The Weeknd’s new album Starboy is available now for streaming. Listen to it below via Spotify. Starboy is the follow-up to Beauty Behind the Madness. The album has guest appearances from Kendrick Lamar, Lana Del Rey, Future, and Daft Punk. The Weeknd features previously shared the singles, “Starboy,” “False Alarm,” “I Feel It Coming,” and “Party Monster.” Listen to the album here.
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Regina Spektor revisits her past in the video for “Bleeding Heart”
Regina Spektor has come far since her youth, spending her time learning the piano in the Soviet Union. Those memories are the focus of the singer-songwriter’s newest video for Remember Us to Life track “Bleeding Heart.”
Lead by her Spektor’s husband, Jack Dishel, the clip includes footage of the musician singing and dancing in front of an illustrated skyline with old videos and photos from her early years. Her black-and-white pieces came thanks to her father, who Spektor remembers fondly.
“Throughout my childhood I’d sometimes get tired of standing as [my father] took his light meter readings or asked me to play piano or pose,” Spektor said to NPR. “But now when I look back on every recorded moment, I’m just grateful. It took hard work and patience on his part — most of the photos were developed and printed by him in his darkroom in spare time from work.”
Watch the visual below.
Listen to Kingdom’s new song with the Internet’s Syd “Nothin”
Kingdom has announced his debut studio album named Tears in the Club. It is set to be out February 27th via Fade to Mind. Tears in the Club will feature guest spots from SZA, the Internet’s Syd, Shacar, and Vine singer Najee Daniels. Listen to a song off the album, “Nothin,” featuring Syd, and its club mix below. Also the full LP tracklist below and the “Nothin” artwork above.
Kingdom teamed up with D∆WN earlier in the year, for a joint EP called Infrared. Syd announced she was working on a solo album in Octover, which will feature Hit-Boy, Melo-X, more.
01 What is Love [ft. SZA]
02 Each & Every Day [ft. Najee Daniels]
03 Nurtureworld
04 Breathless [ft. Shacar]
05 Tears in the Club
06 Haunted Gate
07 Nothin [ft. Syd]
08 Into the Fold
09 Timex
10 Down 4 Whatever [ft. SZA]
11 Nothin (Club Mix) [ft. Syd]
The Grateful Dead to reissue entire discography
The Grateful Dead have announced a reissue series of their entire discography. It is in celebration of the 50th anniversary of their self-titled debut studio album being released. The Grateful Dead is set to be reissued January 20th, find the full tracklist below. All of the band’s studio and official live albums will be released again around its 50-year anniversary in 2xCD and vinyl picture disc versions. Both will feature remastered versions of the albums. The CD versions will include a bonus disc of unreleased recordings as well. The band also announced a 7-inch singles subscription, letting fans to order reissues of their singles in chronological order. Find out more information about the reissues and new singles club here.
The Grateful Dead:
Disc One (Original Album, Newly Remastered)
01 The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)
02 Beat it On Down the Line
03 Good Morning Little School Girl
04 Cold Rain & Snow
05 Sitting on Top of the World
06 Cream Puff War
07 Morning Dew
08 New, New Minglewood Blues
09 Viola Lee Blues
Disc Two (P.N.E. Garden Auditorium, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 07/29/66-07/30/66)
01 Standing on the Corner
02 I Know You Rider
03 Next Time You See Me
04 Sitting on Top of the World
05 You Don’t Have To Ask
06 Big Boss Man
07 Stealin’
08 Cardboard Cowboy
09 Baby Blue
10 Cream Puff Wars
11 Viola Lee Blues
12 Beat it On Down the Line
13 Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
14 Cold, Rain and Snow
15 One Kind Favor
16 Hey Little One
17 New Minglewood Blues
Leonard Cohen’s cause of death revealed
Leonard Cohen’s death was announced to the public on Friday night, and today, Cohen’s manager Robert B. Kory has released a statement revealing his cause of death, The New York Times reports. “Leonard Cohen died during his sleep following a fall in the middle of the night on Nov. 7,” Kory wrote. “The death was sudden, unexpected and peaceful.” The New Yorker reported on their radio program that Cohen had been battling cancer, and Cohen talked about his declining health in his recent interview with the magazine.
Cohen recently released his final studio LP, You Want It Darker where he addressed the end of his life. He was frank about his opinions on his unfinished work in an interview with the New Yorker, where he said, “I don’t think I’ll be able to finish those songs. Maybe, who knows? And maybe I’ll get a second wind, I don’t know… I am ready to die. I hope it’s not too uncomfortable. That’s about it for me.” He took back the quote later, telling fans, “I’ve always been into self-dramatization. I intend to live forever.”
Bon Iver’s 22, A Million newspaper goes to record stores
Bon Iver initially shared 22, A Million to their fans with listening events, where they gave out a special newspaper containing imagery related to the album. When copies of the paper in September showed on eBay for over $1,000, Jagjaguwar,the band’s label, urged fans to wait for it to become widely available. Leftover copies of the newspaper have now been sent out to record stores around the world. “Call your local shop to see if they have ’em & snag a copy!” the band tweeted.
Watch a video showing the newspaper below:
Watch the lyric video for “33 ‘GOD’”:
Leonard Cohen died Monday and was buried yesterday
Last night, the news came out that Leonard Cohen has passed away at 82. Few details of his death have been disclosed but it is now revealed that he died Monday, confirmed by a spokesperson for Sony Music confirmed to Billboard. He was not buried until yesterday, The New York Times’ Ben Sisario reports. In a statement from the rabbi and cantor at Montreal’s Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, “Leonard’s wish was to be laid to rest in a traditional Jewish rite beside his parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents.” Read the full statement below.
Donald Glover details new Childish Gambino album Awaken, My Love!
Donald Glover has shared the details for his third album as Childish Gambino. After teasing the artwork and releasing the first song, “Me and Your Mama,” he has revealed now the full tracklist for Awaken, My Love!, which is out December 2nd through Glassnote.
Awaken, My Love!:
01 Me and Your Mama
02 Have Some Love
03 Boogieman
04 Zombies
05 Riot
06 Redbone
07 California
08 Terrified
09 Baby Boy
10 The Night Me and Your Mama Met
11 Stand Tall
Watch Cloud Nothings’ New “Modern Act” video
Cloud Nothings have released a new music video for “Modern Act,” the lead single from their upcoming album, Life Without Sound which is due out January 27th via Carpark/Wichita. The video was directed by Michael J.S. Murphy and shows the older versions of the band getting haunted by a demon while mourning the loss of drummer Jayson Gerycz. Watch the video below (via A.V. Club) and also find the band’s tour dates.
Cloud Nothings:
11-12 Santa Ana, CA – Outpost Festival
11-14 Oakland, CA – Starlite Social Club
11-16 Los Angeles, CA – Hi Hat
01-26 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom
01-27 Toronto, Ontario – Lee’s Palace
01-28 Montreal, Quebec – Fairmount Theatre
01-30 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
01-31 Boston, MA – Paradise
02-01 New York, NY – Webster Hall
02-03 Baltimore, MD – Ottobar
02-04 Columbus, OH – A&R Music Bar
02-06 Grand Rapids, MI – Calvin College
02-07 Detroit, MI – El Club
02-09 Madison, WI – High Noon Saloon
02-10 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
02-11 Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line
02-12 Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall
03-01 Copenhagen, Denmark – Loppen
03-02 Malmo, Sweden – Babel
03-03 Stockholm, Sweden – Debaser Strand
03-05 Oslo, Norway – Parkteatret
03-06 Hamburg, Germany – Knust
03-07 Berlin, Germany – Bi Nuu
03-08 Munich, Germany – Kranhalle
03-09 Cologne, Germany – Luxor
03-11 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso
03-12 Brussels, Belgium – Botanique
03-14 Paris, France – Petit Bain
03-16 Bristol, England – Thekla
03-17 Glasgow, Scotland – Stereo
03-18 Manchester, England – Deaf Institute
03-19 Leeds, England – Brudenell Social Club
03-21 London, England – Koko
03-22 Birmingham, England – The Hare & Hounds
03-23 Brighton, England – The Haunt
Vic Mensa calls Trump racist, performs with Travis Barker on “Kimmel”
Last night, Vic Mensa performed his song “16 Shots” on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” with Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker. Mensa was also accompanied on stage by dancers dressed as police in riot gear, who he begins struggling near the end of the song. Mensa also abruptly stopped short to monologue.
“I’m a young black man from Chicago and I’m tired of not being able to trust the police,” he said. “I don’t want to see another 17-year-old kid like Laquan McDonald murdered in the street. So when I hear a candidate talking about law and order, and stop and frisk as the answer to our problems… You don’t know our problems in Chicago, and you damn sure don’t speak for us. Tomorrow we have the biggest election of our lifetime. You gotta get out and vote against hate, because Donald Trump is a racist and if you don’t vote, racism wins.” Watch the performance below.
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