Yeah Yeah Yeahs recorded a Spotify Singles session, as Stereogum points out. They played their classic “Maps” during their set as well as a cover of Big Star’s “Thirteen.” Listen to both songs below.
The Voidz share new song “Pointlessness”
The Voidz have release another single from their upcoming album Virtue. Listen to “Pointlessness” below. The album is set to be out March 30th via RCA. Their debut album Tyranny was their last release. They performed unreleased music last year, which included a song named “Wink,” at a secret L.A. show.
Courtney Barnett teases new music
Courtney Barnett has shared a video showing her trying out various musical instruments. She goes from an acoustic guitar to an upright piano while Barnett sings what seems to be pieces of new songs she has been working on with the video ending with text that says “Tell Me How You Really Feel.” Watch it below.
The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist
1. National – James Vincent McMorrow
2. Too Much – Tora
3. Contra – Talos
4. 5 a.m. – The Millennium
5. Back Around – Dessert
6. Crab Supernova – Percolator
7. Sorrow – Life Without Buildings
8. Forest Fires – Axel Flovent
9. Colerain – Way Yes
10. Hallucinate – Oliver Riot
11. Fear of the Water -SYML
12. The Wisp Sings – Winter Aid
13. Epicurists – Jack in Water
14. Porz Goret – Yann Tiersen
15. Migratory Birds – Western Skies Motel
16. Cheeks – Shoecraft
17. Them – Nils Frahm
18. Februray Tales – Pill-oh
19. I’m Here – Rosemary & Garlic
20. The Quiet at Night – Mary Lattimore
Watch Anderson .Paak talk Radiohead in new documentary trailer
A hip-hop documentary called Word Is Bond is going to premiere on Showtime on Friday, February 16th. The network shared a trailer featuring Anderson .Paak discussing his influences tody. “I consider myself someone that’s coming up out of the hip-hop culture. And when I really was trying to write music, I thought I was going to be an MC. I thought I was going to be a gangster rapper,” he says. “I was influenced by Snoop and Dre, and there was nothing bigger than that.”
.Paak continues, “I love Radiohead’s stuff. I like sad white boy music, too. That stuff is all important to me, and it all goes into my artistry, but it’s coming from a hip-hop perspective. I feel like it’s coming from a drummer’s perspective.” Watch below.
Word Is Bond is directed by Sacha Jenkins and according to a press release, “the film explores the transformative power of lyrics in the world of hip-hop.” The documentary will also feature interviews with Nas, Pusha T, J. Cole, Rapsody, Big Daddy Kane, and others. Word Is Bond will premiere at 10 p.m. Eastern on Friday, February 16th.
Unknown Mortal Orchestra announce new album Sex & Food
Unknown Mortal Orchestra have announced their new album called Sex & Food. It is set to be out April 6th via Jagjaguwar. They have also shared a video for the track “American Guilt.” Watch the Greg Sharp-directed clip below. The record was recorded in Seoul, Hanoi, Reykjavik, Mexico City, Auckland, and Portland.
Sex & Food:
01 A God Called Hubris
02 Major League Chemicals
03 Ministry of Alienation
04 Hunnybee
05 Chronos Feasts on His Children
06 American Guilt
07 The Internet of Love (That Way)
09 This Doomsday
10 How Many Zeros
11 Not in Love We’re Just High
12 If You’re Going to Break Yourself
Filmmaker Paul Clipson dead at 54
Experimental filmmaker Paul Clipson has died as KQED reports. He passed on February 3rd at 53. His cause of death is unknown. The filmmaker worked with musicianslike Grouper, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, How to Dress Well, Lawrence English, Sarah Davachi, Maggi Payne, and Black Spirituals. Clipson moved to San Francisco in the 1990s where he began making visuals for experimental musicians while working as a film projectionist at San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art for two decades.
Watch a new clip from Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs
A clip from Isle of Dogs, the latest film from Wes Anderson has arrived. A group of dogs, in the clip, fight over a bag of scraps. Watch it below, via Vulture. The stop-motion film features a cast of Yoko Ono, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Scarlett Johannson, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, and more. It will arrive in theaters on March 23rd.
Blood Orange shares 2 new songs for Black History Month
Dev Hynes, aka Blood Orange, has released two new songs for Black History Month. Hynes shared the tracks, “Christopher & 6th” and “June 12th,” with an Instagram post with the caption, “U must luv yourself.” Listen to the songs below.
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The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist
1. I’m Going Away- Elizabeth Cotten
2. Fade – Angelo De Augustine
3. Something On Your Mind – Karen Dalton
4. Tonight – Sybille Baier
5. Woncha Come On Home – Joan Armatrading
6. Sunflower River Blues – John Fahey
7. Diamond Day – Vashti Bunyan
8. Haenim – Kim Jung Mi
9. Ask Me Know Questions – Bridget St John
10. One By One – Connie Converse
11. Fire By The River – Harumi
12. Meet Me in the City – Junior Kimbrough
13. Yama Yama – Yamasuki Singers
14. There’s A Light – Shirley Ann Lee
15. Then You Tell Me Goodbye – Bettye Swann
16. Blue Eyed Baby – Ed Askew
17. I Don’t Like – Lee Jung Hwa
18. Damn Shame -Jolie Holland
19. Fallin’ Rain – Link Wray
20. After Laughter (Comes Tears) – Sweet Tea
