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Bloc Party dances in new video for “The Love Within”

Bloc Party recently premiered a synth-driven sound on their latest single, “The Love Within.” The song’s dance floor feel is in good use for its accompanying music video, which has a number of people doing some fancy footwork throughout a deserted mall. Frontman Kele Okereke makes an appearance in the Ivana Bobic-directed video, as well as a very unexpected reptile.

Watch below.

“The Love Within” is off the group’s upcoming LP HYMNS, which is set to be released on January 29th through Infectious Music/BMG/Vagrant Records.

Bloc Party also announced a lengthy tour across Europe, Asia, and Australia. Find dates below.

Bloc Party 2015-2016 Tour Dates:
11/09 – Glasgow, UK @ ABC Glasgow
11/23 – Tokyo, JP @ Studio Coast
11/23 – Tokyo, JP @ Hostess Club Weekender 2015
11/24 – Osaka, JP @ Big Cat
11/27 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso Grote Zaal
11/28 – Cologne, DE @ Live Music Hall
11/29 – Berlin, DE @ Astra Kulturhaus
12/01 – Paris, FR @ L’Alhambra
12/02 – Brussels, BE @ Royal Circus
12/03 – Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall
12/04 – London, UK @ St. John at Hackney Church
12/30 – Lorne, AU @ The Fall Music and Arts Festival
12/31 – Marion Bay, AU @ The Fall Music and Arts Festival
01/01 – Byron Bay, AU @ The Fall Music and Arts Festival
01/05 – Melbourne, AU @ Forum Theatre
01/07 – Sydney, AU @ Enmore Theatre
01/10 – Busselton, AU @ Southbound Festival
01/29 – Cardiff, UK @ Great Uni Hall
01/30 – Southampton, UK @ O2 Guildhall Southampton
02/01 – Bristol, UK @ O2 Academy
02/02 – Nottingham, UK @ Rock City
02/04 – Newcastle, UK @ O2 Academy
02/05 – Glasgow, UK @ Barrowland
02/06 – Manchester, UK @ Manchester Academy
02/08 – Leeds, UK @ O2 Academy
02/09 – Cambridge, UK @ Cambridge Corn
02/11 – London, UK @ O2 Academy Brixton
02/12 – Birmingham, UK @ O2 Academy Birmingham

TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe, Mike Patton, Doseone discuss Nevermen Album

TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe, Doseone, and Faith No More’s Mike Patton have recently announced that their long-awaited supergroup, Nevermen, would release an album, also releasing the above track, “Tough Town.” The have now offered more details about the LP. The self-titled record is set out on January 29th through Patton’s label Ipecac and Lex.

The self-produced album began session, reportedly, in 2008. Adebimpe and Doseone sent their collaborative demos to Patton. In a recent interview, Doseone said the trio’s mantra was “don’t rush the fuckin’ music,” thus the seven-year delay.

Real Estate’s Martin Courtney covers Pavement’s “Major Leagues”

Real Estate’s Martin Courtney has just released his solo album named Many Moons. He is appearing on Sirius XMU at 9 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, November 4 to promote it. Watch him perform his cover of Pavement’s “Major Leagues,” recorded for the session.

Courtney also announced a brief West Coast tour; the dates are below.

Martin Courtney:

11-20 Brooklyn, NY – National Sawdust
01-18 Los Angeles, CA – The Echo
01-19 San Diego, CA – The Casbah
01-20 San Francisco, CA – The Chapel

Courtney also performed “Airport Bar” for KCRW. Watch the video below:

 

EL VY perform three songs on “CBS This Morning: Saturday”

EL VY—the project from The National’s Matt Berninger and Menomena/Ramona Falls’ Brent Knopf—have released their debut album Return to the Moon, yesterday, October 3oth. The celebrate, they performed “Paul Is Alive,” Need a Friend,” and “No Time to Crank the Sun” on this morning’s edition of “CBS This Morning: Saturday.”

Watch the video for “Paul is Alive” here, “Need a Friend” here, and “No Time to Crank the Sun” here.

Miike Snow release first song in three years “Heart Is Full”

The three people in the Swedish indie pop band, Miike Snow, have been on bus schedules since their 2013 album, Happy To You. Andrew Wyatt released a solo album Descender; Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg (also known as the production duo Bloodshy & Avant) have worked together with major pop stars such as Katy Perry and Karlsson’s EDM project, Galantis, released an LP in June named Pharmacy.

Listen to it here via Stereogum.

“Heart Is Full” is off the band’s upcoming third album, III, which is expected to be out sometime in 2016. According to a press release, the trio worked on the record in New York, Los Angeles, and Stockholm, and is regarded as the “most innovative and creatively unified work thus far.” Says Winnberg about III, “It’s the original Miike Snow sound, but taken to the next level.”

Conor Oberst Hospitalized, Desaparecidos Cancel Tour

Desparecidos has been on tour for the past few months in support of their new album, Payola, their first in 13 years, but have been forced to cancel the rest of their tour dates after Conor Oberst was hospitalized for a bad case of “laryngitis, anxiety, and exhaustion,” according to a press release. It started with the cancellation of a show in Jacksonville last night, but it is now all of their dates being cancelled, including sets at The Fest and Fun Fun Fun Fest. Here’s a statement from their label, Epitaph:

Desaparecidos has been forced to cancel the remainder of their US tour dates. Conor Oberst fell ill while on tour in Jacksonville, Florida and was briefly hospitalized due to laryngitis, anxiety, and exhaustion. In consultation with his doctors, the band has reluctantly agreed to cancel all scheduled live dates. Conor will be heading home to Omaha to recuperate. We wish him a speedy recovery.

Here’s all the cancelled dates:

10/28 Ybor City, FL @ The Orpheum
10/29 Orlando, FL @ The Social
10/30 Gainesville, FL @ The Fest
11/01 Pensacola, FL @ Vinyl Music Hall
11/02 Oxford, MS @ Proud Larry’s
11/03 New Orleans, LA @ The Republic
11/05 Houston, TX @ Numbers
11/06 Dallas, TX @ Trees
11/07 Austin, TX @ Fun Fun Fun Fest
11/09 El Paso, TX @ Tricky Falls
11/10 Phoenix, AZ @ The Pressroom
11/11 Solana Beach, CA @ Belly Up Tavern
11/12 Los Angeles, CA @ The Teragram Ballroom
11/13 Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory
11/14 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
11/15 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
11/17 Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
11/18 Seattle, WA @ Showbox
11/20 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
11/21 Boulder, CO @ Boulder Theater
11/22 Omaha, NE @ O’Leavers
12/02 New York, NY @ Webster Hall (Oberst solo show)

Blood Orange shares new song “Sandra’s Smile” and video

Dev Hynes has not released a new album from Blood Orange since Cupid Deluxe in 2013, but he still has been in the limelight. hasn’t released a new Blood Orange album since 2013’s Cupid Deluxe, but he’s hardly steered clear of the limelight. He has collaborated with Carly Rae Jepsen and Heems, as well as pieced together a 45-minute film score, and put out two songs under the Blood Orange moniker,  “Delancey” and “Do You See My Skin Through the Flames?”.

Hynes has returned this week with another offering from Blood Orange called “Sandra’s Smile.” The melancholy song references Sandra Bland, a black woman whose controversial death during her Texas’ police custody in July added to the already growing racial tensions in the US. Hynes has written about issues like this before, including his previous song, “Do You See My Skin Through the Flames?” addressing racism and the Charleston massacre in June.

Watch “Sandra’s Smile” through its official music video, directed by Hynes, and by the song’s lyrics below.

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Hynes is also set for his first US concert in 2o15. It is planned for December 12th at the Apollo Theater in New York City, and is a benefit show set to including Blood Orange “and Friends” performing old and new songs. Here is Hynes’s official statement on the gig:

“Playing music saved my life; if it wasn’t for the chance to play cello or piano when I was a kid growing up in Essex, I shudder to think where I’d be right now. At this point in my life, all that matters to me is giving back to communities and making people happy, so I have decided to put on a fun night of performances at the legendary Apollo Theatre in Harlem that is hopefully affordable to all, with all proceeds going to the Opus 118 Harlem School of Music. New York City, let’s have some fun!”

Watch the Silver Lake Chorus sing Justin Vernon-written “From the Snow Tipped Hills”

Justin Vernon, when he is not writing music for Bon Iver or working with Kanye West at Glastonbury or working on his other endeavors, writes songs for Los Angeles indie-choral ensemble, the Silver Lake Chorus. This summer, the group released their self-titled album, which features songs written by indie-rock pioneers such as Tegan And Sara, Ben Gibbard, Wayne Coyne, and Vernon, whose song now has a music video. “From The Snow Tipped Hills,” in a typical fashion for Bon Iver, is airy and floaty, with Vernon’s songwriting getting enhanced by the group’s vocals. The video is shot with drone technology overlooking a California sunset and the nature of the whole performance is enchanting. Watch here.  

The Silver Lake Chorus is out now through Six Degrees Records. 

Stephen Colbert and Chance the Rapper are currently making a song together

Stephen Colbert in 2011 worked with Jack White and The Black Belles for a two-song collaborative single that was released through White’s label, Third Man Records. It seems as though Colbert is finally willing for his follow-up, but this time with a vastly different act, Chance the Rapper.

In an interview with Hot 97 recently (via Pitchfork), Chance announced the exciting  news. “Me and Stephen Colbert have been working on a song together, and it’s gonna be released very soon,” he said. “He’s amazing. I can’t get that deep into it, but he’s amazing.”

Listen to Colbert and The Black Belles’ track “Charlene II (I’m Over You).”

Adele makes her comeback with video for “Hello”

It has been nearly five years since the release of Adele’s 21 and now, the pop sensation is finally making her comeback with her latest album. 25 will officially be here on November 20th, but she has released the LP’s lead single, “Hello” today along with the video for it, directed by Xavier Dolan.

Adele has described 25 as a make-up album, which is especially prevalent in “Hello.” The song is allegedly about rekindling with her estranged father. The lyrics are especially emotional, crooning “Hello, it’s me/ I was wondering if after all these years/ You’d like to meet, to go over everything/ They say that time’s supposed to heal ya/ But I ain’t done much healing.”