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Wilco reveal lineup for Solid Sound Festival

Wilco have announced the lineup for their Solid Sound Festival. Performers include Television, Kurt Vile and the Violators, Kevin Morby, Big Thief, Robert Glasper Experiment, Daniel Bachman, Joan Shelley, Jeff Parker Trio, the Nels Cline Four, and Tweedy. Wilco will headline the first two nights of the festival. John Hodgman also curated the comedy for the fest. Check out the full lineup here. Solid Sound will take place from Friday June 23rd to June 25th at MASS MoCa in North Adams, Massachusetts.

Tickets are available at the festival’s official website.

Watch Tituss Burgess play Beyoncé in “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” season 3 trailer

“The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” on Netflix is returning for a third season. To celebrate the announcement of its air date—May 19th—the show released a trailer where Titus Andromedon (Tituss Burgess) patrols the streets with a baseball bat, like Beyoncé’s Lemonade. It is soundtracked by a parody of “Hold Up,” sung by Titus himself. Watch it out below.

Animal Collective debut new song “Kinda Bonkers” from forthcoming The Paints EP
Animal Collective on Thursday began San Francisco’s Noise Pop Festival by performing a DJ set at the California Academy of Sciences. The group debuted a new song entitled “Kinda Bonkers” during their set, according to a Redditor who was there and Shazam’d it. As Shazam indicates, “Kinda Bonkers” will be on the upcoming The Painters EP, which will possibly serve as a sequel or companion to last year’s Painting With.Check out the song and video below, via Reddit.

Prince to return to streaming services on Sunday

Prince’s music is officially returning to streaming services this Sunday, NPR reports. A press release sent by Napster and received by NPR confirms rumors that Prince’s Warner Bros. catalog, which has classic albums like Purple Rain, 1999, Sign O’ the Times, and Dirty Mind, will be put onto streaming services the same day as the Grammys.

They are yet to announce what time on Sunday the music will be released.

Prince’s discography has not been available on any streaming platform, except for Tidal, since 2015.

Today, Universal Music Group announced that it signed a deal with Prince’s estate to manage Prince’s non-Warner Bros. NPG Records catalog along with unreleased material, Billboard reports. This will begin going towards the future release of music from Prince’s legendary vault of recordings from his career.

Bon Iver/The National’s Eaux Claires Fest announce lineup

Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and the National’s Aaron Dessner have announced the lineup for their third Eaux Claires Music & Arts Festival, which is to take place June 16-17th in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, as Stereogum reports. Chance the Rapper, Wilco, along with Jeff Tweedy’s side project Tweedy, Feist, Paul Simon with yMusic, Danny Brown, Perfume Genius, and more are set to play. Additional performances listed include “Bon Iver Presents John Prine and the American Songbook,” and “Big Red Machine,” a collaborative performance from Vernon and Desnner with guests, based on their song of the same name from the compilation Dark Was the Night.

Even though the lineup has not yet been officially announced, booklets featuring the lineup were mailed to people who had ordered tickets already. Check out an image/tweet below.

Dirty Projectors team with Solange and D∆WN for new song “Cool Your Heart”

Dirty Projectors’ self-titled debut is set to be out February 24th. After “Up In Hudson” last month, the band shared another preview to their seventh LP today with a single called “Cool Your Heart.”

The track was co-written by frontman David Longstreth and Solange Knowles, and features guest vocals from experimental R&B singer Dawn Richard, also known as D∆WN. According to a press release, the single includes additional help from Tyondai Braxton from Battles and a Bahia beat courtesy of Mauro Refosco, a longtime percussionist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Atoms for Peace.

Listen below through the single’s music video, directed by That Go.

Dirty Projectors Tracklist:
01. Keep Your Name
02. Death Spiral
03. Up in Hudson
04. Work Together
05. Little Bubble
06. Winner Take Nothing
07. Ascent Through Clouds
08. Cool Your Heart
09. I See You

Empire of the Sun and the Avalanches announce tour

Empire of the Sun have announced a U.S. tour for 2017, including a couple of shows with the Avalanches in Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada. Besides their previously announced Coachella dates, these shows are set to be the Avalanches’ first U.S. shows in 15 years, after their return with Wildflower last year. Empire of the Sun are touring in support of Two Vines. 

Empire of the Sun:

04-14 Indio, CA – Coachella
04-15 Las Vegas, NV – The Chelsea at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas *
04-16 Reno, NV – Grand Sierra Resort & Casino *
04-18 Phoenix, AZ – Comerica Theatre
04-19 Los Angeles, CA – Shrine Exposition Hall
04-21 Indio, CA – Coachella
05-10 New York, NY – Terminal 5
05-11 Washington, D.C. – Echostage
05-12 Boston, MA – Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
05-13 Camden, NJ – BB&T Pavilion

* with the Avalanches

The Avalanches:

04-14 Indio, CA – Coachella
04-15 Las Vegas, NV – The Chelsea at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas *
04-16 Reno, NV – Grand Sierra Resort & Casino *
04-21 Indio, CA – Coachella
06-02-04 Randall’s Island, NY – Governors Ball

* supporting Empire of the Sun

DIIV’s Zachary Cole Smith checks into “long-haul inpatient treatment”

Zachary Cole Smith from DIIV has announced that he has checked himself into “long-haul inpatient treatment” in a post to his Instagram. “So i guess now is the time for me to stop kidding myself, and everybody else,” it says. “I’ve taken this road way past the point of sanity and fucked with way too many people. See you all on the other side, I love you forever, you know who yous are.” Find the full note below.

Smith has struggled with drug use publicly in the past. He was arrested in September 2013 for a misdemeanor charges of criminal possession of a controlled substance.

Cat Power announces shows with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Cat Power has announced tour dates supporting Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, as Consequence of Sound points out. Check out Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ full itinerary below. They are touring behind their 2016 album Skeleton Tree.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:

05-26 Brooklyn, NY – Kings Theatre
05-29 Montreal, Quebec – Metropolis
05-31 Toronto, Ontario – Massey Hall
06-01 Toronto, Ontario –  Massey Hall
06-03 Detroit, MI – Masonic Temple Theatre
06-05 Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory
06-07 Asheville, NC – Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
06-08 Pittsburgh, PA – The Warhol at Carnegie Music Hall
06-10 Boston, MA – Boch Center Wang Theatre
06-13 New York, NY – Beacon Theatre
06-14 New York, NY – Beacon Theatre
06-16 Chicago, IL – Auditorium Theatre
06-18 Denver, CO – Paramount Theatre
06-19 Salt Lake City, UT – Kingsbury Hall
06-21 Portland, OR – Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
06-22 Vancouver, British Columbia – Queen Elizabeth Theatre
06-24 Berkeley, CA – Greek Theatre
06-26 San Diego, CA – Civic Theatre
06-29 Los Angeles, CA – Greek Theatre

Pond announce tour, share “30000 Megatons” video

Pond have shared a video for their track, “30000 Megatons.” It is joined by a new tour announcement. The video, edited by Ashley Rommelrath, shows spliced footage of riots, military operations, ads, and music festivals. Watch it below with the tour dates.

“3000 Megatons” is on Pond’s upcoming record, The Weather. The album which was produced by Kevin Parker, is set to be out May 5th via Marathon Artists

Pond:

04-16 Indio, CA – Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
04-23 Indio, CA – Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
04-25 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
04-27 Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
04-28 Seattle, WA – Neumos
04-29 Vancouver, British Columbia – Biltmore Cabaret
05-02 St. Paul, MN – Turf Club
05-03 Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle
05-05 Toronto, Ontario – Mod Club Theatre
05-07 Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
05-09 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
05-10 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
05-11 Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
05-12 Washington, DC – Black Cat