Jack White recently announced that “That Black Bat Licorice” is the latest single off of his sophomore album as a solo artist, Lazaretto. The 7-inch single will be available February 17th on Third Man Records and it contains a new song for the B-Side, a cover of “Blue Light, Red Light (Someone’s There)” by Harry Connick, Jr.
The rendition has the intensity of classic White but yet an element of a jazz rock musician. Listen to the track in here.
Host of the widely acclaimed The Daiy Show on Comedy Central, Jon Stewart, will leave the show later this year according to the president of the network. Stewart has been the host of The Daily Show for over 15 years. He is expected to talk about his retirement on Tuesday night.
“For the better part of the last two decades, I have had the incredible honor and privilege of working with Jon Stewart. His comedic brilliance is second to none,” Michele Ganeless, President of Comedy Central, said in a statement.
Jon has been at the heart of Comedy Central, championing and nurturing the best talent in the industry, in front of and behind the camera,” Ganeless continued. “Through his unique voice and vision, ‘The Daily Show’ has become a cultural touchstone for millions of fans and an unparalleled platform for political comedy that will endure for years to come.
Jon will remain at the helm of ‘The Daily Show’ until later this year,” she wrote. “He is a comic genius, generous with his time and talent, and will always be a part of the Comedy Central family.”
Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner from the National are working towards starting the inaugural Eaux Claires Music & Arts Festival a two-day music and arts festival set to take place in July at Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Vernon’s hometown.
Stereogum reports that the line-up is being revealed. Vernon and Dessner have sent letters to those who had ordered presage tickets, each announcing an individual artist as well as confirmed by the Eaux Claire’s Twitter. The lineup as of now includes Low, Melt-Banana, Phox, Boys Noize, Tallest Man on Earth, Sam Amidon, S. Carey and Field Report, Phil Cook, Poliça, Colin Stetson, and Doomtree. The full lineup will be announced here on February 11th.
Here’s the letter that was sent out to those who preordered:
We took a leap of faith. We didn’t know if anyone would leap with us. And then there you were.
Sight unseen, you’ve agreed to join us at the inaugural Eaux Claires Festival along the banks of the Chippewa River this July.
We hope you can feel our gratitude.
Eaux Claires is more than just music. It will be an experience including and celebrating art in a multitude of forms — from the paintbrush to the pen, from the plow to the plate, from local brews to local bootstrappers. Above all, we want to share this place — the Chippewa Valley that has been so good to so many of us.
To make this work, we need early leaders. You are among them. To show our appreciation for your support at the start, here’s a sneak peek at just one of the many artists from the lineup we’re assembling:
We encourage you to share your artists by tagging this information #eauxclaires and broadcasting it in any way you choose. In this way, three quarters of the lineup can be discovered before the full reveal.
We also invite you to join us at http://www.eauxclaires.com on February 11th when we officially announce our lineup along with other surprises.
Right now the Chippewa River slips dark and silent beneath the sheeted ice. come summer, the water will flow warm and slow. Along the banks the grass will grow, and the night will fill with music and light.
We’ll join you there.
Michael Perry, Eaux Claires Narrator
Justin Vernon, Eaux Claires Curator
The trailer for the festival can be found here.
1. Electric Love – Borns
2. Kites – Geographer
3. We Can’t Ever Die – White Arrows
4. Rain of Gold – Young Empires
5. Colors – The Pass
6. Blood Red Youth – California Wives
7. Color of Sin – Vanaprasta
8. Crosseyed – Bad Veins
9. Baby Teeth – the Envy Corps
10. Sideways Walking – Eastern Conference Champions
11. Buildings and Mountains – The Republic Tigers
12. Oscar Wilde – Company of Thieves
13. From Now On – The Features
14. The Whip – Locksley
15. Turn the Lights Off – Tally Hall
16. Satellite – Guster
17. Always Love – Nada Surf
18. In the Beginning – The Stills
19. Sweater Weather – Earlimart
20. Nice Fox – The Rosebuds
Bob Dylan was honored last night at a tribute concert to benefit MusiCares. The lineup featured Jack White, Beck, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Willie Nelson, and others. It also had a lengthy speech from Dylan who thanked his early supporters and jibed at critics of his vocals and other famous detractors according to Rolling Stone.
Young covered “Blowin’ in the Wind,” Beck covered “Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat,” White did “One More Cup of Coffee,” Springsteen did “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,” and Crosby Stills and Nash performed “Girl From the North Country.”
Dylan thanked icons such as Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Nina Simone, Joan Baez, the Staple Singers, the Byrds, the Turtles, Peter Paul & Mary, Sonny & Cher, and others for supporting his music in his speech. When talking about Hendrix, Dlyan said, “He took some small songs of mine that nobody paid any attention to and brought them up into the outer limits of the stratosphere, turned them all into classics.”
He also talked about some famous artists who wrote him off early on, including the iconic songwriting duo Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and country legend Merle Haggard. “I didn’t really care what Leiber & Stoller thought of my songs,” he said, “’cause I didn’t like their songs, either.”
Dylan also said, “critics say I can’t sing, I sound like a frog. Why don’t critics say that about Tom Waits? Critics say my voice is shot. Why don’t they say that about Leonard Cohen? What have I done to get this special attention?”
Setlist:
Beck: “Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat”
Aaron Neville: “Shooting Star”
Alanis Morissette: “Subterranean Homesick Blues”
Los Lobos: “On A Night Like This”
Willie Nelson: “Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power)”
Jackson Browne: “Blind Willie McTell”
John Mellencamp: “Highway 61 Revisited”
Jack White: “One More Cup Of Coffee”
Tom Jones: “What Good Am I?”
Norah Jones: “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight”
Derek Trucks And Susan Tedeschi: “Million Miles”
John Doe: “Pressing On”
Crosby, Stills & Nash: “Girl From The North County”
Bonnie Raitt: “Standing In The Doorway”
Sheryl Crow: “Boots Of Spanish Leather”
Bruce Springsteen: “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door”
Neil Young: “Blowin’ In The Wind”
Singer FKA twigs was known as simply “Twigs” until she found out that there was another act that had that name. The Chicago alt-pop act, The Twigs, have been playing as a group since the 1990’s and got the name first, Tahlia Barnett offered the band $15,000 for the name in 2013 but Linda and Laura Good turned the offer down. This is why Barnett added FKA to the name.
However, Billboard reports that wasn’t enough for The Twigs and they wanted a restraining order from Barnett to stop her from using “FKA twigs” as her name. The company that runs Barnett’s label, The Beggars Group, argued that acts have had made similar changes to their names to avoid any copyright infringement and therefore the Goods did not ultimately receive their restraining order. However, the sisters did keep the right to sue which they might do.
UK rock band, Royal Blood will soon tour in North America in support of their recent debut. The leg of the tour will start in April with a stop at Coachella and will stop in the end of August. Besides their tour and festival stops, they will play arena shows to support the Foo Fighters.
Royal Blood 2015 Tour Dates:
02/06-08 – Australia @ Laneway Festival
02/17 – London, UK @ Koko
02/21 – Newcastle, UK @ 6 Music Festival
02/22 – Glasgow, UK @ Barrowland
02/23 – Glasgow, UK @ Barrowland
02/27 – Plymouth, UK @ Pavillions
02/28 – Bridlington, UK @ Spa
03/02 – Portsmouth, UK @ Guildhall
03/03 – Newport, UK @ Centre
03/05 – Norwich, UK @ UEA
03/06 – Blackpool, UK @ Empress Ballroom
03/08 – Belfast, UK @ Ulster Hall
03/09 – Dublin, IE @ Olympia
03/10 – Dublin, IE @ Olympia
03/11 – Wolverhampton, UK @ Civic Hall
03/13 – London, UK @ O2 Brixton Academy
03/14 – Nottingham, UK @ Rock City
03/16 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
03/17 – Paris, FR @ L’Olympia
03/18 – Brussels, BE @ AB
03/20 – Malmo, SE @ Kulturbolaget
03/21 – Oslo, NO @ Rockafeller
03/22 – Copenhagen, DK @ Vega
03/23 – Stockholm, SE @ Debaser Medis
03/25 – Bremen, DE @ Aladin
03/26 – Stuttgart, DE @ Rockfabrik
03/28 – Lyon, FR @ Transbourdeur
03/29 – Milan, IT @ Alcatraz
03/31 – Barcelona, ES @ Apolo
04/01 – Lisbon, PT @ Coliseum
04/10-12 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Music Festival
04/13 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre
04/14 – San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s
04/15 – San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s
04/17-19 – Indio, CA @Coachella Music Festival
04/19 – Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades
05/23 – Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre
05/25 – Portland, OR @ Wonderland Ballroom
05/27 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Murray Theater
05/28 – Boulder, CO @ Fox Theatre
05/30 – Des Moines, IA @ Wooly’s
05/31 – Madison, WI @ Wooly’s
06/01 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave II
06/03 – Chicago, IL @ Metro
06/04 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
06/05-07 – New York, NY @ Governors Ball Music Festival
06/10 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
06/11 – Charlotte, NC @ Amo’s Southend
06/11-14 – Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Music Festival
06/13 – Atlanta, GA @ Center Stage
07/07 – Camden, NJ @ Susquehanna Bank Center *
07/08 – Toronto, ON @ Molson Canadian Amphitheatre *
07/09 – Toronto, ON @ Molson Canadian Amphitheatre *
07/13 – Camden, NJ @ Susquehanna Bank Center *
07/15 – New York, NY @ Citi Field *
07/16 – New York, NY @ Citi Field *
07/19 – Boston, MA @ Fenway Park *
08/12 – Edmonton, AB @ Rexall Place *
08/13 – Calgary, AB @ Scotiabnk Saddledome *
08/16 – Denver, CO @ Fiddler’s Green Amphitheater *
08/17 – Denver, CO @ Fiddler’s Green Amphitheater *
08/18 – Maryland Heights, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheater *
08/21 – Kansas City, MO @ Sprint Center *
08/22 – St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center *
08/24 – Detroit, MI @ DTE Energy Center *
08/26 – Pittsburgh, PA @ First Niagra Pavilion *
* = w/ Foo Fighters
The Sasquatch! Music Festival will return on May 22-25 to the Gorge Amphitheater. The festival lineup has been announced today, the lineup can been seen above.
This year’s lineup includes Kendrick Lamar, Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters, Modest Mouse, Lana Del Rey, The Decemberists, Tame Impala, St. Vincent, Spoon, James Blake, Chromeo, Hot Chip, Sbtrkt, Schoolboy Q, The New Pornographers, The War On Drugs, The Glitch Mob, Little Dragon, Gogol Bordello, Father John Misty, Run The Jewels, Jose Gonzalez, Jenny Lewis, Mø, Real Estate, Future Islands, Ab-Soul, Glass Animals, Sohn, Jungle, Sharon Van Etten, Action Bronson, Perfume Genius, Sylvan Esso, Rustie, Courtney Barnett, King Tuff, San Fermin, Alvvays, Will Butler, Twin Peaks, Merchandise, Nothing, Bishop Nehru, Ex Hex, Diarrhea Planet, Ought, Natalie Prass, S (Jenn Ghetto), and amongst others.
Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut, Lost River, has been getting negative reviews but the soundtrack seems to be much better. Chromatics’ Johnny Jewels was in charge for the soundtrack of the film and he included two new Chromatics songs, “Yes (Love Theme From Lost River)” and “Yes (Lullaby From Lost River).” Both songs are quiet melodies, bringing listeners with the subtleness of the music and the complexity of the synths. Both Jewels and Gosling worked together for Gosling’s 2011 critically acclaimed Drive.
On a press release on his for on Lost River, Jewel explained:
When Ryan e-mailed me the script my immediate feeling was that the whole film should be sonically immersed in metal and water. I started sending Ryan music in February of 2013 for his early trips to scout locations. Ryan and I live seven minutes away from one another, so we’d watch the film at his house at night, and then we’d drive over to my house and experiment with musical ideas in my studio
(via Pitchfork)
Stream “Yes (Love Theme from Lost River)” here and “Yes (Lullaby From Lost River)” here.
Nate Mendel, bassist for Sunny Day Real Estate and the Foo Fighters, will be releasing a solo album as Lieutenant later this year and recently, he announced that he will tour in the spring in support. The tour dates are listed below.
Also on the album is Jeremy Enigk from Sunny Day Real Estate, Foo Fighters bandmates Chris Shifflett and members of Helmet, Modest Mouse and The Head and the Heart. For his live band, there are members from Fleet Foxes, The Bronx and Snow Patrol.
Lieutenant — 2015 Tour Dates
Mar 21 SXSW (Dine Alone Showcase) Austin, TX
Mar 21 The Parish @ House of Blues New Orleans, LA
Mar 23 Exit/In Nashville, TN
Mar 24 The Basement Columbus, OH
Mar 26 Black Cat/Back Stage Washington, DC
Mar 27 Johnny Brenda’s Philadelphia, PA
Mar 28 Mercury Lounge New York, NY
Mar 30 St. Vitus Brooklyn, NY
Apr 01 Mod Club Toronto, Canada
Apr 02 Pike Room Pontiac, MI
Apr 03 Empty Bottle Chicago, IL
Apr 05 Larimer Lounge Denver, CO
Apr 08 The Troubadour Los Angeles, CA
The Melodic Tree 