The Killers announce Sam’s Town reissue, 10th anniversary party

The Killers have announced a 10-year anniversary reissue for their second album Sam’s Town. Due out this autumn via Bong Load Records, the double LP vinyl will include two bonus tracks: “Peace of Mind” and a “Pet Shop Boys Stars Are Blazing Mix” from the original album’s “Read My Mind.” The reissue vinyl is only set for 5,016 copies; it will include a booklet about the record’s 10th anniversary.

As a part of the reissue, the Killers have announced a pair of shows on September 30th and October 1st as well at Las Vegas’ Sam’s Town Hotel and Gambling Hall (the album’s namesake). As well as the band’s performances, there will be “an expert-led tour of the Killers’ Las Vegas,” according to a press release; it is going to include a stop at the band’s Battle Born Studios. All of the proceeds from the events will go to support local Las Vegas homeless and addiction recovery charities. See the Killers’ upcoming tour dates below.

The Killers:

08-31 Stateline, NV – Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys
09-17 Atlanta, GA – Music Midtown
09-30 Las Vegas, NV – Sam’s Town Hotel and Gambling Hall
10-01 Las Vegas, NV – Sam’s Town Hotel and Gambling Hall

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. West Texas – PWR BTTM

2. Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales – Car Seat Headrest

3. Everybody Wants to Love You – Japanese Breakfast

4. Be Apart – Porches

5. I Need A Forest Fire – James Blake, Bon Iver

6. Under the Sun – DIIV

7. Gone – Day Wave

8. No Woman – Whitney

9. Some Are Lakes – Land of Talk

10. Expanding Anyway – Morning Teleportation

11. Nova Scotia – Boyscott

12. The Hedonist – Foreign/National

13. Someone Disappeared – The Everywheres

14. In the Moonlight – Blithe Field

15. Cab Deb – Good Morning

16. I Don’t Wanna Be Funny Anymore – Lucy Dacus

17. Little Fourth of July – Petite League

18. What Once Was – Her’s

19. Looking out for You – Joy Again

20. Milk – Magic Potion

Watch the National bring out St. Vincent to perform a new song

The National performed a new song, “Prom Song 13th Century (Frankie & Johnny),” at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles last night. They brought out St. Vincent, who sand with Matt Berninger while looking at a lyric sheet on the floor. They joined hands for a dance and twirl at the end. “I realized I don’t know how to spin somebody,” Berninger said. Watch it happen below.

In 2009, the National and St. Vincent worked together to cover Crooked Fingers’ “Sleep All Summer.”

 

Watch the Strokes perform “Threat of Joy” on “Kimmel”

The Strokes performed on last night’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” They played “Threat of Joy” from their recent release, Future Present Past EP. Watch the performance below.

Destroyer to debut new songs on solo tour

Destroyer’s Poison Season came out last year, and Dan Bejar released a new 12” earlier this year that featured his track “My Mystery.” Bejar is going out on a solo tour this fall. The tour announcement promises that falls will be able to hear previews of “at least 10 new guitar-based tracks,” according to a press release. Find those dates below.

Destroyer:

09-21 Spokane, WA – The Bartlett
09-22 Missoula, MT – Top Hat
09-24 Fargo, ND – The Aquarium
09-25 Omaha, NE – Reverb Lounge
09-26 Columbia, MO – Café Berlin
09-27 Oxford, MS – Proud Larry’s
09-28 Baton Rouge, LA – Spanish Moon
09 -29 Tallahassee, FL – Club Downunder
09-30 Jacksonville, FL – Jack Rabbits
10-01 Birmingham, AL – WorkPlay
10-02 Orlando, FL – The Social
10-04 Athens, GA – Caledonia Lounge
10-05 Lexington KY – The Burl
10-06 Knoxville, TN – Pilot Light
10-07 Charlottesville, VA – Jefferson Theater
10-08 Columbus, OH – Basement
10-09 Baltimore, MD – Ottobar
10-10 Pittsburgh, PA – Club Cafe

The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist

1. Your Old Man – Partybaby

2.  Haircut – See Through Dresses

3. Brainwash – CLAWS

4. Undone – Paerish

5. Scentless Princess – Residual Kid

6. Turn Your Love – Half Moon Run

7. Sweet Disaster – DREAMERS

8. Smile More – Deep Vally

9. Nothing to Say – Hurry

10. Shut You Down – Caveman

11. So Bad – Starsystem

12. Baby Drugs – Tristen

13. Night Vision – Tennis

14. Feeling OK – Best Coast

15. Stammer – EAT FAST

16. Bluetown – Abramowicz

17. Eternal Forever – Valley of the Sun

18. My Heart Beats 4 U – Rooney

19. Rebel Heart – Shelters

20. Switchblade – Holy White Hounds

Watch the Avalanches’ first full band set in over a decade

After getting back together this year, the Avalanches have released their first album in over a decade, Wildflower. They have played a few shows as well, including at Primavera Sound last month. But those were DJ sets, and for the first time in over a decade, the Avalanches played with their full live band. Robbie Chater played guitar, Tony Di Blasi was behind the boards, Paris Jeffree was on the drums, and vocals were contributed by rapper Spank Rock and singer Eliza Wolfgramm, according to Triple J.the set took place at Splendour in the Grass Festival. Watch a clip of their performance below via Stereogum.

Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij and The Walkmen’s Hamilton Leithauser form new band, share “A 1000 Times”

After leaving Vampire Weekend in January, Rostam Batmanglij has been on a busy schedule. He has been putting out solo singles in “EOS” and “Gravity Don’t Pull Me” as well as helping co-write Francis and the Lights and Kanye West’s “Friends.”

Batmanglij has started a new group with Hamilton Leithauser of The Walkmen called Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam. They have issued “A 1000 Times,” their debut track under the moniker. Check it out below.

The former Vampire Weekend member was featured prominently on Black Hours, Leithauser’s 2014 solo album. In an interview with Pitchfork earlier this year, Batmanglij mentioned that an album from the new project is in the works:

“I’ve also been making a full-length record with Hamilton Leithauser, which I’m very excited about. Our plan is to release it as a duo, basically, and every now and then I get a feeling that it might be one of the best records I make in my whole life. We worked really hard on lyrics and every song tells a story. In some ways, the more that I write songs, the more I feel that telling a story is the most important thing; just being able to close your eyes when you hear some lyrics and go somewhere. It’s worth taking the time to do that, because people respond to it.”

David Bowie ’74-’76 box set to feature unreleased album The Gouster

David Bowie released the 12xCD box set Five Years 1969-1973 last year. The next set in the series has now been announced. It’s called Who Can I Be Now? (1974 – 1976) and it is out through Parlophone although there is not yet a release date. In the set is Bowie’s planned album The Gouster, which became Young Americans. The box set will come with a book with liner notes courtesy of Bowie’s close collaborator Tony Visconti as well.

Visconti explains that “gouster” was “a type of dress code worn by African American teens in the ’60s, in Chicago.” He continues, “in the context of the album meaning was attitude, an attitude of pride and hipness.” He wrote that the two of them “wanted to make a killer soul album,” so The Gouster was “40 minutes of glorious funk.” See the album cover and the liner notes above!