The Velvet Underground will celebrate their 50th anniversary with a new vinyl box set. The 6xLP box set will include four studio albums: The Velvet Underground and Nico, White Light/White Heat, The Velvet Underground, and Loaded. It will also feature Nico’s debut, Chelsea Girl, and a recreation of the Velvet Underground’s “lost” studio album, 1969, which will feature two bonus tracks. It will also come with a 48-page booklet with a foreword by drummer Maureen “Moe” Tucker. The set will have a limited release of 1000 copies, and is set to be out February 23rd via Verve Records/UMe.
Watch Rihanna in the first Ocean’s 8 trailer
The Ocean’s 8 trailer, the Ocean’s Eleven spin-off led by women, has come out. Watch the video below. The film features Rihanna, Anne Hathaway, Sandra Bullock, Sarah Paulson, Helena Bonham Carter, Awkwafina, Mindy Kaling, and more. It was co-written and directed by The Hunger Games director Gary Ross. The film follows a heist at New York City’s Met Gala. The film is set to be out June 8th, 2018.
The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist
1. Iblis Amghar – Mdou Moctar
2. Green – Young Jesus
3. Valley of Sadness – Karl Blau
4. Your Days Gone Like a Shadow – Jozef Van Wissem
5. The One to Wait – CCFX
6. Cannons – Youth Lagoon
7. Monkey Bars – Pickle Boy
8. Seagull for Chuck Berry – Gunn – Truscinski Duo
9. Cannibal Planet – OCS
1o. Dream Sequence – Posse
11. Money for Breakfast – Spinning Coin
12. Trouble – Grapetooth
13. New Shapes of Life – Martin Carr
14. Bad Behavior – True Blue
15. Little Bird – Livingmore
16. Later – Cones
17. Dead Ringer – Way Yes
18. Color in Your Cheeks – Ibibio Sound Machine
19. Barely Above – Olivia Kaplan
20. Twisted Sky – Dana Buoy
Flume soundtracks new Greenpeace video
Australian producer Harley Streten, aka Flume, has given “previously unreleased sounds” for a Greenpeace Australia Pacific video. “This is important!” he wrote in the description. Watch it below.
Blood Orphans, Pickle Boy, Molly Drag at Josh’s Restaurant in photos
Listen to Squarepusher composed start-up music for new Super Nintendo system
Squarepusher has composed original music for the new Super Nintendo system by Analogue called the Super Nt. Besides providing the soundtrack to a video game trailer released in October, he also wrote the start-up sequence. Listen to it below. The system will feature wireless controllers and is compatible with over 2,200 Super Nintendo games.
Watch Black Thought’s 10-Minute Funk Flex freestyle
Black Thought from The Roots, today, appeared on Funkmaster Flex’s Hot 97 show and did a 10-minute freestyle over the beat from Mobb Deep’s “The Learning (Burn).” Watch it below. The rapper name-drops the Kardashian Wests (“pre-Kardashian Kanye, my rhyme play immaculate/same cadence as D.O.C pre-accident”), other legendary MCs (“I’m K. Dot Lamar meets Tupac Shakur/got profiled by a few cops, I’m too hot to charge”), and references Shakespeare (“I’ve been having visions of Nat Turner holding his master’s head/like Yorick and Horatio in Hamlet/Smacking it like a tennis racket underhanded/Send a message through the gram, the eagle has landed”) troughout the video. In response to the freestyle, Black Thought tweeted, “That verse was just what I had to say at the moment lol.”
Watch SZA perform “Supermodel” on “Fallon”
SZA was performed on last night’s episode of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” Watch her performance of “Supermodel” backed by a string section below.
David Byrne announces tour
David Byrne has announced new solo tour dates in 2018 that begins with a performance at Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey, and will go through through the east coast, including shows in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New York, and more. Byrne will also perform European festival dates for the summer as well.
David Byrne:
03-03 Red Bank, NJ – Count Basie Theatre
03-04 Wilkes-Barre, PA – F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Art
03-06 Buffalo, NY – Center for the Arts
03-07 Hershey, PA – Hershey Theatre
03-09 Waterbury, CT – Palace Theater
03-10 Kingston, NY – Ulster Performing Arts Center
03-16 Santiago, Chile – Lollapalooza Chile
03-18 Buenos Aires, Argentina – Lollapalooza Argentina
06-25 Zagreb, Croatia – Inmusic Festival
07-06 Roskilde, Denmark – Roskilde Festival
Angel Olsen releases “Unfucktheworld” wrapping paper
Angel Olsen has shared holiday merchandise. The singer-songwriter is selling “Unfucktheworld” wrapping paper as a part of her gift bundle, which also comes with three vinyls, Burn Your Fire for No Witness, My Woman, and a green pressing of Phases, and a t-shirt and tote. Check out the red and green wrapping paper below, and purchase the holiday bundle at the Secretly Store.
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