Mac DeMarco has released a new cover of “Honey Moon” by Japanese musician, Haruomi Hosono from Yellow Magic Orchestra, Happy End. Listen to it below. The song was originally on Hosono’s album Tropical Dandy. DeMarco’s version was released on Light in the Attic, which is also reissuing five of Hosono’s solo albums. These reissues are the LPs have been released outside of Japan.
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The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist
1. Sober to Death – Car Seat Headrest
2. Margot – Minks
3. Waves – Bahamas
4. Scattered Pearls – Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
5. Fireworks – Radiator Hospital
6. Drowsy – Banes World
7. Only You – Mac DeMarco
8. Nothings Gonna Hurt You Baby – Cigarettes After Sex
9. Camelblues – Mndsgn
10. Evaporar – Little Joy
11. Pains – Silk Rhodes
12. Girl! – Terror Pigeon
13. A Stick and Slacks – Shintaro Sakamoto
14. Myth – Beach House
15. Sarah – (Sandy) Alex G
16. Nothing in Rambling – Helvetia
17. Grand New Spin – Cold Celeste
18. The Brae – Yumi Zouma
19. Sandy – Jackson Scott
20. Benny – Mauno
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.
Three-day tickets will be on sale starting Thursday, December 1st at 11:00 a.m. CT.
Austin festival Sound on Sound announces inaugural lineup
Graham Williams, who is the founder of Austin’s beloved Fun Fun Fun Fest, split recently from Transmission Events, the concert-promoting company behind Fun Fun Fun Fest, and he began a new company called Margin Walker. Fun Fun Fun Fest may or may not happen this year still. But Williams began a new festival called Sound On Sound and it has practically taken over the Fun Fun Fun. The first Sound On Sound festival is going to be at Austin’s Sherwood Forest Faire 11/4-6, and it’s got an all-over-the-place lineup including Beach House, Phantogram, Run The Jewels, Big Boi, Purity Ring, Descendents, and local Austinites Explosions In The Sky. Check out the full lineup below.
Beach House
Explosions In The Sky
Phantogram
Run The Jewels
Big Boi
Purity Ring
Descendents
Courtney Barnett
Death Grips
Young Thug
Thursday
Mac DeMarco
Wale
Guided By Voices
FLAG
Charles Bradley And His Extrordinaires
Boys Noize
A-Trak
FIDLAR
The Dead Milkmen
Youth Of Today
STRKFKR
Jagwar Ma
Carcass
Thee Oh Sees
Wild Nothing
Aesop Rock
Cursive
Touché Amoré
Bob Mould
Dillinger Escape Plan
Girls Against Boys
Baroness
Thundercat
Empress Of
Car Seat Headrest
Shannon And The Clams
Hinds
Metz
Protomartyr
Baio
Recover
Bully
Diarrhea Planet
Alex G
The Range
Pouya
Turnstile
Denzel Curry
Monkeywrench
Kero Kero Bonito
Beach Slang
Good Riddance
Old Man Gloom
The Relationship (Brian Bell of Weezer)
Into It. Over It.
Diet Cig
White Lung
Youth Code
Planes Mistaken For Stars
War On Women
Open Mike Eagle
American Sharks
Hardproof
Radioactivity
Boyfrndz
Calliope Musicals
Magna Carda
Night Drive
Moving Panoramas
Leopold & His Fiction
Boombaptist
P-Tek
Piñata Protest
Orthy
Anya
Die Young
Emily Wolfe
Illustrations
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Record Store Day 2016 announces release list
Record Store Day will return on April 16th. The list of releases available at independent record stores exclusively that day was announced today. Find the full list here for the U.S. and here for the UK. Artists like David Bowie, Run the Jewels, the Weeknd, Outkast, J Dilla, Mac DeMarco, Bob Dylan, Chvrches, the Flaming Lips, Jay Reatard, the Shaggs, Big Star, Fleetwood Mac, Foals, Best Coast, Jason Molina, and many more are included. Here are a few of the highlights of what is coming out:
- David Bowie reissues of “TVC 15” and “The Man Who Sold the World” on picture disc, and the 50th anniversary release of his singles, I Dig Everything – The Pye Years 1966
- A 16-track album of Mac DeMarco demos, Another (Demo) One, which were in his bedroom
- Unheard songs by the Shaggs on a 7″, “Sweet Maria” b/w “The Missouri Waltz (Missouri State Song)”
- J Dilla’s long-lost vocal album The Diary
- Big Star’s reunion show Complete Columbia: Live at Missouri University 4/25/93, on double-LP
- Patti Smith’s Horses Live Electric Lady Studios, a live version of the classic album, recorded last year in the same studio
- The Weeknd’s The Hills Remixes, which features Eminem and Nicki Minaj
- Run the Jewels’ own virtual reality viewer (for watching their “Crown” VR video, which is coming soon)
- Metz and Mission of Burma cover one another on “Good Not Great” b/w “Get Off,” available on starburst 7″
- Florence + the Machine’s “Delilah / Only Love Can Break Your Heart,” which has studio and demo versions of “Delilah” alongside the Neil Young cover
- Outkast’s “Elevators (Me & You),” reissued as a “glow-in-the-dark alien vinyl” for the 20th anniversary of ATLiens
- The Feelies’ Uncovered, which features covers of Bob Dylan, Neil Young, the Doors, Patti Smith, and more
- Fleetwood Mac’s (Alternative) Tusk, that features the alternative version of the album on double-LP
- A 7″ including new songs from Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval
- Best Coast’s “Late 20s” b/w “Bigger Man” 7″, including two previously unreleased B-sides
- Chvrches’ Every Open Eye Remix EP, including takes on the song by Four Tet and others
- Low/S. Carey’s 10″ single “Not a Word” b/w “I Won’t Let You,” including two exclusive seven-minute collaborations
- The Flaming Lips’ alternate mix for Cloud Tastes Metallic, which also includes an accompanying comic written and illustrated by Wayne Coyne, and an 8xLP albums boxset called Heady Nuggs Vol.II Studio Albums 2006 – 2012
- Jay Reatard’s Blood Visions 10th anniversary reissue on red vinyl, with a bonus demos 7″
- A Bob Dylan EP called Melancholy Mood backed by four tracks from his upcoming Fallen Angels album
- Husker Du’s “In A Free Land” with the long out-of-print 1982 single to 7″
- A 7″ featuring Townes Van Zandt covers by the late Jason Molina
- Death Cab for Cutie’s “Tractor Rape Chain”/”Black Sun,” two live tracks that also includes a Guided by Voices cover
- The Runaways’ single “Right Now/Black Leather” reissued on cherry-red vinyl
- Lush’s five album reissues in the Origami boxset
- New York performances by Sun Ra and His Arkestra, recorded in 1966 and ’68, on colored vinyl
- Foals’ “Rain” 7″ backed by a cover of Mark Ronson and Kevin Parker’s “Daffodils”
Free Press Summer Fest reveals 2016 lineup
Free Press Summer Fest have announced its 2016 lineup. The two-day music festival will take place June 4th – 5th at Eleanor Tinsley Park in Houston, Texas.
The lineup features The National, Modest Mouse, Refused, Jamie xx, Mac DeMarco, Built to Spill, Big Grams (Big Boi and Phantogram), ASAP Ferg, Against Me!, Thee Oh Sees, and The Black Angels
Also playing are deadmau5, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Leon Bridges, Young the Giant, Big Giantic, Gogol Bordello, Matt and Kim, Violent Femmes, Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls, San Fermin, Matthew Logan Vasquez, Chicano Batman, White Denim, BØRNS, and more.
Single-day and two-day tickets are on sale now.
Mac DeMarco releases video performing on a rowboat in Queens
Mac DeMarco spent his birthday traveling to Wappingers Falls in upstate New York to purchase a blue and white rowboat from an old man. As he would, his new video for “No Other Heart” from his latest release Another One, is set in the rowboat but DeMarco is performing a stripped-down version of the song while floating in Far Rockaway, Queens’ bay, where he lives. The NPR-produced video was directed by Milo Habe-Evans. Watch it here.
Another One is out now on Captured Tracks. Buy it here.
Mac DeMarco invites fans to his house to have coffee
After wanting to soundtrack your summer barbeque, Mac DeMarco wants to invite you over for coffee. Seriously. “My House by the Water,” the finishing song on his new mini-LP, Another One, ends with DeMarco giving out the address to his home in Far Rockaway, New York and inviting people over for a cup o’ joe.
“The way I rationalize it, to have the address you’ll have to listen to the album to the very end,” DeMarco said to the Wall Street Journal. “Second, to even consider coming to my house you have to be a kind of a superfan. And thirdly, it’s in such a weird part of New York that if they actually get there, they deserve a cup of coffee.”
Another One was leaked a few weeks ago and DeMarco estimates the 30 people have come to his door. When the album gets released on August 7th, there will be ever more of a trek to the singer’s “kind of sketchy” neighborhood for coffee and a chat.
Mac DeMarco announces new album “Another One” as well as tour dates
Mac DeMarco will release a “mini” album on August 7th through Captured Tracks. a new “mini” album titled Another One. The eight-track LP was recorded in his home in Queens, New York in March this year after spending months on tour for Salad Days.
The jizz jazzer also has planned an extensive European and North American tour that goes on into late September, including sets at festivals such as Shaky Knees, Primavera Sounds, Field Day, Bonnaroo, and Outside Lands. Below is his full itenerary as well as a promo video for the making of Another One.
Mac DeMarco 2015 Tour Dates:
04/22 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
04/23 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre
04/24 – Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre
04/25 – Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret
04/27 – Boston, MA @ Northeastern University
05/08 – Atlanta, GA @ Shaky Knees Festival
05/10 – Austin, TX @ Austin Psych Festival
05/28 – Dudingchen, CH @ Bad Bonn Festival
05/29 – Toulouse, FR @ Festivals Des Curiosites
05/30 – Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound
06/02 – Tel Aviv, IL @ Barby
06/04 – Porto, PT @ Primavera Sound
06/06 – Manchester, UK @ Parklife Festival
06/07 – London, UK @ Field Day Festival
06/11 – Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo
06/26 – Londonderry, VT @ Frendly Gathering Music Festival
06/27 – North Adams, MA @ Solid Sound
07/17 – Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Music Festival
08/08 – San Francisco, CA @ Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival
08/11 – Boston, MA @ Royale
08/12 – Portland, ME @ Port City Music Hall
08/13 – Montreal, QB @ Metropolis
08/15 – Toronto, ON @ Time Festival
08/16 – Buffalo, NY @ Tralf Music Festival
08/17 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
08/18 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall
08/19 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
08/20 – Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw
09/06 – Salisbury, UK @ End of the Road Festival
09/07 – Glasgow, UK @ ABC
09/08 – Bristol, UK @ Roundhouse
09/10 – Birmingham, UK @ The Institute
09/14 – Tourcoing, FR @ Grand Mix
09/15 – Paris, FR @ La Cigale
09/16 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
09/17 – Cologne, DE @ Gebaude 9
09/18 – Berlin, DE @ Postbahnhof
09/21 – Stockholm, SE @ Debasser STrand
09/22 – Oslo, NO @ Rockefeller
09/23 – Gothenburg, SE @ Pustervik
09/24 – Aarhus, DK @ Voxhall
09/25 – Hamburg, DE @ Reeperbahn
Coachella’s 2015 line-up has been announced
The 2015 Coachella line-up has been revealed including headliners such as Jack White, Drake, and AC/DC, as well as sub-headliners such as Florence & the Machine, Tame Impala, St. Vincent, Ryan Adams, Interpol, Belle & Sebastian, Alt-J, Ride, and The Weeknd.
Amongst the other acts are Steely Dan, Alabama Shakes, Lykke Li, Caribou, Ratatat, Azealia Banks, Flying Lotus, Raekwon and Ghostface Killah, Tyler the Creator, Father John Misty, Jenny Lewis, SBTRKT, The War on Drugs, Run the Jewels, Swans, Toro y Moi, Panda Bear, FKA twigs, Drive Like Jehu, Desparecidos, Built to Spill, Action Bronson, Jamie xx, Perfume Genius, Mac DeMarco, Eagulls, Angel Olsen, Vic Mensa, Todd Terje, Squarepusher, The Orwells, The Cribs, Brand New, Antemasque, Marina and the Diamonds, Haerts, St. Lucia, and Parquet Courts.
The California-based music festival will take place between the weekends of April 12th – 14th and April 17th – 19th. Tickets will go on-sale tomorrow (January 7th).
