Madi Walsh, an electronic and ambient singer-songwriter based in Southern California who recently attended Grammy Camp in Los Angeles for the second year, announced last night that she would release her 5-track debut EP on July 20th. As a teaser, she released previews from two of the songs on the EP, “Chivalry” and “Bricolage.” Listen to both snippets below.
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor announces fall tour dates
Godspeed You! Black Emperor have released a tour in support of their recent album, Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress. It will begin in the start of September and wi go through October where it it will end at Pitchfork Festival Paris. Check out the itinerary below.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor tour dates:
09-09 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
09-10 Raleigh, NC – Hopscotch Festival
09-11 Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse
09-12 New Orleans, LA – The Joy Theatre
09-14 Austin, TX – The Mohawk
09-16 Houston, TX – Warehouse Live Ballroom
09-17 Dallas, TX – Bomb Factory
09-18 Memphis, TN – Minglewood Hall
09-19 Nashville, TN – Marathon Music Works
09-21 Bloomington, IN – The Bluebird
09-22 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom
09-23 Pittsburgh, PA – Carnegie Music Hall of Homestead
09-26 Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall
09-27 Boston, MA – Paradise
09-28 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
09-29 New York, NY – Terminal 5
10-22 Coventry, England – Warwick Arts Centre
10-23 Bristol, England – Simple Things Festival
10-24 Gateshead, England – The Sage
10-27 Liverpool, England – Camp and Furnace
10-28 Brighton, England – Brighton Dome
10-29 Paris, France – Pitchfork Music Festival Paris
Damon Albarn refuses to end performance and gets carried off stage by security
This weekend at Rockslide Music Festival in Denmark, Damon Albarn went far past breaking curfew. Africa Express, his collective, which includes Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Nick Zinner, Seye Adeklan, and Songhoy Blues as members, performed a set that lasted five hours until 4 a.m. If he had it his way, we would have probably kept going.
Albarn was apparently in a high spirit, and also probably had drunk a little too much, leading to the collective to cover the likes of The Clash, Randy Newmanx and the Gorillaz. He also brought out guests including his Blur bandmate Graham Coxon and Laura Mvula.
Once it got to 4 a.m., however, organizers of the festival asked Albarn to end the show. He refused and encouraged the audience to cheer to support. Eventually, he was carried off stage.
Watch fan-shot video here.
Download Wilco’s first-ever all acoustic show
Wilco’s yearly three-day Solid Sound Festival began last Friday. Two years ago, they played their set of fan-requested covers and they year, they performed their first ever set all-acoustic. Check out the setlist below and listen to “Hesitating Beauty” here. Tweedy said the song was “so much nicer” to sing “now that everyone can get married” after last Friday’s Supreme Court decision. You can download the entire show through NYCTaper here.
SETLIST
01 “Misunderstood”
02 “War On War”
03 I’m Always In Love”
04 “Company In My Back”
05 “Hummingbird”
06 “Bull Black Nova”
07 “Handshake Drugs”
08 “Hesitating Beauty”
09 “She’s A Jar”
10 “One Wing”
11 “Kamera”
12 “New Madrid”
13 “Forget The Flowers”
14 “It’s Just That Simple”
15 “Airline To Heaven”
16 “Dawned On Me”
17 “I Got You”
18 “Passenger Side”
19 “Outta Mind (Outta Site)”
20 [Happy birthday To Mikael Jorgensen]
21 “Whole Love”
22 “Jesus Etc”
23 “Walken”
24 “The Thanks I Get”
25 “Theologians”
26 “Shot In The Arm”
Father John Misty Explains The Origin Of His Arcade Fire Cover
Father John Misty has unleashed a great cover of Arcade Fire’s “The Suburbs” this week and in an interview with NME, he spoke the inspiration on choosing the song and revealed that the decision was for mundane and contractual reasons. His manager said he had to do a cover for CBC and that it was supposed to be a Canadian artist. After being shot down for Neil Young and Leonard Cohen, he went with Arcade Fire because he was hanging out with Win Butler before shooting.
Misty said: “That’s how these radio things go and then, on the internet, it gets spun into this like … ‘I just love doing these covers, I got so many under my belt, I just love whipping ‘em out at a moment’s notice and regaling the internet with reappropriated music.’ But I do love that song, and I really enjoy performing it.”
Watch the full video below.
Tame Impala releases behind-the-scenes video for Currents
Currents, the upcoming album from Tame Impala is due out on July 17. The band shared a behind-the-scenes video following the creation of the album, directed by Matt Sav and Kevin Parker. Watch the video below.
The Tallest Man On Earth announces US tour dates
Swedish singer-songwriter The Tallest Man on Earth, Kristian Matsson, released his fourth studio album, the lushly melodic Dark Bird is Home. He will be touring with that record for the next few months, including a leg of new U.S. tour dates.
The tour in the states will start in Seattle at the Moore Theatre before going to cities like Portland, Denver, Chicago, and Wichita. The full itinerary is below.
The Tallest Man on Earth 2015 Tour Dates:
06/24 – Antwerp, BE @ Openlucht Theater
06/25 – Paris, FR @ Divan Du Monde
06/28 – Stockholm, SE @ Gota Lejon
06/29 – Stockholm, SE @ Gota Lejon
06/30 – Oslo, NO @ Rockefeller
07/02 – Goteborg, SE @ Pustervik
06/27-07/04 – Roskilde, DK @ Roskilde Festival
07/17-19 – Louisville, KY @ Forecastle
07/17-18 – Eau Claire, WI @ Eaux Claires Festival
07/20 – Detroit, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre
07/22 – Buffalo, NY @ Asbury Hall
07/24 – Newport, RI @ Newport Music Festival
07/25 – Richmond, VA @ The National
07/26 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Carnegie Music Hall
07/29 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
07/30 – Kansas City, MO @ Midland Theater
07/31 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Pabst Theater
07/31-08/02 – Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza
08/21 – Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre
08/22 – Vancouver, BC @ Orpheum Theatre
08/23 – Portland, OR @ MusicfestNW
08/25 – Park City, UT @ Park City Live
08/26 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theater
08/28 – Iowa City, IA @ The Englert Theatre
08/29 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
08/30 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
09/03 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
09/04 – Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall
09/05 – Holland, MI @ Hope College
09/07 – Columbia, MO @ The Blue Note
09/09 – Wichita, KS @ Orpheum Theatre
09/10 – Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom
09/11 – Dallas, TX @ House of Blues Dallas
09/12 – Houston, TX @ House of Blues Houston
09/13 – Austin, TX @ ACL Live at the Moody
10/03 – Oslo, NO @ Opera House
10/04 – Goteborg, SE @ Konserthuset
10/05 – Stockholm, SE @ Cirkus
10/06 – Umea, SE @ Idun
10/08 – Linkoping, SE @ Crusell
10/09 – Falum, SE @ Magasinet
10/10 – Arhus, DK @ Voxhall
10/12 – Cologne, DE @ E-Werk
10/13 – Berlin, DE @ Huxley’s
10/14 – Vienna, AT @ Arena
10/15 – Milan, IT @ Alcatraz
10/16 – Zurich, CH @ Volkhshaus
10/17 – Paris, FR @ La Cigal
10/19 – London, UK @ Roundhouse
10/20 – Glasgow, UK @ O2 ABC
10/21 – Dublin, IE @ Vicar Street
10/23 – Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall
10/24 – Bexhill, UK @ De La Warr
10/25 – Brussels, BE @ AB
10/27 – Copenhagen, DK @ Vega
Leon Bridges performs beautiful rendition of “Coming Home” on Fallon
Leon Bridges has released his highly anticipated debut album, Coming Home, this week. To celebrate, the soul prodigy went on last night’s The Tonight Show, where he performed the LP’s title track gorgeously. His vintage tone and threads are a nod to his passion for retro music, however it seems as though he is more than just a person who just wants to live in a nostalgic haze, he revives the classic soul sounding music, watch the replay here.
President Obama appears on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast
Marc Maron announced last week that he would be speaking with President Barack Obama. He gave the news before his episode with Judd Apatow, another guest that speaks highly of his year that includes a once-in-lifetime phone call by Mick Jagger from The Rolling Stones.
Maron today released the hour-long episode where Maron and Obama discussed “college, fitting in, race relations, gun violence, changing the status quo, disappointing your fans, comedians, fatherhood, and overcoming fear.”
Maron talked about the interview: “It’s just gonna be me and President Barack Obama in my garage. And I know that he was at Tyler Perry’s last night, so I’m a little… I mean, I like my house, but I imagine it’s gonna be a little different. It’s cozy, it’s cozy.”
Listen to the episode on Maron’s official site.
Stream Four Tet’s new album, Morning/Evening
Even though Four Tet, Keiran Hebden had announced in May that his upcoming album, Morning/Evening would be released in early July, it seems as though he changed his mind and decided to stream it a few weeks ahead of planned. Writing cryptic messages on Twitter, Hebden posted on Sunday “to celebrate the summer solstice, I’ve decided today will be Morning/Evening Day.” Hear and buy the album through BandCamp. He wrote that it will be available for purchase on CD and vinyl on July 10.
The Melodic Tree 