Hangout Festival reveals 2017 lineup: Frank Ocean, Chance the Rapper set to headline

Hangout Music Festival have released its 2017 lineup. The three-day festival will take place May 19th – 21st in Gulf Shores, Alabama.

Frank Ocean will headline with Chance the Rapper and Mumford and Sons. Other acts include MGMT, Weezer, Sigur Rós, Band of Horses, Franz Ferdinand, Mac DeMarco, Local Natives, Charli XCX, Warpaint, ASAP Ferg, Lil Yachty, DJ Snake, and Young the Giant.

Three-day tickets will be on sale starting Thursday, December 1st at 11:00 a.m. CT.

Devendra Banhart announces 2017 tour

Devendra Banhart has announced tour dates throughout the United States for 2017. The newly announced dates start January 23rd at the Showbox in Seattle, and will play shows Portland, Austin, Chicago, Toronto, Montreal, New York, and more. Find the full tour itinerary below; tickets for shows through February 4 are available now.

Devendra Banhart:

12-02 Mexico City, Mexico – El Plaza
12-03 Acapulco, Mexico – Trópico
01-23 Seattle, WA – The Showbox
01-24 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
01-26 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
01-28 San Diego, CA – The Observatory North Park
01-29 Santa Ana, CA – The Observatory
01-31 Los Angeles, CA – Mayan Theater
02-01 Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom
02-03 Boulder, CO – Boulder Theatre
02-04 Telluride, CO – Club Red
02-12 Taos, NM – Mesa Brewery
02-13 Santa Fe, NM – Meow Wolf
02-15 Dallas, TX – Granada Theater
02-16 Austin, TX – Emo’s
02-17 Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall
02-18 Baton Rouge, LA – Varsity Theatre
02-20 Atlanta, GA – Terminal West
02-21 Athens, GA – Georgia Theater
02-23 St. Petersburg, FL – State Theatre
02-24 Orlando, FL – Beacham Theater
02-25 Miami Beach, FL – North Beach Bandshell
03-05 Minneapolis, MN – Cedar Cultural Center
03-06 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
03-07 Detroit, MI – Magic Stick
03-09 Toronto, Ontario – Phoenix Concert Theater
03-10 Montreal, Quebec – Metropolis
03-11 Portland, ME – Port City Music Hall
03-12 Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
03-14 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
03-15 Washington, DC – Sixth & I
03-16 New York, NY – Webster Hall
04-01 Brooklyn, NY – BAM
04-20 Tokyo, Japan – Billboard Live
04-22 Osaka, Japan – Billboard Live

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. Face in the Moon – Springtime Carnivore

2. Girls – Death in Vegas

3. Close My Eyes – Feels

4. In Other Words – Shopping

5. You Should’ve Gone to School – BC Camplight

6. Real Math/Too Much – The Gotobeds

7. Submarine Gold – The Holydrug Couple

8. Viceroy – Violent Soho

9. Auto Neutron – Fat White Family

10. Puppet on a String – Night Beats

11. Talk to God – Goat

12. Orlando – Exploded View

13. Anything Can Happen – The Clean

14. Place Your Bets – exmagicians

15. Electronic Snoopy Gang – Cheena

16. Here Tarot Lies – No Joy

17. The Dated Steadily – Mink Mussel Creek

18. Lonely Richard – Amen Dunes

19. Yesterday’s World – Circulatory Systems

20. I Have Been Floated – The Olivia Tremor Control

Rhymefest buys Kanye West’s childhood home to convert into a community arts space

 Kanye West has not much good news lately, but his fellow Chicagoan Rhymefest did a good deed on behalf of West’s charity Donda’s House. Fest purchased West’s childhood home and wants to convert it into a “community arts incubator” with a state-of-the-art recording studio. He plans also for the home to a curriculum space for Donda’s House and music museum for Chicago’s Southside. Read the official statement from Donda’s House 2011 below.

In order to deepen the organization’s impact, Donda’s House has acquired a home facility that will provide a permanent location for all of the Donda’s House family to gather, offer programming, and grow. Donda’s House envisions this facility as not only a homegrown hub of economic activity for the southside but also a gathering place for the community with events and concerts. Donda’s House selected this location in particular, because it is the former home of the organization’s namesake Dr. Donda West, who at one time provided similar services and support to incubate young artists. Donda’s House is committed to the success of Chicago’s young creatives and this property will help these young people flourish.

Stream the Weeknd’s new album Starboy

The Weeknd’s new album Starboy is available now for streaming. Listen to it below via Spotify. Starboy is the follow-up to Beauty Behind the Madness. The album has guest appearances from Kendrick Lamar, Lana Del Rey, Future, and Daft Punk. The Weeknd features previously shared the singles, “Starboy,” “False Alarm,” “I Feel It Coming,” and “Party Monster.” Listen to the album here. 

Miscomings, Pleasures, Turqouiz Noiz, bAd bAd at Office Space in photos

Regina Spektor revisits her past in the video for “Bleeding Heart”

Regina Spektor has come far since her youth, spending her time learning the piano in the Soviet Union. Those memories are the focus of the singer-songwriter’s newest video for Remember Us to Life track “Bleeding Heart.”

Lead by her Spektor’s husband, Jack Dishel, the clip includes footage of the musician singing and dancing in front of an illustrated skyline with old videos and photos from her early years. Her black-and-white pieces came thanks to her father, who Spektor remembers fondly.

“Throughout my childhood I’d sometimes get tired of standing as [my father] took his light meter readings or asked me to play piano or pose,” Spektor said to NPR. “But now when I look back on every recorded moment, I’m just grateful. It took hard work and patience on his part — most of the photos were developed and printed by him in his darkroom in spare time from work.”

Watch the visual below. 

PersonWhale, The Lunch, Husky Boys, Sinkholes, Le Grotto at the Turkey Hut in photos!

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. Home (Pt. 1 & 2) – Current Joys

2. 4th of July – Wild Pink

3. Fence – Soda Shop

4. Sunbeams Through Your Hair – Strange Ranger

5. Hidden Driver – LVL UP

6. Where You Stop for a Moment – Cotton Jones

7. Wendy – Richie Woods

8. Way To Be Loved – TOPS

9. I’m Fine – Hazel English

10. Faded Eyes – Horsebeach

11. Shaking Hand – Women

12. Milk – WALL

13. Relatives #2 – Lambchop

14. Gemini – GUM

15. Tell Me – Galaxie 500

16. The Rest of the Day – Bedhead

17. Snowfall – The Halo Benders

18. Eraser – No Age

19. Put the Days Away – Sun Airway

2o. You For Me – Frankie Rose

Listen to Kingdom’s new song with the Internet’s Syd “Nothin”

Kingdom has announced his debut studio album named Tears in the Club. It is set to be out February 27th via Fade to Mind. Tears in the Club will feature guest spots from SZA, the Internet’s Syd, Shacar, and Vine singer Najee Daniels. Listen to a song off the album, “Nothin,” featuring Syd, and its club mix below. Also the full LP tracklist below and the “Nothin” artwork above.

Kingdom teamed up with D∆WN earlier in the year, for a joint EP called Infrared. Syd announced she was working on a solo album in Octover, which will feature Hit-Boy, Melo-X, more.

Tears in the Club:

01 What is Love [ft. SZA]
02 Each & Every Day [ft. Najee Daniels]
03 Nurtureworld
04 Breathless [ft. Shacar]
05 Tears in the Club
06 Haunted Gate
07 Nothin [ft. Syd]
08 Into the Fold
09 Timex
10 Down 4 Whatever [ft. SZA]
11 Nothin (Club Mix) [ft. Syd]