Day Wave announces Hard to Read EP, release “Gone”

Jackson Phillips has been doing well for someone who has only released one EP and a few singles. The dream pop artist known as Day Wave followed up his debut EP, Headcase, with the “Come Home Now” b/w “You Are Who You Are” 7-inch, and those songs have already landed him gigs on the lineups for Governors Ball and Shaky Knees. He will continue impressing with the upcoming release of his sophomore EP, Hard to Read, which is set to be out on March 4th via Grand Jury.

Take a listen to his first single off of Hard To Read, “Gone,” below.

Hard to Read will be available digitally on March 4th (pre-orders are currently going on). A physical copy of both Headcase and Hard to Read will be up for for pre-order soon. Find the track listings and album art for both below.

Hard to Read Album Art:

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Hard to Read EP Tracklist:
01. Deadbeat Girl
02. Gone
03. Hard to Read
04. Stuck
05. You

Headcase/Hard to Read Album Art:

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Headcase/Hard to Read Tracklist:
01. Nothing at All
02. Total Zombie
03. Drag
04. We’ll Try but We Don’t Fit In
05. Headcase
06. Deadbeat Girl
07. Gone
08. Hard to Read
09. Stuck
10. You

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. Pieces – Tanlines

2. Feel It All Around – Washed Out

3. Cocaine – Sleepwalkers

4. I’m Not Myself – Boardwalk

5. Hot Blur – How Sad

6. Singularity – Hollow & Akimbo

7. The Big Idea – Black Books

8. Neptune – Lemonade

9. Nothing More – Expensive Looks

10. Marooned – Dream Cop

11. Party Girls – Gleemer

12. Oh Lightning – Valley Maker

13. Now You Know My Name – The Derevolutions

14. That’s Chemistry – Young Rival

15. Take Care – Roah Summit

16. Soon As I Get Home Tonight – Blah Blah Blah

17. Treehouse – Fin

18. California Song – Patrick James

19. Tell Me Now – Dirty Paws

20. Tie Up The Lions – I Am Apollo

Tortoise stream The Catastrophist, announce tour dates

The new Tortoise LP The Catastrophist will be out January 22 through Thrill Jockey. The entire album is streaming through The Guardian as of today. Listen below, and look at the band’s world tour itinerary.

Tortoise:

01-23 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall (in the round)
01-24 Milwaukee, WI – Mad Planet
02-07 Copenhagen, Denmark – Vega Jr.
02-08 Hamburg, Germany – Fabrik
02-09 Berlin, Germany – Berghain
02-10 Antwerp, Belgium – Trix
02-11 Utrecht, Netherlands – Tivoli
02-12 St. Gallen, Switzerland – Palace
02-13 Geneva, Switzerland – Antigel Festival
02-14 Zurich, Switzerland – Stall 6
02-15 Reutlingen, Germany – Franz.K
02-16 Vienna, Austria – Arena
02-17 Budapest, Hungary – A38
02-18 Zagreb, Croatia – Mochvara
02-19 Bologna, Italy – Locomotiv Club
02-20 Rome, Italy – Monk Club
02-21 Milan, Italy – Magnolia Club
02-22 Istanbul, turkey – CRR Concert Hall
03-09 Minneapolis, MN – The Cedar Cultural Center
03-11 Ann Arbor, MI – The Blind Pig
03-12 Toronto, Ontario – Lee’s Palace
03-13 Montreal, Quebec – Fairmount
03-14 Northampton, MA – Iron Horse
03-15 Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
03-16 New York, NY – (Le) Poisson Rouge
03-17 Brooklyn, NY – Littlefield
03-18 Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts
03-19 Washington, DC – Black Cat
03-20 Charlottesville, VA – The Southern
03-21 Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel
03-22 Louisville, KY – Headliners Music Hall
03-23 Newport, KY – Southgate House Revival
03-24 Indianapolis, IN – Radio Radio
04-26 Boise, ID – Radio Boise Tuesday
04-27 Seattle, WA – The Crocodile
04-28 Vancouver, British Columbia – Imperial
04-29 Portland, OR – Revolution Hall
04-30 Sonoma, CA – Sonoma Winery/Redwood Barn
05-01 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
05-02 Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom
05-03 Solana Beach, CA – Belly Up
05-04 Phoenix, AZ – Desert Faze Phoenix at Crescent Ballroom
05-06 Austin, TX – Mohawk
05-08 Dallas, TX – Dada
05-09 St. Louis, MO – The Ready Room
05-10 Chicago, IL – Metro
05-11 Lawrence, KS – Granada Theater
05-12 Denver, CO – Bluebird
05-13 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
05-14 Albuquerque, NM – Launchpad
05-27 Torino, Italy – Cap10100
05-28 Brescia, Italy – Latteria Molloy
05-29 Munich, Germany – Feierwerk
05-30 Frankfurt, Germany – Das Bett
05-31 Paris, France – TBA
06-01 Cologne, Germany – Kulturkirche
06-02 Besancon, France – La Rodia
06-05 Nimes, France – This Is Not a Love Song Festival
06-06 Toulouse, France – Metronum
06-08 Metz, France – Les Trinitaires
06-09 Tourcoing, France – Le Grand Mix
07-03 Keflavik, Iceland – ATP Iceland
07-05 Berlin, Germany – Columbia Theater

Majical Cloudz release Wait & See EP

Majical Cloudz have released Wait & See, a five-song EP that has songs that did not make the cut onto last year’s Are You Alone?. In a post on the band’s Tumblr, frontman Devon Welsh said that the songs date from “different periods of time,” but they “didn’t fit on that album for one reason or another.” You can stream the album on Spotify below, as well as here.

Wait & See:

01 Wait & See
02 Heaven
03 Let Me Lie
04 Pretty
05 My Heart Soaks Up Every Drop of Your Blood

Wolf Parade tease at 2016 return

In 2010, Canadian band featuring Spencer Krug from Sunset Rubdown and Dan Boeckner from Handsome Furs announced that they would be going on an indefinite hiatus after a few shows the following year.

We have heard new music from from Krug, as Moonface and Boeckner, with Divine Fits, Operators, and the defunct Handsome Furs since then.

It seems as though Wolf Parade’s return is coming soon. They have updated their website to say “2016” and created a new Twitter and Instagram pages.

Listen to Jeff Buckley cover Bob Dylan’s “Just Like a Woman”

A collection of unheard Jeff Buckley studio recordings, You and I, will be released on March 16. The 10-track compilation includes songs he recorded early in his career and will feature covers of artists like Bob Dylan, the Smiths, Led Zeppelin, and more. You can listen to his version of Dylan’s “Just Like a Woman.” Listen to it here via NPR.

Previously, we heard his cover of Sly & The Family Stone’s “Everyday People.”

M83 announces initial tour dates

Nearly five years after being away, Anthony Gonzalez is prepping the return of M83. Now finished with the follow-up to Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, he plans to take this album on the road this spring and summer. 

The itenerary includes performances at Firefly Music Festival, Coachella, Governors Ball, and Sasquatch!, as well as M83 taking a path across the country in April. The band will start in New Orleans and make their way to Texas as they go up to Alberta, Canada. They will be playing at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheater as well as joining Tame Impala at Maryland’s Merriweather Post Pavilion before heading to their European festival circuit.

See the current itinerary below. 

M83 2016 Tour Dates:

04/06 – New Orleans, LA @ The Civic Theatre

04/08 – Dallas, TX @ Bomb Factory

04/09 – Houston, TX @ TBD

04/10 – Austin, TX @ Stubbs Waller Creek Amphitheater

04/12 – Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre

04/13 – Phoenix, AZ @ Comerica Theatre

04/15 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival

04/16 – Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl

04/17 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater

04/22 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival

04/23 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst Club

04/25 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater

04/26 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater

04/27 – Missoula, MT @ The Wilma

04/29 – Edmonton, AB @ Winspear Centre

04/30 – Calgary, AB @ Grey Eagle Event Centre

05/27-30 – Quincy, WA @ Sasquatch! Music Festival

05/31 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre

06/04 – New York, NY @ Governors Ball Music Festival

06/06 – Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion *

06/16-19 – Dover, DE @ Firefly Music Festival

07/07 – Bilbao, ES @ BBK Live Festival

07/09 – Lisbon, PT @ NOS Alive! Festival

07/15 – Gräfenhainchen, DE @ Melt Festival

08/10 – Oslo, NO @ Øya Festival

08/11 – Gothenburg, SE @ Way Out West Festival

08/13 – Helsinki, FI @ Flow Festival

08/15 – Budapest, HU @ Sziget Festival
* = w/ Tame Impala

R.I.P. David Bowie

David Bowie died yesterday after fighting cancer for 18 months. His Facebook page made the announcement this morning: he died “peacefully” while surrounded by family. He turned 69 Friday, the same day of the release of his last album, ★ (Blackstar). Read the Facebook statement below. 

Bowie’s son, Duncan Jones, film director, confirmed his death on Twitter, tweeting a photo of himself as an infant with Bowie, “very sorry and sad to say it’s true.” The Hollywood Reporter also confirmed it. 

There will never be such a creative force like Bowie. 

January 10 2016 – David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18 month battle with cancer. While many of you will share in this loss, we ask that you respect the family’s privacy during their time of grief.

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. Spectrolite – Bayonne

2. Disintegrate – Painted Palms

3. Beautiful Abyss – The Heart Strings

4. Day Trip – Yawn

5. Kanye – Bogan Via

6. 1518 – Fever the Ghost

7. Past Lives – BORNS

8. 4th and Roebling – The Districts

9. 309 – Noirre

10. Airplanes – Local Natives

11. Drifty – Social Studies

12. Pen to the Paper – Parlovr

13. Paradise – Wild Yaks

14. Anymore – Surf Rock is Dead

15. January – Wildfront

16. So Badly – Port Moody

17. Girl! – Terror Pigeon

18. Wonderlust – Kid Wave

19. Kinda Girl – Fake Laugh

20. I Love You 47 – Charles Howl

Atlas Sound announces Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel reissue

The solo project from Bradford Cox of Deerhunter, release its debut album debut album Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel in 2008. Cox announced today that the album will be reissued on vinyl and a double-CD February 19 via 4AD. As well as Let the Blind‘s original tracklist, the reissue will have Atlas Sound’s 2008 EP Another Bedroom. See the full tracklisting below.
Atlas Sound last release was Parallax in 2011. Deerhunter’s recent album, Fading Frontier, came out last year.


Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel reissue:
01 A Ghost Story

02 Recent Bedroom

03 River Card

04 Quarantined

05 On Guard

06 Winter Vacation

07 Cold as Ice

08 Scraping Past

09 Small Horror

10 Ready Set Glow

11 Bite Marks

12 After Class

13 Ativan

14 Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel

15 Another Bedroom

16 It Rained

17 Stained Glass Swan

18 The Abandoned Closet

19 Spring Break

20 ABC Glasgow