coup de main - noun
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Definition of coup de main : an attack that achieves complete surprise.

Phoebe Bridgers covers 'Day After Tomorrow' for her annual Christmas cover.

'Tis the season for Phoebe Bridgers to drop her yearly Christmas song... and she has delivered. Bridgers released a cover of Tom Waits' song 'Day After Tomorrow' this week, with all proceeds benefiting the Local Integration & Family Empowerment Division of the International Institute of Los Angeles.

The cover also features backing vocals from the likes of Marcus Mumford, Blake Mills, and Kaitlyn Dever alongside her sister Mady.

Listen to Bridgers' new cover below...

Ruel previews new song 'GROWING UP IS _____'.

Ahead of its official release next Friday, December 10th, Ruel has today shared a 15-second snippet of his newest single 'GROWING UP IS _____' and is encouraging fans to get creative on YouTube Shorts and help him finish the lyric "growing up is..."

"The idea of the underline at the end of the title was to try to explain that everyone has a different experience growing up," explains Ruel. "Everyone has ups and downs, but because it’s never just one thing, I couldn’t just give it one word and wanted to leave it open for interpretation."

An online accompaniment to CDM #5 - The Truth Zine.

The theme of this month's DIY zine is 'truth' and we have contributions this month from guest curators: Aly & AJ, Blackstarkids, Justine Skye, Lydia Night / The Regrettes, and Savannah Lee Smith. 

Exclusively for this print zine, each guest curator has put together two pages relating to what truth means to them. 

+ thank you to Wyatt Knowles for designing the cover of this month's zine!

Interview: Josie Moon on her new single + upcoming album.

"I want people to be able to recognise the coming-of-age situations everyone experiences: the insecurities, the doubts, the fear," Josie Moon shares about her upcoming debut album - a project she began work on back in 2018 when her EP 'Rose Tinted' was released. Since then, the Wellington-based artist has been taking her time putting the final touches on the album, set for release in 2022.

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