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Future Islands side project the Snails share Christmas song, announce tour

Sam Herring and William Cashion, who play together in Future Islands, also are a part of a not-so-known group named the Snails. The group in 2013 released their debut EP Worth the Wait. Now, two years later, they have re-recorded their Christmas song “Snails Christmas (I Want A New Shell),” which was featured on the compilation Baltimas!!!!!!!!! from 2013. Listen to it below.

The band is planning their debut LP Songs From the Shoebox currently. They’re going on tour next year. Find the dates below.

The Snails:

03-04 Philadelphia, PA – Kungfu Necktie
03-05 Burlington, VA – Signal Kitchen
03-06 Portland, ME – Space
03-08 Providence, RI – AS220
03-09 Brooklyn, NY – Baby’s All Right
03-10 New York, NY – Mercury Lounge
03-11 Washington, DC – Comet Pizza and Ping Pong
03-12 Richmond, VA – Strange Matter
03-13 Asheville, NC – The Mothlight
03-15 Athens, GA – Caledonia Lounge
03-16 Charleston, SC – Tin Roof
03-17 Wilmington, NC – Reggie’s 42nd Street Tavern
03-18 Raleigh, NC – Kings
03-19 Baltimore, MD – The Ottobar

Coldplay to headline 2016 Super Bowl Halftime with Beyoncé and Bruno Mars

Coldplay will perform the Super Bowl 50 halftime show on February 7th at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, The Wall Street Journal states. The could possibly have a special guest for the performance in Beyoncé, who is currently “in talks” to show up, according to The Wall Street Journal. Bruno Mars is also set to perform.

Beyoncé performed the halftime show recently, headlining in 2013. Katy Perry performed at last year’s Super Bowl and was joined by Missy Elliott.

Beyoncé is featured on “Hymn for the Weekend” from Coldplay’s most recent album A Head Full of Dreams, which is set to be out tomorrow. The album will be available on services that do not have a free option, including Apple Music according to the WSJ. Thus meaning no Spotify.

Watch the video for “Adventure of a Lifetime”:

Savages cover Eagles of Death Metal’s “I Love You All the Time” in Paris

Earlier this week Eagles of Death Metal asked musicians to cover their Zipper Down song “I Love You All the Time” during their first interview following the Paris Bataclan attacks and pledged to donate all publishing income to the Sweet Stuff Foundation, which is currently helping victims of the November 13th attacks. At La Maroquinerie in Paris last night, Savages took the request, as Stereogum points out. Watch the footage, which is shot from side-of-stage, below.

M. Ward announces new album, More Rain, shares “Girl From Conejo Valley”

M. Ward will release a new studio album called More Rain on March 4th. Set out via Merge, it will be the singer-songwriter’s eighth album to date after A Wasteland Companion in 2012. The 12-track LP, which has tracks named “Pirate Dial,” “Confession,” and “You’re So Good to Me,” features collaborations with R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, Neko Case, k.d. lang, The Secret Sisters, and Joey Spampinato of NRBQ.

Ward began working on the LP four years ago, according to a press release, and he originally envisioned it as a doo-wop record. It is now considered a “true gotta-stay-indoors, rainy-season record that looks upwards through the weather while reflecting on his past.”

“I think one of the biggest mysteries of America right now is this: How are we able to process unending bad news on Page One and then go about our lives the way the Style section portrays us?” Ward noted in a statement. “There must be a place in our brains that allows us to take a bird’s-eye view of humanity, and I think music is good at helping people-myself included-go to that place.”

Ward, who works in She & Him and Monsters of Folk, as a preview, has shared the track “Girl From Conejo Valley.” Stream it below, followed by the tracklist.

More Rain Tracklist:
01. More Rain
02. Pirate Dial
03. Time Won’t Wait
04. Confession
05. I’m Listening (Child’s Theme)
06. Girl From Conejo Valley
07. Slow Driving Man
08. You’re So Good To Me
09. Temptation
10. Phenomenon
11. Little Baby
12. I’m Going Higher

Cayucas shares video for “Big Winter Jacket”

Californian indie-pop group Cayucas have come a long way since their 2013 debut, Bigfoot, but they still take pride in their graceful guitars and vocals. Today, they have shared the video to “Big Winter Jacket,” the lead track from their sophomore album, Dancing At The Blue Moon. The music video’s setting is in an American suburb with shots of home video footage with specks of scenes from a 1950s-esque neighborhood that seemed fresh out of the first Back to the Future film. Watch below.

Dancing At The Blue Lagoon is out now on Secretly Canadian.

 

Both Adele and Drake want Adele to remix “Hotline Bling”

Adele revealed in a recent interview that she wanted to do an official remix of Drake’s “Hotline Bling.” “I love Drake so much, I even got the coat that’s in the video,” Adele said. In an interview after Drake Night at the Raptor’s game (via Fader), Drake agreed that the two should work together.

“I’d do anything with Adele,” he said. “I’d literally go to Adele’s house right now and do laundry for her.”

Now it’s a matter of waiting.

 

Tame Impala shares video for “The Less I Know the Better”

Tame Impala have released the video for “The Less I Know the Better” from their recent album, Currents. The story tells of a basketball player who’s heart gets broken when the cheerleader he fell in love with begins hooking up with the gorilla mascot of the team named Trevor. Watch the Canada-directed video here.

There are a few somewhat NSFW shots, but there are also some intensely imaginative shots as well, the dancers’ in King Kong hand outfits or the animated psychedelic breakdown. It is as creative as the album it comes off of.

 

The Killers prepare for 2015 Christmas single “Dirt Sledding”

For the past nine years, the Killers have released a Christmas single every year, with no exception to this year. The band’s preparing for a new one called “Dirt Sledding,” as mentioned in the Las Vegas Weekly profile of the band’s former tour manager and current Killers music video Santa Ryan Pardey:

A deranged Santa walks up to the camera in the middle of the desert, pulls a tomahawk out of his bag and lights it on fire. The crazed man in red throws the ax at his target, a stuffed teddy bear with a picture of Killers frontman Brandon Flowers taped to its head. It’s a bull’s-eye.

That’s the opening scene of “Dirt Sledding,” The Killers’ upcoming Christmas music video and annual charitable contribution to the (RED) Campaign.

Pardey’s appeared as a character in two of their singles already — 2007’s “Don’t Shoot Me Santa” and 2012’s “I Feel It In My Bones” — and he will return to his role in their upcoming video for the track, which the band is set to debut onJimmy Kimmel’s (RED) World AIDS Day show next Tuesday night, December 1st.

The band and associates have been hinting at the video, which was directed Matthew Gray Gubler, for the past month.

Wild Nothing announces new album Life of Pause, shares “TV Queen” and “To Know You”

Jack Tatum will return on February 19th with his latest Wild Nothing album. Life of Pause, which is the follow-up to Nocturne, will arrive through Captured Tracks (Bella Union in the UK/Europe). It has the first two singles “TV Queen” and To Know You.” Listen below.

The album was recorded in Stockholm and Los Angeles with Thom Monahan as producer. Peter Bjorn & John’s John Eriksson and Medicine’s Brad Laner guest on the album as well.

In a statement, Tatum discussed working on the new album:

I desperately wanted for this to be the kind of record that would displace me. I’m terrified by the idea of being any one thing, or being of any one genre. And whether or not I accomplish that, I know that my only hope of getting there is to constantly reinvent. That reinvention doesn’t need to be drastic, but every new record has to have it’s own identity, and it has to have a separate set of goals from what came before.

Life of Pause:

01 Reichpop
02 Lady Blue
03 A Woman’s Wisdom
04 Japanese Alice
05 Life of Pause
06 Alien
07 To Know You
08 Adore
09 TV Queen
10 Whenever I
11 Love Underneath My Thumb

Watch Boots perform “C.U.R.E” on Colbert

Boots performed on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night for his first television performance after the release of his solo debut AQUARIA. The Beyoncé and Run the Jewels producer, known for his unique arrangements, gave the audience a spirit rendition of “C.U.R.E.” The performance was shown in a psychedelic way, with a glowing light show and morphed visuals. Watch the replay below.