Tune-Yards have shared a new song called “ABC 123,” along for a video for it. Watch video, filled with stop motion and directed by Dear Mr Quistgaard. The track is off their upcoming album I can feel you creep into my private life.
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Watch St. Vincent’s “Slow Disco” performance on “Fallon”
St. Vincent performed Masseduction track “Slow Disco” on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” last night. She gave the performance on a church set with a string section in the pews. Watch it below.
Watch Bon Iver perform a new song live
Bon Iver, as Stereogum points out, performed a new song at a concert in Richmond, Va. “It’s new and it’s not even quite done, but I just want to play it for y’all,” Justin Vernon introduced it. Watch a video of the song below. Bon Iver, during the set, also performed with Bruce Hornsby for a cover of Bonnie Raitt’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me” and played the Bon Iver, Bon Iver track “Beth/Rest,” according to JamBands.com. Watch the Raitt cover here, and the “Beth/Rest” here.
Neil Young’s online archive is open
Neil Young announced earlier this year that he was getting ready to launch a massive online archive with all his music, released and unreleased, for free in high-quality audio via his XStream Music streaming service. Yesterday, to coincide with his new album The Visitor, he launched the site. The Neil Young Archives include a filing cabinet and a timeline of all his albums up through The Visitor, which also includes several unreleased items like Chrome Dreams, Homegrown, and Toast. His film projects and books are also listed. Explore here, and watch a tutorial video narrated by Young below. “Don’t forget to have a good time,” he tells users. “And try not to get lost.”
Solange pens 5-year anniversary tribute to True
Solange celebrated the 5-year anniversary of her True EP today with a touching statement on Instagram. “I’ll always hold it close to my heart,” she writes. “It will always remind me of a time of freedom and fear.” She also thanked her fans and collaborators, saying, “I will never take for granted how you make/made me feel.” Read the whole thing below. Dev Hynes, who worked with Solange on the EP, also shared a statement for its anniversary. “Sister Solange changed my life with this one,” he writes. “I learnt things about myself personally that are still being put into practice.” Read his post here.
Billboard also announced that Solange will receive its Impact Award at the 2017 Women in Music Awards. The award honors women who use their voices “to empower and develop new leaders of tomorrow through their on-air persona, platform, and philanthropic efforts to inspire social change across the masses.” The event is set to take place on November 30th.
U.S. Girls announce new album, shares music video for new song
The project of Meg Remy, U.S. Girls, has announced their sixth album called In a Poem Unlimited. It is set to be out February 16th via 4AD. The album features already released single “Mad as Hell,” and a new one named “Velvet 4 Sale.” Watch the music video for the latter below, and check out the tracklist for the new album as well. In a Poem Unlimited is the second U.S. Girls album released by 4AD.
In a Poem Unlimited:
01 Velvet 4 Sale
02 Rage of Plastics
03 Mad As Hell
04 Why Do I Lose My Voice When I Have Something To Say
05 Rosebud
06 Incidental Boogie
07 L-Over
08 Pearly Gates
09 Poem
10 Traviata
11 Time
Listen to Fleet Foxes cover Nina Simone
Robin Pecknold and Casey Wescott from Fleet Foxes were the guests on Lauren Laverne’s BBC Radio 6 Music show today. They performed “If You Need To, Keep Time on Me” from the band’s latest album Crack-Up. They also covered the song, “Do What You Gotta Do,” which was written by Jimmy Webb and performed by Nina Simone on her 1968 record ’Nuff Said! “I just love what she did to the melody,” Pecknold said. “I love her melodic phrasing.” Listen to the session here.
Watch Jamila Woods cover Rage Against the Machine, Nirvana, and Destiny’s Child
R&B artist, Jamila Woods headlined a BLK Wednesday show at the Metro in Chicago. During her recent set, as Consequence Of Sound points out, she performed a medley of Rage Against The Machine’s “Killing In The Name” and Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” Watch footage of the mashup from her performance at the Netherlands’ Crossing Border Festival below.
The National cover “Bob’s Burgers” Thanksgiving song “Give It to Teddy”
The National have continued their relationship with “Bob’s Burgers” by covering another one of their songs, “Give It to Teddy,” as Stereogum points out. The Thanksgiving tune was in a recent episode of the show, which became a mournful ballad in their hands. Hear it below.
Sufjan Stevens directs new stop-motion video for “The Greatest Gift”
Sufjan Stevens has directed a stop-motion video for the title track from his new mixtape, “The Greatest Gift”. The clip stars a cast of religious figures and joyful stock-photo people, all made from cutouts of photos and illustrations. They are placed with reassuring maxims in printed text saying things like “Give generously to all without finding fault” and “Donkeys can be very useful in an emergency.” Watch it below. The Greatest Gift—Outtakes, Remixes, & Demos from Carrie & Lowell is the companion piece to Sufjan’s Carrie and Lowell and is streaming at NPR ahead of its release tomorrow.
The Melodic Tree 