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Joey Bada$$ and Glass Animals collaborate on “Lose Control”

The dissimilar worlds of New York hip-hop and British pop met on “Lose Control,” a joint track from Joey Bada$$ and Glass Animals. 

The intense verses like the ones found on Joey’s debut, B4.Da.$$ lead the way by the signature slinky production form Glass Animals’ Zaba LP. It is an unlikely but surprisingly good collaboration. Listen in here.
Joey and frontman for Glass Animals, Dave Bayley discussed the track with Noisey UK:
Joey:

“We were in New York and the session that was supposed to start at 11am, actually started at 11pm. I fuck with Dave heavy – we understood each other’s vibe straight away and worked through the night to create this fire. Nobody got hurt.”

Dave Bayley:

“I got hold of Joey’s mixtape back in 2012 and was hooked. A couple months ago I heard he was into Glass Animals so I got in touch, and when I was in Brooklyn he came by the studio one night. I started playing him some sounds. Within an hour we had the beat and he was like “I’m ready.” He got into the booth and put down pretty much the entire thing in one fell swoop…dude is so talented.”

Austin City Limits Weekend 1 in photos
Royal Blood
Royal Blood
Billy Idol
Tame Impala
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
Twenty One Pilots
Jose Gonzalez
The Strokes

Austin City Limits

Isabella King, the sole writer for the Melodic Tree is currently at Austin City Limits and as the connection to the Internet is not ideal, there will be no posts for today , the 3rd, and tomorrow, the 4th, but, no fear, we will be back up on Monday with photos of the amazing festival and the best moments of the festival! 

Talk soon. 

Ryan Adams performs his Taylor Swift covers at the Daily Show

To cap off his first week as host of The Daily Show, Trevor Noah welcomed Ryan Adams for a performance of his covers album of 1989. Noah explained in a pre-show interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the singer-songwriter was not booked for being music’s flavor du jour currently. 

“He took Taylor Swift and… remade that to much acclaim and has done exceptionally well, and I really appreciate that … He’s done in essence what we’ve done here—he’s taken something that was loved by many, cherished by many, and has created a new version of it for himself. And people have gone, ‘Wow, this is amazing. We can still like Taylor Swift but we can also like Ryan Adams’ 1989.”

Adams and his band performed “Bad Blood” first for television. For the web, they played “Style” and “Blank Space,” and Adams spoke briefly about how the album was created. Watch all the clips here.

Austin City Limits reveals 2015 webcast schedule

Austin City Limits will live stream a variety of this weekend’s performance on Red Bull TV.

The Strokes, Run the Jewels, Father John Misty, ASAP Rocky, Alabama Shakes, The Decemberists, Gary Clark Jr., Royal Blood, Brand New, Billy Idol, Kurt Vile are among the scheduled artists.

Watch here, or watch through the Red Bull TV’s app on Android, iOS and Windows phone, through Apple TV, and Samsung TV’s Red Bull channels, and a free app on Amazon Fire TV, Kindle Fire, Nexus Player, Roku Players, Roku TV models, and Xbox 360.

Friday, October 2nd:
02:15pm – Talking in Tongues (1)
02:15 – Asleep at the Wheel (2)
03:00 – Royal Blood (1)
03:00 – In the Whale (2)
03:45 – Meg Myers (2)
04:00 – Nate Ruess (1)
04:30 – Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors (2)
05:00 – Leon Bridges (1)
05:15 – Brand New (2)
06:00 – Walk The Moon (1)
06:15 – Albert Hammond Jr. (2)
07:15 – Moon Taxi (1)
07:15 – Cherub (2)
08:15 – Gary Clark Jr. (1)
08:15 – George Ezra (2)
09:15 – Flosstradamus (1)
09:15 – Run the Jewels (2)

Saturday, October 3rd:
02:15pm – Waters (3)
02:30 – Milo Greene (1)
02:30 – Glass Animals (2)
03:15 – Echosmith (1)
03:30 – Misterwives (2)
04:00 – Father John Misty (1)
04:30 – Shakey Graves (2)
04:30 – San Fermin (3)
05:30 – Houndmouth (2)
07:20 – Alabama Shakes (1)
07:30 – G-Eazy (2)
07:30 – TV on the Radio (3)
08:20 – deadmau5 (1)
08:30 – ASAP Rocky (2)
08:30 – Unknown Mortal Orchestra (3)

Sunday, October 4th:
02:15pm – Boom Forest (3)
02:30 – BØRNS (2)
03:00 – Jidenna (3)
03:15 – Lord Huron (1)
03:30 – Daughter (2)
03:45 – Amason (3)
04:30 – The Decemberists (1)
04:40 – Ben Howard (3)
05:30 – Vance Joy (1)
05:30 – Sylvan Esso (2)
05:30 – Strand of Oaks (3)
06:30 – Of Monsters and Men (1)
06:30 – Kurt Vile and the Violators (3)
07:30 – Hozier (2)
07:30 – NERO (3)
07:45 – Billy Idol (1)
08:45 – The Strokes (1)
09:30 – Dwight Yoakam (2)

Coachella organizers reportedly planning another New York City festival

New York City has been known to be a graveyard for failed music festivals, but the success of Governors Ball has caused promoter AEG Live to give the city another chance.

AEG is known for several successful US music festivals such as Coachella, Hangout Music Festival and Firefly Music Festival, but it previous NYC event, All Points West, lasted only two years before being axed.

However, New York Daily News reports that plans are underway for a new AEG-produced festival named Panorama, which would occur in June 2016 at the Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, which was also the site of the 1964/1965 New York World’s Fair.

Festival organizers of Governors Ball are understandably upset over the idea of another New York City mega festival happening so close.

“The timing of this corporate-run festival would threaten our ability as a small business to continue putting on the kind of event that has showcased the best artists, created hundreds of local jobs and put millions of dollars back into the city’s economy,” Tom Russell, of Founders Entertainment said, which puts on Governors Ball, in a recent interview with the Daily News.

AEG has not officially commented on the Daily News’ report yet.

Deerhunter create interactive Fading Frontier Influences map

Deerhunter’s new album, Fading Frontiers is set to be released on October 16th through 4AD. In anticipation, Bradford Cox has drawn an interactive map of influences that went towards the album. The map includes influences from artists like R.E.M., Tom Petty, Caetano Veloso, Al Green, J.G. Ballard, Pablo Neruda, old linen, iced Earl Grey tea, “souless new car smell,” the car accident Cox was in last year, and more. Clicking on most of the entries will take you to a video, Wikipedia page, PDF, and so on associated with it. One phrase takes you to a page about Cox’s dog, Faulkner.

In an interview with Vulture, Cox talked about the influences. Discussing “the decline of the music industry,” he said:

The music industry is a giant shrieking ghost. It means nothing. It never meant much. It’s just an appalling apparition. It has no vitality. How can you expect much from someone who thinks only of profit? They’re simple creatures. I might sound so arrogant. I’m not a socialist in any dogmatic way. I don’t believe that I have the answer. I think John Cassavetes had the best answer for the creation and distribution of art: Pay for it yourself, do it yourself.

Preordering Fading Frontier is through the 4AD store will get you a screenprinted copy of the map.

Flying Lotus, Shabazz Palaces, and Thundercat form new supergroup WOKE

Adult Swim’s 2015 Singles program has given the long-awaited comeback of Ghostface Killah and DOOM’s project DOOMSTARKS recently. The summer music series has now helped to facilitate another meeting of minds.

This week’s release, named “The Lavishments of Light Looking”, acts as the official debut of WOKE, a supergroup made up of Flying Lotus, Shabazz Palaces, and Thundercat. The track was produced by Flying Lotus and much like its creators, has elements of hip-hop, electronic, jazz fusion, funk, and more. George Clinton also provides guest vocals on the song.

Listen to the song below or download it for free on Adult Swim’s official website.

WOKE is not the first time these artists have joined forces. Flying Lotus, Thundercat, and Shabazz Palaces have all worked together on various projects such as albums, tours, one-off tracks, and more.

Other 2015 Adult Swim Singles include songs from Slayer, Shabazz Palaces, Danny Brown and Clams Casino, Peaches, Swervedriver, Yung Lean, and Owen Pallett. Also, new Run the Jewels material is expected in coming weeks. You can download the tracks for free via Adult Swim.

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. Aurora – Foo Fighters

2. Under the Cover of Darkness – The Strokes

3. Often – The Weeknd

4. Every Other Freckle – Alt-J

5. Blame It On Me – George Ezra

6. Fire and the Flood – Vance Joy

7. Car Radio – Twenty One Pilots

8. Better Man – Leon Bridges

9. Funtimes in Babylon – Father John Misty

10. Black Mambo – Glass Animals

11. Let It Carry You – José González

12. On the Road – Houndmouth

13. Sound & Color – Alabama Shakes

14. 10,000 Emerald Pools – BØRNS

15. Can’t Keep Checking My Phone – Unknown Mortal Orchestra

16. Smother – Daughter

17. Anna Sun – Walk the Moon

18. Love Like Ghosts – Lord Huron

19. Make Your Mind Up – Moon Taxi

20. Can’t Deny My Love – Brandon Flowers

The Flaming Lips to release 20th anniversary of Clouds Taste Metallic

This month is the 20th anniversary of Clouds Taste Metallic, The Flaming Lips’ seventh album and the last one to include guitarist Ronald Jones. The band is prepping for a deluxe reissue of the LP named Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic in anticipation.

It is set to be released on November 27th through Warner Bros., and it boasts bonus material such as B-sides and rarities added on to original record. The reissue will be sold as a five-LPbox set or a three-CD bundle.

The reissue has the original Clouds Taste Metallic; a compilation named Due to High Expectations The Flaming Lips Are Providing Needles For Your Balloons; The King Bug Laughs, a number of outtakes and rare tracks; and Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles, an unreleased live recording of a Seattle concert circa 1996.

Pre-orders have begun. Check out the full tracklist of the reissue below.

Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic CD Box Set Tracklist:

Disc 1: Clouds Taste Metallic
01. The Abandoned Hospital Ship
02. Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles
03. Placebo Headwound
04. This Here Giraffe
05. Brainville
06. Guy Who Got a Headache and Accidentally Saves the World
07. When You Smile
08. Kim’s Watermelon Gun
09. They Punctured My Yolk
10. Lightning Strikes the Postman
11. Christmas At the Zoo
12. Evil Will Prevail
13. Bad Days (aurally excited version)

Disc 2: Due To High Expectations The Flaming Lips Are Providing Needles For Your Balloons / The King Bug Laughs (Oddities and Rarities)
01. Bad Days
02. Jets Part 2 (My Two Days As An Ambulance Driver)
03. Ice Drummer
04. Put the Waterbug in the Policeman’s Ear
05. Chewin’ the Apple of Yer Eye
06. Chosen One
07. Little Drummer Boy
08. Slow Nerve Action
09. It Was a Very Good Year
10. Sun Arise
11. Life on Mars
12. Ballrooms of Mars
13. Hot Day
14. Nobody Told Me
15. Magician Vs The Headache
16. She Don’t Use Jelly (Live @KJ103)

Disc 3: Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles (Live in Seattle 1996)
01. The Abandoned Hospital Ship
02. Unconsciously Screamin’
03. Take Meta Mars
04. Moth in the Incubator
05. Put the Waterbug in the Policeman’s Ear
06. Lightning Strikes the Postman
07. Bad Days
08. She Don’t Use Jelly
09. Chewin’ the Apple of Yer Eye
10. When You Smile
11. Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles
12. Love Yer Brain
13. Placebo Headwound