Death Cab for Cutie have covered “My Backwards Walk,” a song by former tour mates Frightened Rabbit in tribute to frontman Scott Hutchinson. It was originally on Frightened Rabbit’s album The Midnight Organ Fight. Hear Death Cab’s version below. Frightened Rabbit also recently announced their first performance since the passing of frontman Scott Hutchison, taking place in Glasgow on December 9.
Tenacious D, the Jack Black and Kyle Gass rock duo, have announced a new album, Post-Apocalypto, along with a animated YouTube series with the same name. The six episode series debuts on September 28 and it was drawn by Jack Black. Each episode will feature new songs in anticipation of the release of the album on November 2nd via Columbia. Post-Apocalypto was produced by John Spiker and features drums from frequent Tenacious D collaborator, Dave Grohl. The duo will also go on tour this fall.
According to a press release, Tenacious D’s “Post-Apocalypto” will involveBlack and Gass exploring a “world of complete and utter destruction following the drop of an atomic bomb.” It will feature “an insane visit to the White House, a time machine, a space adventure, and the help of some tried and true daddy issues.” Watch the teaser below.
The pianist, organist, and backing vocalist for Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Conway Savage, died Sunday evening at 58, according to a statement on the band’s website.
Savage had previously undergone surgery to remove a brain tumor and due to his diagnosis and operation, he had missed most of the band’s tour behind their album Skeleton Tree. He had died in concurrence with the brain tumor. Savage had been with Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds since 1990 for their album, The Good Son. He also released several solo albums as well as collaborative during his career. released multiple collaborative and solo albums throughout his career.
Savage was born in Victoria, Australia, where he went on to play in bands throughout the ‘80s, like the Feral Dinosaurs, Happy Orphans, and Dust on the Bible. He had recorded seven albums with the Bad Seeds including Henry’s Dream, Murder Ballads, and Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus. Throughout his time with them, Savage recorded with other artists like Suzie Higgie and he also released his full-length solo debut Nothing Broken on his own label, Beheaded Communications, in 2000. His last release was Pussy’s Bow EP with Amanda Fox and Robert Tickner in 2010.
In their statement, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds write:
A member of Bad Seeds for nearly thirty years, Conway was the anarchic thread that ran through the band’s live performances. He was much loved by everyone, band members and fans alike. Irascible, funny, terrifying, sentimental, warm-hearted, gentle, acerbic, honest, genuine – he was all of these things and quite literally “had the gift of a golden voice,” high and sweet and drenched in soul. On a drunken night, at four in the morning, in a hotel bar in Cologne, Conway sat at the piano and sang Streets of Laredo to us, in his sweet, melancholy style and stopped the world for a moment. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house. Goodbye Conway, there isn’t a dry eye in the house.
Donald Glover has shared a new animated video for his Childish Gambino track “Feels Like Summer.” It Co-directed by Glover, Ivan Dixon, and Greg Sharp and illustrated by Justin Richburg (according to “Atlanta” music supervisor Fam Rothstein), the video follows Glover’s walk through a cartoon neighborhood filled with fellow rappers and musicians. Those featured includes 21 Savage smoking in a car, Nicki Minaj and Travis Scott playing with blocks, ASAP Rocky and Solange playing tug of war with the Weeknd, Drake running after Future on a bike and more interestingly Kanye crying in a “Make America Great Again” hat as Michelle Obama hugs him. Watch it below.
Thom Yorke participated in a panel at this year’s Venice Film Festival for his soundtrack for the upcoming Luca Guadagnino-directed horror remake of Suspiria. In an Instatgram clip (below) Yorke had compared his process of composing to “making spells.”
“There’s a way of repeating in music which can hypnotize, and I kept thinking to myself it was a form of making spells. So when I was working in my studio, I was making spells—and that sounds really stupid but that’s how I was thinking about it,” he said. “It was a sort of freedom I’d not had before: I’m not working in the format of a song or arrangement, I’m just exploring. I’m putting things out into my studio and seeing what my studio is bringing back.”
The Village Voice is shutting down, as reported by Gothamist and CNNMoney. The announcement comes three years after the historic alternative weekly was bought out by businessman and publisher Peter Barbey. In a statement, he wrote, “The Village Voice was created to give speed to a cultural and social revolution, and its legacy and the voices that created that legacy are still relevant today.” He continued, “Although the Voice will not continue publishing, we are dedicated to ensuring that its legacy will endure to inspire more generations of readers and writers to give even more speed to those same goals.” Read the full statement below.
The Village Voice began in 1955 and was founded by Norman Mailer, Dan Wolf, and Ed Fancher. The publication published its final print edition in September of 2017 with Bob Dylan on the cover. The publication has since been online-only.
Mitski has announced a collection of merch following her new album, Be the Cowboy. She has started selling non-traditional merch like a ceramic ”Feed the Cowboy“ soup soon.” You can buy a “Dream the Cowboy” pillowcase and a “Free the Cowboy” combination lock as well. Find pictures of the new merch below, and order from her online store.
The spoon is currently sold out according to Mitski’s Twitter but they are planning on restocking.
Justin Vernon has released a new song called “Agasteen” via his PEOPLE distribution platform. The song is “a long piece of music that seems to relax me,” according to Vernon. You can listen to the track here via PEOPLE.
King Krule has released a new video for “Biscuit Town” which was directed by cc Wade follows him in a cardboard city where the night sky transforms into the surface of the ocean. Watch the video below.
“I think it’s interesting because there is a level where you’ve got to match the song,” Marshall said in an interview with WeTransfer. “There’s quite a hi-fi sound in it, in the actual track. There’s a really hi-fi synth line that goes throughout it, that string, and I think that matches with the camera quality.”
Dev Hynes, aka Blood Orange, has released a new video for “Saint,” from his latest album Negro Swan. The clip, directed by Hynes himself, features appearances from Indya Moore, Kai the Black Angel, Ana Kraš, and others. Watch it below.
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