Author: bella.king

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. Slipping Away – Tanlines

2. Five Seconds – Twin Shadow

3. This Disorder- The Features

4. Buttons – The Weeks

5. Up, On & Over – Bronze Radio Return

6. S.O.B. – Nathaniel Ratecliff & The Night Sweats

7. Morocco – Moon Taxi

8. Coming Home – Leon Bridges

9. Easier All The Time – Barbarisms

10. Shuggie – Foxygen

11. Simple As This – Jake Bugg

12. Summer Girl – Family of the Year

13. OutRight – Wild Party

14. Horizon Approaching – Two Cartoons

15. White Lie – Jhameel

16. Dark Again – Gold Fields

17. Annie – Neon Indian

18. While I’m Alive – STRFKR

19. Shame – All The Colours

20. Shoulders – Art of Sleeping

Foals cover Mark Ronson and Tame Impala’s “Daffodils”

Funk and R&B are not typically the first things to come to mind when thinking of Foals. This could change after the band performed a cover of “Daffodils” by Mark Ronson and Tame Impala frontman Kevin Parker.

The UK rock band performed the cover at Australia’s triple j radio station, passing it as if it was one of their own songs. Frontman of Foals, Yannis Philippakis stood in place of Kevin Parmer and added his own spin to the vocal arrangements. Watch here.

Foals’ new album, What Went Down, is set to be released on August 28th. 

Neon Indian announces new album and shares “Slumlord”

Synthpop artist, Alan Paloma, also known as Neon Indian, will come out eill his first album in four years on October 16th. Named VEGA INTL. Night School, was written over a year and “brims with funk-centric guitar lines, pronounced Balearic rhythms, and the most elaborate songwriting of his career,” according to the press release. The artwork is above.
Set out through Mom + Pop/Transgressive, the followup to Era Extraña was composed and recorded in various places including a cabin, a cruise ship, DFA’s New York Plantain Studios, and Pure X’s Austin practice space. Palomo said: “Most of what I’ve learned about human nature in my twenties has happened after dark. People are just kind of more honest then. More deliberate. I like to call the places I go to Night Schools.”
The first listen of VEGA INTL. is the lead single “Slumlord.” Listen to it here, and find the full tracklist and newly announced tour dates below. 

VEGA INTL. Night School Tracklist:

01. Hit Parade

02. Annie

03. Street Level

04. Smut!

05. Bozo

06. The Glitzy Hive

07. Dear Skorpio Magazine

08. Slumlord

09. Slumlord’s Re-Lease

10. Techno Clique

11. Baby’s Eyes

12. C’est La Vie (say the casualties!)

13. 61 Cygni ave.

14. News From the Sun (live bootleg)
Neon Indian 2015 Tour Dates:

08/21 – Mexico City, MX @ Semana De Las Juventudes Festival

08/23 – Los Angeles, CA @ FYF Fest

09/12 – El Paso, TX @ Mother of Pearl Block Party

09/17 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom

09/18 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune

09/19 – Victoria, BC @ Rifflandia Festival

09/20 – Vancouver, BC @ Imperial

09/22 – San Francisco, CA @ Regency Social Hall

09/23 – San Francisco, CA @ Regency Social Hall

09/29 – Manor, TX @ J Lorrain Ghost Town

09/30 – San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger

10/01 – Dallas, TX @ The Bomb Factory

10/02 – Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald’s

10/13 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club

10/14 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall

10/16 – Detroit, MI @ Populux

10/17 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall

10/20 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue

10/21 – Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre

10/22 – Columbus, OH @ A&R Music Bar

10/23 – Buffalo, NY @ Tralf Music Hall

11/07 – Austin, TX @ Fun Fun Fun Fest

11/08 – New Orleans, LA @ Republic

11/10 – Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West

11/11 – Saxapahaw, NC @ Haw River Ballroom

11/15 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer

Stream Mick Jenkins’ new mixtape Wave[s]

Mick Jenkins will release his upcoming mixtape, Wave[s] on August 21st. The entire project is a skiable for streaming here courtesy of NPR.com.

Due out through Jenkins’ Free Nation imprint under the label, Cinematic Music Group, the Wave[s] is the followup to The Water[s] mixtape. The EP features producers such as Kaytranada, Lee Bannon, ThemPeople, and others; as well as guest such as Saba, Sean Deaux, and The Mind.

Wave[s] Tracklist:
01. Alchemy (Prod. Lee Bannon & ThemPeople)

02. Slumber feat. Saba & Sean Deaux (Prod. by Thempeople)

03. Get Up Get Down (Prod. By Stefan Ponce & Thempeople)

04. Your Love (Prod. By Kaytranada)

05. Piano (Prod. by Thempeople)

06. The Giver (Prod. by Thempeople)

07. 40 Below (Prod. by Thempeople)

08. P’s & Q’s (Prod. By Kaytranada)

09. Perception feat. The Mind (Prod. By Mulatto & ThemPeople)

Alabama Shakes perform two stellar songs on Conan

Typically, a rock band choose a song that is high energy for a talk show to catch the attention of the audience. However, Alabama Shakes delivered a the slow “Gimmie All Your Love” and still caught the attention of the crowd. Supporting their sophomore LP, Sound & Color, the band also performed “Future People” for a web exclusive. Watch “Gimme All Your Love” here and “Future People” here

Watch Bon Iver’s entire headlining set at Eaux Claires Festival

Bon Iver gave a stunning set at this year’s first Eaux Claires Festival, not just because it was their first show in three years. Other than the fact that it was their return, the performance was a breathtaking experience for everyone in the audience, as Justin Vernon forced back tears as he and his bandmates and friends played both new and old material.

The set saw two new songs, providing fans hope that the band will be back soon, even though Vernon gave mixed signals on the subject. Guests came in and out throughout the performance, whether it was The Staves, Colin Stetson or the Dessner brothers, Aaron and Bryce. Now you can watch the entire thing.

Redditers found a YouTube video of the entire set, which can be watched below. The setlist can also be found below, thanks to uploader Paul Seal and Setlist.fm.

Bon Iver Eaux Claires Festival 2015 Setlist:
Intro (00:34)
Heavenly Father (03:20) w/ The Staves
Lump Sum (07:23) w/ yMusic
Towers (13:11)
Calgary (16:53)
Flume (23:05)
Blindsided (26:00) w/ Josh Scott
Brackett, WI (32:20) w/ Colin Stetson
Babys (36:25) w/ Aaron and Bryce Dessner
Holocene (41:35)
Pert (48:32) w/ The Staves
For Emma (53:33) w/ No BS! Brass Band
The Wolves (Act I and II) (58:10)
New Song #1 (01:04:40) w/ yMusic
New Song #2 (01:08:52) w/ The Staves
Skinny Love (01:14:00)

Mac DeMarco releases video performing on a rowboat in Queens

Mac DeMarco spent his birthday traveling to Wappingers Falls in upstate New York to purchase a blue and white rowboat from an old man. As he would, his new video for “No Other Heart” from his latest release Another One, is set in the rowboat but DeMarco is performing a stripped-down version of the song while floating in Far Rockaway, Queens’ bay, where he lives. The NPR-produced video was directed by Milo Habe-Evans. Watch it here

Another One is out now on Captured Tracks. Buy it here

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. Falling Asleep – Painted Palms

2. Darlin’ You’re Sweet – Wise Blood

3. Weapons For War – A Lull

4. Dissolve – Abstofacto

5. Crawl – Bear Lake

6. Electronic Fences – Computer Magic

7. Pantyhose – TV Girl

8. You – We Are Trees

9. The Guest – Geographer

10. Airliner – Cheers Elephant

11. Oh, Naoko – Sun Airways

12. Omamori – Elite Gymanistics

13. Lemonade – Braid

14. Sweat – Moss of Aura

15. True Loves – Hooray For Earth

16. Somewhere Else – Mesita

17. Pairs – Made in Japan

18. Wilson – The Salvadors

19. Botanist – Guineafowl

20. Home – Dog & Panther

YACHT outline new album I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler with GIFs

Using the headline with “11 Ways We Thought the Future Would Be Cooler” published on Buzzfeed, YACHT have outlined their fifth album, I Thought The Future Would Be Cooler with GIFs.
Using the GIFs and writing a blurb for each track, the band released their “tracklisticle” with the following: “We are the band YACHT. This is the tracklisticle for our new album, I Thought The Future Would Be Cooler. We chose to unveil it here on BuzzFeed because it’s 2015 and the album is dead, the novel is dead, but the GIF loops forever. ♥ ♫.”
View the said “tracklisticle” on Buzzfeed.

I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler
tracklist:

1. “Miles & Miles””

2. “White Mirror”

3. “Matter”

4. “Ringtone”

5. “I Thought The Future Would Be Cooler”

6. “L.A. Plays Itself”

7. “I Wanna Fuck You Till I’m Dead”

8. “Hologram”

9. “Don’t Be Rude”

10. “War on Women”

11. “The Entertainment”
There is no word when the album will be released but their YouTube channel claimed that it will be out this fall through Downtown Records. Until then, watch the announcement teaser from last month. 

Bruce Springsteen closes out Jon Stewart’s last Daily Show

Jon Stewart hosted his final episode of The Daily Show after 16 years last night. The show featured a lot of people who have been on the show during his tenure, including Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, Steve Carrell, Rob Corddry, Lewis Black, Aasif Mandvi, Wyatt Cenac, Samantha Bee, and John Hodgman. He also had some prominent appearances from people like Wolf Blitzer, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and his predecessor Craig Kilborn. Stewart may have been the most excited for his final guest as a person who grew up in New Jersey:  Bruce Springsteen, who performed “Land Of Hopes And Dreams,” from the 2012 album Wrecking Ball, per Stewart’s request, with the E Street Band backing him up. Then, as the other guests on the show rushed to the stage, Sprinsteen closed out with “Born To Run.” Watch it here.