Solange has returned to Twitter after deleting her account on the platform in August. She shared photos from the Hurricane Harvey benefit she played earlier tonight in Boston, and her Hollywood Bowl show from last weekend. Solange left Twitter after the rise of neo-nazi rhetoric after the violent incidents in Charlottesville, Virginia. She mentioned Takiyah Thompson, the 22-year-old Carolina Central University student in her final tweet, who was arrested for taking down a Confederate monument in Durham, North Carolina.
Louis C.K.’s new movie gets theatrical release date
Louis C.K.’s first movie in 16 years is coming to theaters. I Love You, Daddy will be in theaters in New York City and Los Angeles starting Friday, November 17th and will receive a wider, North American, release on Friday, December 1st. The film is his first feature length film in 16 years and stars C.K., John Malkovich, Chloë Grace Moretz, Rose Byrne, Edie Falco, Charlie Day, Pamela Adlon, Helen Hunt, and Ebonee Noel. I Love You, Daddy also premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this year.
Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett hang out with family in new video
Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett have released a new video for their song, “Continental Breakfast,” from their upcoming album Lotta Sea Lice. The clip was directed by Danny Cohen, who says it delves “into their lives and the time spent with family and friends between recording /touring.” Watch the video below. Lotta Sea Lice is due out October 13th via Matador and Marathon Artists.
The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist
1. All the Things You Do – Winter
2. On a Bus – Baseball Gregg
3. Sodus – Cemeteries
4. Ontario Gothic – Foxes in Fiction
5. Henry – Soccer Mommy
6. Set It on Fire – Night Knight
7. Made-Up True Love – Slaughter Beach
8. Nature (Poem) – Acid Ghost
9. Lie Back – Shy Nature
10. Hey Good Lookin’ – Blonde Tongues
11. Feels Like We’re Dying – Johnny Goth
12. Just Kiss Her – Concorde
13. The Doorbells
14. Good as Gone – BOYO
15. Mistakes – Poppies
16. Like a Wheel – Spissy
17. Take Me Over – Ari Roar
18. You’re Blue I’m Blue – Velvet Morning
19. I Got Drunk – Miya Folick
20. Fool – Frankie Cosmos
Watch Neil Young get inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall Of Fame
Neil Young got inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall Of Fame in a ceremony at Toronto’s Massey Hall last night. “I’m terribly proud to be Canadian,” Young during his speech after being introduced by Randy Bachman. “I know I’ve travelled a lot … but I’ve always been a Canadian citizen. I’ve never been a citizen of anywhere else, even though I love the USA. By the way, my message is: They’re already great.” Bruce Cockburn, Stéphane Venne, and Beau Dommage were inducted as well, and the ceremony had performances from Buffy Sainte-Marie, k.d. lang, and Randy Bachman. Watch Young’s acceptance speech here.
Day For Night lineup has been announced
The other day, Day for Night, the art and music festival in Houston, Texas, announced its 2017 lineup. Among the headliners are Nine Inch Nails, Thom Yorke, Solange, Justice, St. Vincent, Tyler, the Creator, and James Blake. Also on the lineup are Jamie xx, Pussy Riot, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Sky Ferreira, Cardi B, Perfume Genius, Laurie Anderson, Lil B, Jlin, Priests, Mount Kimbie, and Jenny Hval. GAS will also be playing the festival, making it his first show in the United States since 2009. Day for Night 201 will take place December 15-17. See the full lineup here.
On the first day of the festival, there is going to be a summit with talks by Chelsea Manning, Laurie Anderson, Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova, and Los Angeles-based artist Lauren McCarthy. After the summit, there is going to be a “Soul Cleansing,” a performance presented by Saint Heron that will feature Solange, Earl Sweatshirt, and Kaytranada. Day for Night also will have 18 installations from artists including Ryoji Ikeda, Matthew Schreiber, and Felicie D’Estienne D’Orves.
A part of the earnings from this year’s Day for Night is going to be donated to the Greater Houston Community Foundation to help people in areas affected by Hurricane Harvey.
Last year’s festival featured the first Aphex Twin set in the States since 2008.
Oh, Rose, Future Islands at Crystal Ballroom in photos
Cavegreen, Y La Bamba at the Capitol Theater in photos
Bob Dylan announces new gospel years box set
Bob Dylan has announced the latest of Bootleg Series. Trouble No More – The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 / 1979-1981 will look inside Dylan’s “gospel years” and the three albums that came from it: Slow Train Coming, Saved, and Shot of Love. It will be available for purchase through a two-CD or four-LP set. It will also be available as a deluxe box, which will feature eight CDs and one DVD. The set will include 100 previously unreleased live and studio recordings, which has 14 songs never released on an official Dylan release. The box will also feature a concert film that features never-before-seen footage from his 1980 tour and sermons delivered by Michael Shannon. Trouble No More is out November 3rd through Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings and the full details can be found here.
Watch Leonard Cohen’s posthumous “Leaving the Table” video
The Polaris Music Prize Gala last night showed the premiere of a new Leonard Cohen video for “Leaving the Table.” Watch it below. An animated Cohen dances around the Montreal skyline and explores the world before going back to his hometown in the video. “Leaving the Table” is on his album, You Want It Darker, which was put on the shortlist for the Polaris Prize alongside LPs from Feist, BADBADNOTGOOD, and more. Feist, along with Lana Del Rey, Elvis Costello, and more, are among the artists set to perform at an upcoming tribute concert to Cohen on the one-year anniversary of his death.
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