Mar 17, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Sally Shapiro (the project of producer Johan Agebjörn and an anonymous singer who goes under the name Sally Shapiro) have announced the release of a remixed version of their latest album, Sad Cities. It will be out on April 1 via Italians Do It Better. They have also shared a Johnny Jewel remix of album track “Forget About You.” More

Oct 08, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Swedish duo Sally Shapiro (the project of producer Johan Agebjörn and an anonymous singer who goes under the name Sally Shapiro) have announced a new album, Sad Cities, and shared a new song from it, “Forget About You.” More

Aug 16, 2021 By Mark Redfern

It’s Madonna’s birthday and in honor of that she has announced a new partnership with Warner Music Group that will see new reissues of her catalogue, starting in 2022, which will mark the 40th anniversary of the release of her first single. Also, the record label Italians Do It Better have put out a Madonna tribute album today being that the label is named after a T-shirt she wore in the “Papa Don’t Preach” video. The album, also entitled Italians Do It Better, features Sally Shapiro, Desire, Club Intl and Madeline Follin of Cults, and others and was produced by Johnny Jewel. More

Aug 10, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Chromatics have announced they have broken up. In an unusual move, three-fourths of the band have announced Chromatics’ end but the statement was not co-signed by pivotal member Johnny Jewel. More

Jun 18, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Swedish duo Sally Shapiro (the project of producer Johan Agebjörn and an anonymous singer who goes under the name Sally Shapiro) have returned with a brand new song, “Fading Away,” despite announcing in 2016 that they were putting an end to the project. More

May 29, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Lily Guthrie, Samantha Small, and Julian Roberts-Grmela)

Welcome to the 21st Songs of the Week of 2020. It’s another week under quarantine, the same as the last week. In terms of this week’s new songs, the pickings were somewhat slim, perhaps partly because Monday was Memorial Day, meaning less new tracks of note were shared these week. But we’ve still come up with some that we liked (albeit, only a Top 9, instead of our usual Top 10). More

May 29, 2020 By Lily Guthrie

Producer Johnny Jewel, the owner and operator of record label Italians Do It Better and the creative force behind Chromatics and other projects, has teamed up with Public Access T.V. frontman John Eatherly, Cults vocalist Madeline Follin, and Cults collaborator Maxwell Kamins to form Club Intl. The band has dropped their debut single, “Crush,” via a video. More

Apr 09, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Angel Olsen released a new album, All Mirrors, last October via Jagjaguwar. Now she has shared a remix of the title track, “All Mirrors,” by Johnny Jewel of Chromatics (and various other projects, including Glass Candy and Desire). More

Apr 08, 2020 By Lily Guthrie

Desire, the project of Megan Louise, has announced a new Johnny Jewel-produced album, Escape, and shared its first single and title track, “Escape,” via a video for the track also directed by Jewel. More

Oct 02, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Glass Candy, one of the many projects led by Chromatics’ Johnny Jewel and a collaboration with vocalist Ida No, have shared a new song, “Naked City.” More

Jun 12, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Chromatics have shared a video for a new song, “Blue Girl,” the latest single from their long delayed album, Dear Tommy, which is promised for release this fall on Italians Do It Better (exact release date TBA). The band self-directed the stylish and atmospheric video. The song has also been released to Spotify and Apple Music with four alternate versions of the track, including an instrumental version and one without drums. More

May 21, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Johnny Jewel (of Chromatics and other bands) has surprise-released a new album, Themes for Television, and shared a black & white Radka Leitmeritz-directed video for “Red Door.” The album is out now digitally and on special edition cherry red vinyl via Italians Do It Better. The album features material Jewel recorded prior to last year’s Twin Peaks: The Return revival, but was inspired by the notion that the show was coming back. More

May 16, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Chromatics have shared a video for a new song, “Black Walls,” and have promised that their long-awaited album Dear Tommy will finally come out this fall via Italians Do It Better. More

Apr 02, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

SSION is releasing a new album, O, on May 11 via Dero Arcade. SSION (pronounced SHUN and the project of Cody Critcheloe) previously shared a video for “At Least the Sky is Blue,” a song that features Ariel Pink, who also appeared in the video (it featured SSION in drag as Liza Minnelli, with Ariel Pink dressed as Elizabeth Taylor). More

May 22, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Chromatics performed their previously shared single “Shadow” during last night’s premiere of Showtime’s Twin Peaks revival, performing the song in the show’s Roadhouse bar. Now they have shared a new video for “Shadow.” More

May 09, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Johnny Jewel is releasing a new album, Windswept, tomorrow (May 10), via his Italians Do It Better label. It features unreleased music from Jewel and his bands Chromatics and Desire, as well as collaborations with Glass Candy, Heaven, and Symmetry. More

May 08, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Johnny Jewel is releasing a new album, Windswept, this Wednesday, May 10, via his Italians Do It Better label. It features unreleased music from Jewel and his bands Chromatics and Desire, as well as collaborations with Glass Candy, Heaven, and Symmetry. More

May 04, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Johnny Jewel has announced a new album, Windswept, and shared a video for its title track. Windswept is due out next Wednesday, May 10, via Jewel’s Italians Do It Better label. More