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Mitski shares “Your Best American Girl” video
Mitski recently announced Puberty 2, which is her follow-up to 2014’s album Bury Me at Makeout Creek, and also released a single called “Your Best American Girl.” That single now has a video, directed by Zia Anger. Watch it below, and find all of her upcoming tour dates.
According to the press release, the video “plays on the idea of, as a Japanese girl, never quite fitting in with the genre’s surplus of white American guys.” The video has cinematography from Ashley Connor, art direction by Caiti Hawkins, and styling by Creatures of the Wind. Puberty 2 is set to be out on June 17th on Dead Oceans.
Mitski:
04-17 Brussels, Belgium – Ancienne Belgique – solo show
04-19 London, England – Birthdays – solo show
04-21 Paris, France – La Mécanique Ondulatoire w/ Twin Peaks – solo show
04-23 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso Basement – solo show
06-20 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
06-22 Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
06-23 Philadelphia, PA – Boot & Saddle
06-24 Philadelphia, PA – PhilaMOCA
06-25 Washington, DC – Rock & Roll Hotel
06-26 Durham, NC – The Pinhook
06-28 Atlanta, GA – Masquerade: Purgatory
06-29 Birmingham, AL – The Syndicate Lounge
07-01 Houston, TX – Walter’s Downtown
07-02 Austin, TX – The Sidewinder
07-03 Dallas, TX – Three Links
07-05 Phoenix, AZ – The Rebel Lounge
07-06 Santa Ana, CA – The Constellation Room
07-07 Los Angeles, CA – The Echo
07-08 San Francisco, CA – Bottom Of The Hill
07-09 Oakland, CA – Starline Social Club
07-11 Portland, OR – Analog Theater
07-12 Vancouver, British Columbia – The Cobalt
07-13 Seattle, WA – The Crocodile
07-15 Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court
07-16 Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge
07-19 Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry
07-20 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
07-22 Toronto, Ontario – Horseshoe Tavern
07-23 Montreal, Quebec – Bar Le Ritz
Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver receives 40th anniversary soundtrack reissue
Martin Scorsese’s film Taxi Driver will turn 40 this year. To celebrate, Waxwork Records will release Bernard Herrmann’s score on vinyl. The album is available on yellow and tri-color (yellow, black, and white) vinyl and comes with liner notes from Scorcese. The packaging artwork is by Rich Kelly. Find the packaging shots and previews from the soundtrack below. The soundtrack is out today.
The film’s anniversary will be celebrated on April 21 at Tribeca Film Festival. Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, and others will be on a panel for the film.
Watch the trailer for flying Lotus-scored film LoveTrue
The Flying Lotus-scored documentary LoveTrue will premiere at Tribeca Film Festival later this month. Directed by Alma Har’el and executive produced by Shia LaBeouf, the documentary will tell the story of three real-life relationships. Today, they have released the trailer for LoveTrue, which features some of FlyLo’s original music. In it, several of the film’s subjects, which includes children, musicians, and dancers, talk about their experiences with love. Watch it and check out the documentary’s poster below.
Maverick Music Festival in photos
The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist
1. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Part 1 – The Flaming Lips
2. Gronlandic Edit – Of Montreal
3. Light & Day – The Polyphonic Spree
4. Once Around the Block – Badly Drawn Boy
5. Up On the Ride – Guillemots
6. One Day Like This – Elbow
7. Ancient Mars – The Zolas
8. Plastic Skateboard – Brave Baby
9. Another Dimension – Jaded Juice Riders
10. Rotten Love – Levy
11. Washed Up – South of France
12. Antique Furniture – Guy Fox
13. Golden Age – Grandchildren
14. Jumping Fences – The Olivia Tremor Control
15. Takeshi and Elijah – The Music Tapes
16. Glue – The Gerbils
17. A Grey Cloth Covering My Face – Elf Power
18. Polar – The High Water Marks
19. Red Light – Marbles
20. Bad Feelings – The Robot Ate Me
The people at the First Day of Maverick Fest in pictures
We have decided to begin taking portraits of people around San Antonio’s (and soon enough, Olympia, Washington’s) music scene and this is the first of hopefully many! We are going to upload the pictures on Flickr and the first series is from the first day of Maverick Fest! Check them out here!
M83 debut “Laser Gun,” new member Kaela Sinclair at first stop on Junk world tour
M83 began their extensive tour in support of their new album Junk in New Orleans at the Civic Theatre last night. The band had a few surprises, first debuting Junk’s “Laser Gun” and introducing new singer-keyboardist Kaela Sinclair, who won the spot after the band had open auditions to replace Morgan Kibby in February.
Watch a clip of M83 performing “Laser Gun” with Sinclair below, via Stereogum, and watch additional clips of ““Echoes Of Mine,” “Wait,” and “Steve McQueen”.
“Echoes Of Mine”:
“Wait”:
“Steve McQueen”:
M83’s current tour schedule:
M83 2016 Tour Dates:
04/08 – Dallas, TX @ Bomb Factory *
04/09 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall *
04/10 – Austin, TX @ Stubbs Waller Creek Amphitheater *
04/12 – Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre *
04/13 – Phoenix, AZ @ Comerica Theatre *$
04/15 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
04/16 – Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl *
04/17 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater *
04/09 – Ponoma, CA @ Fox Theater *
04/22 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
04/23 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst Club *
04/25 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater *
04/26 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater *
04/27 – Missoula, MT @ The Wilma Theatre *
04/29 – Edmonton, AB @ Winspear Centre !
04/30 – Calgary, AB @ Grey Eagle Event Centre !
05/04 – Hong Kong, CN @ Kitec Star Hall
05/07 – Kuala Lumpur, MY @ KL Live
05/10 – Melbourne, AU @ Forum Melbourne
05/11 – elbourne, AU @ Forum Melbourne
05/14 – Brisbane, AU @ Tivoli
05/16 – Sydney, AU @ Enmore Theatre
05/19 – Sentosa, SG @ Hard Rock Coliseum
05/21 – Jarkata, ID @ Lapangan D
05/24 – Seoul, KR @ Blue Square – Samsung Card Hall
05/26 – Tokyo, JP @ Studio Coast
05/28 – Quincy, WA @ Sasquatch! Music Festival
05/30 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Great Saltair #
05/31 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre #
06/01 – Kansas City, MO @ Arvest Bank Theatre at the Midland #
06/03 – Columbus, OH @ Express Live!
06/04 – New York, NY @ Governors Ball Music Festival
06/06 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE #
06/07 – Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart’s #
06/08 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues #
06/10 – Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Music Festival
06/11 – Raleigh, NC @ Red Hat Amphitheater
06/12 – Richmond, VA @ The National
06/14 – Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore
06/15 – Norfolk, VA @ The NorVa
06/16 – Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion ^
06/18 – Dover, DE @ Firefly Music Festival
06/22-26 – Pilton, UK @ Glastonbury Music Festival
06/24-26 – Paris, FR @ Solidays Festival
06/28 – Istanbul, TR @ Zorlu Center for the Performing Arts
06/30 – Gdynia, PL @ Open’er Festival
07/01-03 – Marmande, FR @ Garorock Festival
07/01-03 – Belfort, FR @ Les Eurockeenes Festival
07/07 – Bilbao, ES @ BBK Live Festival
07/09 – Lisbon, PT @ NOS Alive! Festival
07/14-17 – Ostrava, CZ @ Colours of Ostrava Festival
07/15 – Gräfenhainchen, DE @ Melt! Festival
07/17 – Suffolk, UK @ Latitude Festival
07/20 – Portland, ME @ Thompson’s Point
07/21 – Boston, MA @ Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
07/23 – Oro-Medonte, ON @ WayHome Music & Arts Festival
07/24 – Detroit, MI @ MoPop Festival
07/25 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
07/27 – Council Bluffs, IA @ Stir Cove
07/29 – Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza
07/23-31 – Montreal, QC @ Osheaga Festival
08/10 – Oslo, NO @ Øya Festival
08/11 – Gothenburg, SE @ Way Out West Festival
08/13 – Helsinki, FI @ Flow Festival
08/15 – Budapest, HU @ Sziget Festival
08/19 – Hasselt, BE @ Pukkelpop
08/20-21 – Sankt Polten, AT @ Frequency Festival
08/20-21 – Biddinghuizen, NL @ Lowlands Festival
08/24 – Zurich, CH @ Zurich Openair Festival
08/25-28 – Charleville-Mézières, FR @ Le Cabaret Vert
* = w/ YACHT
$ = w/ Børns
# = w/ Bob Moses
^ = w/ Tame Impala
Listen to Xiu Xiu cover Julee Cruise’s “Into the Night” from “Twin Peaks”
Xiu Xiu will release Plays the Music of Twin Peaks, a cover album of Angelo Badalamenti’s ,music from David Lynch’s show on Record Store Day. They previously released their version of the show’s theme, “Falling.” Today, they released their cover of “Into the Night” by Julee Cruise. The song originally was on “Twin Peaks”‘s sixth episode. Hear Xiu Xiu’s cover below.
Listen to Julee Cruise’s “Into the Night”:
Dave Harrington Group announces tour dates, shares “Social and Folk”
Harrington has announced a spring tour in anticipation for the release and will include dates in the US and Europe, as well as an improvised scoring of Seijun Suzuki’s 1967 filmBranded to Kill live on April 14th.
Harrington has also shared a bonus song from the Become Alive sessions, called “Social and Folk”.
Listen in below, followed by the full tour schedule.
Dave Harrington Group 2016 Tour Dates:
04/14 – Brooklyn, NY @ National Sawdust
04/15 – Brooklyn, NY @ Trans Pecos
05/26 – London, UK @ Jazz Cafe
05/28 – Copenhagen, DK @ Vega
06/03 – Belgrade, RS @ Barutana Fortress
06/05 – Paris, FR @ We Love Green Festival
The Melodic Tree 