Killer Mike appeared on “Real Time With Bill Maher” last night with a panel of John Waters, political scientist Charles Murray, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and public policy expert Heather C. McGhee. The panel talked about the assumed link between violence and hip-hop culture, Bill O’Reilly, and Baltimore. The most notable thing Mike said about O’Reilly: “He’s more full of shit than an outhouse.”
The influential psych rock band, The 13th Floor Elevators reunited for their first performance in 47 years last weekend at Austin’s Levitation Festival. The hour-long set had the original lineup of Roky Erickson, Tommy Hall, John Ike Walton, and Ronnie Leatherman performing songs from its discography.
The 12 track set list included: “Nobody to Love”, “She Lives (in a Time of Her Own)”, and “Slip Inside This House” off of Easter Everywhere; “Roller Coaster”, “You’re Gonna Miss Me”, and “Reverberation” from The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators. As shown in the video, the crowd had immense love for the hometown band who sounded just like their last 60’s show together.
Watch the full set below, as well as the setlist.
Setlist:
She Lives (in a Time of Her Own)
Fire Engine
Earthquake
Tried to Hide
Slip Inside This House
(I’ve Got) Levitation
Splash 1
Kingdom of Heaven
Nobody to Love
Reverberation
Roller Coaster
Encore:
You’re Gonna Miss Me
Rdio is now beginning to introduce a mid-tier subscription for $3.99 a month for hopes that it will stand out from an ever-growing streaming market.
The new service, named Rdio Select, includes unlimited ad-free radio with no limits on the amount of skips, 10-track, artist curated playlists, and a 25-song-a-day streaming limit. Users would also be able to download and stored 25 songs permanently, changing their downloaded tracks everyday as long as they do not go over that number.
talking with Buzzfeed, Rdio CEO Anthony Bay states that the company thinks that 25 songs “is more than most users download in a day, so we feel it’s enough.” He said later that he hopes to bring in new users who are not willing to pay the regular $9.99 for ad-free, unlimited mobile streaming but are able to pay the lower option. “We’ve all been flying airplanes that had business class only, there is no coach,” Bay said.
Although there are no hard numbers, it is believed that Rdio’s share in terms of streaming is much less than that of Spotify’s. They hope that this new price can attract people away from the ad-based free streaming of their competitor. Spotify, at the moment, is the only on-demand music streaming service that offers a free tier, that has been under fire from artists such as Taylor Swift who have pulled albums from the service. it is no accident that Swift’s face is on Rdio’s homepage.
Bay told Buzzfeed: “We agree with Taylor Swift that on-demand playback of what you want to listen to shouldn’t be free.”
TIDAL, another one of Rdio’s competitors, offered two tiers; a 49.99 a month Premium and a $19.99 HiFi service, both of which are avaliable for discounted rates when purchased as a six-month pre-paid package. After buying Beats, Apple is expected to launch a streaming service for a $7.99 monthly fee with no free option. They have also been pressuring labels to leave free services such as YouTube and Spotify all together.
Although it is nothing permenant, Rdio Select is being offered as a 60 day free trial, which is plenty of time to fill the 25 daily tracks with as much as you like.
Julian Casablancas + the Voidz have released a teaser for their upcoming “Human Sadness” video from their debut album, Tyranny. The clip features a variety of different images including war, fast cars, spaceships, beautiful women, and of Casablancas himself. Watch it below.
The video will premiere on May 20 at the Cinefamily theater in Los Angeles, where it will followed by Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho. It will be accompanied by a live audio.
Casablancas + the Voidz will be performing an international festival tour this summer, along with dates from Casablancas’ other band, the Strokes.
The Strokes Albert Hammond Jr. will release a new solo album named Momentary Masters on July 31st. This is the follow-up of his 2008 album, ¿Cómo Te Llama? and the AHJ EP from 2013. Compared to his previous releases, which are put out on Julian Casablanca’s Cult Records, the album will be released through Vagrant Records. The album cover is above.
Produced by Gus Oberg, a longtime Strokes collaborator, Momentary Master will also have a handful of collaborators for the recording sessions including guitarists Mon Khmer’s Hammarsing Kharhmar and Bleachers’ Mikey Hart, bassist Jordan Brooks, and drummer Jeremy Gustin.
The first preview of the LP is “Born Slippy” which is can be listened to below.
Momentary Masters Tracklist:
01. Born Slippy
02. Power Hungry
03. Caught By My Shadow
04. Coming to Getcha
05. Losing Touch
06. Don’t Think Twice
07. Razors Edge
08. Touché
09. Drunched In Crumbs
10. Side Boob
“We liked how politically loaded and conversational the lyrics are. We wanted the animation to have a stylistic and organic look, hence most of the drawings were done on paper rather than digitally. To further compliment the lyrics, we thought it would be funny to have the animals in the video look as cynical as possible, as if they’d had enough with how humans are treating them.”
Watch the animated clip below.
1. Just A Dream – Tobias Jesso Jr.
2. Exploding – Jim James
3. Sedona – Houndmouth
4. Black Metal – Max Jury
5. Reunion – Still Parade
6. Coins On Your Eyes – Revier
7. Collapse – Vancouver Sleep Clinic
8. For My Help – Hayden Calnin
9. A Thin Line – Blackchords
10. My Own – Whitaker
11. For You – Parallel Lions
12. Bridge -High Highs
13. Hold My Hand – Jen Cloher
14. I Would Die for You – Matt Walters
15. Brother – Matt Corby
16. Boardwalks – Little May
17. By Night – Puzzle Muteson
18. Baiulus – The Black Atlantic
19. Love Songs For Robots – Patrick Watson
20. Reconfiguration – Other Lives
Alt-rock band, Future Islands are auctioning off some of their stuff to help their hometown according to Billboard. The fund, The Fund for Rebuilding Baltimore, hopes to help “repair the physical and emotional damage that has been done” due to recent events.
Currently the cue cards from their last appearance on “Late Show With David Letterman”, sneakers frontman Samuel T. Herring wore during the taping, a signed print of the artwork from On the Water, a signed copy of Singles, an out-of print 12′ from 2010 and a copy of their split 7″ with Music Beat are up for grabs. Future Islands will match all of the proceeds from the auction exactly up to $5,000.
Here’s that “Letterman” performance:
Watch the band do “Seasons” at Primavera Sound 2014:
Tobias Jesso Jr.’s latest single off of his debut album, Goon, “Without You”, has been quite a bit of attention. After his performance on Conan with Danielle Haim, the singer-songwriter revealed the music video.
Jesso took “Without You” across the Atlantic to a performance on Later … with Jools Holland. The lyrics speaks volumes but there is something about the anguish he has on his face when he performs it.
Not even halfway through 205, Modest Mouse has had quite an important year. Not only have they released their first album in eight years, Strangers to Ourselves, they also have been making appearances on late-night television, and working already on another LP with Krist Novoselic. With all this hectic scheduling, the band still had the time for a summer tour.
this lengthy leg of dates in both North America and Europe includes headlining sets as well as festival sets. Modest Mouse are to perform the stages at Sasquatch!, Firefly Festival, Open’er Festival, and WayHome Music and Arts Festival, as well as many others before joining the Austin City Limits lineup in October.
Modest Mouse 2015 Tour Dates:
05/23 – George, WA @ Sasquatch! Music Festival
06/06 – Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
06/07 – Chula Vista, CA @ Sleep Train Amphitheater
06/19 – Dover, DE @ Firefly Festival
06/21 – Minneapolis, MN @ Rock the Garden
06/26 – Odense, DK @ Tinderbox Festival
06/27 – Norrkoping, SE @ Bravalla Festival
06/28 – Oslo, NO @ Piknik | Parken
06/30 – Berlin, DE @ Columbiahalle
07/01 – Gdynia, PL @ Open’er Festival
07/03 – Utrecht, NL @ Tivolivredenburg
07/04 – London, UK @ Calling Festival
07/05 – Birmingham, UK @ The Institute
07/07 – Manchester, UK @ The Ritz
07/08 – Leeds, UK @ O2 Academy Leeds
07/09 – Newcastle, UK @ O2 Academy
07/10 – Dublin, IE @ The Helix
07/12 – Perth, UK @ T in the Park
07/18 – Birmingham, AL @ Sloss Music and Arts Festival
07/19 – Louisville, KY @ Forecastle Festival
07/22 – Brooklyn, NY @ Prospect Park Bandshell
07/23 – Boston, MA @ Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
07/25 – Oro-Medonte, ON @ WayHome Music and Arts Festival
07/26 – Detroit, MI @ Mo Pop Festival
08/15 – Omaha, NE @ Maha Music Festival
08/18 – Albuquerque, NM @ Villa Hispana
08/19 – Flagstaff, AZ @ Orpheum Theater
08/20 – Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl
08/21 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery
08/23 – Portland, OR @ MusicFest NW
10/10 – Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits
Watch the video for “Lampshades on Fire” below:
