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Watch Omar Rodríguez-López’s new video for “Pineapple Face, Not Even Toad Loves You”

As well as At the Drive-In’s summer reunion tour (and possible new music), guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López has assured that he will release 12 albums before the end of the year. He’s kept his word this far, sharing Sworn Virgins, Corazones, and more recently, Blind Worms Pious Swine. He also put out a couple of music videos from every album, including this week’s for Sworn Virgins tracks “Pineapple Face” and “Not Even Toad Loves You.”

Directed by Rodríguez-López, the black-and-white seven-minute clip shows him performing the two songs with fellow Bosnian Rainbows member Deantoni Parks. They are both joined by trippy creatures that were created by Polish graphic designer Maciej Chodziński. Watch it below.

Rodríguez-López’s next album is Arañas en La Sombra, which is slated to be out August 26th.

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.

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

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.

Beach House perform “Rough Song” on Charlie Rose

Tonight’s episode (August 5th)of Charlie Rose features performances by and interviews with Beach House.

Watch their performance of Thank Your Lucky Stars track “Rough Song” down below. The duo performed “The Traveller” as well which will air with the show at 11 p.m. EST on PBS.
Beach House are touring currently for their dual releases, TYLS and Depression Cherry. Check out the dates and the performance below:
Beach House Tour Dates 2016:
08/05 – San Francisco, CA @ Outside Lands Festival
08/07 – Happy Valley, OR @ Pickathon Festival
08/08 – Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory *
08/09 – Spokane, Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory *
08/10 – Missoula, MT @ Wilma Theater *
08/12 – Sioux Falls, ID @ The District *
08/13 – Eau Claire, WI @ Eaux Claires Music Festival
08/16 – Indianapolis, IN @ Deluxe @ Old National Centre *
08/17 – Louisville, KY @ Headliner’s Music Hall *
08/19 – Columbia, MO @ Blue Note *
08/20 – Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theater *
08/22 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theater*
08/24 – Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues *
08/26 – Los Angeles, CA @ Theater at Ace Hotel *
08/28 – Los Angeles, CA @ FYF Fest
09/09 – Raleigh, NC @ Hopscotch Music Festival
11/04 – Austin, TX @ Sound On Sound Festival

* = w/ Entrance

Tyler, the Creator announces Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival lineup

Tyler, the Creator announced in July that his Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival would happen November 12-13, 2016 at Exposition Park, being the first time that the festival went into two days. The Odd Future founder has now has announced the lineup for this year’s fest. Chance the Rapper, Erykah Badu, A$AP Rocky, Lil Wayne, Schoolboy Q, Death Grips, Flatbush Zombies, Toro Y Moi, Kaytranada, and more will perform sets. Odd Future members the Internet, Domo Genesis, Mike G, Left Brain, and Taco are also performing, as well as Tyler. See the poster for the event above.

Watch EL VY’s surreal new video for “Sleepin’ Light”
EL VY is the project between the National’s Matt Berninger and Menomena/Ramona Falls’ Brent Knopf. Last year, they released their debut album Return To The Moon. Today, they released a new music video for “Sleepin’ Light.” The video shows Berninger and Knopf behind a green screen overlaid with footage of a beach and snowy forest, Berninger dressed as a wrestler’s costume, and more. Watch the video below through Stereogum.