Stella McCartney has collaborated with David Lynch and his son, Austin Lynch, on a new short film called Curtain’s Up. The film, created with Tête-à-Tête, the Los Angeles-based creative studio run by Austin and artist Case Simmons, shows David Lynch as he narrates the relationship between filmmaking and transcendental meditation. There was a slew of appearances from the likes of Stella McCartney, BØRNS, Lola Kirke, Ashton Sanders, electronic artist SKY H1. Watch Curtain’s Up on Nowness.com.
Mac DeMarco has released a new cover of “Honey Moon” by Japanese musician, Haruomi Hosono from Yellow Magic Orchestra, Happy End. Listen to it below. The song was originally on Hosono’s album Tropical Dandy. DeMarco’s version was released on Light in the Attic, which is also reissuing five of Hosono’s solo albums. These reissues are the LPs have been released outside of Japan.
Courtney Barnett has shared a new video for her song “Charity,” which is on her recent album Tell Me How You Really Feel. The video was shot to 16mm film and was directed by Ashley Connor and it follows Barnett and her band during a day in Toronto. Watch it below.
Four Tet has released a new live album titled Live at Funkhaus Berlin, 10th May 2018. The album takes the listener to the producer’s live set that features changed versions of tracks from his last album New Energy as well as songs from his albums’ Morning/Evening and Pink. Listen to the album below via Bandcamp.
Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus have formed a new band named boygenius. They also have announced the boygenius EP, which is out via Matador on November 9th. Listen to the three new tracks released ahead of the EP, “Me & My Dog,” “Stay Down,” and “Bite the Hand” below with the tracklist.
Baker, Bridgers, and Dacus recorded boygenius together in Los Angeles this past June. Speaking about the group’s formation in a press release, Baker explained, “When we met, Lucy and Phoebe and I were in similar places in our lives and our musical endeavors, but also had similar attitudes toward music that engendered an immediate affinity.”
boygenius EP:
01 Bite the Hand
02 Me & My Dog
03 Souvenir
04 Stay Down
05 Salt in the Wound
06 Ketchum, ID
Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers with Lucy Dacus:
11-04 Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
11-06 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
11-07 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
11-08 Boston, MA – Orpheum Theatre
11-10 Toronto, Ontario – Danforth Music Hall
11-11 Detroit, MI – Majestic Theatre
11-12 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
11-13 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
11-15 St. Louis, MO – The Pageant
11-16 Madison, WI – The Sylvee
11-17 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
11-19 Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
11-20 Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot
11-23 Vancouver, British Columbia – Commodore Ballroom
11-24 Seattle, WA – The Moore Theatre
11-25 Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
11-27 Oakland, CA – Fox Theater
11-29 San Diego, CA – The Observatory North Park
11-30 Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern
Julien Baker:
08-25 Asbury Park, NJ – The Stone Pony (Shadow of the City)
08-29 Cologne, Germany – c/o pop Festival
09-01 Tollard Royal, England – Larmer Tree Gardens (End of the Road Festival)
09-03 Brussels, Belgium – Le Botanique @
09-04 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso @
09-05 Hamburg, Germany – Elbphilharmonie @
09-07 Copenhagen, Denmark – Hotel Cecil @
09-08 Bergen, Norway – Perfect Sounds Forever
09-10 Stockholm, Sweden – Kagelbanan @
09-13 Leipzig, Germany – UT Connewitz @
09-14 Prague, Czech Republic – NoD @
09-15 Vienna, Austria – Flex @
09-16 Munich, Germany – Ampere @^
09-18 Milan, Italy – Associazione Ohibò @
09-20 Düdingen, Switzerland – Bad Bonn @
09-22 Paris, France – La Maroquinerie @
09-24 Manchester, England – Gorilla @
09-25 Glasgow, Scotland – Saint Luke’s @
09-27 Dublin, Ireland – Vicar Street @
09-29 London, England – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire @
@ with Becca Mancari
^ with Half Waif
Phoebe Bridgers:
08-21 London, England – Scala
09-20 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium @
09-20 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium @
09-22 Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Bowl @
09-27 Philadelphia, PA – The Mann Center @
09-28 Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion @
09-29 Forest Hills, NY – Forest Hills Stadium (The National Presents: There’s No Leaving New York)
10-03 Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren ^
10-04 Pioneertown, CA – Pappy & Harriet’s ^
10-05 Santa Cruz, CA – Cocoanut Grove ^
10-07 Sanoma, CA – Gundlach Bundschu Winery ^
@ with The National
^ With Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
Lucy Dacus:
08-21 Guildford, England – The Boileroom
08-23 Düdingen, Switzerland – Bad Bonn
08-25 Aarhus, Denmark – RECession Festival
08-26 Malmö, Sweden – Plan B
08-27 Oslo, Norway – Øyafestivalen
08-28 Bergen, Norway – Perfect Sounds Forever
08-31 Tollard Royal, England – Larmer Tree Gardens (End of the Road Festival)
09-02 Dublin, Ireland – Electric Picnic Festival
09-14 Charlottesville, VA – Jefferson Theater
09-29 Upper Marlboro, MD – REI Outessafest
10-22 Norwich, England – Norwich Arts Centre
10-23 Bristol, England – Thekla
10-25 Leicester, England – The Cookie
10-26 Glasgow, Scotland – Mono
10-27 Manchester, England – Now Wave
10-29 Brighton, England – The Haunt
10-31 London, England Islington Assembly Hall
Japanese Breakfast, aka Michelle Zauner, has written an essay dedicated to her experiences in H-Mart, an Asian-American supermarket chain, for the New Yorker. Zauner, in the essay, reflected on the memories she has of wandering around the store with her late mother. She also illustrated a food court scene with descriptions of her favorite Korean food with glimpses of the grief tied to her mother passing from a fight with cancer. Read it in full here.
Animal Collective has returned with Tangerine Reef, their audiovisual collaboration with “avant-garde coral macro-videography” duo Coral Morphologic, today. The album and film are both below. Find the album on Apple Music here.
The project is in celebration of the 2018 International Year of the Reef. Tangerine Reef originally premiered during David Lynch’s Festival of Disruption earlier this year in New York.
The film aspect of Tangerine Reef takes viewers into the oceans to explore the rare reefs of the oceans and to find “a literal underwater collective of animals,” as a press release notes. Also according to the press release, there was no artificial enhancement used in the film which meant the “visual tone poem consisting of time-lapse and slow pans across surreal aquascapes of naturally fluorescent coral and cameos by alien-like reef creatures” are 100% natural.
Tangerine Reef Tracklist: 01. Hair Cutter
02. Buffalo Tomato
03. Inspector Gadget
04. Buxom
05. Coral Understanding
06. Airpipe (To A New Transition)
07. Jake And Me
08. Coral By Numbers
09. Hip Sponge
10. Coral Realization
11. Lundsten Coral
12. Palythoa
13. Best Of Times (Worst Of All)
French pop artist Christine and the Queens, aka Héloïse Letissier, has shared a new video for her song, “5 Dollars.” The video was directed by Colin Solal Cardo and it follows Christine as she gets dressed for the day. Watch it below. Christine describes the video as “American Gigolo with a twist.”
“It’s dealing with some kind of love – the kind you can buy,” Christine says about the song. “It’s a literal interpretation. A note for a shag – how surprisingly soothing this can be! The power ratio runs clear, like water in your hands; it becomes a pure gesture of love, of ultimate consent.”
“5 Dollars” is from Christine and the Queens’ upcoming album, Chris, set to be out September 21th.
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