Zachary Cole Smith, frontman of DIIV, has released his cover of Sparklehorse’s “Cow.” The song is on Sparklehorse’s debut Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot. Listen to the cover below. In advance of a show in New York this August, which he previously announced will feature new music and covers, Smith shared the track on Twitter today. Smith recently shared a cover of (Sandy) Alex G’s track “Icehead,” which can also be listened to below.
Soft Fangs, the Brooklyn-based dark pop/alt-folk project of John Lutkevich, has announced his latest album, Fractures. The first track to be released from the album, “Elephant Girl” was premiered on Gold Flake Paint and is currently streaming there.
“The LP is a collection of songs that I wrote over the past year in fragments and then recorded in three days during a snowstorm in Maine. I wanted to take these songs that I’d written leisurely over the span of a year and then record them very quickly,” Letkevich said about the album in a press release. “It’s the first album where I’ve enlisted the help of others to engineer, so I let my good friends Bradford Krieger & Chaimes Parker (Big Nice Studio) handle all of the recording aspects, and I just got to run from instrument to instrument. The album varying in concept is precisely the concept, hence it’s title. They are fractures from my life and other people’s.”
The album is set to be out September 1st via Disposible America and can be pre-ordered here.
Moses Sumney has announced a new album, Aromanticism, which is set to be out September 22nd on Jagjaguwar. See the artwork above and tracklist below. The record includes “Doomed,” a track that was released last month. A live performance of the song can be found below as well. It is from a set recorded at St Stephens Uniting Church in Sydney, Australia in January, which will air in full on Double J at 1 a.m. Eastern tonight, with an archived stream set to be out a week from today.
Aromanticism:
01 Man On The Moon (Reprise)
02 Don’t Bother Calling
03 Plastic
04 Quarrel
05 Stoicism
06 Lonely World
07 Make Out In My Car
08 The Cocoon-Eyed Baby
09 Doomed
10 Indulge Me
11 Self-Help Tape
Eric B. & Rakim performed at the Apollo Theatre in New York City last night, their first show together in over two decades. The duo performed their entire debut album Paid in Full in its entirety on the 30th anniversary of its release. Watch them do perform classics like “My Melody,” “Ain’t No Joke,” and “I Know You Got Soul” below. The pair brought out Flavor Flav, Ice T, Fat Joe, Roxanne Shante, and Kool Herc as surprise guests. It is unclear whether or not Eric B. & Rakim will continue playing shows after the one-night concert at the Apollo.
The solo project of Michelle Zauner, Japanese Breakfast, has shared a new music video for her track “Road Head.” The clip, directed by Zauner, follows her character as she eats instant ramen, chain smokes cigarettes, and shares her life with a masked monster. “‘Road Head’ is the fifth music video [director of photography] Adam Kolodny and I have collaborated on,” Zauner said in a statement. “For this one we wanted to focus on staging and an exaggerated color palette. We were inspired by Fallen Angels and ‘Twin Peaks.’” “Road Head” will appear on Japanese Breakfast’s upcoming album Soft Sounds From Another Planet, which is set to be out July 14th via Dead Oceans.
Zauner has also announced new tour dates. She has shows with Tegan and Sara, (Sandy) Alex G, Cende, Yohuna, Mannequin Pussy, and Spirit of the Beehive. Find her schedule below.
Japanese Breakfast:
07-06 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg !
07-07 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom !
07-08 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer !
07-15 Brooklyn, NY – Union Pool ~
07-27 Halifax, Nova Scotia – Rebecca Cohn Auditorium ^
07-28 Portland, ME – State Theatre ^
07-29 Buffalo, NY – Town Ballroom ^
07-31 Cleveland, OH – House of Blues ^
08-02 Covington, KY – Madison Theater ^
09-07 Washington, DC – Black Cat $
09-08 Richmond, VA – Stranger Matter $
09-09 Raleigh, NC – Hopscotch Festival $
09-10 Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade (Purgatory) $
09-11 Orlando, FL – Will’s Pub $
09-12 Tampa, FL – Crowbar $
09-13 New Orleans, LA – Hi Ho Lounge $
09-14 Houston, TX – Walter’s $
09-15 Austin, TX – Barracuda $
09-16 Dallas, TX – RBC $
09-18 Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar $
09-20 Los Angeles, CA – The Echo $
09-21 San Francisco, CA – Swedish American Hall $
09-22 Oakland, CA – Starline Social Club $
09-23 Eugene, OR – HiFi $
09-25 Portland, OR – Holocene $
09-26 Vancouver, British Columbia – Fox Cabaret $
09-27 Seattle, WA – Crocodile $
09-28 Boise, ID – Neurolux $
09-29 Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court $
09-30 Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge $
10-02 Minneapolis, MN – The Triple Rock $
10-04 Chicago, IL – Subterranean $
10-05 Bloomington, IN – The Bishop $
10-06 Detroit, MI – UFO Factory $
10-07 Toronto, Ontario – The Garisson $
10-08 Montreal, Quebec – Bar Le Ritz PDB $
10-11 Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair $
10-12 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg $
10-21 Bristol, GB – Simple Things Festival
10-23 Cologne, DE – Blue Shell
10-24 Hamburg, DE – Hakken
10-25 Berlin, DE – Badenhouse
10-26 Paris, FR – Pop Up Du Label
10-27 Gent, BE – NEST
10-28 Amsterdam, NL – London Calling
11-02 Brighton, GB – The Joker
11-03 Manchester, GB – Soup Kitchen
11-04 Edinburgh, GB – The Mash House
11-05 Glasgow, GB – The Hug and Pint
11-06 Leeds, GB – Headrow House
11-07 London, GB – The Dome Tufnell Park
! with (Sandy) Alex G & Cende
~ with Yohuna
^ with Tegan & Sara
$ with Mannequin Pussy & Spirit of the Beehive
SZA has announced a tour for her new record Ctrl, it begins in August and goes until December and includes shows in the United States and Canada. Ravyn Lenae and Smino, both of the Zero Fatigue collective, are joining SZA at some shows. See her tour poster below.
Foo Fighters debuted a new song last night called “Dirty Water” at their show in Paris, as Rolling Stone points out. It is from their upcoming album, Concrete and Gold, which is set to arrive September 15th. Watch the footage below. Foo Fighters have also shared the video for “Run,” and debuted “Lah Di Da” and “Sunday Rain” ahead of the LP’s release. Dave Grohl said recently that their new record would include a guest spot from “probably the biggest pop star in the world.” Foo Fighters are on tour through mid-December and they recently announced a new festival, Cal Jam ’17, which will feature Queens of the Stone Age, Liam Gallagher, the Kills, Japandroids, and more.
Broken Social Scene have started streaming their first album in seven years, Hug of Thunder on NPR. Listen to it here. The record comes after 2010’s Forgiveness Rock Record and is set to be officially out Friday via City Slang/Arts & Crafts. Leading up to the LP, the band shared songs including “Skyline,” “Halfway Home,” and the title track and they performed a number of new tracks on KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic.”
Adele has canceled the final two nights of her tour at Wembley Stadium in London during a four-night run at the arena. She cited damage to her vocal cords, the singer said in a statement, “To say I’m heartbroken would be a complete understatement. I’m already maxed out on steroids and aids for my voice. I’ve considered doing Saturday night’s show but it’s highly unlikely I’d even make it though the set and I simply can’t crumble in front of you all and walk out on you in that way.” Read her full statement below. The shows are yet to be rescheduled and refunds will be made available to fans if makeup shows are not planned. The singer has suffered from vocal issues before, which has also resulted in canceled tour dates.
Adele also recently revealed that she was unsure if she’d ever tour again which she wrote in a handwritten note included in tour programs at her first two Wembley Stadium shows, Rolling Stone points out. She wrote, “I wanted my final shows to be in London because I don’t know if I’ll ever tour again. And so I want my last time to be at home.” She continued, “Touring is a peculiar thing, it doesn’t suit me particularly well. I’m a real homebody and I get so much joy in the small things.” She ended it by thanking her fans and affirming, “I will remember all of this for the rest of my life.” Read that full note below as well.
Bon Iver have announced a number of European dates in September, which come after their European tour behind 22, A Million was canceled “for personal reasons” earlier this year. The new stint of shows will have the band play in Paris, Edinburgh, Utrecht, and more. Check out their full itinerary below.
Bon Iver:
07-22 Minneapolis, MN – Rock the Garden
08-12 Copenhagen, Denmark – Haven Festival
09-09 Santa Fe, NM – Noise For NOW Festival
09-15 Cork, Ireland – Sounds from a Safe Harbour
09-19 Utrecht, Holland – TivoliVredenburg
09-21-23 Paris, France – Salle Pleyel
09-25 Blackpool, England – Blackpool Opera House
09-27-28 Edinburgh, Scotland – Playhouse
10-14-15 Los Angeles, CA – Festival of Distruption
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