Deerhunter went to the KCRW studio in Los Angeles to perform four songs from their October release, Fading Frontier. They played “Breaker,” “Living My Life,” “Duplex Planet,” and “Snakeskin,” as well as “Desire Lines” from the 2010 Halcyon Digest and a song they improved called “Escape From The Nursery.” After the performance, lead vocalist Bradford Cox talked extensively with the host of Morning Becomes Eclectic, Travis Holcombe, about the music industry’s politics and the distance he feels from it:
I never asked for anything. I never sent out a demo in my life. I never asked any label to pay attention to me. Do I look like someone who would ask to play your radio station? If you saw me as a 10-year-old kid, you would think, “I hope this kid doesn’t talk to me.”
Cox also gave the station a compliment and thank you for letting the band perform in the studio:
It’s nice that some radio stations still allow us to do what we want to do and not just carbon copy our album for some promotional scheme.
Grimes released her new album, Art Angels, via 4AD today. Spotify users can stream the album. It is also available through Apple Music.
The 15-track LP is Claire Boucher’s fourth following the 2012 Visions. The result of months of writing and time in the studio came only acter Boucher had scrapped an entire collection of songs.
One song on the album, called “Kill V Maim,” was written in the perspective of Al Pacino in The Godfather Pt 2. “Except he’s a vampire who can switch gender and travel through space,” she said to Q.
According to an interview with Dazed and Confused, there is a song “from the perspective of a butterfly in the Amazon as people are cutting down trees; there’s a song that’s from the perspective of angels who are polluted, so they’re crying polluted tears.”
Art Angels Tracklist:
01. laughing and not being normal
02. California
03. SCREAM (feat. Aristophanes)
04. Flesh without Blood
05. Belly of the Beat
06. Kill V. Maim
07. Artangels
08. Easily
09. Pin
10. Realiti ^
11. World Princess part II
12. Venus Fly (feat. Janelle Monáe)
13. Life in the Vivid Dream
14. Butterfly
15. Realiti (Demo) *
Big Boi appeared on today’s episode of ESPN’s “The Dan LeBatard Show,” where he asked Big Boi about the most memorable sports event he has ever played. After a seeing, Big Boi then talked about how OutKast were invited to play a the Super Bowl halftime show once but they turned down the chance because André 3000 didn’t agree to play anything but full songs. Listen to his comments here around the four-minute mark.
The songs they were to perform were “The Way You Move” and “Hey Ya!.”According to Big Boi, the organizers of the Bowl refused to give them enough time to perform both songs in full. Big Boi said,” [Andre] didn’t want to cut the songs, he wanted to do the full songs. He said, ‘Nah, can’t do it.'”
When Big Boi was asked if he tried to convince André to change his mind, Big Boi said: “A lot.” He also said they laughed about it recently. “Hopefully they invite us back,” he said.
Big Boi implies that they were asked to play the 2004 halftime show when the infamous “wardrobe malfunction” incident occurred during Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson’s performance.
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, 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 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—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.
Ever since growing to popularity with songs like Fiona Coyne and Mr. Wonderful, Skylar Spence (fka Saint Pepsi) has returned to San Antonio, but now with a full band. On October 29th, 2015, Skylar Spence, along with Mark Redito (fka Spazzkid) and Ernest Gonzales, who is a local DJ in San Antonio, performed at the Paper Tiger in the midst of a tour in support of Spence’s first album under his new name, Prom King.
Ernest Gonzales played an energetic set to start out the night as people filed into the venue. He played remixes mostly, however, it still got the crowd moving and ready for the rest of the night. The ambiance he set created the tone of the night: energetic and lively.
Redito has an undeniable stage presence as he played his remixes of Vanessa Carlton’s “A Thousand Miles” and the standard iPhone text and notification tones. Although there was a brief stint where he had to restart his computer due to technical difficulties, thus halting the set, he continued with as much enthusiasm and energy as before he got the spinning wheel of death. Also playing originals, including tracks off of his 2014 album, Promises. Dancing and jumping around the stage and consistently interacting with the crowd, he never seemed to stand still during the whole set, except for the computer restarting incident.
By the time Skylar Spence and Co. walked onto the stage, the intensity in the room had risen to the highest it had been all night and the band flew into their set, beginning “Private Caller.” Spence mentioned during the set that he and the band felt like San Antonio was going to be one of their best shows of the tour during soundcheck, and they did not hold back their excitement about it. Jokes about Boston were said, breakfast taco suggestions were given out, and there was a short speech from Spence about how everyone who went to the show was “Mr. Wonderful.” It was an extremely upbeat performance from the band, each member getting into their performance and overall seemingly enjoying themselves.
Catch Skylar Spence and the band on the rest of tour which can be checked out below.
The Melodic Tree 