Tame Impala shares video for “The Less I Know the Better”

Tame Impala have released the video for “The Less I Know the Better” from their recent album, Currents. The story tells of a basketball player who’s heart gets broken when the cheerleader he fell in love with begins hooking up with the gorilla mascot of the team named Trevor. Watch the Canada-directed video here.

There are a few somewhat NSFW shots, but there are also some intensely imaginative shots as well, the dancers’ in King Kong hand outfits or the animated psychedelic breakdown. It is as creative as the album it comes off of.

 

Interview with Verisimilitude: Periscope, Pronunciations, History

The local San Antonio instrumental scene has grown over the last few years and Verisimilitude, a band originally hailing from Austi, is making their mark. Here is the interview with the band, all 42 minutes of the conversation. The presale for AIM Fest, cordinated by the band, begins tomorrow, November 27th.

The Killers prepare for 2015 Christmas single “Dirt Sledding”

For the past nine years, the Killers have released a Christmas single every year, with no exception to this year. The band’s preparing for a new one called “Dirt Sledding,” as mentioned in the Las Vegas Weekly profile of the band’s former tour manager and current Killers music video Santa Ryan Pardey:

A deranged Santa walks up to the camera in the middle of the desert, pulls a tomahawk out of his bag and lights it on fire. The crazed man in red throws the ax at his target, a stuffed teddy bear with a picture of Killers frontman Brandon Flowers taped to its head. It’s a bull’s-eye.

That’s the opening scene of “Dirt Sledding,” The Killers’ upcoming Christmas music video and annual charitable contribution to the (RED) Campaign.

Pardey’s appeared as a character in two of their singles already — 2007’s “Don’t Shoot Me Santa” and 2012’s “I Feel It In My Bones” — and he will return to his role in their upcoming video for the track, which the band is set to debut onJimmy Kimmel’s (RED) World AIDS Day show next Tuesday night, December 1st.

The band and associates have been hinting at the video, which was directed Matthew Gray Gubler, for the past month.

Wild Nothing announces new album Life of Pause, shares “TV Queen” and “To Know You”

Jack Tatum will return on February 19th with his latest Wild Nothing album. Life of Pause, which is the follow-up to Nocturne, will arrive through Captured Tracks (Bella Union in the UK/Europe). It has the first two singles “TV Queen” and To Know You.” Listen below.

The album was recorded in Stockholm and Los Angeles with Thom Monahan as producer. Peter Bjorn & John’s John Eriksson and Medicine’s Brad Laner guest on the album as well.

In a statement, Tatum discussed working on the new album:

I desperately wanted for this to be the kind of record that would displace me. I’m terrified by the idea of being any one thing, or being of any one genre. And whether or not I accomplish that, I know that my only hope of getting there is to constantly reinvent. That reinvention doesn’t need to be drastic, but every new record has to have it’s own identity, and it has to have a separate set of goals from what came before.

Life of Pause:

01 Reichpop
02 Lady Blue
03 A Woman’s Wisdom
04 Japanese Alice
05 Life of Pause
06 Alien
07 To Know You
08 Adore
09 TV Queen
10 Whenever I
11 Love Underneath My Thumb

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. Magic Mountain – firekid

2. Glory Days – 1955

3. Pain – Silk Rhodes

4. Everything – Kaptan

5. Julia – Fast Romantics

6.  Ride With You – Soren Bryce

7. Loudspeaker – MUNA

8. Nagasaki – The Edward Furlongs

9. By the Lakeside – Katie Day

10. High Strung – Shy Technology

11. I Love You So – The Walters

12. Rockaway – Summer Salt

13. Show Me – Team Me

14. Seventeen – Sjowgren

15. Empress – Morningsiders

16. Celeste – Ezra Vine

17. Anything That’s Bad – Deal Casino

18. Parasite – Armors

19. Charlie Grey – Valise

20. Overdose – Maudlin Strangers

Untapped Festival San Antonio in photos
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Saint Motel
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Tokyo Police Club
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Watch Boots perform “C.U.R.E” on Colbert

Boots performed on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night for his first television performance after the release of his solo debut AQUARIA. The Beyoncé and Run the Jewels producer, known for his unique arrangements, gave the audience a spirit rendition of “C.U.R.E.” The performance was shown in a psychedelic way, with a glowing light show and morphed visuals. Watch the replay below.

M.I.A. releases new song “Borders”

M.I.A. announced Matahdatah, her upcoming new album/film about borders over the summer. It is described as “truly global and characteristically DIY,” and the release will have “a collection of new M.I.A. songs, each accompanied by videos directed and edited by M.I.A. herself with each video filmed in a different country,” according to an official statement.

“The concept for this LP is ‘broader then a border’ and MATAHDATAH is the journal ofMATANGI,” the singer said, adding, “Sometimes I move vertical and sometimes I move horizontal.”

There was already a preview of the LP with the audiovisual piece “Broader Than a Border,” that featured Matangi cut “Warriors” and a new song named “Swords.” Today, M.I.A.has released another installment as the beat-heavy track “Borders”. Listen below.

Watch Albert Hammond Jr. perform “Razor’s Edge” on Kimmel

In August, Albert Hammond Jr. performed The Tonight Show in support of his solo record, Momentary Masters, which had then recently dropped. Last night, Hammond performed on the late-night circuit again with his LP, playing standout track “Razor’s Edge” for Jimmy Kimmel audiences. Throughout the interview, The Strokes’ guitarist swung his guitar around as if it was a toy, slinging it over his back and holding it over his face.

Watch the replay below.