The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. Gold Dust – Duster

2. Helicopter – Deerhunter

3. Sun Was High (So Was I) – Small Black

4. Summer of Our Discontent – Sugar Candy Mountain

5. Eliot St. – Quilt

6. Camberwell – #1 Dads

7. Burbank – Harriet

8. Hometown -Haley Bonar

9. Love Forever – The Babe Rainbow

10. Is This Sound Okay? – Coconut Records

11. Sleeves – Tough Boy

12. 2soft2chew – Ian Sweet

13. Glued to You – Tomorrows Tulips

14. Free From All Sense of Purpose – Blithe Field

15. Old Enough to Know – Tony Molina

16. Phone Sex – Cutouts

17. Ett Stilla Regn – Ashley Erikkson

18. Playing With Fire – Nick Leng

19. First Field – The Antlers

20. Now You See Everything – Stephen Steinbrink

Spotify will no longer allow artists to directly upload music

Spotify announced today that it is ending its direct-upload program. The feature, which was still in its beta, allowed artists to upload their music directly to Spotify without needing to use a traditional distributor or third-party company to upload their music on the streaming service.

Spotify said today in its announcement, “The best way for us to serve artists and labels is to focus our resources on developing tools in areas where Spotify can uniquely benefit them—like Spotify for Artists… and our playlist submission tool.” In addition, the blog post stated, “We’re working with our distribution partners to help make this transition as simple as possible for the artists who uploaded music through the beta.”

The company will stop accepting new uploads at the end of this month.

Bon Iver shares new website, debuts new songs

Bon Iver played a show on Sunday night at London’s All Points East festival where Justin Vernon and the band closed out the set with recordings of new music, NME reports. Watch clips of the songs fans speculate are titled “Hey Ma” and “U” below. The band performed “Hey Ma” live at Bonnaroo.

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Bon Iver also displayed a cryptic link to a new website called “icommai” on the screen. The site’s most recent post features a lengthy list of collaborators, including Moses Sumney, The National’s Bryce Dessner, Brad Cook, Psymun, Bruce Hornsby, and others. Check out the full list on icommai.com.

Watch Vampire Weekend perform “Sunflower” on “Kimmel”

Vampire Weekend performed on last night’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” where they performed “Sunflower” from their new album Father of the Bride, which was released today. Watch it below.

Father OfThe Bride is Vampire Weekend’s first album in six years, and features contributions fromRostam, Danielle Haim, Steve Lacy, Ariel Rechtshaid, and more.

Listen to Ancient Pools’ new album, Cosine

Portland-based pop duo, Ancient Pools have released their debut album Cosine via Forged Artifact and Feeding Tube Records. Stream the album below from their Bandcamp.

The duo will start a US tour next week, starting April, 18 in Boise Idaho and finish in Seattle May, 8. Find their tour dates below.

SASAMI’s Grandma teaches how to make kimchi in New “Morning Comes” video

SASAMI has shared the music video for “Morning Comes,” which features her halmoni (grandmother) showing the watcher how to make kimchi in the style of Korean television. The singer-songwriter co-directed the clip with Eric Notarnicola; watch it below. The track is SASAMI’s self-titled debut album, which came out earlier this year through Domino.

Panda Bear and the Walkmen’s Paul Maroon share new song

Noah Lennox, aka Panda Bear and the Walkmen’s Paul Maroon have collaborated on a new 7″ single that was recently released called “I Don’t Need a Crowd.” Maroon has now made the song available online. Listen to it below.