{"id":428506,"date":"2026-05-06T16:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/428506\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T16:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:16:09","slug":"kurt-vile-shares-new-song-zoom-97-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/428506\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Vile Shares New Song “Zoom 97”: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again, Vile season is upon us. Laid-back indie rock charmer Kurt Vile is preparing to follow his 2022 major-label debut (watch my moves)<\/a> with a new LP called Philadelphia’s Been Good To Me. It’s largely self-produced, with Vile recording most of it at home in Philly’s Mount Airy neighborhood. We’ve already posted lead single “Chance To Bleed<\/a>,” and now Vile follows it with another one.<\/p>\n

“Zoom 97” is the blissfully chill opening track from Philadelphia’s Been Good To Me. It’s all about Vile driving around Philadelphia and reflecting on his own good fortune in life: “True love is the pure drug for me.” It’s got a sparkly jangle-groove, and it also has lyrics about its own sparkly jangle-groove. You have to love how Vile is willing to deliver a conversational, literal lyric like this one: “Check out my hands, my chimin’ chords on a Goldtone mandolin guitar.” And then he plays some of those chiming chords! Kurt Vile only tells the truth. Here’s what he says about “Zoom 97”:<\/p>\n

This was the first song that came together on this record that we knew was real special, like we knew we were on the right track ya know\u2026
And it\u2019s a 100% Philly born and bred affair.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I could reminisce out loud but for now we takin it inward\u2026 \u201cjump in my whip\u2026 my engine whines, yeah\u2026 zig zag my way\u2026 down Lincoln Drive, yeah\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

See yall out there in the world soon enoughs \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Listen below.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia’s Been Good To Me is out 5\/29 on Verve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once again, Vile season is upon us. Laid-back indie rock charmer Kurt Vile is preparing to follow his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-428506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}