The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. Psycho Killer – Talking Heads

2. Scotty Pippin – Booty Feet

3. Now It’s On – Grandaddy

4. Desiree – Smokey Brights

5. You’re Not – Wet Wings

6. Mornings – Lowly

7. Crank – Palm

8. Be OK – Deep Throat Choir

9. Love Is – Dude York

10. Dundee Man – Spiral Stairs

11. Illegal and Free – Milk Music

12. Springtime – Rumskip

13. The Helicopter Spies – Swell Maps

14. No Light – Meat Wave

15. All For Everything – The Luyas

16. Folios – The New Year

17. Lose – Dinosaur Jr.

18. There Are No Words – The Sadies

19. Fast Canoe – Polvo

20. D – Codeine

Watch Dave Chappelle join Thundercat and Robert Glasper onstage

Thundercat was joined by two special guests when he performed at Irving Plaza in New York City tonight over the course of his set: Robert Glasper, who came to sit in on keys, and later Dave Chappelle, who came on the stage to take the mic as Thundercat and Glasper played behind him. While talking to the crowd, Chappelle said, “Ladies and gentlemen: on stage tonight is the musical virtuosos… They spent hours and hours of their life practicing their craft, and tonight we get to enjoy the sum total of their work. Make some noise for your band.” He went on, “Thundercat, take this bass solo wherever you wanna go, ’cause we with you all the way, my brother, for real.” Watch it below, as well as some other clips from the show.

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Listen to the Shins’ new song “Painting a Hole”

The Shins are getting ready to release their new album Heartworms, which is set to be out March 10th via Aural Apothecary/Columbia. Today, they have released another new track from the record, “Painting a Hole.” It follows the already released “Dead Alive,” “Name for You,” and “Mildenhall,” as well as “The Fear,” which they premiered on the radio show “A Prairie Home Companion.” Listen “Painting a Hole” below.

The Washboard Abs share new song “Submission”

Today, Olympia-based indie pop outfit, The Washboard Abs, shared “Submission.” It is their first single from their upcoming album, Recurring Chasms which is due out April 7th via Antiquated Future. The album will be the follow-up to 2016’s Have U Scanned Ur Club Card, one of our favorite albums from last year.

Listen to it below.

Modest Mouse announce tour

Modest Mouse have announced a new US tour. It starts May 23rd in Spokane, Washington and includes stops in Oregon, California, Missouri, and more. Check out the band’s full list of shows below. Modest Mouse’s latest album, Strangers to Ourselves, came out in 2015.

Modest Mouse:

05-23 Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory
05-24 Eugene, OR – Cuthbert Amphitheater
05-26 Napa, CA – BottleRock
05-28 Pomona, CA – Fox Theater
05-30 San Diego, CA – Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre
05-31 Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom
06-02 Anaheim, CA – House of Blues
06-03 Las Vegas, NV – Brooklyn Bowl
06-05 Salt Lake City, UT – Rockwell Room @ the Complex
06-08 Oklahoma City, OK – Diamond Ballroom
06-09 St Louis, MO – The Pageant
06-10 Lincoln, NE – Pinewood Bowl

Chance the Rapper meeting with Illinois governor this week

After Chance the Rapper won three Grammys last weekend, Illinois governor Bruce Rauner shared his congratulations publicly. “Illinois is proud that you’re one of our own,” he tweeted. To which Chance replied, “Thank you Governor, I would love to have meeting with you this week if possible.” That meeting will take place this Wednesday. The administration confirmed the meeting to the Chicago Tribune. See Chance the Rapper and Gov. Rauner’s tweets below.

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. Trouble – Girl Ray

2. Do You Wanna Live – Los Porcos

3. Roma Fade – Andrew Bird

4. I Wanna Prove to You – The Lemon Twigs

5. The Light – EZTV

6. Edge of Town – Middle Kids

7. Ivy League Circus – George Voidwell

8. Lady’s In Trouble With the Law – LA Priest

9. If I Could Find You (Eternity) – The Holy Drug Couple

10. Tears of Joy – Slow Club

11. Water – Jamaican Queens

12. Hometown – Haley Bonar

13. White Gloves – Khruangbin

14. Honey, I’m Home – Mini Mansions

15. Holy Roller – Thao & The Get Down

16. Fanfare – Magic City Hippies

17. The Sound – Human Highway

18. Just A Memory – Dirty Art Club

19. Pains – Silk Rhodes

20. The River – Son Little

New Feist album out in April reportedly

Feist has not played a show since 2014, and has not released an album since 2011. However, with her being on the lineup for the Eaux Claires festival this summer, signs are beginning to appear that she might be up to something. Now, in an aside in a recent Huffington Post article about her charity initiative to collect backpacks for HIV-positive children in Malawi:

Feist has been largely off the radar since the 2011 release of her award-winning album “Metals” and since the album’s subsequent tour came to a close the end of the following year. (Fans can expect her long-awaited follow-up in April as well as her vocals on the upcoming Broken Social Scene record.)

Feist even shared a link to the article on her official Facebook page, which appears to confirm the news.

Arca shares new video for new song “Anoche”

Arca is releasing a new self-titled album on XL on April 7th. The latest sampling from the album is the new song “Anoche,” and he’s shared a video as well for the song. Watch it below. Directed by longtime collaborator Jesse Kanda, it shows Alejandro Ghersi in a black room, performing a mournful dance amongst scattered corpses. Arca’s last album, Mutant, was released in 2015 and last year, the producer released a 14-track album for free called Entrañas.

Bob’s Burgers Music Album features St. Vincent, the National, Aziz Ansari, More

The critically-acclaimed Fox TV show, “Bob’s Burgers,” which has previously teamed up with artists including the National and Sleater-Kinney, is releasing an album through Sub Pop. The Bob’s Burgers Music Album, which is set to be out on May 12th will feature 112 short songs from the regular cast members like Kristen Schaal, H. Jon Benjamin, and John Roberts. Featured guests include Sarah Silverman, Aziz Ansari, Bill Hader, Paul Rudd, Fred Armisen, and Zach Galifianakis. The release will also include the Bob’s Buskers series where St. Vincent, the National, Stephin Merritt, and more covered Bob’s Burgers songs. Check out the full tracklist here.

Watch the National and Låpsley’s cover of “Bad Stuff Happens in the Bathroom” below as well as cast’s performance of the track, the theme song and an unboxing video: