Author: bella.king

Rufus Wainwright releases “Hallelujah” cover featuring 1,500 vocalists

One of this year’s most beautiful performances was in June when Rufus Wainwright sang with 1,500 background vocalists to perform Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” The performance, which happened in the Hearn Generating Station, a decommissioned electrical generating station in Toronto was a part of Choir! Choir! Choir!’s “Epic! Night” series.

A recording of the performance after it went viral has been released formally through evert digital retailers, including Spotify, Apple Music, and TIDAL.

The full video can be watched below via YouTube. The single’s artwork is posted above.

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. Garden – Hinds

2. Pineapple Girl – Mister Heavenly

3. La La La – Hoops

4. Hideout – Triptide

5. Parking Lots – Plums

6. Salt – Summer Daze

7. Manastra – Summer Salt

8. Orpheus Under the Influence – Buttertones

9. Problems – Hala

10. Sneakers (Sneaky Thing) – Franky Flowers

11. American Spirits – Inner Wave

12. Windowpane – Mild High Club

13. Radar – Moving Panoramas

14. Chameleon World – Jerry Paper

15. Just Like Tropica-L – Soft Powers

16. Suki and Me – Alex Calder

17. Gutter Girl – Hot Flash Heat Wave

18. Sandy Kim – Acid Ghost

19. Forever Dumb – Surf Curse

20. Love Forever – The Babe Rainbow

Watch Bon Iver debut new songs in full Eaux Claires set

At the Eaux Claires Music Festival last night in Wisconsin, Bon Iver premiered songs from their upcoming album 22, A Million. The album is due out September 30th via Jagjaguwar, and it is the band’s first new release in five years. You can watch the footage below from their performance, which includes a stream of the entire set. The band has detailed the album’s tracklist as well (below), shared the artwork (above), and released two new songs: “22 (OVER S∞∞N) [Bob Moose Extended Cab Version]” and “10 d E A T h b R E a s T ⊠ ⊠ (Extended Version).”

22, A Millon:

01 22 (OVER S∞∞N)
02 10 d E A T h b R E a s T ⊠ ⊠
03 715 – CRΣΣKS
04 33 “GOD”
05 29 #Strafford APTS
06 666 ʇ
07 21 M♢♢N WATER
08 8 (circle)
09 ____45_____
10 00000 Million

Watch Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon perform at his high school band’s 1999 album release party

Before Bon Iver, Justin Vernon released music under various names, including JD Vernon, DeYarmond Edison, and Mount Vernon in high school. The band in 1999 celebrated the release of their first album, We Can Look Up, at Eau Claire, Wisconsin’s Westgate Sportsman Club with a show. Today, because of YouTube user Mike Olson, who previously released the group’s performance at a 1998 battle of the bands, the release party is also available to watch. The group features Phil Cook (DeYarmond Edison, Megafaun, Gayngs), Brad Cook (DeYarmond Edison, Megafaun), and Joe Westerlund (Megafaun, Grandma Sparrow), according to the description. Watch it below.

The video came out the day before the debut of Bon Iver’s new album; it will be played in full tonight at Vernon’s Eaux Claires Music Festival.

Porter Robinson and Madeon release new song “Shelter,” announce joint tour

Porter Robinson and Madeon have released a collaboration named “Shelter.” Listen to it below. The producers have announced the Shelter Live Tour, as well, a joint North American tour that will begin in September and will have a new live show that is from each of the artists’ catalogs. According to Robinson, the tour will show the two performing together. Find the list of tour dates below as well.

Porter Robinson & Madeon:

09-29 Atlanta, GA – The Tabernacle
10-01 Oklahoma City, OK – The Criterion
10-02 Austin, TX – Austin City Limits
10-04 Royal Oak, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre
10-05 Chicago, IL – Aragon Ballroom
10-06 Kansas City, MO – Midland Theatre
10-07 Dallas, TX – South Side Ballroom
10-08 Houstin, TX – Revention Music Center
10-09 Austin, TX – Austin City Limits
11-13 Toronto, Ontario – Danforth Music Hall
11-16 Washington, DC – Echostage
11-25 San Francisco, CA – Bill Graham Auditorium
11-26 Los Angeles, CA – Microsoft Theater
11-29 San Diego, CA – The Observatory North Park
12-01 Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium
12-02 Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex

Japandroids announce 2016 tour

After finished their tour in 2013, behind Celebration Rock, Japandroids announced they were taking a break, saying “time for us to disappear into the ether for a while.” They have shared a post today on their Facebook page announcing their first tour in three years. It will start with a group of shows at Vancouver’s Cobalt in October, and finishes this November in Mexico City. You can find the full itinerary for their tour below.

Japandroids:

10-05-08 Vancouver, British Columbia – The Cobalt
10-11 Los Angeles, CA – The Echo
10-15 Toronto, Ontario – Horseshoe Tavern
10-20 London, England – Birthdays
10-28-29 Brooklyn, NY – Knitting Factory
11-25 Mexico City, Mexico – Caradura

Tejon Street Corner Thieves, Asa Martin, Strawberrie Riot, Where the Sun Don’t Shine at the Dog House in photos

Frankie and the Witch Fingers, Sun Dog, Train Conductor at Town Hall in photos

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. Bowls – Junkie

2. 6,000 Horns – Frankie and the Witch Fingers

3. Follow Me Home – The Mystery Lights

4. All Night Long – The Frowning Clouds

5. The Mending of the Gown – Sunset Rubdown

6. Party in the Backseat – Beach Moon/Peach Moon

7. I Feel This Place – Goldensuns

8. Your House – Diet.

9. Sophia So Far – Goodnight Radio

10. Tongue Action – Max Gardener

11. Happy Alone – Saintseneca

12. Psychotropic – Los Tones

13. Look So Good, Be So Good – The Shivas

14. Mean Green – Heaters

15. Feel This Way – Tangerine

16. Fade Into You – J Mascis

17. He’s Got It – Uh Bone

18. Orange Light – Cool Ghouls

19. Revelations – Dirt Dress

2o. Lips Around Your Spine – The Dang Dangs

War on Drugs’ Anthony LaMarca selling vintage Fender Jaguar for charity

Anthony LaMarca from the War On Drugs is selling his 1969 Fender Jaguar to raise money for families that have been affected by multiple myeloma, a type of cancer that affects plasma cells, in his hometown of Youngstown, OH. LaMarca was diagnosed with it last summer, and he decided to sell the guitar to be able to donate money to families affected by the disease. You can make an offer or purchase the guitar for $5,000 here. He shared a statement on the guitar’s Reverb page:

Last summer I found out I had Multiple Myeloma. It was a big shock but everything about it since that could go right has gone right. Including getting a phone call out of the blue from the Spisak-Gaugler family saying that they wanted to provide some financial support to me and my wife to help with medical expenses. Bruce Gaugler was a retired corrections officer here in Youngstown when he died from Multiple Myeloma. His family organized a golf outing while he was alive to help pay some of the bills. When he passed, they decided to keep doing the outing to start helping other families in the area affected by the disease. Since they helped me, I want to help them achieve that goal if I can. All the money from the sale of this guitar will go to their cause, and will help ease the financial burden for some people here. So that’s the deal. Get a sweet guitar and change someone’s life. Sounds like perfect living to me.

The guitar was a gift from friend, French guitarist Thomas Semence, it was used during recordings with Jean-Louis Aubert of the band Téléphone. LaMarca wrote that he played the guitar in studio and while performing lwith the War on Drugs and Dean Wareham. Check out a photo of the guitar above via Reverb.