The Replacements have announced a live album entitled For Sale: Live at Maxwell’s 1986. The two-disc performance will feature their performance at the Hoboken, N.J. venue. It is set to be out September 29th via Rhino and will include new liner notes from Bob Mehr, author of Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements and never-before-seen photos from writer and photographer Caryn Rose. Mehr writes in the liner notes, “More than 30 years after the original concert, Replacements for Sale finally offers high-fidelity proof of the peculiar alchemy and unadulterated majesty of one of rock and roll’s greatest bands.” Check out the full tracklist and listen to the For Sale rendition of “Can’t Hardly Wait” below.
For Sale: Live at Maxwell’s 1986:
Disc One:
01 Hayday
02 Color Me Impressed
03 Dose of Thunder
04 Fox on the Run
05 Hold My Life
06 I Will Dare
07 Favorite Thing
08 Unsatisfied
09 Can’t Hardly Wait
10 Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out
11 Takin’ a Ride
12 Bastards of Young
13 Kiss Me on the Bus
14 Black Diamond
Disc Two:
01 Johnny’s Gonna Die
02 Otto
03 I’m in Trouble
04 Left of the Dial
05 God Damn Job
06 Answering Machine
07 Waitress in the Sky
08 Take Me Down to the Hospital
09 Gary’s Got a Boner
10 If Only You Were Lonely
11 Baby Strange
12 Hitchin’ a Ride
13 Nowhere Man
14 Go
15 Fuck School
Ministry and Death Grips have announced a co-headlining tour. It will begin in October and the two groups will play in New York, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and more. See the joint itinerary below. Death Grips recently released a new 22-minute song called “Steroids (Crouching Tiger Hidden Gabber Megamix),” and they said they were working on their next album.
Slowdive singer-guitarist Neil Halstead appears on the newest episode of “Song Exploder,” the podcast where artists break down their songs and explain the process in which they were made. He talked about “Sugar for the Pill” from their recently released self-titled LP. Halstead goes into the song’s gestation, played clips of a demo and explained how he merged electronic and live drums, as well as filling his guitar with bubble wrap to control the feedback. He also drew parallels between the song’s themes and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, which he was reading around the time the song was written. Listen to the episode and hear the song below.
Classixx have covered Van Halen’s “Right Now,” the hit single from the 1991 album For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. Listen to it below. The track is on a new compilation album named Loosies, which shows off rare cuts, remixes, and B-sides from independent label Innovative Leisure. Nosaj Thing, Aesop Rock, De Lux, and more are also featured on the album that is set to be out July 14th. See the full tracklist below.
Loosies
01 Classixx: “Right Now”
02 De Lux: “It’s A Combination” (Peaking Lights Disco Dub)
03 Superhumanoids: “Anxious In Venice” (Hanni El Khatib Remix)
04 Lazer Sword: “Shot In the Nite”
05 Hanni El Khatib: “You Rascal You” (Aesop Rock Remix)
06 De Lux “Moments” (Tom Vek Remix)
07 Mexicans With Guns: “Highway to Hell” ft. Freddie Gibbs & Bun B (Ridin’ Dirty Remix)
08 De Lux: “LA Threshold” (DJ Harrison Remix)
09 Feeding People: “Island Universe” (Free the Robots ft. Phil Nisco Remix)
10 Nosaj Thing: “P8”
11 Nick Waterhouse: “I Cry”
12 We Break Cameras: “Burning Japan”
13 De Lux: “Marquee Moon”
14 Classixx: “A Mountain With No Ending” (Blue Motel Remix)
15 Superhumanoids: “See It All” (Gossamer Remix)
16 Tropics: “Let Go”
17 Crystal Antlers: “We All Gotta Die” (Scientist Remix)
18 Two Eights: “Manifest Destiny”
19 Hanni El Khatib: “Penny” (Classixx Remix)
20 Tijuana Panthers: “Boardwalk” (Delta Spirit Remix)
21 Classixx: “Ndivile” (Daniel T. & Turbotito Remix)
22 De Lux: “Better At Making Time” (Yacht Remix)
23 Classixx: “Just Let Go” (Ray Mang Remix)
24 Superhumanoids: “Feel Good Hit of the Summer”
25 Hanni El Khatib: “Loved One” (Scotty Coats & Wes The Mes Wes Coats remix)
26 De Lux: ”Oh Man The Future” (Daniel T. Remix)
Olympia-based indie rock band, Molten Salt, has released two songs, “Absolutely Nothing” yesterday and “Two Cares” today. The tracks are from their upcoming album Quiet Hex which is set to come out in August according to their Facebook via 2060 Records.
Zachary Cole Smith, frontman of DIIV, has released his cover of Sparklehorse’s “Cow.” The song is on Sparklehorse’s debut Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot. Listen to the cover below. In advance of a show in New York this August, which he previously announced will feature new music and covers, Smith shared the track on Twitter today. Smith recently shared a cover of (Sandy) Alex G’s track “Icehead,” which can also be listened to below.
Soft Fangs, the Brooklyn-based dark pop/alt-folk project of John Lutkevich, has announced his latest album, Fractures. The first track to be released from the album, “Elephant Girl” was premiered on Gold Flake Paint and is currently streaming there.
“The LP is a collection of songs that I wrote over the past year in fragments and then recorded in three days during a snowstorm in Maine. I wanted to take these songs that I’d written leisurely over the span of a year and then record them very quickly,” Letkevich said about the album in a press release. “It’s the first album where I’ve enlisted the help of others to engineer, so I let my good friends Bradford Krieger & Chaimes Parker (Big Nice Studio) handle all of the recording aspects, and I just got to run from instrument to instrument. The album varying in concept is precisely the concept, hence it’s title. They are fractures from my life and other people’s.”
The album is set to be out September 1st via Disposible America and can be pre-ordered here.
Moses Sumney has announced a new album, Aromanticism, which is set to be out September 22nd on Jagjaguwar. See the artwork above and tracklist below. The record includes “Doomed,” a track that was released last month. A live performance of the song can be found below as well. It is from a set recorded at St Stephens Uniting Church in Sydney, Australia in January, which will air in full on Double J at 1 a.m. Eastern tonight, with an archived stream set to be out a week from today.
Aromanticism:
01 Man On The Moon (Reprise)
02 Don’t Bother Calling
03 Plastic
04 Quarrel
05 Stoicism
06 Lonely World
07 Make Out In My Car
08 The Cocoon-Eyed Baby
09 Doomed
10 Indulge Me
11 Self-Help Tape
Eric B. & Rakim performed at the Apollo Theatre in New York City last night, their first show together in over two decades. The duo performed their entire debut album Paid in Full in its entirety on the 30th anniversary of its release. Watch them do perform classics like “My Melody,” “Ain’t No Joke,” and “I Know You Got Soul” below. The pair brought out Flavor Flav, Ice T, Fat Joe, Roxanne Shante, and Kool Herc as surprise guests. It is unclear whether or not Eric B. & Rakim will continue playing shows after the one-night concert at the Apollo.
The solo project of Michelle Zauner, Japanese Breakfast, has shared a new music video for her track “Road Head.” The clip, directed by Zauner, follows her character as she eats instant ramen, chain smokes cigarettes, and shares her life with a masked monster. “‘Road Head’ is the fifth music video [director of photography] Adam Kolodny and I have collaborated on,” Zauner said in a statement. “For this one we wanted to focus on staging and an exaggerated color palette. We were inspired by Fallen Angels and ‘Twin Peaks.’” “Road Head” will appear on Japanese Breakfast’s upcoming album Soft Sounds From Another Planet, which is set to be out July 14th via Dead Oceans.
Zauner has also announced new tour dates. She has shows with Tegan and Sara, (Sandy) Alex G, Cende, Yohuna, Mannequin Pussy, and Spirit of the Beehive. Find her schedule below.
Japanese Breakfast:
07-06 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg !
07-07 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom !
07-08 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer !
07-15 Brooklyn, NY – Union Pool ~
07-27 Halifax, Nova Scotia – Rebecca Cohn Auditorium ^
07-28 Portland, ME – State Theatre ^
07-29 Buffalo, NY – Town Ballroom ^
07-31 Cleveland, OH – House of Blues ^
08-02 Covington, KY – Madison Theater ^
09-07 Washington, DC – Black Cat $
09-08 Richmond, VA – Stranger Matter $
09-09 Raleigh, NC – Hopscotch Festival $
09-10 Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade (Purgatory) $
09-11 Orlando, FL – Will’s Pub $
09-12 Tampa, FL – Crowbar $
09-13 New Orleans, LA – Hi Ho Lounge $
09-14 Houston, TX – Walter’s $
09-15 Austin, TX – Barracuda $
09-16 Dallas, TX – RBC $
09-18 Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar $
09-20 Los Angeles, CA – The Echo $
09-21 San Francisco, CA – Swedish American Hall $
09-22 Oakland, CA – Starline Social Club $
09-23 Eugene, OR – HiFi $
09-25 Portland, OR – Holocene $
09-26 Vancouver, British Columbia – Fox Cabaret $
09-27 Seattle, WA – Crocodile $
09-28 Boise, ID – Neurolux $
09-29 Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court $
09-30 Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge $
10-02 Minneapolis, MN – The Triple Rock $
10-04 Chicago, IL – Subterranean $
10-05 Bloomington, IN – The Bishop $
10-06 Detroit, MI – UFO Factory $
10-07 Toronto, Ontario – The Garisson $
10-08 Montreal, Quebec – Bar Le Ritz PDB $
10-11 Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair $
10-12 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg $
10-21 Bristol, GB – Simple Things Festival
10-23 Cologne, DE – Blue Shell
10-24 Hamburg, DE – Hakken
10-25 Berlin, DE – Badenhouse
10-26 Paris, FR – Pop Up Du Label
10-27 Gent, BE – NEST
10-28 Amsterdam, NL – London Calling
11-02 Brighton, GB – The Joker
11-03 Manchester, GB – Soup Kitchen
11-04 Edinburgh, GB – The Mash House
11-05 Glasgow, GB – The Hug and Pint
11-06 Leeds, GB – Headrow House
11-07 London, GB – The Dome Tufnell Park
! with (Sandy) Alex G & Cende
~ with Yohuna
^ with Tegan & Sara
$ with Mannequin Pussy & Spirit of the Beehive
The Melodic Tree 