On Friday, during his set at The Troubadour in Los Angeles, Harry Styles brought out a surprise guest, Stevie Nicks, who joined him onstage to perform his single, “Two Ghosts,” and the classic Fleetwood Mac song, “Landslide,” off the band’s self-titled LP. Fans in the audience have posted videos of their duets. Watch below. Styles jumped off the stage to watch Nicks sing. Styles even baked Nicks a carrot cake once, according to Rolling Stone.
Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead has scored a new film by Lynne Ramsay, named You Were Never Really Here. It stars Joaquin Phoenix as a war veteran who saves women from sex traffickers, and is based on the novella by Jonathan Ames. The film premiered recently at the Cannes Film Festival. Watch a clip featuring music composed by Greenwood below. Greenwood previously collaborated with Ramsay on the film We Need to Talk About Kevin.
Harry Styles released his self-titled solo debut recently. Now, Mitski who has covered One Direction’s “Fireproof” has written a review of it for the Talkhouse. Mitski begins her review with, “As I’ve always done with beautiful people, I’ve long only noticed Harry Styles from afar.” She continues with comparing him to the popular boy in school, saying that this album is when you learn that “this beautiful, distant boy from school sometimes says stupid things like, ‘You’re cool, no one else knows who the Beatles are.’” Mitski goes on and finds fault with some of the album’s more tired affectations, but says that she would still “stand like an ant in an arena crowd just to witness his magnetism; his expansion as a performer since his beginnings in One Direction.” Read her full piece here.
Grizzly Bear are coming back with the follow-up to 2012’s Shields. Their new album is named Painted Ruins, and it is set to be out August 18th through RCA. It was produced by the band’s Chris Taylor. Listen to a new track from it, “Mourning Sound,” below. The album announcement comes after the scheduling of the band’s first tour in four years and the release of new song “Three Rings” after a series of teasers. Find the album artwork above, and listen to “Three Rings” as well as “Mourning Sound” below along with the band’s schedule.
Painted Ruins:
01 Wasted Acres
02 Mourning Sound
03 Four Cypresses
04 Three Rings
05 Losing All Sense
06 Aquarian
07 Cut-Out
08 Glass Hillside
09 Neighbors
10 Systole
11 Sky Took Hold
Grizzly Bear:
10-05 Dublin, Ireland – Vicar Street
10-06 Manchester, England – Albert Hall
10-08 Glasgow, Scotland – O2 ABC
10-09 London, England – O2 Academy Brixton
10-12 Berlin, Germany – Columbiahalle
10-13 Utrecht, Netherlands – TivoliVredenburg
10-14 Brussels, Belgium – Ancienne Belgique
10-16 Paris, France – L’Olympia
11-01 Boston, MA – House of Blues
11-02 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
11-03 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
11-07 Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore
11-09 Knoxville, TN – The Mill & Mine
11-12 New Orleans, LA – Civic Theater
11-14 Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle
11-15 Orlando, FL – House of Blues
11-16 Miami, FL – The Fillmore
11-18 Mexico City, Mexico – Corona Capital NOV 18 – NOV 19
11-26 Montreal, Quebec – Metropolis
11-27 Toronto, Ontario – Massey Hall
11-28 Park Township, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre
12-01 St. Paul, MN – Palace Theatre
12-03 Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
12-07 Vancouver, British Columbia – Orpheum Theatre
12-08 Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre
12-09 Portland, OR – Roseland Theatre
12-11 San Francisco, CA – Warfield Theatre
12-13 Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern
Thundercat has announced a tour in support of his new album Drunk. The prolific bassist will play shows throughout the United States, Japan, Canada, the UK, and Europe. The tour includes festival stops at Los Angeles’ FYF, Sónar in Barcelona, Afropunk Brooklyn, and more. Find Thundercat’s tour dates here.
Arcade Fire played an intimate secret show in Montreal over the weekend, as the Montreal Gazette points out. The performance which was played to a crowd of about 50 people, reportedly featured six new songs. Footage from the concert have yet to show up as the Gazette reports that attendees were asked to check their phones at the door.
Fleet Foxes shared a new song from their upcoming album Crack-Up called “Fool’s Errand” last night. They have now shared a music video for that track. It is directed by Robin Pecknold’s brother, Sean Pecknold and was shot on 35 mm film, and features art direction by Adi Goodrich. The video shows interpretive dancing, nature imagery, and, at the end, a wolf. Watch it below and find Sean Pecknold’s statement on the visual below that. The Pecknold brothers also collaborated on the videos for Helplessness Blues’ “Grown Ocean” and “The Shrine/An Argument,” as well as the Crack-Up album trailer.
“Fool’s Errand” couldn’t have been shot on anything but 35mm film. The timeline was tight, but shooting on film made us focus and shoot only what we absolutely needed for the edit. There is still nothing like the look of film and it matches the sonic quality of the Foxes music quite well.
Perfume Genius was a guest on the “Song Exploder” podcast recently and he discussed the making of “Slip Away,” from his latest album No Shape. Mike Hadreas, producer Blake Mills, and recording engineer Shawn Everett discuss the song’s creation, and Hadreas shared an acoustic demo and isolated tracks from the recording. “I wanted the song to sound American,” Hadreas says. “I wanted that sort of Springsteeny spirit to it.” He also notes that it’s “definitely a love song” and that it’s “joyous and free in a way that [he] had never written before.” Listen to the full episode below.
The Melodic Tree 