GURAMGURAM, Generfius, Le Grotto at Le Grotto’s Album Release Party in photos
Author: bella.king
Franz Ferdinand shares new anti-Trump song “Demagogue”
Franz Ferdinand have released a new song called “Demagogue,” listen to it above. It is an anti-Trump track, and the latest track from the 30 Days, 30 Songs program created by writer Dave Eggers. It began earlier this week with Death Cab for Cuties’ “Million Dollar Loan.”
The program will release a new song everyday until Election Day. Aimee Man, Bhi Bhiman, and My Morning Jacket’s Jim James have also released music as a part of the program. Listen to their contributions here. All of the proceeds from 30 Days will go to the Center for Popular Democracy and their efforts toward Universal Voter Registration for all Americans.
Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize in Literature
Bob Dylan has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. He joins the list of previous winners which includes Toni Morrison, Gabriel García Márquez, Samuel Beckett, and more. Dylan was awarded the prize “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”
Watch the video of the announcement below, as well as an interview with Sara Danius, the Swedish Academy’s Permanent Secretary, who called Dylan “a great poet in the English tradition.” You can find more information on past Nobel laureates here.
Cloud Nothings announce album Life Without Sound, share new song “Modern Act”
Cloud Nothings have announced the follow-up to their album Here and Nowhere Else and No Life for Me, their Wavves collaboration. Life Without Sound is set to be out January 27th via Carpark/Wichita. The announcement came with a new song called “Modern Act.” Listen to it below, with the tracklist, and the band’s upcoming tour dates. The album art is above.
The album was recorded with producer John Goodmanson in El Paso earlier this year. Dylan Baldi said in a statement:
Generally, it seems like my work has been about finding my place in the world. But there was a point in which I realized that you can be missing something important in your life, a part you didn’t realize you were missing until it’s there—hence the title. This record is like my version of new age music. It’s supposed to be inspiring.
Life Without Sound:
01 Up To The Surface
02 Things Are Right With You
03 Internal World
04 Darkened Rings
05 Enter Entirely
06 Modern Act
07 Sight Unseen
08 Strange Year
09 Realize My Fate
Cloud Nothings:
10-14 Greenville, SC – Fall for Greenville Fest
11-12 Santa Ana, CA – Outpost Festival
11-14 Oakland, CA – Starlite Social Club
11-16 Los Angeles, CA – Hi Hat
01-26 Cleveland, OH – Beachland ballroom
01-27 Toronto, Ontario – Lee’s Palace
01-28 Montreal, Quebec – Fairmount Theatre
01-30 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
01-31 Boston, MA – Paradise
02-01 New York, NY – Webster Hall
02-03 Baltimore, MD – Ottobar
02-10 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
03-01 Copenhagen, Denmark – Loppen
03-02 Malmo, Sweden – Babel
03-03 Stockholm, Sweden – Debaser Strand
03-05 Oslo, Norway – Parkteatret
03-06 Hamburg, Germany – Knust
03-07 Berlin, Germany – Bi Nuu
03-08 Munich, Germany – Kranhalle
03-09 Cologne, Germany – Luxor
03-11 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso
03-12 Brussels, Belgium – Botanique
03-14 Paris, France – Petit Bain
03-16 Bristol, England – Thekla
03-17 Glasgow, Scotland – Stereo
03-18 Manchester, England – Deaf Institute
03-19 Leeds, England – Brudenell Social Club
03-21 London, England – Koko
03-22 Birmingham, England – The Hare & Hounds
03-23 Brighton, England – The Haunt
Watch Mitski’s new video for “A Burning Hill”
Mitski has released the music video for her song “A Burning Hill,” the final track off her album Puberty 2. It was directed by Bradley Gray and the video was shot during “a weekend just driving around New York and Pennsylvania.” Mitski said in a press release: “It felt like a vacation, but it was also quite emotional, as I was thinking about the song and what it means to me now while jumping in rivers and driving down dirt lanes.” Watch it below.
Listen to Skylar Spence’s latest new track “Faithfully”
Skylar Spence released his last album, Prom King over a year ago, and there has not been much from him besides remixes of Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Your Type,” and A Sunny Day In Glasgow teasers across his twitter. Today, however, he put out “Faithfully,” a track that samples Aretha Franklin’s “Wonderful,” the same song he used to sample for “Mr. Wonderful” when he released it in 2014. Spence told The FADER that “Faithfully” is an older track that he wanted to release but is working on the follow-up to Prom King. Listen out “Faithfully” below.
The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist
1. 17 – Brandon Can’t Dance
2. I Am Just a Whisper – Brass Bed
3. Time Being – Surface to Air Missive
4. Your Version of Me – Steady Holiday
5. Tropical – Fern
6. Bones – Polykite
7. Wonder – Zeit
8. Ways to Drown – Dirty on Purpose
9. Annie Hall – Haggert Mctaggert
10. Cellar Door – Graveyard Club
11. Life is but a Dream – Genders
12. Gwam Gwam Gwam – Izzy True
13. Gaucho – Ablebody
14. Basketball – Zula
15. Start Anew – Chook Race
16. No Jigsaw – Eyelids
17. Downhearted – Molly Burch
18. Collarbone – Fake Palms
19. H. Roark – The Vernes
20. Thurgood Marshall – St. Lenox
Listen to Porches’ cover of Big Star’s “Morpha Too”
Frankie Cosmos, Iji, the Washboard Abs at Obsidian in photos
Watch Solange in new film go behind the scenes of A Seat at the Table early stages
Solange released her brilliant new album A Seat at the Table last week. In a documentary called A Seat at the Table, Beginning Stages, she shares footage of the creation of the album. Watch it below. Solange says the film is “a look at the early days of jam sessions, experimentation, and the exploring of sounds and ideas for the album.” It shows Solange working on early versions of “Don’t Touch My Hair,” “Mad,” “Don’t You Wait,” “Where Do We Go,” and more. Sampha, Kwes, Kindness, Sean Nicholas Savage, Patrick Wimberly, Solange’s son Julez, and more make appearances. Find a statement from Solange about the film.
“A Seat At The Table, Beginning Stages” is a look at the early days of jam sessions, experimentation, and the exploring of sounds and ideas for the album.
While some of the jam sessions featured did not make the album, they helped to create and identify the sonic tone, and the early lyrics and concepts I wrote for the project.
This video is broken up into 3 different parts. The first and second parts happened in Long Island and New Orleans where I first started to jam and collaborate on ideas with the incredible artists and musicians featured (as well as some other incredible artist and musicians who are not shown here). A lot of these days would just start with me singing a melody or someone playing a synth part or bass line, and would transition into an hour long jam.
The third part is me taking all of these jams to New Iberia, LA with just my engineers and creating the actual song structures, building the sounds, and writing the lyrics and melodies.
I later took these songs to Los Angeles to work with Raphael Saadiq to help amplify the production, as well as record the vocals alongside Troy Johnson. When I look back at the beginning stages, I remember the powerful energy that set the tone, and that I’m so grateful followed us everywhere during the creation of this record.
