Bon Iver have announced a number of North American tour dates behind last year’s 22, A Million. The stint of dated includes shows in Nashville, Charlottesville, Atlanta, Durham, and more. Find the list of shows below. The band are also set to go on tour in Europe for shows next month, after they canceled European shows for “personal reasons” earlier this year.
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Josie and the Pussycats soundtrack gets vinyl reissue
Josie and the Pussycats, the comic-based musical comedy that follows an all-girl band and their run-ins with the music industry, is getting a soundtrack vinyl reissue. It is set to be out September 26th via Mondo and the score is almost entirely filled with tracks by the fictional band. The frontwoman of rock band Letters to Cleo, Kay Hanley, provided the vocals for every Josie and the Pussycats song.
Mondo, Alamo Drafthouse, and Birth.Movies.Death. will also co-host a reissue celebration at Los Angeles’ Ace Hotel which will include a film screening, appearances by co-directors Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, and a Josie and the Pussycats set by Hanley. There will be merchandise also sold at the event: leopard-print vinyl records, a 7” record featuring DuJour songs (the film’s featured boy band), and a 12-page booklet featuring behind-the-scenes photos.
Watch Grizzly Bear perform “Mourning Sound” on “Colbert”
Grizzly Bear, to coincide with their new album Painted Ruins coming out today, performed “Mourning Sound” on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” Watch their performance below. Colbert introduced the band with a reminder that the last time he saw the band, they sang with him inside a rowboat on “The Colbert Report.”
Perfume Genius covers Mary Margaret O’Hara’s “Body’s in Trouble”
Perfume Genius has released his cover of Mary Margaret O’Hara’s 1988 song “Body’s in Trouble.” The cover, and a live version of “Slip Away” are available now as part of Spotify’s Singles series. Listen to the tracks below. “I started covering this song on tour almost immediately after hearing it for the first time,” Perfume Genius’ Mike Hadreas said in a statement. “There are brief moments where the music fully connects in a traditional way, but after a few listens, the most satisfying part is the song’s magic formlessness. I wouldn’t dare try to mimic or recapture her performance, but I tried to sing in the same wandering, mantra-like way, but taking it somewhere a little more sinister. My relationship with my own body is confusing and I use music to try and puzzle it out, or as rebellion against needing a form at all.”
St. Vincent dissects “New York” on “Song Exploder”
St. Vincent appeared on the latest episode of “Song Exploder.” She talked about her most recent single “New York,” and particularly the lyric, “You’re the only motherfucker in the city who can handle me.” “I get a lot of pleasure from saying ‘fuck,’” Clark begins. “I just like the idea of using really blue language as a term of endearment. ‘This motherfucker, that motherfucker—no way! Motherfucker better get his shit together.’ My mom would be horrified, but I’ve been cursing like a sailor since I was 8. … ‘Motherfucker’ says, like, I know you inside and out. And you know me. Don’t pretend.” Listen to the full podcast below.
Clark explained that “New York” began in a text she sent a friend saying, “New York isn’t New York without you.” She then recorded an early, guitar-led version of the song in a voice memo, which can be listened to around the 4:20 mark, before hashing it out with Jack Antonoff. She talks about the line “I have lost a hero/I have lost a friend,” and the connection to the “purge” of music legends in 2016. “It’s very silly to make something like David Bowie’s death about me—it has nothing to do with me—but I will say that I was really affected. And I cried. I cried for somebody I didn’t even know. And I don’t know that I’ve done that before.” She says later in the episode, “It’s the first song I’ve written that I thought, ‘This might be someone’s favorite song.’ I’ve never had that experience before [laughs].”
Watch Grizzly Bear’s new “Mourning Sound” video
Grizzly Bear have released a new music video for their song “Mourning Sound.” The clip was directed by Beatrice Pegard and features French actor Clémence Poésy (Harry Potter). According to a press release, it is a “playful, pastel-drenched commentary on women’s liberation.” Watch it below. “Mourning Sound” is from the band’s upcoming fifth studio album, Painted Ruins, which is due out on August 18th via RCA. It is the follow-up to the band’s last full-length, 2012’s Shields.
King Khan announces debut solo album Murder Burgers, shares new song
King Khan (of King Khan and the Shrines and the King Khan & BBQ Show) has announced his first solo album called Murder Burgers. It is set to come out October 13th via Khannibalism/Ernest Jenning Record Co. It was produced by Greg Ashley at his Creamery Studio and features the Gris Gris as Khan’s backing band. Khan revealed how quickly the project came together in a statement. “We made this album in about one week,” he said. “I got the Gris Gris to back me up and do a few shows in all the murder capitals of America. In Chicago we even had Andre Williams come and join us on stage for a song.” Listen to the record’s first single, “It’s a Lie,” and find the cover art above and tracklist below.
Murder Burgers:
01 Discreate Disguise
02 It’s Just Begun
03 Run Doggy Run
04 It’s A Lie
05 Born In 77
06 Desert Mile
07 Too Hard Too Fast
08 Teeth Are Shite
09 Born To Die
10 Winter Weather
Watch Frank Ocean perform with a string ensemble
Frank Ocean performed with a string ensemble at Way Out West festival in Gothenburg, Sweden last night. Watch below the orchestra join him for Blonde’s “Nikes,” “Ivy,” and “Good Guy.” At a festival performance before, Brad Pitt appeared on stage with Ocean. Frank also recently made an appearance at a Tyler, the Creator show to perform their Flower Boy collaboration, “Where This Flower Blooms.”
The Knife share new videos
In 2014, the Knife announced that the shows they were playing in support of Shaking the Habitual would be their final live performances. Both the Knife and Karin Dreijer’s solo project, Fever Ray, have been silent ever since except the occasional DJ set. There were some signs of activity this morning, however, the group’s Facebook profile picture was updated, a new cover video followed, and they shared a minute-film video shortly after. Named “Mother of Knives Cooking Class,” the 60-second video shows the preparation of obscure kitchen ingredients, including a Fever Ray bird mask, while soundtracked by Shaking the Habitual track “Networking.” The cover video depicts a knife slicing cherry candies as muffled voices loop in the background. Watch them below.
Chris Cornell statue planned for Seattle
A statue of Chris Cornell in his honor is being planned by his widow, according to a new interview with the Seattle Times. The statue will be placed somewhere in Seattle and will be sculpted by Wayne Toth, the artist behind Johnny Ramone ‘s statue at his Hollywood Forever grave in Los Angeles. “He has already given me a design and the children and I love it,” Vicky Cornell said. She also said that it will take about seven months to create. She mentioned that she wanted to hear fan input on where to place the memorial. “He is Seattle’s son,” she said. “We will be bringing him home and honoring him, I hope, with all of you, your love and support.”
Cornell also spoke about her recent commitment to help start the Chris Cornell Music Therapy Program at the Seattle nonprofit Childhaven in the interview. “Chris was always interested in protecting traumatized children who had suffered physical or psychological abuse,” she says. “He always felt music was a way to heal even neurological and emotional conditions.”
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