Porches have released a cover of Big Star’s song “Morpha Too.” Listen to it below. The original song was on Big Star’s second record, Radio City, in 1974. The band’s most recent release is the Water EP, which has demos from their album Pool.
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.
Wayne Coyne announced on Instagram that The Flaming Lips will share “brand new, never heard before” music during classes at The Yoga Box in Oklahoma City. Classes on Fridays during October “will feature a special Flaming Lips Playlist” that will new music, “old classics and rare hard to find secret tracks,” and “cool remixes.” As Coyne points out, the class will help “you get your body and mind fucked with and made better and healthier and happier by the coolest yoga gals in OKC!!!!” Find the full announcement below. You can book an upcoming class at The Yoga Box here.
Chance the Rapper has released his jingle for Kit Kat. Chance stays true to “Gimme a Break” tagline with his new interpretation. In the commercial, Chance is dressed as a lion for Halloween while still wearing his third mixtape hat. A candy bar version of Chance talks and sings the jingle to the lion version of Chance. Watch it below.
Real Estate have been on tour with new member Julian Lynch and working on a new album. During their set at the Atlanta festival Project Pabst on Friday, they played unreleased material. A representative for the band says the working title of the track in the video below is “Harpsichord.”
A$AP Rocky was named the Creative Director for MTV Labs earlier today. Rocky launched the “creative incubator” today with Atlanta rapper Key! and debuted a new song called “Crazy Brazy.” Watch the performance here and stream the song below. It features A$AP Twelvyy. The track is off of A$AP Mob’s upcoming mixtape, Cozy Tapes Vol. 2.
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