Author: bella.king

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. Get It – Matt and Kim

2. Bamboo – Deers

3. Montreal Rock Band Somewhere – Happyness

4. Flowers – TRAAMS

5. On Leaving – Hookworms

6. Hypnotic Regression – Girls Names

7. Replicate – Disappears

8. Fog Cutter – Cold Pumas

9. Back to the Tricks – Brilliant Colors

10. Wasting Time – Reading Rainbow

11. Don’t Lie – The Mantles

12. (They Found Me On The Back Of) The Galaxy – The Intelligence

13. In Transit – Albert Hammond, Jr.

14. Shake It Off – The Spinto Band

15. The Start of Something – Voxtrot

16. Let’s Get Tired – Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

17. Lolita – Throw Me The Statue

18. Let’s Talk About Spaceships – Say Hi

19. Plumage – Menomena

20. Lust for Life – Girls

Björk announces New York tour dates in support of new album, Vulnicura

Björk officially announced earlier this week the release of her new album, Vulnicura as well as tour dates in March. As well as her already announced addition to the New York City’s Museum of Modern Art, she will also perform a few shows at Carnegie Hall and City Center, beginning on March 7th. On Facebook, Björk said she will perform at the venue March 7th and 14th and then again later on March 25th, 28th, and April 1st and 4th. Pre-sales for fans begin January 19th and the general public will begin purchasing the 24th. The album’s co-producer, Arca, will be the opening all the matinee shows on tktktk. Björk is also set to play Governor’s Ball June 5-7, the final weekend of her show at MoMA.

Björk tour dates:

March 7 – New York, NY @ Carnegie Hall
March 14 – New York, NY @ Carnegie Hall
March 25 – New York, NY @ City Center
March 28 – New York, NY @ City Center
April 1 – New York, NY @ City Center
April 4 – New York, NY @ City Center
June 5-7 – New York, NY @ Governors Ball

Grateful Dead to reunite for a series of concerts for 50th anniversary

This year is the 50th anniversary of the legendary band, Grateful Dead and the surviving members have plans to mark the event by reuniting to play a trio of shows at Soldier Field in Chicago in July.

Set for July 3rd to the 5th, the show’s will be nearly 20 years since the band played their final show with their late singer, Jerry Garcia, which was at Solider Field as well. Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann chose Phish frontman Trey Anastasio in place of Garcia. They will also bring in Bruce Hornsby on the piano.

The band had many chances including an offer for $3 million to headline this year’s Bonnaroo but decided to play this trio of shows. The Dead say it’s unlikely that they will go on tour, Weir saying, “These will be the last shows with the four of us together.”

A pre-sale for the fan-club will take place February 12th and 13th and the tickets will go on-sale the next day on the 14th.

Sleater-Kinney premieres star-studded music video for “No Cities to Love

Rock band, Sleater-Kinney recently released the video for the song, “No Cities to Love,” which is the title track on their upcoming album.

The video has an array of celebrities singing the song before the actual band takes it away themselves. Among those who were featured were Andy Samberg, Sarah Silverman, Gerard Way, Connie Britton, Miranda July, Fred Armisen, J Mascis, Vanessa Bayer, Ellen Page, Natasha Lyonne, and more. Watch the video here.

The album, No Cities to Love, is expected to come out internationally on January 19 and in the U.S. on January 20.

Caribou puts together 1,000 track mixtape for fans

Producer and composer, Dan Snaith, known as Caribou, has had a productive 2014, releasing his latest album, Our Love. Caribou as also been playing shows around the world and will continue during the first half of 2015. Snaith says all his success is due to his fans’ loyalty and to show his appreciation, he curated a 1,000 track mixtape.

The mixtape is named “Longest Mixtape” and Snaith describes the mixtape as the “musical history of my life. I’m sure some things are under-represented or over-represented, but roughly speaking this is what has stayed with me.” Songs on the playlist includes from artists such as Wire, Boz Scaggs, Minnie Riperton, The Zombies, Kanye West, Warren G, Usher, Transvolta, Pusha T, Sly and the Family Stone, Arthur Russell, Led Zeppelin, Sun Ra, CAN, Nas, Eddy Grant, and various experimental pieces and random mixes.

Snaith tasks the mixtape’s listeners to shuffle the tracks as there is no set order and hopes people will send suggestions, “in the hope (that) this becomes a dialogue rather than a monologue.”

Listen to the full playlist here.

Read the thank-you note below:

The last few years of my life have been incredible, thanks in large part to all of you — so I’ve been thinking of how to say thank you.

As you can imagine, music has been a central love of my life since I was a teenager and over the years I’ve been introduced to a lot that has stayed with me. I’ve collected the majority of that music here — and I thought sharing it with you seemed like one way I could say thanks.

I’m sure some things are under-represented or over-represented, but roughly speaking this is a musical history of my life. Of course a lot of this music has come to me through my friends — thank you to Koushik, Kieran, Jeremy, Gary, Brandon, Jason, Sam, Ketan, Ryan, Toby and many others … Also, please share music with me that you think I would like but is not included here, in the hope this becomes a dialogue rather than a monologue.

I suggest you listen to this on shuffle as I made no attempt to sequence these tracks — I just entered them as I browsed along the shelves in my record collection. If you see dead links or duplicate songs please tweet me — @caribouband.

I hope you find something to enjoy here.

Thanks,

Dan

H&M announces Coachella inspired clothing line

Coachella Music and Arts Festival has been known for the fashion amongst it’s visitors as well as the acts that they bring in. Now, going to the festival looking fashionable can now be affordable as clothing chain, H&M, announced a new line of clothing inspired by the festival.

Named “H&M Loves Coachella,” the line will bring BoHo-chic looks known to come from the festival. Ladies can go through cutoff shorts, crop tops, tunics, wide-leg pants, and rompers. The men can choose from t-shirts and shorts.

The clothing line is affordable ranging from $4.95 to $49.95. About 350 North American stores will begin selling the line March 19th, and will be available worldwide and online the following week. The clothing will also be at an H&M pop-up shop that will be at the festival as well as exclusive designs and merchandise.

The Coachella line-up will include Jack White, AC/DC, Drake, Tame Impala, The Weeknd, Florence + the Machine, Ryan Adams, alt-J, Alabama Shakes, Steely Dan, St. Vincent, and many more. Although tickets to the actually sold out, H&M are giving away trips to the festival all through the month of March.

Death Cab For Cutie to release new album

Indie rock band, Death Cab For Cutie announced details for a new studio album. The album is named Kintsugi and is the eighth LP and will be released on March 31st.

The title is a reference to, as the bassist Nick Harmer said, a “Japanese style of art where they take fractured, broken ceramics and put them back together with very obvious, real gold. It’s making the repair of an object a visual part of its history.”

The frontman Ben Gibbard also added, “This is an opportunity for the band to become something it could only become by losing a founding member. It’s our goal to make records that rank amongst the best work we’ve ever done. I completely respect and understand why people love Transatlanticism or We Have the Facts… or Narrow Stairs. And I would hope that as we move forward, people listen with as little prejudice as they can and try to hear the music for what it is and not what they want it to be.”

Check out the 11-song track list below.

Kintsugi Tracklist:
01. No Room in Frame
02. Black Sun
03. The Ghosts of Beverly Drive
04. Little Wanderer
05. You’ve Haunted Me All My Life
06. Hold No Guns
07. Everything’s a Ceiling
08. Good Help (Is So Hard to Find)
09. El Dorado
10. Ingénue
11. Binary Sea

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. Chapter 1 – Lonely Horse

2. Advanced Falconry – Mutual Benefit

3. Too Dry to Cry – Willis Earl Beal

4. Holiday – Poor Moon

5. Lullaby (Mountain) – The Acorn

6. Lost Coastlines – Okkervil River

7. The Vowels Pt. 2 – Why?

8. Safe and Sound – Electric President

9. Lion Face Boy – Seabear

10. Two Matchsticks – The Wooden Birds

11. Incarnation Song – Chris and Thomas

12. Neither Here Nor There – Lost in the Trees

13. Nine is God – Wavves

14. Good Advice – The Growlers

15. Flowers on the Wall – Tomorrows Tulips

16. Lovers Lane – Hunxs & His Punxs

17. Creature – Tijuana Panthers

18. Sweet Thang – Turbo Fruits

19. Get Lost – The Babies

20. Floating Vibes – Surfer Blood

Alamo Basement Sessions: January

San Antonio is on its way to creating a new and exciting music scene that has seemingly grown over the last several years. Music store, Alamo Music, now hosts a series of local bands once a month, beginning last month (December 2014). The inaugural session began with a kick with San Antonio bands, You and I Underwater and Televangelist. This month’s basement session was no different.

Starting the night with Tera Ferna, the band premiered new songs off of their upcoming record, which is due out in the fall. The indie rock outfit is native to San Antonio and began initially as a solo project by the lead singer. Matt Charles. As time went by, Charles added bassist, Brandon Kent, guitarist James Perez and formed the band, which was later joined by keyboardist Richard Castillo and drummer Anthony Washington. Richard Castillo came roaring in on keys followed by Anthony “Junie” Washington who keeps it tight in the pocket behind the drums. Rolling out song after song, the band had endless energy bringing out piano melodies and guitar solos.

Following Tera Ferna, Lonely Horse, a dark folk rock duo, began after singer and guitarist, Nick Long burned incense around the basement. After a speech given in order to fix technical difficulties, the duo went from song to song in an effortless-like attitude. During a particularly exuberant guitar solo, Long spontaneously unplugged his guitar and yet continued his solo and returned to his feet and plugged in a new guitar. Using his pedal board to create the atmosphere of multiple songs and sampled his own voice, as well as members of the audience’s. Drummer Travis Hild performed an impressive drum solo which flowed into a couple more songs until the end of their explosive set. There is most definitely something about Lonely Horse that shows that at every set, not only at these sessions, that they are a force to be reckoned with.

the next Alamo Basement session is February 21, you can RSVP and find more information on the even through its Facebook page.