Wavves' Nathan Williams has shared another track off the band's forthcoming album V, which comes out out October 2 via Ghost Ramp/Warner Bros. It's called "Flamezesz", and you can listen to it below.
Wavves recently announced a tour; check out all his upcoming dates here.
Watch Wavves' episode of Pitchfork.tv's Frames:
Earlier this year, we reported that Sun Kil Moon and Jesu (aka Justin Broadrick, also of Godflesh) had plans to release a collaborative album together. Today, Mark Kozelek has confirmed the project on the Sun Kil Moon website, as Stereogum points out.
Jesu/Sun Kil Moon arrives February 19, 2016 via Kozelek's Caldo Verde records. Its tracklist includes such titles as "America's Most Wanted Mark Kozelek and John Dillinger" and " Last Night I Rocked The Room Like Elvis And Had Them Laughing Like Richard Pryor". Check out the tracklisting below.
The new LP isn't the first collaboration between Kozelek and Broadrick. Jesu's 2009 album Opiate Sun came out through Caldo Verde, and Broadrick later interviewed Kozelek for the Caldo Verde website. In 2013, Kozelek covered Godflesh's song "Like Rats", and the following year he called out Broadrick by name in his track "The Possum".
In other Kozelek news, he recently announced Dreams of Childhood, a spoken word album created in collaboration with Argentine actor Nicolás Pauls. His duet with Slowdive's Rachel Goswell, meanwhile, will appear on the Minor Victories album.
On top of that, at Latitude Festival in Suffolk, England recently, he brought out Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Steve Shelley to do Benji's "Richard Ramirez Died Today of Natural Causes". Watch footage of that performance below via Spin.
Jesu/Sun Kil Moon:
01 Good Morning My Love
02 Carondelet
03 A Song of Shadows
04 Last Night I Rocked the Room Like Elvis and Had Them Laughing Like Richard Pryor
05 Fragile
06 Father's Day
07 Sally
08 America's Most Wanted Mark Kozelek and John Dillinger
09 Exodus
Watch Sun Kil Moon perform at Pitchfork Music Festival:
Photo by Sam Jones
U2 will be the subject of not one but two HBO specials this fall.
The first, airing November 7, is a behind-the-scenes documentary about the iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE tour in support of last year's Songs of Innocence. Directed and produced by Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud), the doc will feature interviews with band and crew members. Bono's bike accident last fall is also covered.
The second, airing November 14, will be a concert film shot the same day at the tour's final show at Bercy in Paris. It's directed by Hamish Hamilton, who's directed several of the band's previous concert specials.
Pitchfork is proud to announce the launch of the Pitchfork Conversations podcast. The podcast features recordings of live chats between Pitchfork staff and notable artists.
The first one is a recording of Editor-in-Chief Mark Richardson's conversation with Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, which took place July 16 at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, as part of the InSightOut series presented by MailChimp.
It came at a pivotal moment for Tweedy and Wilco. It’s been 20 years since the group launched their recording career with 1995’s A.M., so the talk provided an opportunity to discuss their formative years and Chicago’s mid-‘90s music scene, as well as the band’s brand new album, Star Wars, which was actually surprise-released as the event was taking place. (The following night, Wilco headlined Pitchfork Music Festival.)
Future installments of the podcast will feature conversations with a variety of artists from various events.
Listen to the Tweedy podcast above via Soundcloud, or download it via iTunes here. Subscribe to the Pitchfork Conversations podcast on iTunes here.
Run the Jewels's set at this year's Pitchfork Music Festival featured many special guests. El-P and Killer Mike were joined by Rage Against the Machine's Zack De La Rocha for his verse on "Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)" and Gangsta Boo for "Love Again (Akinyele Back)". (Both tracks are from Run the Jewels 2.) Watch both performances below.
Read our feature on Run the Jewels, Last Rappers Standing.
"Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)"
"Love Again (Akinyele Back)":
Reports of Prince abstaining from all streaming services except Tidal were apparently premature: Today, the Purple One shared a new single, "Stare", which is available through Spotify only. (Yep, not even Tidal.) You can listen to it below. Keep your ears tuned for the pretty-obvious-but-still-endearing "Kiss" callback.
!!! will release new album As If on October 16 via Warp. It follows 2013's Thr!!!er. Above, you'll notice that it features a pretty awesome album cover. Listen to two album cuts, "Freedom! '15" and "Sick Ass Moon", below.
As an added bonus to go with that album artwork, find a press shot below featuring Nic Offer with the cover star, Chrystal the monkey.
(Side note: As If is Warp Records' second amazing album cover of 2015 that features bananas.)
In an interview with Spin, Offer said that the new record is "the most self-produced [we’ve been] since when Justin [Van Der Volgen] used to be in the band." Past collaborators Jim Eno (of Spoon) and Patrick Ford assisted, but the majority of production was done by the band.
As If:
01 All U Writers
02 Sick Ass Moon
03 Every Little Bit Counts
04 Freedom! '15
05 Ooo
06 All the Way
07 Til the Money Runs Out
08 Bam City
09 Funk (I Got This)
10 Lucy Mongoosey
11 I Feel So Free (Citation Needed)
Watch !!! in an episode of Pitchfork.tv's "+1":
Morrissey has posted a note on True to You saying he was sexually assaulted at San Francisco International Airport earlier this week. In the post, he describes passing through the walk-through scanner before being approached by an airport security officer. The officer, who was later identified as the General Manager On Duty, "stopped me, crouched before me and groped my penis and testicles," Morrissey says.
Two members British Airways Special Services were, he adds, "horrified" by the assault, and suggested he file a complaint. He relays the following exchange:
You have just sexually groped this man.
Officer: That's just your opinion.
What you have done is illegal.
Officer: That's just your opinion.
You have no right to do what you have just done.
Officer: That's just your opinion.
Here's Moz's response:
Apart from "that's just your opinion", he would not comment, even though, since the penis and testicles were mine and no one else's, then my opinion must surely have some meaning. But, of course, what the airport security officer was saying was: your opinion will never count in the eyes of the law. The words "that's just your opinion" volunteered themselves from this 'officer's' mouth before he had even heard the question. He knew he could be confronted, but he also knew that he could never be challenged (even though the entire incident is most certainly on CCTV camera).
He concluded, "Do people have minds?" Read the full post here.
Yesterday, Morrissey penned a separate post attacking Cecil the Lion's killer, a Sydney bookstore that apparently mismanaged his book-signing, and his record label Harvest. Read it here.
Watch "Kiss Me a Lot":
The Chemical Brothers recently returned with Born in the Echoes, their first studio album since 2010's Further. Today, they shared a bonus track from the record's deluxe edition. It's called "Wo Ha", and you can hear it below.
Read our interview with the Chemical Brothers.
Listen to "Under Neon Lights", the duo's collaboration with St. Vincent:
Tink has shared Winter's Diary 3, the follow-up to its 2014 predecessor. The 10-track mixtape features production by her mentor Timbaland (on "L.E.A.S.H."), as well as C-Sick, Cookin Soul, Jelan Abrams, and more. Stream or download it below, via Hot New Hip-Hop.
Last night's "Late Late Show With James Corden", featured musical guest Twin Shadow. George Lewis Jr. and the band performed their Eclipse single "To the Top".
The performance happened one day after Lewis shared a mixtape of demos called Night Rally.
Watch Twin Shadow perform "Five Seconds" for Pitchfork.tv:
Photo by Douglas Gorenstein/NBC
On last night's "Tonight Show", Jimmy Fallon welcomed musical guest Alessia Cara. Backed up by the Roots, the 18-year-old made her TV debut performing breakout single "Here".
"Here" will appear on Cara's debut EP Four Pink Walls, which is out August 28.
Read "Antisocial Optimist", our Rising feature on Cara.
Tyler, the Creator was the musical guest on last night's "Jimmy Kimmel Live". Before performing his Cherry Bomb tracks "Cherry Bomb" and "Smuckers", Kimmel brought him out to rap excerpts from the just-released Dr. Seuss book What Pet Should I Get?. Of course, that means Tyler wore a Cat in the Hat costume.
Watch him perform "French" with Odd Future at the 2011 Pitchfork Music Festival:
Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme has his own radio show on Apple Music's Beats 1 called "The Alligator Hour". During tonight's show, he welcomed his special guest, Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys. At one point, they start reading their iPhone Notes. One of Turner's is the phrase "John Lennon as a TV chef." Listen here; Turner appears around the 30-minute mark.
Homme also talked to Turner about his songwriting process. During a recording session where both men were present, Homme said he was impressed when he watched Turner change a song's lyrics on the fly without writing anything down. "I have notebooks and do write things down, but I don't know how much sense it would make," Turner said. "Often it looks more like an algorithm by the time I'm finished."
Their conversation will continue on next week's episode.
Read our interview with Arctic Monkeys.
Here's Arctic Monkeys' "Do I Wanna Know":
Photo via Instagram
Jean Grae was the musical guest on tonight's episode of Hannibal Buress' new Comedy Central show "Why? With Hannibal Buress". The New York MC was assisted by the show's in-house DJ, Flying Lotus as well as Terrace Martin and Ndidi O. They performed "Before the Summer Broke".
The show also featured a segment inspired by Drake and Meek Mill's beef where Buress asked people in Beverly Hills if they knew either rapper. Watch it all happen below.
Read "Jean Grae's Spectacular Second Act".
Hannibal asked me to do "Before The Summer Broke" on Why? I sighed. REALLY hard song for me to perform, so I don't usually. But I did. Tonite
— Jeannie (@JeanGreasy) July 29, 2015
It's hard song to perform. I've only broken on 2 songs. That one and doing "U&Me" live. Sooo, you know. Watch Why? and see me being weird.
— Jeannie (@JeanGreasy) July 29, 2015
Here's Buress' recent episode of Pitchfork.tv's "Over/Under":
RED Distribution have announced this year's installment of Ten Bands One Cause, a program where 10 artists release limited edition pink vinyl to benefit a good cause. All proceeds go to Gilda's Club NYC—the cancer support organization named for the late Gilda Radner.
Run the Jewels' Run the Jewels 2, Joey Bada$$'s B4.DA.$$, Sturgill Simpson's Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, Al Green's The Belle Album, and Chet Faker's Built on Glass are among the LPs to get pink pressings on September 29. Records by Primus, Clutch, Ingrid Michaelson, Between the Buried and Me, and Pierce the Veil are also available. Find more information here.
Watch Run the Jewels perform at the 2013 Pitchfork Music Festival:
Janelle Monáe is taking every act on her Wondaland Records imprint on the road for "The Eephus Tour". The dates take place next month across North America. Monáe will be joined by St. Beauty, Roman GianArthur, Deep Cotton, and the classic man himself, Jidenna. All shows are free and invite-only; RSVP here.
The tour coincides with the release of Wondaland's inaugural compilation EP, Wondaland Presents THE EEPHUS. It's out August 14.
Specific venues have yet to be announced, but find the cities and dates below.
"The Eephus Tour":
08-12 Philadelphia, PA
08-13 New York, NY
08-15 Washington, DC
08-17 Chicago, IL
08-21 Los Angeles, CA
08-23 San Francisco, CA
08-24 Portland, OR
08-31 Atlanta, GA
Here's the video for the "Classic Man" remix, which features Kendrick Lamar:
Still from drone video footage shot by Renee Lusano
Los Angeles dance-rock act YACHT have announced the follow-up to 2011's Shangri-La in a very big way. Today, the duo dropped a Google Maps pin at the location of a Los Angeles intersection, where a billboard could be found reading "I Thought The Future Would Be Cooler": the title of their fifth album. It's out this fall on Downtown Records.
YACHT's Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans are currently hanging out in front of the billboard. Tune in to Periscope now to see them in action. Below, watch a video of the billboard, shot on a drone.
The YouTube video description for the video contains with the following message:
The future is an impossible goal. It’s something we chase after, believing in an illusion of control. That isn’t to say our actions don’t affect what the future is like— in our case, hot, dry, loud, unjust—but that once we catch up to yesterday’s future, it’s no longer what we imagined. It’s just the present all over again. And so on.
We’ve made an album about that. It contains some speculations about the future that are big and distant as science fiction stories. But it’s also about looking carefully at the world around us and trying to understand what we’ve done with the imaginations of those who came before us. Would they believe it?
We live in a complex moment. There seem to be networks at every level of reality; as with all our technologies, we can’t keep ourselves from grabbing them, turning them around, and using them as a mirror. Every person is a node. Our technological economy is full of entities selling our own lives back to us. It’s easy to feel disillusioned, if only it wasn’t all so funny sometimes. #ITTFWBC
Watch YACHT perform "Summer Song" on Pitchfork.tv:
Photo by Will Deitz
Cat Power, aka Chan Marshall, has been announced as the narrator of Janis, a forthcoming documentary about Janis Joplin. In particular, Marshall will read letters written by the late singer.
Janis was made with the support of Joplin's estate. The movie was directed by Oscar-nominated Amy Berg (Deliver Us From Evil), and will premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September.
Photo by Noah Kalina
Last night, Jamie xx performed in Los Angeles, where he debuted an extended remix of "I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)", his Young Thug and Popcaan collaboration from this year's In Colour. The remix features verses from dancehall artists Assassin, Konshens, and Kranium, as well as an extra verse from Popcaan, and was remixed by Dre Skull. You can watch a video of it below, via The Fader.
According to Young Turks, Jamie's label, the remix is "unfinished" but is intended for release.
Read our new profile of Jamie.
Watch the xx perform on Pitchfork.tv: