Neko Case has announced a new album called Hell-On. It is her first solo album since The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You in 2013. Check out its tracklist and a teaser video below. Hell-On is set to be out June 1st through ANTI-.
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The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist
1. These Days – Nico
2. Chinese Translation – M. Ward
3. Vacation – Florist
4. Lust For Life – Girls
5. Rabid Bits of Time – Chad VanGaalen
6. Grace – Clem Snide
7. Buriedfed – Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
8. I Wish I Was The Moon – Neko Case
9. I Can See The Pines Are Dancing – A.A. Bondy
10. Spill Yer Lungs – Julie Doiron
11. Metarie – Brendan Benson
12. Dynamite Walls – Hayden
13. Your Arms Around Me – Jens Lekman
14. The Mending of the Gown – Sunset Rubdown
15. Family and Genus – Shakey Graves
16. Free Translator – The Books
17. Special Death – Mirah
18. A Flower In A Glove – Frog Eyes
19. Yesterday’s World – Circulatory System
20. Roll On – Dntel
My Morning Jacket’s Carl Broemel announces new solo album 4th of July
The guitarist for My Morning Jacket, Carl Broemel has announced his latest solo album, 4th of July. The album will be released August 19 through Stocks in Asia/Thirty Tigers. Listen to the first single, “Sleep Lagoon,” below. It was recorded in his downtime from My Morning Jacket, and Broemel’s new LP will feature contributions from Neko Case, Laura Veirs, and Jacket bandmates Bo Koster and Tom Blankenship. See the cover artwork above and upcoming solo dates below.
M. Ward announces new album, More Rain, shares “Girl From Conejo Valley”
M. Ward will release a new studio album called More Rain on March 4th. Set out via Merge, it will be the singer-songwriter’s eighth album to date after A Wasteland Companion in 2012. The 12-track LP, which has tracks named “Pirate Dial,” “Confession,” and “You’re So Good to Me,” features collaborations with R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, Neko Case, k.d. lang, The Secret Sisters, and Joey Spampinato of NRBQ.
Ward began working on the LP four years ago, according to a press release, and he originally envisioned it as a doo-wop record. It is now considered a “true gotta-stay-indoors, rainy-season record that looks upwards through the weather while reflecting on his past.”
“I think one of the biggest mysteries of America right now is this: How are we able to process unending bad news on Page One and then go about our lives the way the Style section portrays us?” Ward noted in a statement. “There must be a place in our brains that allows us to take a bird’s-eye view of humanity, and I think music is good at helping people-myself included-go to that place.”
Ward, who works in She & Him and Monsters of Folk, as a preview, has shared the track “Girl From Conejo Valley.” Stream it below, followed by the tracklist.
More Rain Tracklist:
01. More Rain
02. Pirate Dial
03. Time Won’t Wait
04. Confession
05. I’m Listening (Child’s Theme)
06. Girl From Conejo Valley
07. Slow Driving Man
08. You’re So Good To Me
09. Temptation
10. Phenomenon
11. Little Baby
12. I’m Going Higher
Calexico releases new song “Falling From The Sky” with Ben Bridewell
The folk rock band Calexico is set to release a new album on April 16th, entitled Edge of the Sun through ANTI- Records. This upcoming album is the follow-up to Algiers and has a list of guest artists such as Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam, DeVotchKa’s Nick Urata, Neko Case, and Carla Morrison, a Grammy-winning Mexican singer.
The Tucson-based band released “Falling From The Sky” as a preview to the album and is a captivating collaboration with Band of Horses’ Ben Bridwell of Band of Horses. Listen to the track below.
The Melodic Tree’s Weekly Playlist
1. The Bleeding Heart Show – The New Pornographers
2. Nearly Midnight, Honolulu – Neko Case
3. This is Love (Feels Alright) – Camera Obscura
4. Clean Slate – M. Ward
5. Tamer Animals – Other Lives
6. Gun Shy – Widowspeak
7. Carissa – Sun Kil Moon
8. Black Water – Timber Timbre
9. There Can Only Be One – Cass McCombs
10. Baby’s Arms – Kurt Vile
11. From the Sun – Unknown Mortal Orchestra
12. Unless You Speak From Your Heart – Porcelain Raft
13. Sparkly – Young Magic
14. Try to Be – Blue Hawaii
15. The Rat – the Walkmen
16. Plumage – Menomena
17. I Say Fever – Ramona Falls
18. Beach – Peter Wolf Crier
19. WHALE – Yellow Ostrich
20. Forest Whitaker – Bad Books
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