ANOHNI has released a new EP named PARADISE, a companion piece to last year’s album HOPELESSNESS. Stream it here and here. The new EP was made in collaboration with producers Oneohtrix Point Never and Hudson Mohawke like HOPELESSNESS.
ANOHNI announced that she will give the final song from PARADISE, “I Never Stopped Loving You,” to fans in exchange for “a gesture of anonymous vulnerability.” ANOHNI described the track as “the final piece of the puzzle.”
Phil Elverum, aka Mount Eerie’s new album, A Crow Looked at Me, is streaming now via NPR. Listen to it here. The album, set to be out next week, was written and recorded in the weeks after the death of his wife, the artist Geneviève Castrée. Elverum recently announced a short North American tour, find the dates below as well.
Mount Eerie:
04-04 Eugene, OR – WOW Hall
04-06 Big Sur, CA – Henry Miller Library
04-09 Santa Ana, CA – When We Were Young Fest @ Observatory
04-10 San Diego, CA – Irenic
04-11 Los Angeles, CA – The Masonic Lodge @ Hollywood Forever
04-14 Oakland, CA – Starline Social Club
04-17 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
04-18 Olympia, WA – Obsidian
04-12-14 Arcosanti, AZ – FORM Arcosanti
Ryuichi Sakamoto has announced a new album, async, set to be out April 28th via Milan. It is the Japanese composer’s first studio album since Three in 2012, with Jaques Morelenbaum and Judy Kang, and his first solo album in 8 years. Sakamoto recorded the album in New York, having inspiration from “everyday objects, sculpture, and nature,” according to a press release. Find the tracklist below and artwork above. The world premiere listening event for the album will be at Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, which takes place from March 23-26th. Sakamoto is set to perform also on April 25th and 26th at Park Avenue Armory Veterans Room in New York. The album will follow the 2015 score he did for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s film The Revenant. It is his first studio album since his recovery from cancer in 2015 as well.
async:
01 andata
02 disintegration
03 solari
04 ZURE
05 walker
06 stakra
07 ubi
08 fullmoon
09 async
10 tri
11 Life, Life
12 honj
13 ff
14 garden
15 water state 2 [vinyl-only bonus track]
Eagles and Fleetwood Mac have released the full details for their bicoastal festival series, Classic East and Classic West. The festivals will be at Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles and Citi Field in New York City, on July 15-16th and July 29-30th respectively. Earth, Wind & Fire, Steely Dan, Journey, and the Doobie Brothers have been set to perform at each festival, as Billboard points out. It will be the Eagles’ first performance since Glenn Frey’s death last year.
Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett have been teasing fans about a collaboration on social media, uploading photos of themselves in the studio. Australian recording studio, Newmarket Studios has revealed the duo are now working on a “forthcoming compilation,” as Triple J points out. Full details of the collaboration on the project are scarce, the studio notes that producer/engineer Callum John Barter is involved.
1. Away – Mons Vi
2. A Moment – Dean Sullivan
3. Shake Off the Present – Good Good Blood
4. Exhale – Treasureseason
5. Lucky Girl – Fazerdaze
6. ❤ – Broen
7. Morning Before My Planet Dies – Thalab
8. Found Weekend – Winterpills
9. Tell Me What You’re Made Of – Baby Guru
10. One Mississippi – WHY?
11. Astronaut – The Dig
12. Apophenia – ginla
13. Ubu -Methyl Ethel
14. Aimless – Johnny Goth
15. Shiny People – Leaf house
16. Laptop – Jonathan Bree
17. Mind Fields – No Vacation
18. Lone Star – Trance Farmers
19. Heavy Steps – Wilsen
20. Sore Spores – BOBBY
Frank Ocean has released a new song. Find “Chanel” via Spotify below, and on iTunes here. It is his first piece of solo music since his 2016 albums Blonde and Endless. He premiered it on the second episode of his radio show, “blonded RADIO” last night. Check out the lyrics to the song on Ocean’s Tumblr. Recently, Ocean was on Calvin Harris’ new single “Slide” with Migos. The first episode of “blonded RADIO” premiered last month where Ocean interviewed Jay Z about the state of modern radio.
Spoon’s newest release, Hot Thoughts, is set to be out March 17th via Matador. The band went on stage on “The Late Late Show With James Corden” last night to perform “I Ain’t the One” from the new album. Check out the performance below. Spoon announced that they had partnered with an Austin restaurant to create a Spoon signature taco and performed “Hot Thoughts” on “Kimmel” earlier this week.
Minneapolis rapper P.O.S released a new album called Chill, dummy in January. It features collaborations with Kathleen Hanna, Allan Kingdom, Lizzo, Open Mike Eagle, and Busdriver. Today, he has shared the video for the song “Faded,” which has vocals from Justin Vernon and Lady Midnight. In the clip, directed by James Gundersen, P.O.S is in the woods as images are projected onto him. Watch it below.
Woods have announced a new album, Love Is Love. It is the follow-up to last year’s City Sun Eater in the River of Light and is set to be out April 21st via Woodsist. Love Is Love was written and recorded in the few months after the election and is “a meditation on love, and on what life means now,” according to the press release. The announcement is joined by the title track. Find it below, along with the tracklisting. Find the album art above.
Love Is Love:
01 Love Is Love
02 Bleeding Blue
03 Lost in a Crowd
04 Spring Is in the Air
05 I Hit That Drum
06 Love Is Love (Sun on Time)
The Melodic Tree 