HAIM were invited recently to Nicks’ house in Los Angeles to talk about subjects like music, life, feminism, and more in a conversation that was three hours long for T: The New York Times Style Magazine. HAIM also joined Nicks on her piano to sing the classic, “Rhiannon” by Fleetwood Mac. You can listen to the song here.
The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist
1. Blue Moon – Beck
2. Plastic Soldiers – Portugal. The Man
3. Superstar – Sonic Youth
4. When You Sleep – My Bloody Valentine
5. She’s Lost Control – Joy Division
6. Walk On the Wild Side – Lou Reed
7. Rock & Roll – The Velvet Underground
8. September Gurls – Big Star
9. Sparky’s Dream – Teenage Fanclub
10. Sometimes Always – The Jesus and Mary Chain
11. Uncertain Smile – The The
12. Radio, Radio – Elvis Costello and the Attractions
13. Boredom – Buzzcocks
14. Into Your Arms – The Lemonheads
15. Out There – Dinosaur Jr.
16. Lips Like a Sugar – Echo and the Bunnymen
17. I Need Some Sleep – Eels
18. Splitter – Calexico
19. 100 Other Lovers – Devotchka
20. Holland, 1945 – Neutral Milk Hotel
Guardians of the Galaxy Soundtrack to Be Released on Vinyl
The box office and record store success, Guardians of the Galaxy, is the first soundtrack with previously released songs that topped the Billboard 200. The vinyl version of the soundtrack was released last month, but screen-print poster company MONDO announced a deluxe vinyl of the Awesome Mix Vol. 1.
MONDO’s first screen-printed vinyl release has cover artwork designed Tyler Stout, who designed the company’s Marvel-related posters in the past, beginning from the first Iron Man. Also, the vinyl is going to be pressed on Purple Infinity Stone colored vinyl and it will come with with one of nine randomly inserted handbills depicting characters from the film.
The soundtrack is priced at $50.00, and the soundtrack is not due to ship until early 2015 because each vinyl, jacket and handbill are going to be handmade. Pre-orders are ongoing, however, and there is always watch home version of the film, which is due out December 9th in physical formats and November 18th digitally. Also, the DVD/Blu-ray comes with a preview of next summer’s Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 Tracklisting:
01. Hooked on a Feeling – Blue Swede
02. Go All the Way – Raspberries
03. Spirit in the Sky – Norman Greenbaum
04. Moonage Daydream – David Bowie
05. Fooled Around and Fell in Love – Elvin Bishop
06. I Want You Back – The Jackson 5
07. I’m Not in Love – 10cc
08. Come and Get Your Love – Redbone
09. Cherry Bomb – The Runaways
10. Escape (The Piña Colada Song) – Rupert Holmes
11. O-O-H Child – The Five Stairsteps
12. Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
Weezer and Bethany Cosentino Perform Go Away on KROQ
To promote their new album, Everything Will Be Alright In The End, Weezer performed on KROQ’s Kevin & Bean Morning Show Friday for an in-studio session. The band also brought Best Coast‘s Bethany Cosentino to perform an acoustic version of “Go Away.”
Francisco the Man Release New Song
Francisco The Man, an alternative rock band hailing from Los Angeles, will release their debut album, Loose Ends, on October 27. Today, the band the band releases their first song since teasing with “Progress” and “Big Ideas” with “It’s Not Your Fault.”
With a dreamier sound to it with the wildness of Weezer, the song has a poppy bass line.
Local Natives Cover Little Dragon’s “After the Rain”
For the indie-rock band, Local Natives, this year has been fairly quiet. The band has mostly been touring for the the last year or so in support of their last album, Hummingbird. The LA band played a show at the Santa Monica pier, where they covered Little Dragon’s “After The Rain”.
With the help of former tour mate Moses Sumney (who now is in Karen O’s band) Local Natives seem to do Little Dragon justice even if soul is not their forte.
You can watch the video at revolt.tv.
George Harrison Remembered by Artists Such as Brian Wilson
The month of September has been filled with tributes to George Harrison. Capitol Records initially released George Harrison: The Apple Years 1968-1975. It is a box set filled with Harrison’s first six solo albums alongside live recordings and demos. Also, Conan O’Brien had a week-long session of performances filled with covers with artists such as Beck, Paul Simon, Harrison’s son Dhani with Big Black Delta, and Norah Jones.
At the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, Harrison was remembered with a tribute concert with artists such as The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd, Spoon’s Britt Daniel, Brian Wilson, “Weird” Al Yankovic, and The Killers’ Brandon Flowers and Mark Stoermer, as well as members of Weezer and The Strokes.
The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist
1. The Bleeding Heart Show – The New Pornographers
2. Nearly Midnight, Honolulu – Neko Case
3. This is Love (Feels Alright) – Camera Obscura
4. Clean Slate – M. Ward
5. Tamer Animals – Other Lives
6. Gun Shy – Widowspeak
7. Carissa – Sun Kil Moon
8. Black Water – Timber Timbre
9. There Can Only Be One – Cass McCombs
10. Baby’s Arms – Kurt Vile
11. From the Sun – Unknown Mortal Orchestra
12. Unless You Speak From Your Heart – Porcelain Raft
13. Sparkly – Young Magic
14. Try to Be – Blue Hawaii
15. The Rat – the Walkmen
16. Plumage – Menomena
17. I Say Fever – Ramona Falls
18. Beach – Peter Wolf Crier
19. WHALE – Yellow Ostrich
20. Forest Whitaker – Bad Books
Rock In Rio USA Announces Headliners
The highly-acclaimed music festival, Rock in Rio revealed the first headliners that will be playing its first US Festival in Las Vegas next May. These headliners are: Metallica, No Doubt, Deftones, Linkin Park, John Legend, and Taylor Swift. The two-weekend festival takes place place May 8th-9th and 15th – 16th at the City of Rock MGM Resorts Festival Grounds.
Tickets can be found at Ticketmaster.com for both weekends at $298.00 GA and $498.00 VIP.
It is considered the world’s largest music festival. Rock in Rio has had festivals in Brazil, Lisbon, and Madrid. The movement to the US is due to the partnership between the festival and Cirque du Soleil, MGM Resorts International, and developer Ron Burkle of The Yucaipa Companies. A deal in which the festival is held once every two years between now and 2019, according to Billboard.
The festival will happen at the City of Rock and will be constructed by the Circus Circus, and will be a 33-acre, 80,000-person venue with five stages. As attendees walk through the grounds they will see “streetscapes” which are made to feel like the UK, Brazil, and the USA, complete with food, shopping, and art. There are plans for rides like a roulette table ferris wheel and a 400-foot zip-line.
Weezer Releases New Song
Weezer recently released “Lonely Girl” which is featured on their new album Everything Will Be Alright In The End which will be released on October 6. It is the band’s latest album since Hurley in 2010.
in an recent interview, Rivers Cuomo said, “I think there are a few ways of adjusting to the new world where people don’t listen to albums anymore – they listen to playlists or just buy singles – and maybe we’ve tried to evolve with the time, but you know that’s not who we are, so ultimately this time we’re going all in again and we’re going to make a great rock album like the good old days and put everything we have into it,” he said. “Maybe no one will appreciate it that way but we think that it’s what our core fans really want from us and that’s what we’re best at.”
The Everything Will Be Alright In The End tracklisting is:
“Ain’t Got Nobody”
“Back to the Shack”
“Eulogy For A Rock Band”
“Lonely Girl”
“I’ve Had It Up To Here”
“The British Are Coming”
“Da Vinci”
“Go Away”
“Cleopatra”
“Foolish Father”
“The Futurescope Trilogy”
“i. The Waste Land”
“ii. Anonymous”
“iii. Return to Ithaka”
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