe Bridgers onstage at Latitude Festival to provide backing screams on set-closer ‘I Know The End’.

Sharing a photo of the trio backstage, Rogers called them “ur new favourite band”.

Maggie Rogers is currently touring the UK in support of second album ‘Surrender’ while Phoebe Bridgers is due to perform at Wembley Arena next month as part of a concert version of Tim Burton’s ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’.

After that, Bridgers is due to support Taylor Swift on several stadium dates across North America.

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“Who better to sing it with than Phoebe Bridgers? I sent her a demo and so, here we are,” he added.

“Thanks to Ms. Dickinson’s publisher at Harvard University Press for allowing us to use this poem. As I understand, her poems weren’t published as she intended them until the 1950s – that is, without the heavy hand of her male editors.”

Watch the video for ‘I Felt A Funeral, In My Brain’ below.

Last week (October 18) it was confirmed that Bridgers will appear at two screenings of Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas with live musical accompaniment at London’s OVO Arena Wembley in December, in which she will provide the voice of Sally.

In addition to Bridgers, Danny Elfman – who composed the music, lyrics and score for the 1993 film, and voiced protagonist Jack Skellington – will voice Skellington once again for the screenings. Original cast member Ken Page, who voiced Oogie Boogie in the film, will also reprise his role.

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The ‘Kyoto’ singer also recently teamed up with Mumford & Sons frontman Marcus Mumford for a new track called ‘Stonecatcher’. The song features on Mumford’s debut solo album, ‘(self-titled)’.

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“I took it to my friend Blake Mills, and we began the process of making this album, dear to my heart, called (self titled).

“It comes out September 16th 2022, produced by Blake Mills, and featuring Brandi Carlile, Phoebe Bridgers, Clairo and Monica Martin.”

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Back in June, there was speculation that Mumford would launch a solo career.

According to Page Six, the singer was said to have shared the news during a live set at a Spotify event on the French Riviera on June 20 as part of Cannes Lions International Festival Of Creativity 2022.

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The report claims Mumford told the intimate audience that he was performing new material for the first time, and said that it would soon be available to stream on Spotify.

One attendee told the outlet: “He just said today is day one for his next thing.”

He also recently shared a pair of videos on social media that see him working on music in the studio.

Mumford and Sons are yet to follow up on their fourth studio album, ‘Delta’, which came out in 2018. Reviewing that record, NME’s Jordan Bassett wrote: “A decade after they began their bid to become the most popular band in the world, Mumford & Sons are still pushing into unfamiliar territory.

“Lyrically, the record deals with the onset of maturity and this, combined with that forward-thinking approach, suggests Mumford & Sons are here for the long haul. It’s far from perfect album, but the band’s hunger for new sounds must be applauded.”

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“I’m striving to do more stuff like that. I think it’s more challenging to sound smart and write well about happiness than it is about sadness. In the interest of not seeming trite, I lean toward darker subject matter, just out of comfort. And I think a challenge to myself, now, is being articulate about things that are good.”

Bridgers released an official video for ‘Sidelines’ earlier this month, featuring behind-the-scenes footage from her current ‘Reunion Tour’ shot by her brother Jackson.

For her performance on Fallon, Bridgers donned a black American football jersey emblazoned with her signature skeleton print. You can see the performance below.

Bridgers is currently on her North American ‘Reunion’ tour in support of ‘Punisher’. She will head out on a string of European shows starting next week. She’s also slated to perform at a number of music festivals this summer.

Her UK and Ireland run starts on June 20 at Fairview Park in Dublin. She will then take in shows in Glasgow and Birmingham, followed by her previously announced Glastonbury performance, before heading out to mainland Europe.

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Bridgers will then come back to the UK on July 22 for Latitude Festival and couple of dates in Manchester and London.

Meanwhile, Bridgers recently paid tribute to Bruce Springsteen while performing in his home state of New Jersey by covering his 1980 song ‘Stolen Car’.

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Of her production choices, she said: “I wanted it to be hi-fi in some ways, and beautiful and cinematic, and lo-fi in other ways, and it was really hard to find that balance.

Bridgers also spoke about her love of Rooney’s books. “I think Sally’s writing is so beautiful and perfect, and Normal People affected me deeply, too, in totally different ways.”

She also said that she feels a particular affinity Conversations With Friends protagonist Frances Flynn, played by Alison Oliver in the BBC and Hulu adaptation. “I feel like I’m more similar to Frances than any character in pop culture, ever,” she said.

“Frances is so, so confident in her own art – she knows she’s great, and she thinks she’s the smartest person in the room – but she’s also so deeply, deeply self-conscious. And that balance in a person was super jarring to read for the first time.”

Bridgers released an official video for ‘Sidelines’ last week (June 1), featuring behind-the-scenes footage from her current ‘Reunion Tour’ shot by her brother Jackson.

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Draft opinions can be subject to multiple drafts and vote-trading, sometimes until just days before they are shared, so the court’s decision is not final. If the court goes through with overturning the landmark case, however, abortion would no longer be protected as a federal right in the US, and each state would be able to decide individually whether to restrict or ban abortion.

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“Tour starts in seven days,” Bridgers wrote on Instagram. “A dollar of each ticket will go to The Mariposa Fund, who work to provide abortions, specifically for undocumented people who already face huge systemic barrier when trying to obtain safe reproductive health services.”

The musician also added some new shows to her itinerary, including one at New York’s Forest Hills Stadium. Sloppy Jane, Charlie Hickey, Claud, MUNA and Christian Lee Hutson will join her at various stops on the tour. Remaining tickets are available to purchase here.

Bridgers’ action follows her speaking out against the potential of Roe vs. Wade being overturned earlier this week. While doing so, the star shared her own experience with abortion, saying: “I had an abortion in October of last year while I was on tour. I went to planned parenthood where they gave me the abortion pill. It was easy. Everyone deserves that kind of access.”

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Earlier today, Rage Against The Machine joined the voices from the entertainment world speaking out in support of abortion rights. “Criminalising access to abortion will only add to the suffering disproportionately felt by poor, BIPOC and undocumented communities,” the band wrote in a statement shared on social media.

“The constant rightward shift of both major parties should alarm us all – a wake up call that we desperately need to organise radical people power against a warfare state that continues its assault on people’s lives.”

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It will also feature Bridgers sharing some of her favourite songs with listeners.

Speaking to Rolling Stone, Bridgers said: “My favourite way to consume music is incidentally — something playing in the grocery store, an opening band I’ve never heard, a college radio station while trying to find signal on a road trip.

To celebrate the launch of Saddest Factory Radio on @siriusxmu, we put @phoebe_bridgers' DJ-ing skills to the test. 👀 Can she find the perfect song your situation? Let's find out! 🧐 pic.twitter.com/ico36DF0U8

— SiriusXM (@SIRIUSXM) March 1, 2022

“I hope I can offer something like that to people who tune in.”

She continued: “In my personal life, I have always had a radio show. Punishing my friends on road trips with hours of dirges and ambient music, I can’t wait to do it professionally.”

The show will premiere this week on March 3 at 6pm ET (00:00 GMT) and 9pm ET (03:00 GMT) on SiriusXMU.

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Subsequent episodes will arrive on the first Thursday of every month, with encores continuing throughout the weekend.

Bridgers has kept busy in the year-and-a-half following the release of her second studio album, ‘Punisher’.

As well as launching her own record label, she also shared the ‘Copycat Killer’ EP of reworks.

‘Punisher’ received a five-star review from NME, and was previewed by the singles ‘Garden Song’, ‘Kyoto’, ‘I See You’ and ‘I Know The End’.

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“The last time I danced was at the eighth grade social and it was mainly just swaying to [Aerosmith‘s] ‘I Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing’ but I wanted to showcase what a natural, gifted dancer I am,” said Huston

It follows his previous single ‘Strawberry Lemonade’, which featured vocals from Oberst and Sharon Silva.

His new album is out on April 1 via Anti and can be pre-ordered here.

It follows his debut album ‘Beginners’, which came out in 2020 and was also produced by his frequent collaborator Bridgers, who also starred in Hutson’s video for ‘Get The Old Band Back Together’ alongside Oberst.

He said: “When we made ‘Beginners’ the aim was to make simple digital recordings of how I would play the songs in the room. With this record, Phoebe and Conor had an idea that it would be fun to make it to tape. Phoebe is my best friend and making ‘Beginners’ with her was so comfortable and easy. So I wanted to work with her again.”

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Last year, Hutson also shared a covers EP called ‘The Version Suicides: Volume 1’, featuring versions of tracks by Taylor Swift, ABBA and more.

Bridgers meanwhile, recently found herself at the centre of a defamation lawsuit with Chris Nelson, owner of Sound Space studio.

Nelson claims the singer falsely accused him of abusive behaviour in October 2020 and is now seeking $3.8million (£2.8million) in damages.

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It follows her previous annual Christmas covers of ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas’, Merle Haggard’s ‘If We Make It Through December’, Simon & Garfunkel‘s ‘7 O’Clock News/Silent Night’ with Fiona Apple and The National’s Matt Berninger, and McCarthy Trenching’s ‘Christmas Song’ with Jackson Browne.

Meanwhile, Taylor Swift recently recalled the moment she reached out to Bridgers to ask her to collaborate on ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’ on the song ‘Nothing New’.

During an interview on Late Night With Seth Meyers, Swift hailed Bridgers as “one of my favourite artists in the world”, adding: “If she sings it, I will listen to it. I just love her voice.” She then explained how her team-up with the ‘Punisher’ musician came about.

“I try not to cold-call people. It can go very bad,” Swift said. “But I do send a very long text that I’ve crafted over many days. And I’ll send the song because I don’t want them to ever feel pressured to say yes to something, creatively, if it doesn’t gel with what they want to do.

“With Phoebe, I reached out and I sent her this song called ‘Nothing New’, which I wrote when I was 22. And it’s really, really special to me because it was the first time I was not a shiny new artist.”

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She continued: “I sent it to Phoebe and said, ‘It would mean the world to me if you would do this as a duet’. ‘Cause I really wanted another female artist who I loved to sing it with me because I think it has a very female artist perspective that we go through that experience.

“And her response was, ‘I’ve been waiting for this text my entire life’. It was like, ‘Yes!‘ [Laughs].”

Bridgers also recalled how she became emotional while recording her vocals for ‘Nothing New’.

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In her response to Nelson’s lawsuit, Wells states that the First Amendment protected her right to warn New York indie band Big Thief against working with him. According to Rolling Stone, Wells and her lawyer have asked a Los Angeles County judge to dismiss Nelson’s lawsuit at an upcoming hearing.

Wells wrote in a cautionary email to Big Thief’s manager, Tom Wironen: “I am taking a big swing sending this email, and not knowing the current relationship you have toward that studio space, I feel it’s important as a creative to let you know about that recording environment and what happened to me in case it informs your recording situation in the future.”

Wells also claimed in court filings that Nelson attempted to change their agreement so that he would receive 50 per cent of the writing and publishing credits for the songs she wrote herself, and 50 per cent of any royalties earned from her masters. Her refusal ended their working relationship and resulted in Nelson withholding her recorded songs for three months.

In Nelson’s defamation lawsuit, he said that Wells’ statements were “false, defamatory, and misleading” and that Wells intended to damage his business and working relationship with music manager Tom Wironen.

“The statements made by defendant Wells were false. Plaintiff has not abused women, engaged in predatory behavior, or taken advantage of numerous people. To the contrary, Plaintiff intentionally seeks to work with people of color, women, and members of the LGBTQ community on music projects in order to provide equal opportunities to all musicians regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation,” his complaint states.

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Bridgers has yet to respond to Nelson’s lawsuit, but a case management conference has been set for February 25.

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Its monochrome music video, shot on an iPhone, follows Gundersen through bars and gardens in the dark to his piano and the stage. Bridgers does not appear in the clip.

“Phoebe may not be physically in the video but she’s there in spirit as the sweet voice of my inner monologue,” Gundersen wrote in a press statement. Watch it below.

Last month, Gundersen announced on social media that he would be embarking upon a tour in the UK and Europe next year.

The tour will begin in Stockholm, Sweden on March 21 and conclude on April 9 in Dublin, Ireland. See the tour dates below.

I’m beyond excited to be coming across the pond for a string of shows in 2022. Fans who pre-order the new album from the official store will receive access to a pre-sale for the tour that opens at 10am on 10/4. General on sale 10/6. https://t.co/Te4Ze6muF7 pic.twitter.com/JVQkIqAjTj

— Noah Gundersen (@noahgundersen) September 29, 2021

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Yesterday, it was revealed that Bridgers’ set at Texas music festival Austin City Limits was cut off for running slightly overtime. In response, Bridgers tweeted “lol fuck acl”.

Gundersen made his debut in 2008 with the EP ‘Brave New World’. Since then, he has released five full-length studio albums.

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A preview of the song’s official video sees a male character – who is wearing a “straight is great” t-shirt – delivering a presentation on “straight behaviour”. Towards the end of the clip, we hear a beat from the upcoming collaboration.

‘Silk Chiffon’ will be given its first play on Zane Lowe’s Apple Music show, with its accompanying visuals arriving at 10am PT (6pm BST). MUNA will also participate in a live chat with fans on YouTube – you can tune in below.

silk chiffon feat @phoebe_bridgers out tomorrow. @zanelowe on @applemusic is premiering the track at 9:30am pt. then come watch the youtube premiere of the music video and chat with us at 10am pt here: https://t.co/qwJEFZ6FAV pic.twitter.com/QVXMBIYfun

— MUNA (@whereisMUNA) September 6, 2021

MUNA released their debut album ‘About U’ in 2017 before dropping its follow-up ‘Saves The World’ in 2019. Upon signing the band to Saddest Factory Records – which operates in partnership with Secretly Group’s Dead Oceans – Bridgers joked: “I thought they were a boy band.”

Last month, Bridgers moved all of her scheduled indoor shows to outdoor venues “in the interest of safety” amid a rise in coronavirus cases in the US. She was therefore forced to postpone some gigs on the tour.

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“Where that’s not permissible by law, we’ll agree to proof of vaccination OR proof of negative test result (PCR preferred/Antigen accepted) within 48 hours prior to entering those venues,” she explained of the entry requirements.

Phoebe Bridgers’ second album ‘Punisher’ came out in June 2020.

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“It was just so fun to take a part in it,” Bridgers told Zane Lowe of her ‘Nothing Else Matters’ cover. “I feel like my version almost sounds baroque. Literally, James [Hetfield] does all sorts of weird octave jumps and stuff that I can’t do, and I almost have a Billie Eilish approach of right by the microphone, performing it the opposite of them, which was really fun to lean into.”

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“I’ve always been a big Metallica fan,” Bridgers added. “I think it’s funny, my intro to them was probably way later than so many people who have always loved them. But when I was a teenager, I went to Outside Lands, and I definitely knew Metallica songs from video games and stuff, but I went to Outside Lands and saw their set and was like, “This is a rock band”.

It’s kind of a gateway to metal because they’re so hooky and you can hold onto so much of it and it actually can get stuck in your head. So that’s what I’ve always loved about Metallica is that they don’t shy away from a great hook.”

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Along with the covers album, ‘The Black Album’ will also be given a “definitive” reissue on September 10, featuring a 180-gram double vinyl LP, a standard CD and 3xCD expanded edition, digital download, streaming and a limited-edition deluxe box set.

Bridgers, meanwhile, has a host of other collaborations also lined up. In the rest of 2021, she will appear on The Killers’ new album ‘Pressure Machine’ and feature on a bonus track from Taylor Swift’s forthcoming re-recorded version of 2012 album ‘Red’.

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“11 days to go. 11 tracks on the record. Coincidence?” they wrote on Twitter, revealing the Phoebe Bridgers collaboration on a track called ‘Runaway Horses’.

See the tracklist for The Killers’ ‘Pressure Machine’ and watch the new album trailer below:

1. ‘West Hills’
2. ‘Quiet Town’
3. ‘Terrible Thing’
4. ‘Cody’
5. ‘Sleepwalker’
6. ‘Runaway Horses’ (featuring Phoebe Bridgers)
7. ‘In The Car Outside’
8. ‘In Another Life’
9. ‘Desperate Things’
10. ‘Pressure Machine’
11. ‘The Getting By’

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— The Killers (@thekillers) August 2, 2021

Phoebe Bridgers has covered The Killers multiple times over the years. In 2019, she and Better Oblivion Community Center bandmate Conor Oberst shared a cover of the band’s classic 2009 hit ‘Human’, while Bridgers and her boygenius bandmates covered ‘Read My Mind’ at a host of live shows in 2018.

The new record from the Las Vegas band will arrive via EMI and was created after they found themselves with unexpected downtime as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

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“Everything came to this grinding halt,” said frontman Brandon Flowers. “And it was the first time in a long time for me that I was faced with silence. And out of that silence this record began to bloom, full of songs that would have otherwise been too quiet and drowned out by the noise of typical Killers records.”

Elsewhere, the band’s guitarist Dave Keuning recently admitted that The Killers have also made a “good start” on their eighth album.

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“I don’t really care if I’m making a weird face, or if I sound out of pitch. It’s just what happens,” she told Nylon. “I’m looking forward to feeling better at my job.”

Weighing up the pros and cons of returning to the stage post-pandemic, Bridgers said: “The whole system is going to be so overrun with people touring. I know by the time that I play a show, it will be safe.

“I will not be in the first wave of people who I’m sure are going to fuck it up. The Chainsmokers already did that.”

Phoebe Bridgers. CREDIT: Rich Fury/Getty Images

Elsewhere during the interview, Bridgers revealed that she’s been struggling to create new music in quarantine because she’s exhausted on two different fronts.

“I’ve written less [new music in quarantine] than you’d think,” she explained. “It’s exhausting to write about what’s going on, and it’s exhausting to not write about what’s going on.”

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She added that she’d like to reunite with her Boygenius bandmates on a follow-up record, when it feels “as fun and rad as it always has been”.

Last week it was announced that Bridgers, Eddie Vedder and a number of other artists will perform as part of the upcoming Tibet House benefit livestream event.

The show, which will replace the organisation’s typical annual benefit concert this year, will mark the 34th anniversary of the non-profit.

Meanwhile, Bridgers has revealed a new tattoo of a handwritten note impaled on a sword, after she was gifted with the items by a fan.

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