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Bon Iver announce West Coast shows

Bon Iver have announced shows on the West Coast, which will happen in October. One of them is at the Beach Goth Festival. They will be joined by Francis and the Lights in Oakland, and by Julianna Barwick in San Diego. Check out the dates below. The shows are paired with a previously announced West Coast show with Patti Smith and Hiss Golden Messenger, which will happen in October also. Last week, Bon Iver and Kanye West appeared on Francis and the Lights’ “Friends,” which had a video where Justin Vernon did a synchronized dance. Watch it below.

Vernon said earlier this year announced that new Bon Iver music would debut at the band’s headlining gig at Eaux Claires Festival, which is curated by Vernon. The band’s last release was 2011’s self-titled record.

Bon Iver:

08-12-13 Eau Claire, WI – Eaux Claires Festival
10-18 Oakland, CA – Fox Theater *
10-22 Santa Ana, CA – Beach Goth Festival
10-23 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl &%
10-26 San Diego, CA – Copley Symphony Hall ^

* with Francis and the Lights
& with Patti Smith
% with Hiss Golden Messenger
^ with Julianna Barwick

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. No Stranger – Small Black

2. Embraces – The Black and White Years

3. Cannons – Youth Lagoon

4. Shut Up Kiss Me – Angel Olsen

5. Since I’ve Been Thinking – NE-HI

6. It’s A War – Blackbird Blackbird

7. lovers’ carvings – Bibio

8. Heaven’s On Fire – The Radio Dept.

9. Know Me – Frankie Rose

10. Collapsing Outside Your Doorstep – Air France

11. Hey Moon – John Maus

12. A Great Design – Black Marble

13. Love Fade- Tamaryn

14. Memories Boat Club

15. I Don’t Mind – Keeps

16. Turning into Water – Maybird

17. Alright – Henry Chadwick

18. Don’t Wanna Move – New Move

19. The Morning – No No Yeah Okay

20. Road to Ruin – Captiva

Watch Cat Power, Wayne Coyne, Michael Stipe, more pay tribute to David Bowie in new documentary

In April, Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall hosted a pair of sold-out tribute shows in tribute of David Bowie. Artists such as Michael Stipe, the Flaming Lips, Cat Power, Blondie’s Debbie Harry, Laurie Anderson, and more covered songs that spanned throughout Bowie’s career. Okayplayer TV has shared a documentary, directed by Rafe Scoobey-Thal, that features interviews with many of the concert’s participants. Recorded backstage during rehearsals for the show, the artists revealed some of their favorite songs and talked about their favorite memories of Bowie. Cat Power, Stipe, the Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle, Esperanza Spalding, Anderson, Cyndi Lauper, Harry, the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne, Bilal, Perry Farrell, Rickie Lee Jones, Robyn Hitchcock, and Heart’s Ann Wilson talked in the video. You can watch it below.

The documentary also featured footage of Bowie live shows and music videos, mixed with the interviews.

Father John Misty, André 3000, Lizzo to appear on new Adult Swim show

“Brad Neely’s Harg Nallin’ Sclopio Peepio” is a new cartoon that will premiere on July 10th on Adult Swim. The show stars Ilana Glazer (“Broad City”), Gabourey Sidibe (Precious), Darrell Hammond (“Saturday Night Live”) and more. It will also star one guest star per episode, some will perform music for the show. Father John Misty, André 3000, and Lizzo will appear on the first season, singing songs written by Neely. “This show for me is an opportunity to make a lot of music and have fun people sing my songs,” Neely said in a press release. Below, watch a clip from the show.

Flying Lotus makes directorial debut with short film

Sundance NEXT FEST is a film and music festival that takes place August 12-14 at The Theatre at Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles. It premieres the Los Angeles six new independent films from the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and are “paired with a music act, live performance, or conversation with an icon of independent cinema.” The 2016 festival will show the directorial debut of Flying Lotus, under his alias “steve,” premiering a short film called Royal. Shamir will perform at this year’s event with a screening of So Yong Kim’s Lovesong, which features Jena Malone and Riley Keough. Sunflower Bean has been paired with Andrew Neel’s Goat, which stars Nick Jonas. Nick Kroll, Craig Robinson, and a “surprise music artist” are also set to appear.

The Flying Lotus-scored short film FUCKKKYOUUU premiered at Sundance last year which can be watched below.

Watch Cassius’ new interactive video for “The Missing”

In April, French electronic duo Cassius shared “The Missing,” a new song from their upcoming album, Ibifornia, which features OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder. They have now shared a new interactive video for the song, which shows tons people making out. Directed by We Are From LA, the video allows viewers to change the many actors around, swapping who is making out with whom, by clicking on them during the video. Head here to see the video.

Ibifornia is  set to be out August 26 through Interscope / Polydor.

https://twitter.com/CASSIUSOFFICIAL/status/750232304631422981

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. Bop Bop – Mean Lady

2. Telephone – Most People

3. 1000 Boys – Matt Duncan

4. poor old ra – The Pica Beats

5. Tibetan Pop Stars – Hop Along

6. Water – Jamaican Queens

7. Paia – Wild Ones

8. Prank Calls – Kelley Stoltz

9.  Ozma – Shannon and the Clams

10. I Will Light You on Fire – Golden Shoulders

11. Springful – Adult Jazz

12. Come On and Move Me – Monarchs

13. Carl Sagan – Night Moves

14.  Lovely You – Monster Rally

15. Just Like You – Bosley

16. Warned You – Good Morning

17. What You Run – Comforter

18. The Sound – Human Highway

19. Green – Diane Coffee

20. Indian Food – Dumbo Gets Mad

A$AP Ferg joined By Tyler, the Creator, A$AP Rocky, Young Thug, Schoolboy Q

WOO HAH! Festival happened tonight in Tilburg, Netherlands. Due to the festival’s huge lineup, A$AP Ferg was joined by some guests during his set. While he performed “Work,” “Shabba,” and “New Level,” he was joined by A$AP Rocky, Tyler, the Creator, Young Thug, Schoolboy Q, and others. Watch professionally shot footage of the set here via 3voor12.

 

The Shins putting final touches on their first album in four years
On Thursday night, The Shins’ frontman James Mercer posted a video on Instagram that had a fragment of a new song with the message: “Final mixing of a new Shins record is underway. I’ll post more soon! J”.When finished, the album will be the band’s first since 2012’s Port of Morrow, fitting in with their trend of releasing a new album every four or five years.Check out the new clip below via The Shins’ official Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BHSmNCSjq0e/embed/captioned/?v=7

Watch Schoolboy Q perform “THat Part” on “Colbert”

Schoolboy Q was the musical guest on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” last night. He performed “THat Part” from his upcoming album Blank Face, which is due out July 8th through Top Dawg Entertainment. Watch the performance below.