Dana Margolin: Last News

Porridge Radio have announced their split and shared their goodbye single ‘Don’t Want To Dance’ from their forthcoming final EP.The Brighton band took to their official X/Twitter account to share ‘Don’t Want To Dance’ and wrote that their upcoming EP ‘Machine Starts To Sing’ – which is set for release on February 21 and available for pre-order here – will mark “the last new music from us as Porridge Radio and marks the end of the band.“The songs on this EP are an important part of Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me, and mean as much to us as the 11 songs on the album. We are excited for you to hear them,” they tweeted.They continued: “This band has been our life, we’re family now.

Porridge Radio have announced a new album, ‘Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me’ and shared its lead single ‘Sick Of The Blues’.The follow-up to 2022’s ‘Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky’ will arrive on October 18 via Secretly Canadian.Per a press release, the Brighton band’s new album “is a coming-of-age moment inspired by burnout, the music industry, heartbreak, and band leader Dana Margolin’s own increasing immersion in her craft as an artist.”“Almost all the songs started out as poems,” Margolin added in the press release. “In a poem, though, you can’t hide.“A lot of this album is about a more frenetic and desperate kind of love. It is about completely losing my sense of self in one relationship, and the deep residue of insecurity and pain that lingered and clouded a new relationship.”Coinciding with the announcement, the band have shared the album’s hopeful yet melancholic lead single and closing track ‘Sick Of The Blues’.“‘Sick Of The Blues’ is about being heartbroken and taking back some joy, remembering that you’re the source of your own happiness, not someone else, even when you’re hurt and left with a hole in your heart,” said frontwoman Dana Margolin about the new track.

Porridge Radio have shared their brand new single ‘End Of Last Year’, which is a love song frontwoman Dana Margolin wrote for the band.The track is taken from the Brighton band’s upcoming third album ‘Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky’ and follows on from singles ‘The Rip’ and ‘Back To The Radio’.Speaking about the song, Margolin said: “‘End Of Last Year’ is a love song for my bandmates and for myself. It’s about not trusting my intuition, not trusting my body to heal itself, not trusting the people closest to me, but it is also an ode to all those people, and to difficult platonic love.“It came out of a particularly painful period of communication breakdown and high pressure that hurt a lot, but ended in reconciliation and understanding.”‘End Of Last Year’ arrives alongside a video directed by Maura Sappilo.

Porridge Radio have shared a second single from their forthcoming album Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky. "The Rip" is an indie rock gut punch and comes with a video directed by Ella Margolin, the sister of frontperson Dana Margolin. Last month Porridge Radio shared "Back To The Radio," the first song from the follow-up to their Mercury Prize-nominated 2020 project Every Bad.

Porridge Radio have shared their new single ‘The Rip’, which has been inspired by both Charli XCX and Deftones.The track is taken from Porridge Radio’s upcoming third album ‘Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky’ and follows on from ‘Back To The Radio’, which was released in February.Speaking about the song, vocalist Dana Margolin said: “We wanted it to sound like massive pop, like Charli XCX, but with the instrumentation of bands like Slothrust or Deftones.”Check the song out below, alongside a video directed by Margolin’s sister, Ella.“‘The Rip’ was the last song to be finished for the album, and we finished it about a week before we went into the studio to record it in March 2021,” explained Dana. “It took the longest a song has ever taken me to write lyrics for, and they took form over a few years.

Porridge Radio have announced the follow-up to their Mercury-nominated second album ‘Every Bad’. Titled ‘Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky’, the new LP will be out in May, with first single, ‘Back To The Radio’, out now.“’Back To The Radio’ feels like a huge introductory hello or a big ceremonial goodbye”, says the band’s Dana Margolin.

Porridge Radio have announced details of their third album ‘Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky’ and shared its first single ‘Back To The Radio’.The band have also confirmed their biggest-ever UK headline tour alongside a series of intimate in-store shows around the record’s release.‘Back To The Radio’ was written by frontperson Dana Margolin ahead of the release of the group’s acclaimed 2020 album ‘Every Bad’, a time when she felt like “a lot of things were coming that I wasn’t sure I knew how to handle”.“The song grew out of a feeling of intense loneliness and being unprepared for what everybody was promising me was about to happen – and a strong desire to escape without knowing what I wanted to escape to,” she said in a press release. “To me, there’s a huge feeling of catharsis in this song, of letting go and letting it sweep you away.”The song comes with a video directed by Margolin’s sister Ella and finds the singer waking up in a room where papier-mâché furniture is slowly being removed one by one. Later, she joins the rest of Porridge Radio in a room decorated with landscape scenery as people dressed all in black move her around the space.

Porridge Radio have written a new original Christmas song – listen to ‘The Last Time I Saw You (O Christmas)’ below.The new track, out today (December 8) via Secretly Canadian, follows the band’s second album ‘Every Bad’ and recent follow-up single ‘7 Seconds’.“It’s a song about having a miserable time every Christmas and the same cycles of heartbreak and depression endlessly repeating themselves,” vocalist Dana Margolin said of the new track, adding: “We had a lot of fun with it – enjoy.”Listen to ‘The Last Time I Saw You (O Christmas)’ below.Porridge Radio’s second album ‘Every Bad’, which came out in March, was nominated for the 2020 Mercury Prize.

Cocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde and Richie Thomas from Dif Juz, have released a new song with Porridge Radio, ‘One For Regret’.The punchy cut is one of the first eight tracks of Lost Horizon’s new album ‘In Quiet Moments’ will hit streaming services on December 4.Following this, the outfit will drop the second half of the album and a physical release of the entire project on February 26.Watch the video for ‘One For Regret’, starring Porridge Radio’s Dana Margolin, below:In a statement, Margolin said that “the process of collaborating on ‘One For Regret’ was really fun for me”.“Simon sent me an instrumental to write lyrics and vocal melodies for, which isn’t a way I’ve written in the past and helped me think about songwriting in new ways.

Porridge Radio have shared a potent new cover of a Leonard Cohen song in a new video – watch it below now.The band recorded their version of ‘Who By Fire’, which originally appeared on the 1974 album ‘New Skin For The Old Ceremony’, at Camberwell’s St Giles Church.“I’ve loved Leonard Cohen since I was a teenager, and when he died we learnt this song in tribute to him,” frontwoman Dana Margolin explained on Instagram of the story behind the cover.“It’s always been a favourite of ours so we were really happy to record it for our session at St Giles’ Church, Camberwell.

Hyundai Mercury Prize just a few days away, Porridge Radio‘s Dana Margolin has spoken to NME about the band’s fellow nominees and their plans for new music. Watch our video interview with Margolin above.The Brighton indie four-piece are nominated for the coveted award this year for their acclaimed album ‘Every Bad‘, up against the likes of Stormzy, Charli XCX, Anna Meredith, Sports Team and Michael Kiwanuka.Asked about her thoughts on the competition, Margolin replied: “I don’t really see it like that.

‘Every Bad’, Porridge Radio have revealed a brand new single entitled ‘7 Seconds’.The new track hears the Brighton natives taking a turn towards synth-pop following their guitar-driven March LP, with Marta Salogni taking on production duties.“’7 Seconds’ started out sounding really different to how it sounds now,” vocalist and lead songwriter Dana Margolin said.“A few years ago I wrote a really slow, long and drawn out song about the end of something that was never right.

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The Brighton-based indie rock band Porridge Radio have shared a new song from their forthcoming album. “Circling” arrives with a new video directed by Rachel Winton, Ben Cole, and Tash Lever. Their album Every Bad is out March 13 via Secretly Canadian.

Porridge Radio vocalist Dana Margolin has teamed up with Chicago-based artist Lala Lala for a new lockdown collaboration.‘Good For You’, which is out today (July 2), was written and recorded entirely in lockdown – listen to the new track below.Speaking of the new track with Lillie West, Margolin says: “‘Good For You’ landed on me one morning early on in lockdown when I was eating breakfast.