Ministry and Death Grips have announced a co-headlining tour. It will begin in October and the two groups will play in New York, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and more. See the joint itinerary below. Death Grips recently released a new 22-minute song called “Steroids (Crouching Tiger Hidden Gabber Megamix),” and they said they were working on their next album.
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The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist
1. Dreams via Memories – Ceramic Animals
2. Wire – Omni
3. Social Skills – Naps
4. To Connect – Floating Action
5. Powerful Love – Field Medic
6. Miss You – The Concretes
7. Rasberry Seeds – Petite League
8. Advanced Falconry – Mutual Benefit
9. I Am Over Here – Eerie Wanda
10. Seein* Starz – Jessica Lea Mayfield
11. What’s in it For? – Avi Buffalo
12. I Love You – The Bees
13. Earthquake – This is The Kit
14. Fireflies Made Out of Dust – Happy Jawbone Family Band
15. Come On Home – Lijadu Sisters
16. Good Dancers – The Sleepy Jackson
17. Adventures In Your Own Backyard – Patrick Watson
18. It’s Time to Wake Up 2023 – La Femme
19. Daydreaming – Dark Dark Dark
20. Silver Timothy – Damien Jurado
Listen to Slowdive dissect “Sugar for the Pill” on “Song Exploder”
Slowdive singer-guitarist Neil Halstead appears on the newest episode of “Song Exploder,” the podcast where artists break down their songs and explain the process in which they were made. He talked about “Sugar for the Pill” from their recently released self-titled LP. Halstead goes into the song’s gestation, played clips of a demo and explained how he merged electronic and live drums, as well as filling his guitar with bubble wrap to control the feedback. He also drew parallels between the song’s themes and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, which he was reading around the time the song was written. Listen to the episode and hear the song below.
Classixx cover Van Halen’s “Right Now”
Classixx have covered Van Halen’s “Right Now,” the hit single from the 1991 album For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. Listen to it below. The track is on a new compilation album named Loosies, which shows off rare cuts, remixes, and B-sides from independent label Innovative Leisure. Nosaj Thing, Aesop Rock, De Lux, and more are also featured on the album that is set to be out July 14th. See the full tracklist below.
Loosies
01 Classixx: “Right Now”
02 De Lux: “It’s A Combination” (Peaking Lights Disco Dub)
03 Superhumanoids: “Anxious In Venice” (Hanni El Khatib Remix)
04 Lazer Sword: “Shot In the Nite”
05 Hanni El Khatib: “You Rascal You” (Aesop Rock Remix)
06 De Lux “Moments” (Tom Vek Remix)
07 Mexicans With Guns: “Highway to Hell” ft. Freddie Gibbs & Bun B (Ridin’ Dirty Remix)
08 De Lux: “LA Threshold” (DJ Harrison Remix)
09 Feeding People: “Island Universe” (Free the Robots ft. Phil Nisco Remix)
10 Nosaj Thing: “P8”
11 Nick Waterhouse: “I Cry”
12 We Break Cameras: “Burning Japan”
13 De Lux: “Marquee Moon”
14 Classixx: “A Mountain With No Ending” (Blue Motel Remix)
15 Superhumanoids: “See It All” (Gossamer Remix)
16 Tropics: “Let Go”
17 Crystal Antlers: “We All Gotta Die” (Scientist Remix)
18 Two Eights: “Manifest Destiny”
19 Hanni El Khatib: “Penny” (Classixx Remix)
20 Tijuana Panthers: “Boardwalk” (Delta Spirit Remix)
21 Classixx: “Ndivile” (Daniel T. & Turbotito Remix)
22 De Lux: “Better At Making Time” (Yacht Remix)
23 Classixx: “Just Let Go” (Ray Mang Remix)
24 Superhumanoids: “Feel Good Hit of the Summer”
25 Hanni El Khatib: “Loved One” (Scotty Coats & Wes The Mes Wes Coats remix)
26 De Lux: ”Oh Man The Future” (Daniel T. Remix)
Molten Salt shares two new songs from upcoming album “Quiet Hex”
Olympia-based indie rock band, Molten Salt, has released two songs, “Absolutely Nothing” yesterday and “Two Cares” today. The tracks are from their upcoming album Quiet Hex which is set to come out in August according to their Facebook via 2060 Records.
Listen to both of the tracks below.
Listen to DIIV’s Zachary Cole Smith cover Sparklehorse’s “Cow”
Zachary Cole Smith, frontman of DIIV, has released his cover of Sparklehorse’s “Cow.” The song is on Sparklehorse’s debut Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot. Listen to the cover below. In advance of a show in New York this August, which he previously announced will feature new music and covers, Smith shared the track on Twitter today. Smith recently shared a cover of (Sandy) Alex G’s track “Icehead,” which can also be listened to below.
Soft Fangs announce new album “Fractures”
Soft Fangs, the Brooklyn-based dark pop/alt-folk project of John Lutkevich, has announced his latest album, Fractures. The first track to be released from the album, “Elephant Girl” was premiered on Gold Flake Paint and is currently streaming there.
“The LP is a collection of songs that I wrote over the past year in fragments and then recorded in three days during a snowstorm in Maine. I wanted to take these songs that I’d written leisurely over the span of a year and then record them very quickly,” Letkevich said about the album in a press release. “It’s the first album where I’ve enlisted the help of others to engineer, so I let my good friends Bradford Krieger & Chaimes Parker (Big Nice Studio) handle all of the recording aspects, and I just got to run from instrument to instrument. The album varying in concept is precisely the concept, hence it’s title. They are fractures from my life and other people’s.”
The album is set to be out September 1st via Disposible America and can be pre-ordered here.
Clarke and the Himselfs, Psoriasis, Linda & the Coexist Stickers at Le Voyeur in photos
Moses Sumney announces new album Aromanticism
Moses Sumney has announced a new album, Aromanticism, which is set to be out September 22nd on Jagjaguwar. See the artwork above and tracklist below. The record includes “Doomed,” a track that was released last month. A live performance of the song can be found below as well. It is from a set recorded at St Stephens Uniting Church in Sydney, Australia in January, which will air in full on Double J at 1 a.m. Eastern tonight, with an archived stream set to be out a week from today.
Aromanticism:
01 Man On The Moon (Reprise)
02 Don’t Bother Calling
03 Plastic
04 Quarrel
05 Stoicism
06 Lonely World
07 Make Out In My Car
08 The Cocoon-Eyed Baby
09 Doomed
10 Indulge Me
11 Self-Help Tape
The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist
1. Church Candy – Booty Feet
2. Slip Away – Perfume Genius
3. I Think You’re Really Beautiful – Starry Cat
4. Weird Around You – Eerie Summer
5. manhattan – small dad
6. There’s No Use in Trying – Acid Ghost
7. Lover is a Day – Cuco
8. Gap in the Clouds – Yellow Days
9. Strange Boy – The Shacks
10. Ran Ran Run – Pavo Pavo
11. Your Version of Me – Steady Holiday
12. Shark Smile – Big Thief
13. unreal tournament – Freya Crescent
14. Good Luck – The Undercover Dream Lovers
15. Key Largo – Arbes
16. Brown Study – Vansire
17. Get Upset – Soy Christmas
18. Away – Mons Vi
19. It Feels the Same Everyday – Yellow House
20. Ever – Tiny Deaths
