Grammy nominations have been announced 

The 58th Annual Grammy Awards will take place on February 15. They will broadcast from the Staples Centwr in L.A. live on CBS. This morning, the nominees have been announced.  

The nominees for Record of the Year are D’Angelo’s “Really Love”, Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk”, Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud”, Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space”, and the Weeknd’s “Can’t Feel My Face”.

The nominees for Song of the Year are Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift, Wiz Khalifa, Ed Sheeran, and Little Big Town.

The nominees for Album of the Year are Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly, Taylor Swift’s 1989, Alabama Shakes’ Sound & Color, Chris Stapleton’s Traveller, and the Weeknd’s Beauty Behind the Madness. 

The nominees for for Best New Artist are Courtney Barnett, James Bay, Sam Hunt, Tori Kelly, and Meghan Trainor.

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. How You Like Me Now –  The Heavy

2. Philosophize In It! Chemicalize In It! – Kishi Bashi

3. You’re On – Madeon

4. Luxury Child – Strange Names

5. I Feel It – Avid Dancer

6. Two Wolves – Loose Buttons

7. Getting It On – Sales

8. Waiting For A War – The Morning Benders

9. How We Be – Sinkane

10. Ocean’s Deep – Born Ruffians

11. Spanway Hits – Flake Music

12. The Great Impression – Sparkadia

13. Lucifer’s Eyes – T.O.L.D.

14. Whitby – The Octopus Project

15. Zorbing – Stornoway

16. Twin Rivers – Big Scary

17. Leeward Side – Josh Pyke

18. Surrender – Ball Park Music

19. Eject – Pluto Jonze

20. Tangerine – Hydra Melody

Kendrick Lamar and Pharrell perform “Alright” in L.A.

Power 106 threw their annual Cali Christmas show at L.A.’s Forum last night. Pharrell had a big surprise for the crowd during his set: He performed “Alright” with Kendrick Lamar. It was the first time the two performed the track live together. Watch the full video below via MissInfo.tv.

Future Islands side project the Snails share Christmas song, announce tour

Sam Herring and William Cashion, who play together in Future Islands, also are a part of a not-so-known group named the Snails. The group in 2013 released their debut EP Worth the Wait. Now, two years later, they have re-recorded their Christmas song “Snails Christmas (I Want A New Shell),” which was featured on the compilation Baltimas!!!!!!!!! from 2013. Listen to it below.

The band is planning their debut LP Songs From the Shoebox currently. They’re going on tour next year. Find the dates below.

The Snails:

03-04 Philadelphia, PA – Kungfu Necktie
03-05 Burlington, VA – Signal Kitchen
03-06 Portland, ME – Space
03-08 Providence, RI – AS220
03-09 Brooklyn, NY – Baby’s All Right
03-10 New York, NY – Mercury Lounge
03-11 Washington, DC – Comet Pizza and Ping Pong
03-12 Richmond, VA – Strange Matter
03-13 Asheville, NC – The Mothlight
03-15 Athens, GA – Caledonia Lounge
03-16 Charleston, SC – Tin Roof
03-17 Wilmington, NC – Reggie’s 42nd Street Tavern
03-18 Raleigh, NC – Kings
03-19 Baltimore, MD – The Ottobar

Coldplay to headline 2016 Super Bowl Halftime with Beyoncé and Bruno Mars

Coldplay will perform the Super Bowl 50 halftime show on February 7th at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, The Wall Street Journal states. The could possibly have a special guest for the performance in Beyoncé, who is currently “in talks” to show up, according to The Wall Street Journal. Bruno Mars is also set to perform.

Beyoncé performed the halftime show recently, headlining in 2013. Katy Perry performed at last year’s Super Bowl and was joined by Missy Elliott.

Beyoncé is featured on “Hymn for the Weekend” from Coldplay’s most recent album A Head Full of Dreams, which is set to be out tomorrow. The album will be available on services that do not have a free option, including Apple Music according to the WSJ. Thus meaning no Spotify.

Watch the video for “Adventure of a Lifetime”:

Savages cover Eagles of Death Metal’s “I Love You All the Time” in Paris

Earlier this week Eagles of Death Metal asked musicians to cover their Zipper Down song “I Love You All the Time” during their first interview following the Paris Bataclan attacks and pledged to donate all publishing income to the Sweet Stuff Foundation, which is currently helping victims of the November 13th attacks. At La Maroquinerie in Paris last night, Savages took the request, as Stereogum points out. Watch the footage, which is shot from side-of-stage, below.

M. Ward announces new album, More Rain, shares “Girl From Conejo Valley”

M. Ward will release a new studio album called More Rain on March 4th. Set out via Merge, it will be the singer-songwriter’s eighth album to date after A Wasteland Companion in 2012. The 12-track LP, which has tracks named “Pirate Dial,” “Confession,” and “You’re So Good to Me,” features collaborations with R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, Neko Case, k.d. lang, The Secret Sisters, and Joey Spampinato of NRBQ.

Ward began working on the LP four years ago, according to a press release, and he originally envisioned it as a doo-wop record. It is now considered a “true gotta-stay-indoors, rainy-season record that looks upwards through the weather while reflecting on his past.”

“I think one of the biggest mysteries of America right now is this: How are we able to process unending bad news on Page One and then go about our lives the way the Style section portrays us?” Ward noted in a statement. “There must be a place in our brains that allows us to take a bird’s-eye view of humanity, and I think music is good at helping people-myself included-go to that place.”

Ward, who works in She & Him and Monsters of Folk, as a preview, has shared the track “Girl From Conejo Valley.” Stream it below, followed by the tracklist.

More Rain Tracklist:
01. More Rain
02. Pirate Dial
03. Time Won’t Wait
04. Confession
05. I’m Listening (Child’s Theme)
06. Girl From Conejo Valley
07. Slow Driving Man
08. You’re So Good To Me
09. Temptation
10. Phenomenon
11. Little Baby
12. I’m Going Higher

Cayucas shares video for “Big Winter Jacket”

Californian indie-pop group Cayucas have come a long way since their 2013 debut, Bigfoot, but they still take pride in their graceful guitars and vocals. Today, they have shared the video to “Big Winter Jacket,” the lead track from their sophomore album, Dancing At The Blue Moon. The music video’s setting is in an American suburb with shots of home video footage with specks of scenes from a 1950s-esque neighborhood that seemed fresh out of the first Back to the Future film. Watch below.

Dancing At The Blue Lagoon is out now on Secretly Canadian.

 

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. Brazil – Declan McKenna

2. Outcast – Mainland

3. Flame – Sundara Karma

4. Wait, Wait, Wait – Northern Faces

5. It’s Cool- New Beat Fund

6. May – Ten Sleep

7. Night Swimming – Young Lyre

8. Miss Myself – The Bash Dogs

9. Paradise – Jack Ingram

10. Razorblades – The Perks

11. Born Too Late – Dent May

12. Honolulu – Last Dinosaurs

13. Can’t Get Enough of Myself – Santigold

14. Beggars – The Medics

15. Sky Burial – Regular John

16. Top Floor – Split Seconds

17. Sandy – Oh Mercy

18. Rock It – Little Red

19. Sinner – Seeker Lover Keeper

20. Easy To Love – The Jezabels

Both Adele and Drake want Adele to remix “Hotline Bling”

Adele revealed in a recent interview that she wanted to do an official remix of Drake’s “Hotline Bling.” “I love Drake so much, I even got the coat that’s in the video,” Adele said. In an interview after Drake Night at the Raptor’s game (via Fader), Drake agreed that the two should work together.

“I’d do anything with Adele,” he said. “I’d literally go to Adele’s house right now and do laundry for her.”

Now it’s a matter of waiting.