Young Thug has dropped his Slime Season 2 mixtape, the followup to September's Slime Season. Listen to it below, via the mymixtapez link Young Thug shared on his Instagram.
Read our article, Chaos Theory: The Glorious Unpredictability of Young Thug.
Paul Westerberg declared that the Replacements were done with their reunion earlier this year, but when one door closes, another opens. Westerberg has started a new band with Juliana Hatfield called the I Don't Cares, Consequence of Sound reports. They're reportedly releasing an album called Wild Stab "soon," but for now, listen to their single "1/2 2 P" above.
Photo via Goodbye to Gravity's Facebook
Last night in Bucharest, Romania, the Romanian metal band Goodbye to Gravity were celebrating their album release party. The show resulted in tragedy when a fire spread quickly through the venue Colectiv, CNN reports. The fire reportedly killed 27 and injured at least 187 others. The Romanian newspaper Ziarul de Iasi reports that Goodbye to Gravity's guitarists Vlad Telea and Mihai Alexandru were also killed.
According to CNN, witnesses have claimed that pyrotechnics were responsible for the fire, though authorities are reportedly still determining the fire's cause. It's also been reported that Colectiv, the club built inside a Communist-era factory, only had one exit.
The Romanian government have declared a three-day national mourning, Reuters reports.
Photo via Instagram
EL VY—the collaborative project of the National's Matt Berninger and Menomena/Ramona Falls' Brent Knopf—just released their debut album Return to the Moon. To mark the occasion, they performed "Paul Is Alive", "Need a Friend", and "No Time to Crank the Sun" on this morning's episode of "CBS This Morning: Saturday".
Haim photo by Pooneh Ghana, Tobias Jesso Jr. photo by Tom Spray
At his recent shows, Tobias Jesso Jr. and his band Duk have been doing a loose, impromptu series of covers. One of them is Haim's "Forever", and during his show last night at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, he spotted the Haim sisters in the audience. They joined him on stage to perform the song. Watch footage below, and also watch him do the "Ghostbusters" theme and OutKast's "Hey Ya". Also worth noting: Jesso was dressed as sasquatch. Thanks to Bryce Segall for the tip.
Watch "Goon", Pitchfork.tv's documentary on Jesso:
White Lung and Pink Mountaintops have teamed up as Pink Lung for a new song called "Chinese Watermelon". The song's video is wild—there are dancing mimes, a guitarist cowboy emerging from cake, people rocketing into the sky, and a golden Stephen McBean emerging from Mish Way's torso. Happy Halloween—watch it below.
The video was shot in Los Angeles and directed by Justin Gradin and Ben Jacques (who were behind White Lung's "In Your Home" video). The song itself was produced by Ryan Castle.
The track appears on the Converse-sponsored Cons EP Vol. 3, which features collaborations from artists like GZA and Sweet Valley, Kim Gordon and J Mascis, and Freddie Gibbs with Hanni El Khatib.
Watch White Lung perform "Bunny" at Pitchfork Music Festival:
Erykah Badu is currently in the midst of a three-day run of "Live Nudity", a one-woman show that she is performing at Dallas' Black Academy of Arts and Letters. Before the initial performance she said the show would be largely improvised-- "I have a format, kind of, but I haven’t really had time to write a 60-minute show, so we just have to see what happens," she said previously, in addition to notes that it was "not biographical".
Now, footage has surfaced from her first performance, in which Badu did everything from performing with sock puppets to eating a bag of potato chips.
According to the Dallas Observer:
Yes, Badu dons sock puppets and, using a Rosie Perez accent, has her cotton-clad fists get into a domestic squabble that devolves into repetitions of “fuckin’ shit” until you wish one of the puppets would actually sock the other sock and knock it out. Another bit that goes stale puts Badu center stage slowly eating a bag of potato chips. That’s it. Crunch, crunch, crunch into the mic.
According to the report, Badu also told the audience that the performance was her way “as an artist … to be in control of my inconsistencies.” The show was divided into 13 scenes, and Badu sang for three of them-- the rest were a mix of improv and performance art. During the "comedy" portion of the show, Badu reportedly played "an unctuous New Age motivational speaker explaining chakras and forcing audience participation before comically dubbing patrons 'pedophiles' and 'thieves'."
"It's kind of stream-of-consciousness. I'm a pretty spontaneous artist," Badu said of the show in a separate interview with Guide Live. She said she had booked prospective performances in New York and Los Angeles theaters, but that she "chickened out."
She continued: "The title really expresses the pure honesty of my many personas. And we're not going to let you know if I'll actually be nude or not -- you're going to have to come see."
Read a full review of the full show here.
Erykah Badu will host the Soul Train Music Awards, airing on BET and Centric on November 29.
Some clips:
Photo by Dave Lichterman
Animal Collective have shared "Michael, Remember", a 23-minute improvised jam taken from a May practice, the band's first in a year and a half. The audio is attached to underwater footage filmed at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico. Watch it below. "Turn off the lights and watch on as big a screen as possible," the band wrote on Instagram.
Panda Bear, Avey Tare, and Geologist recorded "Michael, Remember" at Drop of Sun Studios in Asheville, North Carolina. (Deakin wasn't present.) The band wrote and rehearsed their new album at Drop of Sun, as previously reported.
The footage was filmed by marine biologist Colin Foord of Coral Morphologic, a collaboration between Foord and musician Jared McKay that explores "the visionary potential of living coral reef organisms via film, multi-media, and site-specific artworks," according to a Vimeo description posted by the band. It was shot in July 2014, and edited together with the audio this month by McKay. Geologist and Animal Collective's Deakin assisted with the camera work and the lighting.
The band's last album was 2012's Centipede Hz. Since the release of Centipede Hz, Animal Collective have toured both as a band and as DJs. Panda Bear and Avey Tare also released solo albums.
Earlier today, Panda Bear released "Swallow at the Hollow", a 26-minute mix of unused material recorded around the same time as this year's Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper.
Read our Cover Story on Panda Bear.
Watch them do "Today's Supernatural" at Pitchfork Music Festival:
Drake’s "Hotline Bling" is no stranger to remixes. Numerous artists have offered their interpretations of the track, including Erykah Badu. Now, Justin Bieber has chimed in with his own take on the song. Listen to it by dialing (231) 377-1113.
The Biebs teased the unconventional release on Instagram:
Read "Views From the 6", our feature on Drake's Toronto.
Watch Drake's "Hotline Bling" video.
Art Brut singer Eddie Argos has two literary projects out this year. Double D is a graphic novel made in collaboration with artist Steven Horry about an overweight boy who discovers he can use his body fat as a superpower. It'll be published by Image Comics on November 11. Below, check out two pages from the comic.
Additionally, Argos, Horry, and musicians Mark Heffernan and Grant Purser have recorded a soundtrack album to accompany the comic. That will be released by Post/Pop at the end of the year.
Launch events for Double D will be held in London on November 12 at Gosh! Comics, and in Berlin on November 21 at Black Dog Comics.
Meanwhile, Argos is set to release the second edition of I Formed a Band, a memoir that tracks the rise of Art Brut. That's the cover above. A 500-copy first edition sold out earlier this year. According to a press release, "The story begins with Eddie playing the vacuum cleaner on stage in his home town of Poole, and ends up with Art Brut recording Art Brut VS Satan with Black Francis in Salem, Oregon." (Black Francis wrote the foreward for the book.)
Watch Art Brut invade DC Comics on Pitchfork.tv:
Jerry Heller, the music executive who managed N.W.A., has filed a defamation lawsuit against Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, the estate of Eazy-E, NBC Universal, and other parties associated with the Straight Outta Compton biopic, as TMZ reports. He said he never gave permission to use his likeness in the film, and that excerpts from his memoir Ruthless were used without his permission.
Heller claims the movie portrayed him as "a sleazy manager who took advantage of Eazy-E, Dr. Dre and Ice Cube," according to TMZ, and that it was filled with factual inaccuracies. Amongst those alleged inaccuracies: Heller says he wasn't fired by Eazy-E, nor did he push Dr. Dre and Ice Cube to sign bad contracts or withhold money from Cube. (He also said he didn't eat a lobster brunch when those bad contracts were being signed, as the movie depicts.)
Heller is suing for $35 million in compensatory damages as well as $75 million in punitive damages. He also wants all profits from the movie.
Photo via Zane Lowe's Twitter
Today, Zane Lowe hosted a Halloween edition of his Beats 1 radio show, with special guests Haim. The sisters (who were dressed for the occasion, as evidenced in the photo above) jammed to cuts from Kanye West, Rick James, and more, and also offered a few updates.
First, their previously-announced to Beats 1 radio show, which they've titled "Haim Time", will premiere this next Thursday at 10 p.m. Eastern. Also, they said they're working on their new album "every day." "The oven is pre-heated and the oven door is open," the band said. "The fish fingers are in the tray". According to Haim, the "album's well underway", but further details on the Days Are Gone follow-up have yet to be announced.
Read our interview with Haim.
Travis Scott has shared a video for "Piss On Your Grave", his collaboration with Kanye West off this year's Rodeo. Directed by Nabil, the video features Scott and West rapping intensely in a forest. Watch below via Apple Connect.
It's worth noting that the video is an Apple Music exclusive—not Tidal, where Kanye is one of the streaming service's artist-owners.
Photo by Tonje Thilesen
Panda Bear has shared "Swallow at the Hollow", a 26-minute mix of unused material recorded around the same time as this year's Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper. You can listen to it above. "They kind of feel like scribbles or doodles and for some reason or another I couldn't find my way of singing with them," he wrote on Soundcloud. Find his full note below, as well as the attached art.
Swallow at the Hollow is a mix of things I made around the same time as all the Grim Reaper tracks. They kind of feel like scribbles or doodles and for some reason or another I couldn't find my way of singing with them. Some of them just stuck out like sore thumbs. I hope you enjoy them and wanted to say thanks very much for listening and thanks to those of you who came out to see the shows the past couple of years.
Happy Halloween...
PEACE noah
Read our Cover Story on Panda Bear here.
Watch Panda Bear on Pitchfork.tv's "Playlist":
Run the Jewels have shared Meow The Jewels: A Short Paw-cumentary, a short video that recaps the entire Meow the Jewels experience from start to finish. In the video, El-P and Killer Mike offer commentary on the album that started with a joke preorder listing, became a Kickstarter, and eventually enabled them to donate a lot of money to charity. (At the end, there's a breakdown of how the money was spent.) Watch it below.
They've also launched a new line of Meow the Jewels merchandise that includes mousepads, t-shirts (there's one pictured above), cat food bowls, and more. Check that out here.
On the Meow the Jewels Kickstarter, El-P and Killer Mike also said they were able to donate a lot of the charity money directly to Eric Garner and Michael Brown's families. They wrote:
We are thrilled to announce that our donation to the families of Michael Brown, Jr and Eric Garner is now official. This took a bit of time but we were ultimately able to speak directly with both families so that we could ensure the money went exactly where they wanted it to. Thank you to the people at GOOD Magazine, Black Lives Matter, Erica Garner, Damon Turner and Benjamin Crump for helping us through the process. Both families are extremely thankful for your contributions. For us, this is the essential function of MTJ. Together we have pooled our resources and did something kind for people in need. We can't thank all the donors/Kickstarter funders enough for making that happen.
They added that any future profits will also go to charity:
“BUT JAIME AND MIKE… WHICH CHARITY????” - good fucking question. We are trying to determine where the rest of the profit will go once it rolls in, but our idea is to try and set up some sort of scholarship fund for the children of victims of police brutality. If that doesn’t prove possible, we will pick from one of the many great and established charities out there to give the dough to. Once we figure it out we will let everyone know.
Read our Run the Jewels feature, "Last Rappers Standing".
Watch El-P and Killer Mike on Pitchfork.tv's "Over/Under":
Adele has announced Adele Live in New York City, a one-hour concert special that will be taped on November 17 at NYC's Radio City Music Hall, as The Hollywood Reporter points out. The performance, which will be her first U.S. show since 2011, airs December 14 on NBC. It's directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller, and executive produced by Lorne Michaels, Adele and Jonathan Dickins.
Meanwhile, she's also announced Adele at the BBC, a similar concert special airing in November on BBC One. The show will feature an interview conducted by the BBC's Graham Norton, and will be her first television performance since she sang "Skyfall" at the 2013 Academy Awards.
Additionally, she'll do a round of U.S. TV appearances in November. She'll perform on "Saturday Night Live" on November 21, "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on November 23, and "Today" on November 25.
Adele's new album, 25, is out November 20. Below, watch the video for first single "Hello".
Toronto producer Grandtheft has shared a video for his track "Quit This City", which features Toroto pop singer Lowell. Directed by John Poliquin and shot in Barcelona, the clip tells the story of a sex worker. Watch it below, via Pitchfork.tv
According to the video's makers:
Shot across two nights in Barcelona with a primarily Spanish cast and crew, these scenes are a combination of conventional filmmaking and on-the-wall documentary observations. Many of the scenes were filmed in the rowdy nightlife district where the camera had to be concealed at points for safety. The scenes where the girls are working the corner was photographed on a long lens from across the street, which led to the actresses being approached by both police and men looking to hire sex workers. Some of the men who approached the actresses were disrespectful and harassing, which unfortunately mirrored the malicious spirit of the final man in the film.
"Quit This City" is off of Grandtheft's EP Quit This City, which is out today via Mad Decent/Pirates Blend.
Grandtheft:
10-30 Bridgeview, IL - Freaky Deaky
10-31 Pomona, CA - HARD Day of the Dead
11-04 Las Vegas, NV - Surrender Nightclub
11-11-15 Miami, FL - Mad Decent Boat Party
11-19 Salt Lake City, UT - Sky *
11-20 Tampa, FL - Amphitheatre *
11-27 New York, NY - Webster Hall *
12-05 Pittsburgh, PA - 415 Bingham Street
12-11 Atlanta, GA - Havanah Club
12-30 Phoenix, AZ - Decadence
* with Milo & Otis
Jeremih has released a new song called "Oui". Listen to it below.
Update (10/30 11:08 a.m. EST): The track is actually entitled "Oui"; Spotify had listed the wrong title.
"Oui" follows the singles "Don't Tell 'Em", "Planes", and "Tonight Belongs to U!".
Recently, Jeremih has appeared on tracks by Nelly, DJ Khaled, Natalie La Rose, Katie Got Bandz, and R. Kelly.
Read "Waiting for Jeremih" on the Pitch.
Watch Crookers' video for "I Just Can't" featuring Jeremih:
Pope Francis recently announced his debut album Wake Up! and shared "Wake Up! Go! Go! Forward!". Today, His Holiness has dropped "¿Por qué sufren los ninos?" ("Why do children suffer?") from the album. Watch the lyric video for the song below, via Telemundo.
"¿Por qué sufren los ninos?" features an excerpt of a speech he gave at St. Thomas University in the Philippines. It also includes a Latin hymn, "Jesu Dulcis Memoria", performed by Italian artist Anna Tosato. He is backed on the track by acoustic guitar and choir.
Wake Up! is out November 27, and part of the proceeds from sales will go to a support fund for refugees.
Will Butler has shared a video for his Policy single "What I Want", which features Jennifer Morrison of the TV series "House". Directed by Brantley Gutierrez, the video has Butler and Morrison entering a punk club frequented by a bunch of unruly kids, whom they turn into "boring parents" (as described in the video credits) by way of a special ray gun. Perry Farrell makes a cameo as one of those boring parents, too. Watch it below via Nerdist, who also did a behind-the-scenes featurette on the making of the video.
Butler shared a statement about the making of the video:
Filming this video felt like a rock and roll laser tag birthday party. The kids were amazing-upbeat and hilarious the whole shoot. Such civilized anarchists. And-to mix metaphors, I guess-Jennifer Morrison was a real Albus Dumbledore, wise and unflappable and insanely talented. She truly classed up the rest of us muggles.
In other news, Arcade Fire are currently without a label following the release of 2013's Reflektor. On top of that, the rights to Funeral and Neon Bible have reverted back to them. According to their manager, Scott Rodger, they might not try to sign a new deal for their upcoming record. He talked about their situation in an interview with Music Business Worldwide, as Arcade Fire Tube points out:
They’re a huge touring act who sell around 1.6m – 2m albums each time. We’re out of our deal, they have no deal, plus most of their catalogue has reverted back to them. So they’ve got all the rights to their first mini-album, all the rights to Funeral and Neon Bible. The Suburbs comes back in the summer of 2017 and the next year we get back Reflektor.
We can do a futures deal; we can go to any label and sign the whole catalogue plus futures now. The question is, why would we? I sat with the band the other week: they’re not bread-heads, they don’t care about [a big payday]. They have a couple of studios, so they don’t need studio time to make their next record. They’ll fund it themselves, which they’ve done for every album anyway. They just want to do what’s smart. We can do physical with a boutique company and do some really nice vinyl. We can partner with a tech company. We can sign up to a digital aggregator. There are a lot of options.
David Guetta has enlisted Fetty Wap for a remix of his track "Bang My Head" featuring Sia. It appears on Listen Again, a re-release of his album Listen, with new songs and remixes. Listen to it above.
Read our Rising feature, Fetty Wap: Too Many Hooks.
Jeremih has released a new song called "You & I". Listen to it below via Spotify.
"You & I" follows the singles "Don't Tell 'Em", "Planes", and "Tonight Belongs to U!".
Recently, Jeremih has appeared on tracks by Nelly, DJ Khaled, Natalie La Rose, Katie Got Bandz, and R. Kelly.
Read "Waiting for Jeremih" on the Pitch.
Watch Crookers' video for "I Just Can't" featuring Jeremih:
Grimes has dropped another track from her forthcoming album Art Angels. It's called "SCREAM", and it features Taiwanese rapper Aristophanes. Listen to it below.Art Angels:
01 laughing and not being normal
02 California
03 SCREAM [ft. Aristophanes]
04 Flesh without Blood
05 Belly of the beat
06 Kill V. Maim
07 Artangels
08 Easily
09 Pin
10 Realiti
11 World Princess part II
12 Venus Fly [ft. Janelle Monáe]
13 Life in the Vivid Dream
14 Butterfly
"Scream" ft. Aristophanes:
U2 performed at TK tonight, and they brought out Patti Smith for a performance of "Gloria" (from Horses) and "People Have The Power" (from Dream of Life). Bono kicked off the performance with his own rendition of "Gloria" before Smith joined for a face-to-face serenade. The two then went on to perform "People Have The Power". Watch the performance below.
"Gloria" / "People Have The Power":
Future has dropped a visual for "Stick Talk", taken from this year's excellent Dirty Sprite 2 and recently remixed by Rick Ross. The clip sees Future rapping in some desolate locations – including the porch of an abandoned house and a sparse, industrial space – and turning up with his friends. Check it out below.
Read our interview with Future.
Last year, former Vivian Girl Katy Goodman brought back her La Sera moniker for Hour of the Dawn. Today, she's announced the latest chapter in that project: Music for Listening to Music To, a full-length LP due out next March on Polyvinyl. Ryan Adams produced the new record, as Rolling Stone reports. The album was recorded last spring at Adams' Pax-Am studio.
According to Adams, his work with Goodman and company in the studio eventually inspired his Taylor Swift cover album 1989. "If it wasn't for [Music for Listening to Music To], the 1989 record would have never happened," he told Rolling Stone.
Following their initial meeting on the first day of recording, Adams and La Sera's Todd Wisenbaker and Nate Lotz would eventually team up for 1989. "As soon as that record was done," Adams told Rolling Stone, "I was like, 'I have to go on the road for a minute, but as soon as I'm back, let's make something. Let's just jam.'"
Wisenbaker said:
We did three songs that first night, just loosely jamming, and [Ryan] tweeted about it, and it went berserko. The next day we're like, 'Oh, God, we actually have to do this.' Not that we wouldn't have done it well before, but actually, people are going to hear this.
Recently, Goodman and Wisenbaker were married. He's listed as an official collaborator and vocalist on Music for Listening to Music To, after previously producing and playing guitar on Hour of the Dawn.
Check out a trailer for the album below.
Watch an episode of Pitchfork.tv's 60 Seconds Left featuring La Sera:
Photo by Philip Skoczkowski
Kode9 has released the video for "Third Ear Transmission", which features the late vocalist the Spaceape. The clip previews Kode9's upcoming tour, which will be a live show collaboration with artist Lawrence Lek. Watch it below.
"Third Ear Transmission" is from Kode9's new album, Nothing, which is out November 13 via Hyperdub. Find the album art below.
The concept for the tour centers around the "Nøtel," a "evacuated, fully automated, luxury hotel" whose logo appears on the cover of Nothing. Here's how a press release describes it:
The project explores a post-scarcity world in which the only thing in short supply is humans. The performance guides the audience on a first-person tour through the uncanny architecture of the Nøtel. In sprawling chambers deep within slick glass corridors, they encounter warped spaces, quantum clouds, gravitational pools, dancing voids and holograms of the dead.
Find the dates below.
Kode9:
11-11 Montreal, Quebec - Le Belmont
11-12 Vancouver, British Columbia - Fortune Sound
11-13 San Francisco, CA - f8
11-14 Chicago, IL - East Room
11-16 New York, NY - Cielo
11-18 Los Angeles, CA - Airliner
11-20 Brooklyn, NY - Palisades
Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O has been involved with a number of film soundtracks over the past several years – Where the Wild Things Are, Her, and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – and in the past week, she's been back in the soundtracking game, this time for a TV show and a video game.
Not long after covering Animotion's "Obsession" for the opening sequence of Starz's ballet-themed drama Flesh and Bone, Karen has penned "I Shall Rise", a new original song for the upcoming video game Rise of the Tomb Raider, which is slated to hit stores November 10, as Rolling Stone points out. Below, check out an excerpt of the song as part of a trailer for the forthcoming game; the track will be released in full tomorrow.
Speaking with Rolling Stone, Karen O – who clarifies that she is not a gamer – offered her thoughts on the new track and explained how it came to be:
It all sounded really tasty. They wanted drama and high-stakes and melodrama. That was very appealing to me because I love making music connected to a storyline. It was all stuff I loved like having the theme song to [Lara Croft] becoming an icon and the creation myth to the moment she becomes Lara.
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman and her husband, Barnaby Clay, recently welcomed a son – an experience that she says inspired "I Shall Rise":
Some of the themes [Microsoft] gave me was transformation and survival and realizing one's own destiny and pushing past one's own limits, which is basically everything I've been going through with a newborn baby the past two months. I've been going through my own transformation.
Last year, Karen O said that Yeah Yeah Yeahs were on "a bit of a hiatus": an arrangement that seems unlikely to change anytime soon, based on her comments in Rolling Stone. "It's just waiting to see how everything works out with starting a family and seizing the moment when it strikes," she told the magazine, "I'm in the full-time job of [motherhood] at the moment."
Revisit our 5-10-15-20 with Karen O.
The Crystal Method have accused the Kremlin of using their song "High Roller" to soundtrack a propaganda video of airstrikes in Syria without their permission. The video, which was produced by the state-run broadcaster VGTRK, shows combat in Jobar, a suburb of Damascus, the Syrian capital. It makes prominent usage of the 1997 track, which the group says was completely unauthorized. "Our hearts go out to the people of Syria affected by this terrible war and their friends and families," they wrote in a statement.
Find the full statement below.
It has come to our attention over the last 24 hours that the Kremlin via Russian state broadcaster VGTRK have used our song 'High Roller' as the soundtrack to some shocking drone footage from Syria. The use of our music in this context is in no way authorized and The Crystal Method do not condone the use of violence for the resolution of any conflict. Our hearts go out to the people of Syria affected by this terrible war and their friends and families.
Freddie Gibbs will release his new project Shadow of a Doubt November 20 via ESGN. Executive produced by Gibbs, Ben "Lambo" Lambert, and Sid "Speakerbomb" Miller, Shadow of a Doubt features collaborations with E-40, Gucci Mane, the Roots' Black Thought, and more; production credits include Mike Dean, Kaytranda, and Boi-1da, among others.
Additionally, Gibbs has shared a gritty visual for "Fuckin' Up the Count", a track produced by Boi-1da and Frank Dukes. The video was directed by Jonah Schwartz. Check that out below, along with the tracklisting.
Shadow of A Doubt:
01 Rearview
02 Cocaine
03 Careless
04 Fuckin’ Up The Count
05 Extradite [ft. Black Thought]
06 McDuck [ft. Dana Williams]
07 Packages [ft. ManMan Savage]
08 Mexico [ft. Tory Lanez]
09 10 Times [ft. Gucci Mane & E-40]
10 Lately
11 Basketball Wives
12 Forever and A Day
13 Insecurities
14 Freddie Gordy
15 Cold Ass Nigga
Watch Freddie Gibs and Madlib do "Scarface" at Pitchfork Music Festival 2015:
On the latest episode of "WTF With Marc Maron", Marc Maron welcomed Steve Albini to his garage. The two of them talked about Albini's high school days in Montana, his father's engineering career, and much more. Listen to it here.
Albini reminisced about his experience watching weird punk bands, including one act where a rat ran over the singer's body as they performed. He talked about his antipathy for what disco became ("When you see these mustached schmucks in their silk shirts, it's easy to be offended by that culturally without being offended by the gay and soul music roots"), his apathy for the Pixies ("They were fine") despite his deep respect for Kim Deal's music, and his experience knowing the young Fred Armisen in Chicago before he became an "Saturday Night Live" star ("He made himself famous").
He also said hanging out with the Stooges (Albini recorded their 2007 LP The Weirdness) rates as the coolest thing he's ever done, and confirms that Iggy Pop hangs out with his shirt off all the time.
Read our 5-10-15-20 interview with Maron, and find our list of Albini's 10 best records.
Watch Maron talk about Iggy in his episode of Pitchfork.tv's "Frames":
Update (11:07 a.m.): In a series of tweets, Charli distanced herself from the project. "I did backing vocals and asked to be uncredited as this does not represent the direction I am moving in as an artist," she said. Find her tweets below.
Lawrence Rothman recently announced details of his forthcoming album. It'll include guests like Angel Olsen, Kim Gordon, Charli XCX, and Ariel Pink. Ahead of its 2016 release, he's shared the video for the track with Charli XCX, "Oz Vs. Eden". Directed by Floria Sigismondi, it takes place in a haunted house and features Rothman as his alter ego Kevin. Watch it below.
Rothman is working on the as-yet-untitled record with Justin Raisen, who worked on Sky Ferreira's Night Time, My Time and Charli XCX's True Romance, and is one half of Raw Deal with Ariel Pink. He previously shared "California Paranoia", his collaboration with Angel Olsen for the album.
Update:
@stereogum hi. I love Lawrence and Justin but I am not featured on this song. I did backing vocals and asked to be uncredited as this does
— CHARLI XCX (@charli_xcx) October 29, 2015
@stereogum not represent the direction I am moving in as an artist. I was not meant to be on that press release. Please remove my name from
— CHARLI XCX (@charli_xcx) October 29, 2015
@stereogum this article. I have only love & respect for @JustinLRaisen and this project is beautiful but confusing for my artistic direction
— CHARLI XCX (@charli_xcx) October 29, 2015
@stereogum thank you.
— CHARLI XCX (@charli_xcx) October 29, 2015
I'm seeing a lot of articles going up about the wonderful new @LAWRENCEROTHMAN song. Just to clarify I am not/was never featured on this ❤️
— CHARLI XCX (@charli_xcx) October 29, 2015
I sang some "na's" in the studio for producer @JustinLRaisen. That's all. This beautiful song is all down to the vision of @LAWRENCEROTHMAN
— CHARLI XCX (@charli_xcx) October 29, 2015
I was not part of the writing/vision/production for this song. It was an uncredited vocal that for some reason went in the press release.
— CHARLI XCX (@charli_xcx) October 29, 2015
Photo by Joe DeNardo
Eleanor Friedberger has announced her new album New View will be out January 22, 2016 via Frenchkiss Records. Listen to the album's opening track "He Didn't Mention His Mother" above. Find the artwork, tracklist, album trailer, and Friedberger's upcoming tour dates, below.
Friedberger arranged the songs on New View with her backing band Icewater. She recorded the album live to tape with producer Clemens Knieper in his converted barn studio in Germantown, New York. It's her first album since 2013's Personal Record.
Friedberger also recently shared a video for "False Alphabet City", which will not appear on the album.
New View:
01 He Didn't Mention His Mother
02 Open Season
03 Sweetest Girl
04 Your Word
05 Because I Asked You
06 Never Is a Long Time
07 Cathy With the Curly Hair
08 Two Versions of Tomorrow
09 All Known Things
10 Does Turquoise Work?
11 A Long Walk
Eleanor Friedberger:
11-02 Los Angeles, CA - Bardot (School Night)
11-03 San Francisco, CA - Brick & Mortar (Wood Shoppe)
11-05 Los Angeles, CA - El Cid
11-09 New York, NY - Pianos
11-10 Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool
Read our Situation Critical feature with Friedberger.
Watch her perform "Echo or Encore" for Pitchfork.tv:
Photo by JM Ruellan
CocoRosie's Bianca Casady has a new project called Bianca Casady & The C.i.A.. Early next year, she'll release a new album called Oscar Hocks via FANTASYmusic (in Europe) and Atlas Chair (in North and South America).
This fall, Casady is heading out on a European tour, presenting her new music via a theatrical project called "Porno Thietor". She'll be accompanied by dancer Bino Sauitzvy, visual artist/pianist J.M.Ruellan and musicians Lærke Grøntved, Michal Skoda, Takuya Nakamura, and Doug Wieselman. Coretin Leven did light/video/stage design.
Find the dates below, and check out their track "Poor Deal" above.
In a statement, Casady compared the C.i.A. to her work with CocoRosie. "I often played the dark side of CocoRosie. And now I don't have to worry about being too dark, too scary, too weird," she said. She shared the below press release, as well.
Below the tour dates, find footage from a live show as well as the track "Dog in a Yard".
Bianca Casady & The C.i.A.:
11-06 Reykjavik, Iceland - Iceland Airwaves Music Festival
11-07 Copenhagen, Denmark - Koncerthuset
11-09 Berlin, Germany - Heimatafen
11-10 Leipzig, Germany - UT Connewitz
11-12 Groningen, Netherlands - Vera
11-13 Brussels, Belgium - Botanique Orangerie
11-14 Den Haag, Netherlands - Crossing Border Festival
11-15 Frankfurt, Germany - Mousonturm
11-16 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Noord
11-17 Köln, Germany - Kulturkirche Köln
11-18 München, Germany - Kammerspiele
11-19 Wien, Austria - Brut
11-21 Bern, Switzerland - Dampfzentrale
11-23 Milano, Italy - Bellezza
11-24 Roma, Italy - Teatro Studio
11-25 Bologna, Italy - Locomotive
11-26 Firenze, Italy - Viper
11-28 Marseille, France - Espace Julien
11-30 Paris, France - L'Alhambra
12-01 Brighton, England - Corn Exchange
12-02 Bristol, England - The Lantern
12-03 London, England - ATP
Photo by Michael Halsband
Earlier this week, Dev Hynes released a new Blood Orange single, "Sandra's Smile". Today, in a series of Genius annotations, he details how the deaths of Sandra Bland and Trayvon Martin, "culture vultures," and more informed the song.
On "culture vultures":
Made you feel so loved, then shook your hand with gloves.
Culture vultures make us feel so good, so great… so a part of something, at least for a little while. How many times have you heard of some celebrity whose career is indebted to black people and their love of black people, who then have to put out a public apology for throwing around the term nigga, or the other side, become deafly silent when we really need their help or voice?
On Bland:
You watched her pass away the words she said weren’t faint.
We all saw Sandra Bland die, we all heard the words she said as it happened.
Closed our eyes for a while, but I still see Sandra’s smile.
I had a somewhat delayed depression upon Sandra’s death. I was hurt and upset and mad instantly, of course… but I think a part of me had my eyes closed, as a form of numbness...a few days later it hit me and i was unconsolable.
On Trayvon Martin's mother Sybrina Fulton:
Look, an hour ago.. I read Sybrina’s quote.
I mean, why should she forgive?
D’we lose you if, we don’t?I was reading the interview with Sybrina Fulton in NYMAG where she says she is not ready to forgive, and saw it become such a huge story. It’s insane to me people even pose this question to her, it’s no ones business except for hers. On top of that, when a white family loses a member to a tragic situation such as a school shooting, that question isn’t thrown on them, so why is Sybrina asked it? This is a deeper question, and one I’ve been writing about in my personal time a lot, the idea of Christianity in black culture, and thus the views of which we view the black mother in society.
This morning Foals stopped by BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge, where they performed a cover of Florence and the Machine's "What Kind of Man". Watch it below.
In December of 2013, School of Seven Bells' Benjamin Curtis passed away after a battle with T-cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma. Last year, Curtis' bandmate, Alejandra Deheza, said she was working to complete a new album, featuring parts Curtis had recorded when he was alive. Today, the band updated their website to announce SVIIB, a new album due February 2016. Below, watch a short teaser that includes a snippet of music.
On the website, Deheza wrote a note about the record, calling it "a love letter from start to finish." She said it originates from recordings made in the summer of 2012.
Friends,
Benjamin and I wrote this record during a tour break in the summer of 2012. I can easily say that it was one of the most creative and inspired summers of our lives. What followed was the most tragic, soul shaking tidal wave that life could deliver, but even that wouldn't stop the vision for this record from being realized. This is a love letter from start to finish. It's the story of us starting from that first day we met in 2004, and that's the story of School of Seven Bells. So much love to all of you. Thank you for being a constant light in our lives.
This record is for you.
-Alejandra
Photo via Rick Ross' Instagram
Rick Ross has shared a remix of Adele's "Hello" as part of his recent Renzel Remixes series. He's also shared a remix of Future's "Stick Talk" from Dirty Sprite 2. Listen to them both above.
Ross has shared the video for "Bill Gates" from his recent Black Dollar mixtape, as well. Watch it below via Revolt.
Ross plans to release his next album, Black Market, in December.
Lawrence Rothman recently announced details of his forthcoming album. It'll feature guests including Angel Olsen, Kim Gordon, Charli XCX, and Ariel Pink. Ahead of its 2016 release, he's shared the video for the track with Charli XCX, "Oz Vs. Eden". Directed by Floria Sigismondi, it takes place in a haunted house and features Rothman as his alter ego Kevin. Watch it below.
Rothman is working on the as-yet-untitled record with Justin Raisen, who worked on Sky Ferreira's Night Time, My Time and Charli XCX's True Romance, and is one half of Raw Deal with Ariel Pink. He previously shared "California Paranoia", his collaboration with Angel Olsen for the album.
EL VY—the collaborative project of the National's Matt Berninger and Menomena/Ramona Falls' Brent Knopf—will release their debut album Return to the Moon on October 30. They've shared another track from the album called "Silent Ivy Hotel". Hear it below, via Spotify.
Previously, EL VY shared "I'm the Man to Be", "No Time to Crank the Sun", "Paul Is Alive", "Need a Friend", and "Return to the Moon".
Watch the National on Pitchfork.tv's "Over/Under":
Photo by Jeffrey R. Staab/CBS
On last night's "Late Show", Stephen Colbert welcomed musical guests Alabama Shakes. Watch Brittany Howard and the band perform a song called "Joe", which they've played live and released on some editions of Sound & Colour.
Tonight, the band also shared a new live recording of the song. Listen above or purchase it here.
HomeState is a Los Angeles restaurant that serves Central Texas-inspired cuisine. They've announced their new Band Taco program, which will feature a new taco curated by a different artist every month. Proceeds will support need-based scholarships at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. To kick things off, Spoon offer their signature taco, "The Ranchero".
Spoon's breakfast taco includes migas, pico de gallo, avocado, and monterrey jack cheese on a flour tortilla. ?uestlove, Cold War Kids, Fitz & the Tantrums, and Cherry Glazerr are slated to create tacos in the coming months.
Here's what Britt Daniel said about his creation:
I’m at HomeState constantly so, frankly, when they asked me to create a taco I said, “It's about time." They asked what kind of taco I'd like to design and naturally I said a breakfast taco. I don’t understand why the breakfast taco isn't ubiquitous in Los Angeles, but HomeState is at least one great place I can turn to when I’m in LA. My taco is called the ‘Ranchero,’ and it’s based on the kind of tacos I’d get every morning for 59 cents when I first moved to Austin. The great thing about those breakfast taco places was that they were open til 3 in the afternoon — still an entirely appropriate time for breakfast. I’d wake up, take my girlfriend to work around 7, get breakfast, head home, catch a couple more hours of sleep, wake back up, work on a song, then head back to the taco shop at 2:45 for lunch. We called it double dipping. Conveniently, HomeState is open every day til 3.
Conor Oberst's punk band Desaparecidos are on tour supporting Payola, the band's first new album in 13 years. Following the cancellation of a Jacksonville concert last night, the band have axed all upcoming tour dates – including stints at the Fest and Fun Fun Fun Fest.
A statement on the Desaparecidos website says:
Conor Oberst fell ill while on tour in Jacksonville, Florida and was briefly hospitalized due to laryngitis, anxiety, and exhaustion. In consultation with his doctors, the band has reluctantly agreed to cancel all scheduled live dates. Conor will be heading home to Omaha to recuperate. We wish him a speedy recovery.
Find a full list of cancelled dates below.
Desaparecidos:
10-28 Ybor City, FL - The Orpheum
10-29 Orlando, FL - The Social
10-30 Gainesville, FL - The Fest
11-01 Pensacola, FL - Vinyl Music Hall
11-02 Oxford, MS - Proud Larry’s
11-03 New Orleans, LA - The Republic
11-05 Houston, TX - Numbers
11-06 Dallas, TX - Trees
11-07 Austin, TX - Fun Fun Fun Fest
11-09 El Paso, TX - Tricky Falls
11-10 Phoenix, AZ - The Pressroom *
11-11 Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up Tavern
11-12 Los Angeles, CA - The Teragram Ballroom
11-13 Santa Ana, CA - The Observatory
11-14-15 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
11-17 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
11-18 Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo
11-20 Salt Lake City, UT - The Depot
11-21 Boulder, CO - Boulder Theater
11-22 Omaha, NE - O’Leavers
12-02 New York, NY - Webster Hall &
* Florence Project Fundraiser with Tom Morello & The So So Glos
& Conor Oberst solo set
Watch Desaparecidos' video for "City on the Hill", featuring Cursive's Tim Kasher: