The Shins are getting ready to release their new album Heartworms, which is set to be out March 10th via Aural Apothecary/Columbia. Today, they have released another new track from the record, “Painting a Hole.” It follows the already released “Dead Alive,” “Name for You,” and “Mildenhall,” as well as “The Fear,” which they premiered on the radio show “A Prairie Home Companion.” Listen “Painting a Hole” below.
Today, Olympia-based indie pop outfit, The Washboard Abs, shared “Submission.” It is their first single from their upcoming album, Recurring Chasms which is due out April 7th via Antiquated Future. The album will be the follow-up to 2016’s Have U Scanned Ur Club Card, one of our favorite albums from last year.
Listen to it below.
Modest Mouse have announced a new US tour. It starts May 23rd in Spokane, Washington and includes stops in Oregon, California, Missouri, and more. Check out the band’s full list of shows below. Modest Mouse’s latest album, Strangers to Ourselves, came out in 2015.
Modest Mouse:
05-23 Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory
05-24 Eugene, OR – Cuthbert Amphitheater
05-26 Napa, CA – BottleRock
05-28 Pomona, CA – Fox Theater
05-30 San Diego, CA – Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre
05-31 Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom
06-02 Anaheim, CA – House of Blues
06-03 Las Vegas, NV – Brooklyn Bowl
06-05 Salt Lake City, UT – Rockwell Room @ the Complex
06-08 Oklahoma City, OK – Diamond Ballroom
06-09 St Louis, MO – The Pageant
06-10 Lincoln, NE – Pinewood Bowl
After Chance the Rapper won three Grammys last weekend, Illinois governor Bruce Rauner shared his congratulations publicly. “Illinois is proud that you’re one of our own,” he tweeted. To which Chance replied, “Thank you Governor, I would love to have meeting with you this week if possible.” That meeting will take place this Wednesday. The administration confirmed the meeting to the Chicago Tribune. See Chance the Rapper and Gov. Rauner’s tweets below.
Feist has not played a show since 2014, and has not released an album since 2011. However, with her being on the lineup for the Eaux Claires festival this summer, signs are beginning to appear that she might be up to something. Now, in an aside in a recent Huffington Post article about her charity initiative to collect backpacks for HIV-positive children in Malawi:
Feist has been largely off the radar since the 2011 release of her award-winning album “Metals” and since the album’s subsequent tour came to a close the end of the following year. (Fans can expect her long-awaited follow-up in April as well as her vocals on the upcoming Broken Social Scene record.)
Feist even shared a link to the article on her official Facebook page, which appears to confirm the news.
Arca is releasing a new self-titled album on XL on April 7th. The latest sampling from the album is the new song “Anoche,” and he’s shared a video as well for the song. Watch it below. Directed by longtime collaborator Jesse Kanda, it shows Alejandro Ghersi in a black room, performing a mournful dance amongst scattered corpses. Arca’s last album, Mutant, was released in 2015 and last year, the producer released a 14-track album for free called Entrañas.
The critically-acclaimed Fox TV show, “Bob’s Burgers,” which has previously teamed up with artists including the National and Sleater-Kinney, is releasing an album through Sub Pop. The Bob’s Burgers Music Album, which is set to be out on May 12th will feature 112 short songs from the regular cast members like Kristen Schaal, H. Jon Benjamin, and John Roberts. Featured guests include Sarah Silverman, Aziz Ansari, Bill Hader, Paul Rudd, Fred Armisen, and Zach Galifianakis. The release will also include the Bob’s Buskers series where St. Vincent, the National, Stephin Merritt, and more covered Bob’s Burgers songs. Check out the full tracklist here.
Watch the National and Låpsley’s cover of “Bad Stuff Happens in the Bathroom” below as well as cast’s performance of the track, the theme song and an unboxing video:
Spoon have announced tour dates for 2017. The band will play the United States and Germany starting with a show on April 27 in Mobile, Alabama in support of their upcoming new album Hot Thoughts. The band have shared the title track from the new album so far. Check out the band’s tour itinerary below. Hot Thoughts is due out March 17th via Matador.
Spoon:
02-27 London, England – 100 Club
03-06 Santa Ana, CA – The Observatory
03-14-16 Austin, TX – The Main (SXSW Residency)
03-23 Sydney, Australia – Metro Theatre
03-25 Thornbury, Australia – The Croxton Bandroom
04-27 Mobile, AL – Soul Kitchen
04-28 Oxford, MS – The Lyric
04-29 Baton Rouge, LA – Varsity Theatre
05-01 Tampa, FL – The Ritz Ybor
05-02 Lake Buena Vista, FL – House of Blues
05-03 Athens, GA – Georgia theater
05-05 Charleston, SC – Music Farm
05-07 Raleigh, NC – The Ritz
05-09 Knoxville, TN – The Mill & Mine
05-11 Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall
06-17 Berlin, Germany – Festaal Kreuzberg
06-18 Mannheim, Germany – Maifeld Derby Festival
06-19 Munich, Germany – Technikum
06-27 Manchester, England – Gorilla
06-28 Glasgow, Scotland – The Arts School
06-30 London, England – O2 Forum
07-07 Madrid, Spain – Mad Cool Festival
07-08 Lisbon, Portugal – NOS Alive
07-14 Louisville, KY – Forecastle Festival
07-15 Birmingham, AL – Sloss Festival
07-28 New York, NY – Panorama Festival
07-30 Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion
08-06 Hollywood, CA – Hollywood Bowl
08-08 Aspen, CO – Belly Up Aspen
08-09 Bellvue, CO – Mishawaka Amphitheatre
Speedy Ortiz have released a new song, “In My Way.” It is part of the anti-Trump compilation Our First 100 Days on bandcamp, where a new song is released every day for the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency. Listen to “In My Way” below. 2015’s Foil Deer and last year’s Foiled Again EP were Speedy Ortiz’s last releases. Sadie Dupuis from Speedy Ortiz also released a solo album, Slugger, as Sad13 in 2016.
The iconic drummer for James Brown, Clyde Stubblefield, who became a staple in hip-hop sampling, has died of kidney failure, Rolling Stone reports. Stubblefield played on several of Brown’s classics, including “Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine” and “Cold Sweat.” He is best known for his iconic solo in “Funky Drummer,” prominently sampled by LL Cool J (“Mama Said Knock You Out”), Public Enemy (“Bring the Noise” and “Fight the Power”), and N.W.A. (“Fuck tha Police”). Prince, the Beastie Boys, Dr. Dre, George Michael and more.
“There have been faster, and there have been stronger, but Clyde Stubblefield has a marksman’s left hand unlike any drummer in the 20th century,” Questlove said once about the drummer in a 2011 interview: “It is he who defined funk music.”
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