Childish Gambino has embarked on his This Is America tour with Rae Sremmurd and Vince Staples. During his first stop at New York City’s Madison Square Garden last night, Donald Glover premiered a new song, prefacing the track with, “This is some new shit I’ve been working on,” as Complex Music reports. Watch it below.
HEALTH have shared a new collaborative single called “MASS GRAVE” with Soccer Mommy. “The annals of music history are filled with a rich tradition of trios,” HEALTH said in a statement. “Crosby, Stills, & Nash… Emerson, Lake, and Palmer… Lennon, McCartney, and that other guy… And now Soccer Mommy, the guy from Purity Ring, and HEALTH.” Listen listen to it below below.
“I really enjoyed getting to work with the guys from HEALTH on this song,” Sophie Allison said in a statement. “It’s one of the first features I’ve ever done and I love the finished product. It has a kind of apathetic sadness to it that I was really drawn to.”
Patti Smith’s 2010 memoir Just Kids will recieve an illustrated version that is on the way. It will also include a new introduction from Smith, as well as never-before-seen memorabilia and photography by Judy Linn, Kate Simon, Harry Smith, and more. The hardcover book is set to come out October 23 via Ecco.
Adrianne Lenker has released the second single off her upcoming album, abysskiss, titled “symbol.” Listen below. The frontwoman to Big Thief announced the album last month with its first single “cradle.” abysskiss is set to be out via Saddle Creek October 5th. Lenker has also announced a solo tour in support of her new album. Find the dates below.
Adrianne Lenker:
01-15 London, England – Union Chapel
01-16 Dublin, Ireland – The Button Factory
01-17 Manchester, England – YES
01-19 Ghent, Belgium – Charlatan
01-20 Paris, France – La Maroquinerie
01-22 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso Tolhuistuin
01-23 Berlin, Germany – Baumhausbar
02-04 Los Angeles, CA – Pico Union Project
02-05 Santa Barbara, CA – SOhO
02-06 San Francisco, CA – Swedish American Hall
02-09 Seattle, WA- The Vera Project
02-10 Portland, OR – The Old Church
02-14 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
02-15 Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church
02-16 Baltimore, MD – Metro Gallery
02-18 Toronto, Ontario – Longboat Hall
02-20 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
02-21 Minneapolis, MN – Cedar Cultural Center
Japanese composer Joe Hisaishi’s scores for many Studio Ghibli’s most loved films are being issued on vinyl for the first time. On a listing on Bleep, Tokuma will release vinyl editions of the scores to Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind, My Neighbor Totoro, and Castle in the Sky.
Tokuma is also releasing a “sound book” of the Totoro score, which will feature “songs from the score re-recorded on violin, guitar and flute,” as well as symphonic versions of the scores for Nausicaä and Castle in the Sky. The reissues will be released in November.
Chicago rapper Noname has announced a September 14th release date for her debut album Room 25. The 11-track LP is the follow-up mixtape Telefone. Check out the Room 25 tracklist and cover art, which was made by Chicago artist Bryant Giles, below.
Room 25:
01 Self
02 Blaxploitation
03 Prayer Song
04 Window
05 Don’t Forget About Me
06 Regal
07 Montego Bae
08 Ace
09 Part of Me
10 With You
11. no name
Last night as a part of their five-night and sold-out residency at the Fonda Theater in Los Angeles, Phoenix was joined by Beck who performed his songs, “Lost Cause” and “Jack-Ass” with the band. The covers followed the end of Phoenix’s “Lovelife” from their latest album, Ti Amo. Watch it the covers go down below.
The Mountain Goats have returned with an EP, Hex of Infinite Binding. “I used to release a whole bunch of EPs,” John Darnielle wrote in a statement. “I miss the general spiritual realm of the EP and am hereby centering an intention to spend more time thereat.” Listen to the EP and find the full statement, below.
WELCOME WAYWARD TRAVELER TO THE HEX VORTEX. I used to release a whole bunch of EPs. I miss the general spiritual realm of the EP and am hereby centering an intention to spend more time thereat. These songs represent, in part, the first salvo of my resolve. “Almost Every Door” and “Song for Ted Sallis” were written at home in North Carolina sometime during the summer and recorded by Brandon Eggleston at Electrical Audio in Chicago during our three-night stand at Old Town School of Folk Music. “Tucson Fog” is a home recording from last December, things can get a little dark in December. “Hospital Reaction Shot” was produced & engineered by Chris Stamey at Modern Recording, Chapel Hill, NC; Chris also wrote the string arrangements and played bass and electric guitar. Percussion on “Almost Every Door” and “Song for Ted Sallis” by Matt Espy from Dead Rider, maximum respect. Only one of these songs is directly about death but the person or persons in all these songs will someday die. The death one, “Hospital Reaction Shot,” is drawn from a picture of Mickey Deans holding a press conference to inform the world of the death of Judy Garland, to whom he had been married for three months. Yet the press conference is a sham, because Judy Garland lives, as Ted Sallis lives, as do many others thought missing. They can often be found in the vortex shortly before sundown, plotting their return. We live in hope!
Fleet Foxes have shared a new short film for the opening track to last year’s “I Am All That I Need / Arroyo Seco / Thumbprint Scar.” It is directed by Robin Pecknold’s brother Sean Pecknold, and made in a partnership with WeTransfer. Watch below or at WeTransfer. Sean Pecknold explained in a press release:
For me, the song encapsulated the themes and feelings of the whole record like an overture; the darkness / lightness, the fast / slow, the tension between two competing voices and the unpredictable dynamic shifts of tempo and voice. I wanted to create a striking visual allegory that felt both intimate and lonely, grand and triumphant.
With the film I wanted to visualize the struggle within the song through the story of a fictional character trying to escape from his house and reach an ever elusive mythical place only to be brought back to the start by the pull of a mysterious red cube. At the start of the film it’s as if we have happened upon a man tired from a repetitive struggle that has been going on for weeks, months, even years. There becomes a frustrating sense of repetition as he attempts to reach these metaphorical end goals and fails time after time. It’s something I can relate to, and hopefully others can too.
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