Typically, a rock band choose a song that is high energy for a talk show to catch the attention of the audience. However, Alabama Shakes delivered a the slow “Gimmie All Your Love” and still caught the attention of the crowd. Supporting their sophomore LP, Sound & Color, the band also performed “Future People” for a web exclusive. Watch “Gimme All Your Love” here and “Future People” here.
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Watch Bon Iver’s entire headlining set at Eaux Claires Festival
Bon Iver gave a stunning set at this year’s first Eaux Claires Festival, not just because it was their first show in three years. Other than the fact that it was their return, the performance was a breathtaking experience for everyone in the audience, as Justin Vernon forced back tears as he and his bandmates and friends played both new and old material.
The set saw two new songs, providing fans hope that the band will be back soon, even though Vernon gave mixed signals on the subject. Guests came in and out throughout the performance, whether it was The Staves, Colin Stetson or the Dessner brothers, Aaron and Bryce. Now you can watch the entire thing.
Redditers found a YouTube video of the entire set, which can be watched below. The setlist can also be found below, thanks to uploader Paul Seal and Setlist.fm.
Bon Iver Eaux Claires Festival 2015 Setlist:
Intro (00:34)
Heavenly Father (03:20) w/ The Staves
Lump Sum (07:23) w/ yMusic
Towers (13:11)
Calgary (16:53)
Flume (23:05)
Blindsided (26:00) w/ Josh Scott
Brackett, WI (32:20) w/ Colin Stetson
Babys (36:25) w/ Aaron and Bryce Dessner
Holocene (41:35)
Pert (48:32) w/ The Staves
For Emma (53:33) w/ No BS! Brass Band
The Wolves (Act I and II) (58:10)
New Song #1 (01:04:40) w/ yMusic
New Song #2 (01:08:52) w/ The Staves
Skinny Love (01:14:00)
Mac DeMarco releases video performing on a rowboat in Queens
Mac DeMarco spent his birthday traveling to Wappingers Falls in upstate New York to purchase a blue and white rowboat from an old man. As he would, his new video for “No Other Heart” from his latest release Another One, is set in the rowboat but DeMarco is performing a stripped-down version of the song while floating in Far Rockaway, Queens’ bay, where he lives. The NPR-produced video was directed by Milo Habe-Evans. Watch it here.
Another One is out now on Captured Tracks. Buy it here.
YACHT outline new album I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler with GIFs
Using the headline with “11 Ways We Thought the Future Would Be Cooler” published on Buzzfeed, YACHT have outlined their fifth album, I Thought The Future Would Be Cooler with GIFs.
Using the GIFs and writing a blurb for each track, the band released their “tracklisticle” with the following: “We are the band YACHT. This is the tracklisticle for our new album, I Thought The Future Would Be Cooler. We chose to unveil it here on BuzzFeed because it’s 2015 and the album is dead, the novel is dead, but the GIF loops forever. ♥ ♫.”
View the said “tracklisticle” on Buzzfeed.
I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler tracklist:
1. “Miles & Miles””
2. “White Mirror”
3. “Matter”
4. “Ringtone”
5. “I Thought The Future Would Be Cooler”
6. “L.A. Plays Itself”
7. “I Wanna Fuck You Till I’m Dead”
8. “Hologram”
9. “Don’t Be Rude”
10. “War on Women”
11. “The Entertainment”
There is no word when the album will be released but their YouTube channel claimed that it will be out this fall through Downtown Records. Until then, watch the announcement teaser from last month.
Bruce Springsteen closes out Jon Stewart’s last Daily Show
Jon Stewart hosted his final episode of The Daily Show after 16 years last night. The show featured a lot of people who have been on the show during his tenure, including Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, Steve Carrell, Rob Corddry, Lewis Black, Aasif Mandvi, Wyatt Cenac, Samantha Bee, and John Hodgman. He also had some prominent appearances from people like Wolf Blitzer, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and his predecessor Craig Kilborn. Stewart may have been the most excited for his final guest as a person who grew up in New Jersey: Bruce Springsteen, who performed “Land Of Hopes And Dreams,” from the 2012 album Wrecking Ball, per Stewart’s request, with the E Street Band backing him up. Then, as the other guests on the show rushed to the stage, Sprinsteen closed out with “Born To Run.” Watch it here.
Preview new Beach House songs “PPP” and “Beyond Love”
Dream-pop duo Beach House are set to release their highly anticipated album, Depression Cherry. Today, during an interview on Boston’s NPR program Here & Now, they previewed two new tracks from the album. During the 11-minute interview, you can hear a portion of “PPP” around the 4:30 mark, and a bit of “Beyond Love” at 7:00. Listen.
Depression Cherry is set to be released on August 28th through Sub Pop. If you pre-order here in the Sub Pop megamart, it begins streaming tomorrow.
All of Foo Fighters’ Million Dollar Demos tape leaks online
Foo Fighters released Songs From the Laundry Room, a 10-inch EP which features unreleased demos from their 1995 debut on Record Store Day.
The entirety of what has become known as Million Dollar Demos have surfaced on Reddit. As the story goes, the turmoil inside the band nearly forced the Foo Fighters to break up while recording the 2002 album, One By One. They ultimately recorded two different versions of the album, the latter being released into the public. The other version has remained unreleased, even though several tracks from it have been leaked.
The Million Dollar Demos has 11 tracks, 10 were considered for the album. Out of those 10, three were officially released: “Tired Of You”, “Walking A Line”, and “Normal”. Two others, “Have It All” and “Come Back” later leaked online.
A Reddit post explains:
“For some reason, an anonymous Redditor made a new account, whose only post is a download link for the Million Dollar Demos. This is the first time these have been made available in their entirety to the public, and have been sought after by die-hard fans (myself included) for the last 13 years. Most of the songs are similar to their final counterparts, while other songs like ‘Come Back’ and ‘Lonely As You’ are drastically different.”
Find more details on Million Dollar Demos as well as a link to download through Reddit. Listen to the demo version of “Have It All” here.
Million Dollar Demos Tracklist:
01. All My Life
02. Low #
03. Walking a Line ^
04. Have It All
05. Times Like These #
06. Disenchanted Lullaby #
07. Tired of You #
08. Halo
09. Normal ^
10. Lonely As You
11. Overdrive
12. Burn Away
13. Come Back
# = Appears on One By One
^ = Released as B-side
Matt Berninger and Brent Knopf announce new album and tour as EL VY
Matt Berninger from the National and Menomena/Ramona Falls’ Brent Knopf have joined forces for a LP under EL VY. According to a press release, the name is “pronounced like a plural of Elvis; rhymes with ‘hell pie.'” The debut record, Return to the Moon, is set to come out on October 30th through 4AD. Watch the lyric video for the title track here. The album cover is above and the tracklisting is below.
Berninger and Knopf will tour under EL VY later this year.
The men discussed working together in a press release. “I never worried about sending Matt something unfinished,” Knopf said. “He’s able to imagine where it can go. He can grab the four bars that will become the core of the track and develop them into something amazing.”
“This record is more autobiographical than anything else I’ve written, but the details aren’t true,” said Berninger. “It’s written in the voices of a few invented characters, composites of different people—myself, my wife, and other people I was thinking about.”
Return to the Moon tracklist:
01 Return to the Moon (Political Song for Didi Bloome to Sing, With Crescendo)
02 I’m the Man to Be
03 Paul Is Alive
04 Need A Friend
05 Silent Ivy Hotel
06 No Time to Crank the Sun
07 It’s a Game
08 Sleepin’ Light (ft. Ural Thomas)
09 Sad Case
10 Happiness, Missouri
11 Careless
EL VY tour dates:
11-02-03 Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
11-04 Seattle, WA – Neumos
11-06 San Francisco, CA – The Independent
11-07 Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour
11-10 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
11-11 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
11-13 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
11-14 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
11-15 Boston, MA – The Sinclair
11-16 Montreal, Québec – Theatre Fairmount
11-17 Toronto, Ontario – Opera House
11-19 Chicago, IL – Metro
11-20 Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall Ballroom
11-21 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
12-01 Copenhagen, Denmark – Pumpehuse
12-02 Hamburg, Germany – Knust
12-03 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Melkweg
12-04 Cologne, Germany – Kantine
12-06 Berlin, Germany – Astra
12-07 Brussels, Belgium – AB
12-08 Paris, France – Trabendo
12-10 London, England – Electric Ballroom
12-12 Manchester, England – Gorilla
12-13 Dublin, Ireland – Whelans
DIIV announce tour
Indie rock outfit, DIIV recently announced that their followup to Oshin from 2012, Is the Is Are will be out this fall through Captured Tracks. The band today announced a North American tour for this fall as well. Find the itinerary below.
DIIV fall tour:
08-15 Toronto, Ontario – Fort York
10-10 Boston, MA – The Sinclair
10-12 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
10-13 Madison, WI – Majestic
10-14 St Paul, MN – Turf Club
10-16 Denver, CO – Gothic Theatre
10-17 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
10-18 Boise, ID – Neurolux
10-19 Seattle, WA – Neumos
10-20 Vancouver, British Columbia – Fortune
10-22 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
10-24 Los Angeles, CA – Roxy
10-25 Santa Ana, CA – Beach Goth Festival
10-27 San Diego, CA – Casbah
10-28 Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom
10-30 Dallas, TX – Trees
10-31 Austin, TX – Mohawk
11-01 Houston, TX – Numbers
11-03 Nashville, TN – Exit In
11-04 Atlanta, GA – The Earl
11-05 Chapel Hill, NC – Cat’s Cradle
11-06 Richmond, VA – The Broadberry
11-07 Washington, DC – Black Cat
11-08 New York, NY – Webster Hall
Paul McCartney Performs “Get Back” with Brittany Howard from Alabama Shakes and “FourFiveSeconds” at Lollapalooza
Paul McCartney headlined Lollapalooza last night. His set included songs from his solo works and Beatles classics. He also performed his collaborative single with Kanye West and Rihanna, “FourFiveSeconds.” Even though neither one of the collaborators appeared, he did bring out Brittany Howard from Alabama Shakes during “Get Back.” Watch both songs below through Billboard.
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