Tinariwen have announced their new album Elwan, which is set to be out on February 10th through Anti-. The album is the follow-up t0 Emmaar, and features appearances by Kurt Vile, Matt Sweeney, Mark Lanegan, and more. They recorded it in the desert of Joshua Tree National Park and in M’Hamid El Ghizlane, an oasis in southern Morocco. Check out the animated video for “Ténéré Tàqqàl,” directed by Axel Digoix, who has worked on films such as The Little Prince. Below as well are the Elwan tracklist, the album artwork and Tinariwen’s upcoming tour dates.
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Grizzly Bear’s new album Is “90% Done”
Grizzly Bear have been working in the studio on their follow-up to 2o12’s album Shields. In a tweet, the band announced the new LP is “90% done” but it was the “last update until you hear it.” See it below. In May, the band revealed they would go to the studio over the summer to begin to work on their new album.
Watch the video for “gun-shy” below.
Box Fan, Blood Orphans, Ugly Lovers and LVL UP at the Track House in photos
The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist
1. Been Anywhere Lately? – The Wood Burning Savages
2. Sidney St. – Tigercats
3. Heart It Races (Dr. Dog version) – Dr. Dog
4. So High – Males
5. Stargazers – Jerry Paper
6. Come True – Suburban Living
7. Room for Error – Clearance
8. Respite – Doe
9. Drinking Games – FEWS
10. Twilight Driving – Methyl Ethel
11. Give and Take – Unity Floors
12. The Hunt – Symmetry
13. Fordana – Sam Coomes
14. But Not For You – Field Music
15. Marry Me – EERA
16. Constant’s Dream – Amber Arcades
17. Sucker – The Big Moon
18. Baby Lee – Teenage Fanclub
19. Skeleton Dance – Teleman
20. We Disappear – Martha Ffion
GURAMGURAM, Generfius, Le Grotto at Le Grotto’s Album Release Party in photos
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.
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