Disclosure have shared a new video for "The Mechanism", off of last year's excellent Settle . It's an animated number that features several mechanisms falling into place: gears grinding, mallets hammering, and the general interworkings of what looks like the guts of a giant machine. Watch the video below.
Four Tet has remixed Sia's "Chandelier", completely stripping out the instrumentals while leaving the audio intact. Listen to it above. FT's Kieran Hebden also noted on Twitter that there's an alternate version "with guest vocal" that didn't make the grade due to "madness"; listen to it here. As Hebden also notes, "be quick this will probably get taken down".
Read our interview from last year with Four Tet.
Watch the video for "Chandelier":
Anna Calvi and David Byrne have shared a video for "Strange Weather", their Keren Ann cover/collaboration on Calvi's previously-announced EP of the same name. (Strange Weather is out July 14 via Domino.) The video was filmed in New York City by Alan Del Rio Ortiz, and features excerpts from a time spent wandering the streets at night. Watch it below.
Photo by Tom Spray
Today, Devonté Hynes (Blood Orange) tweeted that he was held at a Berlin airport and was the target of racial profiling. Officers apparently went through his electronics and wouldn't let him go until he showed them receipts...for items he'd purchased a year ago. "Nothing new, sadly," he wrote.
Was just held in Berlin Airport even though I'm a valid EU citizen with a U.S visa.
— Devonté Hynes (@devhynes) May 25, 2014
Everywhere I've ever been I am reminded that there are people out there holding a prejudice because of my skin colour, yes it was racial.
— Devonté Hynes (@devhynes) May 25, 2014
They went through all of my electronics and wouldn't let me go because I didn't have receipts for things I bought a year ago.
— Devonté Hynes (@devhynes) May 25, 2014
Irony of listening to Wagner at the time of apprehension was not lost on me...
— Devonté Hynes (@devhynes) May 25, 2014
People will always say to me "traveling is fun!" Or "I want to visit here.. And there etc". Well, imagine if even before all of that...
— Devonté Hynes (@devhynes) May 25, 2014
... You have to be aware and/or ready for how you will be treated based on nothing to do with your personality. Anyway, you know all this.
— Devonté Hynes (@devhynes) May 25, 2014
Nothing new, sadly.
— Devonté Hynes (@devhynes) May 25, 2014 Watch Hynes perform "Champagne Coast" at Pitchfork Music Festival:
The influential British shoegaze band Slowdive are the latest to hit the reunion circuit, with a number of festival dates confirmed for the summer (including Pitchfork Music Festival). Last night, they played their first show in 20 years at London's Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen, as Consequence of Sound reports. The show celebrated 10 years of the label Sonic Cathedral.
Now footage from the set has surfaced. Watch "When the Sun Hits" and "Machine Gun" from their 1993 classic Souvlaki, and 1990's "Slowdive", below. The set included material from all three of their albums, and also included their cover of Syd Barrett's "Golden Hair".
"When the Sun Hits":
"Slowdive"
"Machine Gun":
The lineup for this year's FYF Fest, taking place August 23 and 24 at Los Angeles' Sports Arena and Exposition Park, has been announced. The Strokes will play, as will Julian Casablancas and his new band the Voidz, plus Albert Hammond Jr. solo.
Also on the bill: Phoenix, Grimes, Haim, Interpol, Slowdive, Flying Lotus, Blood Orange, Death Grips, Real Estate, Mac DeMarco, Darkside, Little Dragon, Jamie xx, Caribou (and his alter ego Daphni), Built to Spill, Earl Sweatshirt, Future Islands, Slint, Four Tet, Todd Terje, Murder City Devils, Run the Jewels, Ty Segall, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Boris, Deafheaven, Angel Olsen, Man Man, Mount Kimbie, Thundercat, Kindness, Kelela, Joanna Gruesome, Toro Y Moi under his Les Sins alter ego, and more.
One of the more notable artists is the Blood Brothers, who have reunited and will play their first show in eight years at FYF Fest.
Haim were on last night's episode of Bravo's "Watch What Happens Live", the talk show in which Andy Cohen gets celebrities drunk and asks them invasive questions. Alana, Danielle, and Este were the bartenders, serving up alcohol as Toni Collette (Little Miss Sunshine) and Michael C. Hall ("Dexter") answered questions. In the video below, they talk about how they got linked up with Cohen and how much they love emojis. (Spoiler: A lot.)
Oh, what fun the world is having with the Solange/Jay Z elevator fight. On yesterday's episode of "The Daily Show", Blondie's Debbie Harry recorded a public service announcement warning against the dangers of elevator fighting. If it continues, celebrities might have to take the stairs! We will be joking about this forever, probably. Watch the video below, along with another in which Jon Stewart discusses the incident. Also, Blondie were musical guests on the episode; watch their performance of new song "Sugar on the Side" from new album Ghosts of Download below, as well as a web exclusive of "One Way or Another".
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Young Thug has shared the visual for "Stoner", and since you know the name of the song, you know what happens in the video. There's billowing smoke, hallucinations, dudes with dazed expressions, and Thug wearing a furry orange hat. Migos, Birdman, and D4L's Fabo all appear in the Be El Be-directed clip, though the video's MVP is obviously the Willie Nelson poster. Watch it below via WorldstarHipHop.
In other Young Thug news, the Atlanta MC appears on a new Lil Durk track produced by Young Chop. Check it out below the video via Nah Right.
tUnE-yArDs were the musical guests on last night's "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon". The band performed "Water Fountain" alongside a couch with teeth and eyes (like the one from the music video) and, eventually, the Roots on percussion.
Read our update with tUnE-yArDs here.
Watch the band's Pee-Wee's Playhouse-inspired music video for "Water Fountain":
Photo by Tonje Thilesen
El-P has remixed Warpaint's "Keep it Healthy", from their recent self-titled album. You can listen to it below. It's available digitally now, but will be released as a 12" in June with a Richard Norris Space + Time Machine remix of Warpaint's "Disco//very" on the B-side, via Rough Trade. (The digital release also features a Moody Good remix of "Disco//very".)
In other Warpaint news, they'll headline the Prospect Park Bandshell in Brooklyn on June 26.
Watch Warpaint perform "Love is to Die" at Pitchfork Music Festival Paris:
Arctic Monkeys recently swung by Triple j radio station to participate in their "Like A Version" cover series, which features bands covering the songs of other bands. Check out Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner covering Tame Impala's "Feels Like We Only Go Backwards" (which was also recently reworked by Kendrick Lamar for the Divergent soundtrack,) below.
Ben Khan has shared a new video for his 1992 single, "Youth". In it, a shower scene turns sinister with phantasmic guns, flashing lights, random video clips, and a reoccuring image of a knife.
Check out our Rising feature with Ben Khan, and watch the video below.
If you thought you had Mac DeMarco all figured out, well, everything you know isn’t wrong. Vernor Winfield McBriare Smith IV is part rebel, part rambler, and total dude— and in a new Jon Leone-directed short film, he doubles down on his chain-smoking-screwball rep and draws you into the deepest recesses of his dark, dank psyche, all while grinning like a total knob.
Pepperoni Playboy, a 34-minute "macumentary" shot in part by DeMarco and bandmate Pierce McGarry, follows Mac as he hams it up on tour in China, shows off his Jizz Jazz Studios in Brooklyn, and takes the piss out of DIIV and Bon Iver. Along the way, he shows us "how to make acoustic guitars rock," gives hot tips to aspiring young indie rockers, and pulls off a shower scene not unlike the one in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, if it happened on a toilet.
Life moves pretty fast. As Mac says, "Enjoy it while it fuckin' lasts."
Pepperoni Playboy debuts Monday on Pitchfork.tv, and this is the ridiculous trailer:
Photo by Tom Hines
Spoon haven't given away many details about their new album—the first since 2010's Transference—even as their website says it's coming out this summer. In the meantime, they've announced an international tour that kicks off this week.
They also released a video snippet of a new song, which you can watch below. It's the second song they've teased from the new record. The video reveals a show called "They Want My Soul" that's being thrown on the Fairbanks Lawn at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.
Spoon:
05-07 Memphis, TN - Minglewood Hall
05-08 Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works
05-09 Atlanta, GA - Shaky Knees Music Festival
05-10 Atlanta, GA - Center Stage Theatre
05-11 New Orleans, LA - Civic Theatre
05-31 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound
06-02 Berlin, Germany - Bi Nuu
06-03 London, England - Oslo
06-05 Porto, Portugal - Optimus Primavera Sound
06-07 New York, NY - Governors Ball Music Festival
06-14 Vancouver, British Columbia - CBC Music Festival
06-18-21 Toronto, Ontario - NXNE Festival
06-22 Minneapolis, MN - Walker Art Center
06-26-28 Las Vegas, NV - Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas
07-12-13 Telluride, CO - The Ride Festival
07-18 Louisville, KY - Forecastle Festival
07-25-27 Seattle, WA - Capitol Hill Block Party
08-02 Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza
08-08 Los Angeles, CA - The Fairbanks Lawn of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery
08-10 San Francisco, CA - Outside Lands
08-17 Portland, OR - Musicfest NW
09-05 Raleigh, NC - Hopscotch Music Festival
09-07 Boston, MA - Boston Calling Music Festival
10-03-05 Austin, TX - Austin City Limits Music Festival
10-10-12 Austin, TX - Austin City Limits Music Festival