Twin Shadow performed on The Late Late Show with James Corden last night, marking their second show after getting in a nasty tour bus accident in April. George Lewis Jr.’s hand is still healing after having reconstructive surgery so he is not playing the guitar but he is still clearly happy to be holding a mic. He gave an energetic performance of “To The Top” from their latest album, Eclipse which you can rewatch here.
This performance is part of preparing the band to be road-ready again as they begin making up postponed tour dates until the middle of August. They also released the free Night Rally demos mixtape which features tracks Lewis JR. rediscovered while recovering from the accident.
Foals will return with their fourth studio album, What Went Down, next month. The British band has premiered the music video for “Mountain at My Gates.”
The clip is a visual experience, for it is the first of its kind to be made with GoPro’s Spherical virtual reality technology. The video was directed by Nabil, who has also worked with Kanye West, FKA twigs, and Frank Ocean. The panoramic footage can be manipulated on Google Chrome or the YouTube app on phones by play with a mouse or the AWSD keys. Watch the video below.
What Went Down is due out on August 28th via Warner Music.
Amazon Music will be sharing playlists of new material called Amazon Acoustics on July 31st. Even though many of the 3o tracks will be covers such as The District’s taking on David Bowie’s “Ashes to Ashes” or Surfer Blood’s rendition of OutKast’s “Hey Ya,” the playlist will also include a handful of originals. Amazon shared one of the originals today, Deer Tick’s “Grandfather Song.”
John McCauley, the band’s frontman, told Entertainment Weekly that “Grandfather Song” was demoeed during the sessions for the band’s album Negativity from 2013. “It didn’t wind up on the record,” he said, “so I decided to revisit it recently and I finished the song in my spare time at home in Nashville.” Listen to it below.
Amazon is set to release one more track from Amazon Acoustics before it is officially released and they are allowing fans to vote. The choices are The Griswolds’ cover of Maroon 5’s “Sugar,” Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors” covered by Joshua Radin, or Peter Matthew Bauer’s cover of St. Vincent’s “Prince Johnny.” Voting will hapen on Amazon Music’s Facebook page and will only be on for 24 hours.
Youth Lagoon, dream pop songwriter, has a new fall tour set in support of his upcoming album, Savage Hills Ball Room, which is planned to be released on Septemeber 25th through Fat Possum. The tour, which goes from early September to late November, will have dates in both North America and Europe.
Check out the full itinerary below.
Youth Lagoon 2015 Tour Dates:
09/10 – Bozeman, MT @ Filling Station
09/11 – Missoula, MT @ Top Hat
09/12 – Boise, ID @ Egyptian Theatre
09/21 – Brooklyn, NY @ Rough Trade
09/24 – London, UK @ XOYO
09/26 – Paris, FR @ Cafe De La Danse
09/28 – Brussels, BE @ Rotonde Botanique
09/30 – Amsterdam, NL @ Bitterzoet
10/02 – Berlin, DE @ Magnet Club
10/04 – Copenhagen, DK @ Jazzhouse
10/15 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
10/16 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
10/17 – Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck
10/19 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
10/20 – Milwaukee, MN @ First Avenue
10/21 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
10/23 – Columbus, OH @ A&R Music Bar
10/25 – Toronto, ON @ The Opera House
10/29 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall
10/30 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
10/31 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
11/01 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
11/03 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
11/04 – Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
11/05 – Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge
11/06 – Oxford, MS @ Proud Larry’s
11/07 – New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks
11/09 – Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live Studio
11/10 – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada
11/11 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk
11/13 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
11/14 – Solana Beach, CA @ Belly Up Tavern
11/17 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre
11/18 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
11/20 – Seattle, WA @ Neumo’s
11/21 – Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
Listen to “The Knower,” which is the first single from Savage Hills Ballroom:
Roger Waters from Pink Floyd headlined the Newport Folk Festival last night, which marked his first time performing live since 2013. Earlier in the day, My Morning Jacket performed a surprise set and they served as Waters’ backing band. Waters set began with the live debut of “Crystal Clear Brooks,” a new song, and the acoustic performance included a few of Pink Floyd classics as well as covers, including a Bob Dylan tribute 5o years after Dylan’s famous electric set at the festival. Singer Amy Helm, who is the daughter of the late Levon Helm, Lucius, fiddler Sara Watkins, and guitarist G.E. Smith joined the performance as well. Watch some fan-shot footage of the collaboration below.
Setlist:
“Crystal Clear Brooks” (live debut)
“Mother” (Pink Floyd)
“The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range”
“Hello In There” (John Prine cover)
“Wish You Were Here” (with Sara Watkins) (Pink Floyd)
“Wide River To Cross” (Buddy Miller cover) (with Amy Helm)
“Amused To Death”
“Brain Damage” (Pink Floyd)
“Eclipse” (Pink Floyd)
“Forever Young” (Bob Dylan cover) (with Sara Watkins and Amy Helm)
Prince released a new track named “HARDROCKLOVER” on his Soundcloud. Now, 3rdEyeGirl, his band, revealed to BBC 6 Music that a new record will come later this year. It is entitled The Hit & Run Album.
3rdEyeGirl told 6 Music: “Super hardcore Prince fans that know every song he’s ever recorded – we refer to them as ‘The Purple Collective’ or ‘The Purple Army’ – this album is absolutely for them, because it’s super funky. It’s weird, there’s a lot of experimental sound. It’s just hit after hit and definitely caters to those fans who just love to hear what Prince has to say, rather than wanting to always hear that classic Purple Rain Prince sound.”
The record will feature deep cut “1,000 Hugs and Kisses” and a new version of “This Could Be Us,” that was originally on last year’s Art Official Age.
After wanting to soundtrack your summer barbeque, Mac DeMarco wants to invite you over for coffee. Seriously. “My House by the Water,” the finishing song on his new mini-LP, Another One, ends with DeMarco giving out the address to his home in Far Rockaway, New York and inviting people over for a cup o’ joe.
“The way I rationalize it, to have the address you’ll have to listen to the album to the very end,” DeMarco said to the Wall Street Journal. “Second, to even consider coming to my house you have to be a kind of a superfan. And thirdly, it’s in such a weird part of New York that if they actually get there, they deserve a cup of coffee.”
Another One was leaked a few weeks ago and DeMarco estimates the 30 people have come to his door. When the album gets released on August 7th, there will be ever more of a trek to the singer’s “kind of sketchy” neighborhood for coffee and a chat.
Some of indie music’s greats are working towards Gazing with Tranquility, an upcoming tribute album to the renowned folk musician, Donovan.
Set to be released on October 16th, the LP features artists such as Sharon Van Etten, The Flaming Lips, Hamilton Leithauser from The Walkmen, and Astronautalis who perform cuts from the singer-songwriter’s discography including “Catch the Wind,” “Colours,” and “Mellow Yellow.” The 15 song LP, which is through nonprofit label Rock the Cause Records, also includes a cover of “Atlantis” by Mixd Up Kidz, pseudonym of former drummer for The Replacements, Chris Mars.
All the proceeds from the album will go to Huntington’s Hope, an organization that helps children with Huntington’s Disease. See the full tracklist below.
Gazing with Tranquility: A Tribute to Donovan Tracklist:
01. Mixd Up Kidz – Atlantis
02. Apollo Cobra – Barabajagal (Love is Hot)
03. Maudlin – Epistle to Dippy
04. Colony House – Sunshine Superman
05. Hamilton Leithauser – To Susan On the West Coast…
06. Jillian Rae – Superlungs My Supergirl
07. Ivan & Alyosha – Catch the Wind
08. Sharon Van Etten – Teen Angel
09. Brett Dennen – Colours
10. Lissie – Happiness Runs
11. Little Man – There is a Mountain
12. Astronautalis – Season of the Witch
13. Savannah Smith – Lalena
14. Verskotzi – Mellow Yellow
15. The Flaming Lips – Atlantis
Thundercat is set to go on a North American tour for the mini-album, The Beyond/Where the Giants Roam. Before, however, the singer/producer/bassist has released the video for LP track, “Them Changes.” The clip, directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada (Dave Sitek’s Maximum Balloon, Capital Cities), has samurai battling one another.
Estrada explained the narrative behind the video in a press release:
“Thundercat’s take on heartbreak is so atypical that I figured the video for the song should be anything but a classic relationship-gone-wrong story. Stories like athletes’ careers ending after injuries or artists losing their site [sic]/hearing/ability to perform; these concepts are truly heartbreaking. I also know that Thundercat has a thing for samurais — so I saw an opportunity to make everyone happy here. Or everyone sad, I guess.”
Watch below.
Thundercat 2015 Tour Dates: 08/01-02 – Happy Valley, OR @ Pickathon Festival
08/06 – Washington, DC @ Afropunk Pre-Party @ The Howard Theatre
08/08 – Los Angeles, CA @ Low End Theory Festival
08/23 – Brooklyn, NY @ Afropunk Festival
09/17 – San Diego, CA @ Cabsah
09/18 – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
09/19 – Albuquerque, NM @ Historic El Rey Theatre
09/20 – Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
09/22 – Tulsa, OK @ Vanguard
09/23 – Austin, TX @ Holy Mountain
09/24 – Houston, TX @ Studio at Warehouse Live
09/25 – San Antonio, TX @ Alamo City Club
09/26 – Denton, TX @ Oaktopia
09/27 – Toronto, ON @ The Hoxton
09/29 – Montreal, QC @ Theatre Fairmount
09/30 – Boston, MA @ Middle East Downstairs
10/01 – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
10/03 – Atlanta, GA @ Afropunk Festival
10/04 – Vancouver, BC @ The Alexander
10/06 – Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
10/07 – Portland, OR @ Star Theatre
10/08 – Arcata, CA @ Arcata Theatre
10/09 – San Francisco, CA @ 1015 Folsom
10/10 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Velvet Jones
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