The Shins’ James Mercer and Danger Mouse have reunited as Broken Bells, returning with their first new material since After the Disco in 2014. Named “It’s That Talk Again,” the track plays like a Tame Impala song with soft synths and a groovy vibe.
Listen below.
Even though Mercer has maintained a low profile the last few months, Danger Mouse has been working on Adele’s new album, which is set to be released this November.
José González has released an animated video for “Let It Carry You,” from this year’s Vestiges & Claws.A strange-looking man goes through an evolution and starts to fly, thus going on a journey. Malin Johansson, the director, explained in a press release that the clip shows what it is like “to be stuck in a state of emptiness and what it means to be carried away by something, and how that then transcends from a mental notion into a physical sensation.” Watch it below via Nerdist.
“Let It Carry You” is also the focus of González’s newest release, a four-track EP that has remixes of the song by Holy Ghost! and producer Dino Soccio, and a live recording from a show in Los Angeles. It is now out through Imperial Recordings/Mute; check out the cover art above and tracklisting below.
Let It Carry You EP:
01 Let It Carry You
02 Let It Carry You (Live Version)
03 Let It Carry You (Holy Ghost! Remix)
04 Let It Carry You (Dino Soccio Remix)
Jose Gonzalez tour dates:
09-28 Hollywood, FL – ArtsPark Amphitheater
09-29 St. Petersburg, FL – State Theatre
09-30 Orlando, FL – The Social
10-01 Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse
10-02 New Orleans, LA – Republic New Orleans
10-02-04 Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Festival
10-04 Little Rock, AR – Juanita’s Café & Bar
10-05 Louisville, KY – Headliners Music Hall
10-06 Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge
10-07 Columbia, MO – The Blue Note
10-08 Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theatre
10-09 Oklahoma City, OK – ACM @ UCO Performance Lab
10-09-11 Austin, TX – Austin City Limits Festival
10-12 Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theatre
10-13 Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theatre
10-14 Mesa, AZ – Mesa Arts Center – Piper
10-15 Solana Beach, CA – Belly Up Tavern
10-17 North Fork, CA – Bandit Town
10-17-18 San Francisco, CA – Treasure Island Music Festival
11-11 Zagreb, Croatia – Lauba
Kurt Vile’s latest album, b’lieve I’m goin down…, was announced with an accompanying biography blurb from Kim Gordon, who described the record as “all air, weightless, bodyless, but grounded in convincing authenticity.” Apparently, the two met initially in 2009 at a Dinosaur Jr concert and have kept in touch ever since — “she appeared at my merch table and I ran over there straight away,” Vile told Dazed magazine, who have published an interview between the two of them. They talk about the album, music biographies and a lost encounter with Neil Young. Here’s an excerpt:
Kim Gordon: What’s your favourite song on the album?
Kurt Vile: ‘Wheelhouse’, which is kind of meditative. I think that some – OK, all – of the lyrics are darker on this album, but I think my lyrics are always pretty dark. Although I did make a mistake before by saying that my albums were dark, because it’s not like they’re Radiohead or ‘women and children first’ or anything. It’s not total despair, I would just say they’re melancholy.
Kim Gordon: It’s not post-apocalyptic…
Kurt Vile: Yeah, it’s not exactly Marilyn Manson, is it? (laughs) I feel like when I say something sad, I mean it. I guess I’m just realistic. I think I’m smart enough – or I’ve got enough personality – to know that you always need a punchline at the end of it. Nobody wants a complainer.
Kim Gordon: For me, I didn’t really think of the record in terms of darkness. There are melancholy melodies, but I thought the lyrics were especially good and I thought that they were kind of mature, like someone who knows themselves and who is singing about ‘how it is’, but making that sound poetic. I like the way you spit lines and make it work. I don’t mean that in an emo way! (laughs)
Read the whole interview here.
1. Paper – Deer Vibes
2. Tangled In You – Tera Ferna
3. Oranges – Lonely Horse
4. A Taste of Silver – Until the Ribbon Breaks
5. Plumage – Menomena
6. Forest Gum – New Madrid
7. Moving to Brussels – Bhi Bhiman
8. Golden Twin – Wild Ones
9. Bad Law – Sondre Lerche
10. Heaven Knows – The Shouting Matches
11. Upswing – Prinze George
12. All I Want – The Reverb Junkie
13. James Dean – JR JR
14. Tangerine – Hydra Melody
15. Honey Jars – Bryan John Appleby
16. Feel Free – Tyler Lyle
17. Neighbor Song – Aunt Martha
18. Switzerland – The Last Bison
19. Hello My Old Heart – The Oh Hello’s
20. First Defeat – Noah Gundersen
Win Butler, known from Arcade Fire, talked to The Independent about the band’s new film, The Reflektor Tapes. During the interview, he talked about Tidal and their perception of it. Butler and Regine Chassagne were two of the artists that were part of the service’s launch. Even though the band does not regret their involvement, Butler was not thrilled with the impression of the launch gave.
He told The Independent: “None of the artists knew anything about the PR, it was a poorly managed launch, but conceptually the thing that we liked about Tidal was that it’s HD streaming quality.”
Butler also blamed major labels for the struggles of the service, and the price point of the HD streaming.
“They dictated that Tidal has to cost $20,” he says. “The major label music industry has completely ruined every aspect of their business. At every step of the way they’ve had the tools offered to them to create an industry that works, and they’ve completely blown it. That’s why we never had any interest in signing a contract with one of these companies because they’re clearly completely clueless.”
He said it would be “silly” not to talk about solutions for distributing art “at the table with Jay Z, Kanye and Daft Punk.”
Read the full article.
Ought’s excellent sophomore album, Sun Coming Down, is out today, September 18th through Constellation Records. The video for the LP’s almost title track, “Sun’s Coming Down” follows the album’s subtle intensity. A bicycle gangs goes through urban streets in search of something that is undefined, encountering various absurde situations. The Aaliyeh Afshar and Max Taeuschel directed video did not need pageantry in order to be as intriguing as it was. Watch it here.
Eagles of Death Metal, the Jesse Hughes and Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme’s duo, will release their new album, Zipper Down on October 2 through T-Boy Records and Universal Music Enterprises. They have shared “Silverlake” after the release of “Complexity” and “Got A Woman” from the upcoming album. Listen to it here via Rolling Stone.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Homme joked that the seven years since Heart On “had a really negative byproduct. There were all sorts of Middle East troubles and all these other things, so we’re sorry for that. We didn’t wanna cause that by not putting out music, but we figured now that we’re gonna put this stuff out, most of the world should kind of come back together like before.”
He added:
We put out a record and human rights are better, the world feels better, people make more money, there’s less anger, people are more respectful to women and to homosexuals, and they’re generally nicer each other, they’re kinder to each other, and that’s why we really felt like it was time to let the healing begin.
Father John Misty has premiered a preview of the video for “The Night Josh Tillman Came to Our Apartment” off of this year’s I Love You, Honeybear. It features two Tillmans singing “Silent Night” inside a bathroom, watch it below.
Skylar Spence transformed from being a chill wave saint to a disco-pop artist. Ryan DeRobertis has released various singles off of his new album, Prom King, and in anticipation of the Friday release, he is streaming the entire thing. This album feels as though it’s still summer even though fall is approaching. Stream it here.
Prom King is out 9/18 through Carpark.
File-sharing website Sharebeast has been seized by the Department of Justice according to Billboard. The site directs to a notice of seizure that was posted by the FBI, referring to the site’s “willful copyright infringement.”
The Recording Industry Association of America Chairman and CEO Cary Sherman also released a statement about the seizure on the RIAA’s website:
This is a huge win for the music community and legitimate music services. Sharebeast operated with flagrant disregard for the rights of artists and labels while undermining the legal marketplace.
Millions of users accessed songs from Sharebeast each month without one penny of compensation going to countless artists, songwriters, labels and others who created the music. We are grateful to the FBI and the Department of Justice for its strong stand against Sharebeast and for recognizing that these types of illicit sites wreak major damage on the music community and hinder fans’ legitimate listening options.
Another file-sharing website which was associated with Sharebeast, Albumjams.com, was shut down as well.
