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.
1. Pretty Pimpin’ – Kurt Vile
2. French Exit – The Antlers
3. Slow Motion – PHOX
4. Demons – The National
5. Dojo Rising – Cloud Control
6. Comrade – Volcano Choir
7. 1000 Black Birds – Tyler Ramsey
8. Street Joy – White Denim
9. One Million Lovers – The Growlers
10. Twenty Miles – Deer Tick
11. Hot Blur – How Sad
12. Be Brave – The Strange Boys
13. West Coast- FIDLAR
14. Times Square – Destroyer
15. Blame It On The Tetons – Modest Mouse
16. Fal Creek Boys Choir – James Blake
17. Aquariam – Nosaj Thing
18. A New Error – Moderat
19. Morning Side – Four Tet
2o. The Broads – Minotaur Shock
Toro y Moi will venture on a North American tour in a few days, featuring opening act Astronauts, etc., also known as Anthony Ferraro, who will play keyboards in his live band as well. To kick off the tour, both artists teamed up and recorded a cover of the Elton John classic, “Rocket Man.” Groove-filled and chill, it is a surprising cover that managed to fit into styles of Toro and Astronauts.
Listen to it below.
Find the tour dates below. Toro will be supporting his album, What For?, and surprise mixtape, Samantha. Astronauts will be touring in support of his upcoming full-length album, Mind Out Wandering, which is set to be released on August 18th.
Toro y Moi 2015-2016 Tour Dates:
09/18 – Sacramento, CA @ TBD Fest
09/19 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall *
09/20 – Seattle, WA @ Neumos *
09/21 – Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom *
09/24 – Minneapolis, MN @ Mill City Nights *
09/25 – Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre *
09/26 – Des Moines, IA @ Wooly’s *
09/27 – Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme *
09/28 – Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom *
09/29 – Buffalo, NY @ Waiting Room *
09/30 – Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground *
10/01 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg *
10/02 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg *
10/03 – Richmond, VA @ The National *
10/04 – Baltimore, MD @ Rams Head *
10/06 – Charleston, SC @ Music Farm *
10/07 – Athens, GA @ Georgia Theatre *
10/08 – Jacksonville, FL @ Free Bird Live *
10/09 – St. Petersburg, FL @ State Theatre
10/10-11 – Miami, FL @ III Points Festival
10/12 – Pensacola, FL @ Vinyl Music Hall *
10/13 – New Orleans, LA @ Republic *
10/14 – Birmingham, AL @ Saturn *
10/15 – Memphis, TN @ Minglewood Hall *
10/16 – Saint Louis, MO @ The Ready Room *
10/17 – Columbia, MO @ The Blue Note *
10/18 – Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theatre *
10/19 – Omaha, NE @ Waiting Room *
10/21 – Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre *
10/22 – Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theatre *
10/23 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom *
10/24 – Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory
10/25 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy & Harriet’s *
11/06-08 – Austin, TX @ Fun Fun Fun Fest
11/07 – Cuauhtémoc, MX @ Sala
11/09 – Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom
12/30 – Marion Bay, AU @ Falls Festival
12/31 – Lorne, AU @ Falls Festival
01/01 – Byron Bay, AU @ Falls Festival
01/09 – Busselton, AU @ Southbound Festival
* = w/ Astronauts, etc.
La Bagatelle Magique was conceived as a collaborative project between Robyn, Christian Falk, and and Markus Jägerstedt. However, when Falk passed away a year ago, the remaining others finished what they had left and put out their Love Is Free EP last month. They were scheduled to have their live debut at Dans Dakar, which was cancelled, and then they made up for it at Sweden’s Popaganda Festival during the end of August. Robyn realized that she would not be able to perform La Bagatelle Magique music for a while and cancelled their scheduled performances in San Francisco and Brazil.
Here is what she had to say in a statement:
It was much harder singing these songs on stage than I thought. Even though it’s been a year since Christian passed, I’m heartbroken and performing them feels too heavy still. I’m sorry to disappoint the fans that have bought tickets to these shows, and I will do my best to come back to San Francisco and Brazil soon.
A press release says that a new video for the band is currently being worked on but that “requires a clean break from performing to focus on the future so she can return with new music.”
b’lieve i’m goin down…, Kurt Vile’s upcoming album, is set to be released on September 25 through Matador. After releasing “Pretty Pimpin’,” he has premiered the video for “Life Like This.” What begins as a few hints of animation added to footage of Vile in the studio to a fully animated psychedelic adventure. It was animated and directed by Adam Avilla.
In a statement, Avilla said “Life Like This” is “a story about getting at the heart of inspiration and the surreal disjointed journey that the pursuit entails.” He also said: “I feel that artists of all disciplines can relate to such a notion of getting pleasantly (or sometimes unpleasantly) lost in your own thoughts, and from them reap inspiration for our best work.”
The upcoming album from Small Black, Best Blues, is set to be released on October 16th through Jagjaguwar. This LP reflecting on loss and memories serves as the third from the band, following Limits of Desire from 2013.
Today, Small Black returns with “Back at Belle’s,” a buzzy track. Listen to it below.
Best Blues Tracklist:
01. Personal Best
02. No One Wants It To Happen To You
03. Boys Life
04. The Closer I Look
05. Big Ideas, Pt. 2
06. Back at Belle’s
07. Between Leos
08. Checkpoints
09. Smoke Around The Bend
10. XX Century
With only a couple of months until the release of the new James Bond film, Spectre, there has been speculation on who will be singing the new theme song. Considered include Lana Del Rey, Lorde, Ed Sheeran, Adele, and Sam Smith. Although today, Smith tweeted and Instagrammed a black-and-white photo of his hand wearing a hand, with the octopus symbol for SPECTRE, the long-running set to make its first appearance in the modern movies with Spectre. See below.
Smith confirmed this morning on Twitter that he will be singing the theme to Spectre. It is called “Writing’s On The Wall,” and he wrote it with frequent collaborator Jimmy Napes. Disclosure also provided production. The single will be out on 9/25. Here are the Teerts about it:
Nowness has released a short documentary film that is following St. Vincent’s Annie Clark returning to her hometown of Marfa, Texas. The film is directed by Alan Del Rio Ortiz, who has been with St. Vincent on tour for years, and it sees Clark talking about her creative drive, and the fear and satisfaction in performing. She sings a jerky rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner” at a local small baseball game and creates a scene from a track from St Vincent, “Rattlesnake” by walking naked in a field. There is also a dance number that is narrated by Clark as she says, “There’s nothing more interesting to me than human nature, because it’s infinitely strange and just infinitely fascinating.”
Watch St. Vincent: Lone Star here.
1.We Try but We Don’t Fit In – Day Wave
2. Suicide Saturday – Hippo Campus
3. Hands Down – The Greeting Committee
4. Skeleton – Sun Bones
5. Wasted Days – Made Violent
6. Alexander -The Faults
7. Shadow of Love – Royal Tusk
8. I’m Ready – The Eiffels
9. Bear Hands – Private Island
10. All Your Words Are Gone – Avid Dancer
11. Belly – Swimm
12. I Can’t Control Myself – Strange Names
13. The Lonely – The Ugly Club
14. Wallflowers – The Static Jacks
15. oOoO – Oberhofer
16. Bear Creek – Glow Marrow
17. Source – Fever the Ghost
18. Of Age – The Rotaries
19. Simple Fiction – Ghost Hotel
20. Bright Lights – Fine Times
The Melodic Tree 