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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.
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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
Watch Eric B. & Rakim play first show in over 20 years
Eric B. & Rakim performed at the Apollo Theatre in New York City last night, their first show together in over two decades. The duo performed their entire debut album Paid in Full in its entirety on the 30th anniversary of its release. Watch them do perform classics like “My Melody,” “Ain’t No Joke,” and “I Know You Got Soul” below. The pair brought out Flavor Flav, Ice T, Fat Joe, Roxanne Shante, and Kool Herc as surprise guests. It is unclear whether or not Eric B. & Rakim will continue playing shows after the one-night concert at the Apollo.
Japanese Breakfast announces tour, shares new video
The solo project of Michelle Zauner, Japanese Breakfast, has shared a new music video for her track “Road Head.” The clip, directed by Zauner, follows her character as she eats instant ramen, chain smokes cigarettes, and shares her life with a masked monster. “‘Road Head’ is the fifth music video [director of photography] Adam Kolodny and I have collaborated on,” Zauner said in a statement. “For this one we wanted to focus on staging and an exaggerated color palette. We were inspired by Fallen Angels and ‘Twin Peaks.’” “Road Head” will appear on Japanese Breakfast’s upcoming album Soft Sounds From Another Planet, which is set to be out July 14th via Dead Oceans.
Zauner has also announced new tour dates. She has shows with Tegan and Sara, (Sandy) Alex G, Cende, Yohuna, Mannequin Pussy, and Spirit of the Beehive. Find her schedule below.
Japanese Breakfast:
07-06 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg !
07-07 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom !
07-08 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer !
07-15 Brooklyn, NY – Union Pool ~
07-27 Halifax, Nova Scotia – Rebecca Cohn Auditorium ^
07-28 Portland, ME – State Theatre ^
07-29 Buffalo, NY – Town Ballroom ^
07-31 Cleveland, OH – House of Blues ^
08-02 Covington, KY – Madison Theater ^
09-07 Washington, DC – Black Cat $
09-08 Richmond, VA – Stranger Matter $
09-09 Raleigh, NC – Hopscotch Festival $
09-10 Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade (Purgatory) $
09-11 Orlando, FL – Will’s Pub $
09-12 Tampa, FL – Crowbar $
09-13 New Orleans, LA – Hi Ho Lounge $
09-14 Houston, TX – Walter’s $
09-15 Austin, TX – Barracuda $
09-16 Dallas, TX – RBC $
09-18 Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar $
09-20 Los Angeles, CA – The Echo $
09-21 San Francisco, CA – Swedish American Hall $
09-22 Oakland, CA – Starline Social Club $
09-23 Eugene, OR – HiFi $
09-25 Portland, OR – Holocene $
09-26 Vancouver, British Columbia – Fox Cabaret $
09-27 Seattle, WA – Crocodile $
09-28 Boise, ID – Neurolux $
09-29 Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court $
09-30 Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge $
10-02 Minneapolis, MN – The Triple Rock $
10-04 Chicago, IL – Subterranean $
10-05 Bloomington, IN – The Bishop $
10-06 Detroit, MI – UFO Factory $
10-07 Toronto, Ontario – The Garisson $
10-08 Montreal, Quebec – Bar Le Ritz PDB $
10-11 Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair $
10-12 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg $
10-21 Bristol, GB – Simple Things Festival
10-23 Cologne, DE – Blue Shell
10-24 Hamburg, DE – Hakken
10-25 Berlin, DE – Badenhouse
10-26 Paris, FR – Pop Up Du Label
10-27 Gent, BE – NEST
10-28 Amsterdam, NL – London Calling
11-02 Brighton, GB – The Joker
11-03 Manchester, GB – Soup Kitchen
11-04 Edinburgh, GB – The Mash House
11-05 Glasgow, GB – The Hug and Pint
11-06 Leeds, GB – Headrow House
11-07 London, GB – The Dome Tufnell Park
! with (Sandy) Alex G & Cende
~ with Yohuna
^ with Tegan & Sara
$ with Mannequin Pussy & Spirit of the Beehive
SZA announces tour
SZA has announced a tour for her new record Ctrl, it begins in August and goes until December and includes shows in the United States and Canada. Ravyn Lenae and Smino, both of the Zero Fatigue collective, are joining SZA at some shows. See her tour poster below.
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