News

Fleet Foxes Announce Record Store Day’s Black Friday Vinyl 10″

Fleet Foxes have announced a new EP, The Electric Lady Session that will be released as a 10″ vinyl for this year’s Record Store Day Black Friday on November 24th. The EP contains live performances of four songs from the band’s latest album Crack-Up. The session was originally recorded for Fordham University’s radio station WFUV. Check out the cover art above and find out more information on Record Store Day and find participating stores, here. Fleet Foxes have shared a new Q&A where Robin Pecknold discusses Crack-Up which can be found below.

Killer Mike slams Mike Pence, defends NFL protests

Killer Mike turned to Instagram to share an impassioned response to Mike Pence’s announcement that he left a Indianapolis Colts game when he saw that the players knelt during the national anthem. “I wonder how he feels about the constitution,” Mike opens. “Free speech is what protects this and any protest. The constitution that guards against Tyranny like the state abusing and denying citizens full rights.” The statement is finished, “God speed on our next election. I hope we send his religious nut ass back home to relish in his false understanding of what this country is and we never see him on a national stage again.” Read his full statement below.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BaB7OhnjtCo/

Stream Pleasure Systems’ new album Antumbra Pull

Clarke Sondermann,’s, from the Washboard Abs, released a new album named Antumbra Pull yesterday via Antiquated Future. It is his first full-length album released under the name and it can be rlistened to below.

Listen to the Killers talk about “Rut” on “Song Exploder”

Brandon Flowers and Ronnie Vannucci from the Killers are the guests on the latest “Song Exploder,” the podcast dedicated to having musicians dissect their music and creative process. During this episode, they talk about the song “Rut” from the band’s newest album Wonderful Wonderful. They talk about how Flowers’ wife’s childhood trauma influenced the songwriting, and trying to figure out the rhythms for the song. Listen to the full episode here. 

Real Estate share new song to benefit ACLU

Real Estate announced earlier this year and that they partnered with Los Angeles vegan footwear company Keep to design a new shoe. Every pair comes with a cassette that features an unreleased song and demos for “Two Arrows” and “Two Part.” Listen to the cassette’s first track, “In Time” here. The net proceeds from the the Keep x Real Estate Ramos shoe will go towards the American Civil Liberties Union.

Listen to the Roots’ “Schoolhouse Rock”-style song about slavery

During the season premiere of “Black-ish” on ABC last night m, an illustrated version of the Roots sang a “Schoolhouse Rock”-esque educational song about slavery. It opens with Black Thought singing, “I am a slave/Yes, I’m only a slave/They’ll place my body in an unmarked grave.” Watch the animated video here. The Roots also released the song “It Ain’t Fair,” in July,  from the soundtrack to Detroit, Kathryn Bigelow’s film about the 12th Street riot in 1967.

Watch Cap’n Jazz and Hop Along cover Sonic Youth’s “100%”

Cap’n Jazz reunited this summer to play FYF and Riot Fest. The stayed together for a little bit longer to perform with Hop Along. The two bands covered Sonic Youth’s “100%” together for A.V. Club’s “Undercover” series. Watch it here, and go here for an interview with Tim Kinsella about the song. “100%” was on Sonic Youth’s 1992 album Dirty originally. Their FYF set was their first show together since 2010.

Watch the trailer for Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ new documentary

Yeah Yeah Yeahs have released a trailer for their upcoming tour documentary. Directed by Patrick Daughters, There Is No Modern Romance follows the band on the road during their shows in the UK in 2003 behind their album Fever to Tell. It will be bundled with their upcoming reissue of Fever to Tell on October 20th via Interscope/UMe. Watch a trailer for the doc here. 

Watch The Tallest Man On Earth cover Nick Drake

Tallest Man On Earth, aka Swedish folk singer Kristian Matsson, has been working on a video series the last few months called “The Light In Demos.” He shares a little life update in every episode before performing live, and on the most recent installment, he performs a song by Nick Drake. Watch Matsson’s cover of Drake’s “Bird Flew By” here. 

Watch JAY-Z and Ryan Gosling’s “SNL” promos

Ryan Gosling is hosting the 43rd season premiere of “Saturday Night Live” tomorrow. JAY-Z is also set to join him as the musical guest. The two are featured in a pair of the classic promotional teasers for the episode. Tomorrow night’s “SNL” will be JAY-Z’s first solo performance on the show in over 7 years. Watch the teasers here.