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Ryuichi Sakamoto Announces New Album async

Ryuichi Sakamoto has announced a new album, async, set to be out April 28th via Milan. It is the Japanese composer’s first studio album since Three in 2012, with Jaques Morelenbaum and Judy Kang, and his first solo album in 8 years. Sakamoto recorded the album in New York, having inspiration from “everyday objects, sculpture, and nature,” according to a press release. Find the tracklist below and artwork above. The world premiere listening event for the album will be at Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, which takes place from March 23-26th. Sakamoto is set to perform also on April 25th and 26th at Park Avenue Armory Veterans Room in New York. The album will follow the 2015 score he did for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s film The Revenant. It is his first studio album since his recovery from cancer in 2015 as well.

async:

01 andata
02 disintegration
03 solari
04 ZURE
05 walker
06 stakra
07 ubi
08 fullmoon
09 async
10 tri
11 Life, Life
12 honj
13 ff
14 garden
15 water state 2 [vinyl-only bonus track]

Eagles and Fleetwood Mac get Earth, Wind & Fire, Steely Dan, more for “Classic East and Classic West” festival series

Eagles and Fleetwood Mac have released the full details for their bicoastal festival series, Classic East and Classic West. The festivals will be at Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles and Citi Field in New York City, on July 15-16th and July 29-30th respectively. Earth, Wind & Fire, Steely Dan, Journey, and the Doobie Brothers have been set to perform at each festival, as Billboard points out. It will be the Eagles’ first performance since Glenn Frey’s death last year.

Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett recording together

Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett have been teasing fans about a collaboration on social media, uploading photos of themselves in the studio. Australian recording studio, Newmarket Studios has revealed the duo are now working on a “forthcoming compilation,” as Triple J points out. Full details of the collaboration on the project are scarce, the studio notes that producer/engineer Callum John Barter is involved.

Listen to Frank Ocean’s new song “Chanel”

Frank Ocean has released a new song. Find “Chanel” via Spotify below, and on iTunes here. It is his first piece of solo music since his 2016 albums Blonde and Endless. He premiered it on the second episode of his radio show, “blonded RADIO” last night. Check out the lyrics to the song on Ocean’s Tumblr. Recently, Ocean was on Calvin Harris’ new single “Slide” with Migos. The first episode of “blonded RADIO” premiered last month where Ocean interviewed Jay Z about the state of modern radio.

Watch Spoon perform “I Ain’t the One” on “Corden”

Spoon’s newest release, Hot Thoughts, is set to be out March 17th via Matador. The band went on stage on “The Late Late Show With James Corden” last night to perform “I Ain’t the One” from the new album. Check out the performance below. Spoon announced that they had partnered with an Austin restaurant to create a Spoon signature taco and performed “Hot Thoughts” on “Kimmel” earlier this week.

Watch P.O.S and Justin Vernon’s new “Faded” video

Minneapolis rapper P.O.S released a new album called Chill, dummy in January. It features collaborations with Kathleen Hanna, Allan Kingdom, Lizzo, Open Mike Eagle, and Busdriver. Today, he has shared the video for the song “Faded,” which has vocals from Justin Vernon and Lady Midnight. In the clip, directed by James Gundersen, P.O.S is in the woods as images are projected onto him. Watch it below.

Woods announce new album Love Is Love, share new song

Woods have announced a new album, Love Is Love. It is the follow-up to last year’s City Sun Eater in the River of Light and is set to be out April 21st via Woodsist. Love Is Love was written and recorded in the few months after the election and is “a meditation on love, and on what life means now,” according to the press release. The announcement is joined by the title track. Find it below, along with the tracklisting. Find the album art above.

Love Is Love:

01 Love Is Love
02 Bleeding Blue
03 Lost in a Crowd
04 Spring Is in the Air
05 I Hit That Drum
06 Love Is Love (Sun on Time)

Verisimilitude release Liquid Sunshine Experience video

Psychedelic instrumental band, Verisimilitude, have shared the video for Liquid Sunshine Experience, their interactive liquid light show.

The San Antonio-based outfit use several colors, oil, and water on overhead projectors to create the projected “liquid sunshine.” The band calls to their fans to be in the show with them as they create the moving backdrop to their shows.

Watch the video below and you can catch them next at the second ever Imagine Fest on March 12th.

Car Seat Headrest announce tour

Car Seat Headrest have announced a number of new tour dates for 2017. The band will be performing headlining shows as well as festival appearances at Coachella, Governor’s Ball, Bonnaroo, and more. Check out the full itinerary below. The band’s latest album, Teens of Denial was No. 1 on Melodic Tree’s Top Six Albums of 2016.

Car Seat Headrest:

03-10 New Orleans, LA – The Buku Music + Art Project
03-14 Amsterdam, the Netherlands – Paradiso Grote Zaal
03-15 Brussels, Belgium – Botanique
03-16 Cologne, Germany – Gebäude 9
03-17 Berlin, Germany – Musik & Frieden
03-18 Schorndorf, Germany – Manufaktur
03-19 Munich, Germany – Feierwerk / Kranhalle
03-20 Zürich, Switzerland – Mascotte
03-22 Paris, France – Divan du Monde
03-23 London, England – Electric Ballroom
03-24 Manchester, England – Manchester Gorilla
03-24-26 Glasgow, Scotland – BBC Radio 6 Music Festival
03-26 Leeds, England – Brudenell Social Club
03-27 Dublin, Ireland – Academy
04-15 Indio, CA – Coachella Valley Music and Arts
04-17 Los Angeles, CA – The Regent Theatre *
04-19 Pomona, CA – The Glass House ^
04-20 Pioneertown, CA – Pappy & Harriets *
04-22 Indio, CA – Coachella Valley Music and Arts
05-12 Atlanta, GA – Shaky Knees Music Festival\
05-26 Allston, MA – Boston Calling
05-28 George, WA – Sasquatch Music Festival
06-01 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
06-03 New York, NY – Governors Ball Music Festival
06-04 Charlottesville, VA – Jefferson Theater
06-05 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
06-07 Asheville, NC – Orange Peel
06-08 Louisville, KY – Headliners
06-09 Manchester, TN – Bonnaroo Music Festival
06-18 Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre $
06-24 Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre #
06-30 Richmond, VA – Brown’s Island
07-28-30 Oro-Medonte, Ontario – WayHome Music and Arts Festival
08-01 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom
08-03 South Burlington, VT – Higher Ground Ballroom
08-04-06 Montreal, Quebec – Osheaga Festival

* with Preoccupations
^ with Future Islands
$ with Local Natives and Portugal, the Man
# with Weezer

Watch Dave Chappelle join Thundercat and Robert Glasper onstage

Thundercat was joined by two special guests when he performed at Irving Plaza in New York City tonight over the course of his set: Robert Glasper, who came to sit in on keys, and later Dave Chappelle, who came on the stage to take the mic as Thundercat and Glasper played behind him. While talking to the crowd, Chappelle said, “Ladies and gentlemen: on stage tonight is the musical virtuosos… They spent hours and hours of their life practicing their craft, and tonight we get to enjoy the sum total of their work. Make some noise for your band.” He went on, “Thundercat, take this bass solo wherever you wanna go, ’cause we with you all the way, my brother, for real.” Watch it below, as well as some other clips from the show.

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