Pusha T and Jay Z Team Up on New Track “Drug Dealers Anonymous”: Listen
Pusha T is back with another new single to follow up Darkest Before Dawn. This one's called “Drug Dealers Anonymous,” and it features a guest spot from Jay Z. Check out the track and the single's artwork below. The song will be a Tidal exclusive for one week.
Read Pitchfork's interview with Pusha about Darkest Before Dawn.
Watch Pusha's installment of Pitchfork.tv's "Over/Under":
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Built to Spill Touring With Hop Along, Alex G
Last year, Built to Spill released their new album Untethered Moon and reissued There's Nothing Wrong With Love. Today, they've announced a tour. Following their run of dates, this summer, they'll hit the road again and head North America this fall. They'll be touring with Hop Along and Alex G. Check out their full schedule below.
Built to Spill:
05-31 Tucson, AZ - Club Congress
06-01 Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad
06-02 El Paso, TX - Tricky Falls
06-03 San Antonio, TX - Paper Tiger
06-04 Houston, TX - Free Press Summerfest
06-05 Jackson, MS - Duling Hall
06-06 Birmingham, AL - SATURN
06-07 Atlanta, GA - Terminal West
06-09 Baton Rouge, LA - Varsity Theatre
06-10 San Antonio, TX - Paper Tiger
06-11 Fort Worth, TX - Untapped Festival
06-12 Oklahoma City, OK - ACM Performance Lab @ UCO
06-14 Memphis, TN - 1884 Lounge
06-15 Knoxville, TN - Bijou Theatre
06-16 Cincinatti, OH - The Woodward Theater
06-17 Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall
06-18 Maquoketa, IA - Codfish Hollow
06-19 Milwaukee, WI - Turner Hall Ballroom
06-20 Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon
06-21 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
06-22 Fargo, ND - The Aquarium
06-23 Winnipeg, Manitoba - Pyramid Cabaret
06-24 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - Saskel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival
06-25 Calgary, Alberta - Sled Island
06-27 Bozeman, MT - Emerson Center for Arts & Culture
06-28 Missoula, MT - The Badlander
06-29 Spokane, WA - Knitting Factory
06-30 Bellingham, WA - Wild Buffalo House of Music
07-01 Olympia, WA - Capitol Theater
07-02 Walla Walla, WA - Main Street Studios
07-03 Bend, OR - Domino Room
07-04 Boise, ID - The Olympic Venue
09-16 New York, NY - Irving Plaza *^
09-17 Wilmington, DE - Bellevue State Park
09-18 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club *^
09-20 Richmond, VA - The National *^
09-21 Charlotte, NC - Neighborhood Theatre *^
09-22 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle *^
09-23 Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel *^
09-24 Athens, GA - Georgia Theatre *^
09-26 St. Louis, MO - The Ready Room *^
09-27 Columbus, OH - Skully's Music Diner *
09-28 Millvale, PA - Mr. Small's Theatre *
09-29 Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop *^
09-30 Toronto, Ontario - The Danforth Music Hall ^
10-01 Montreal, Québec - Club Soda *
10-03-04 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club *
10-05 Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Bowl *^
10-06 South Burlington, VT - Higher Ground *^
10-07 Ithaca, NY - The Haunt *^
10-08 Asbury Park, NJ ^
* with Hop Along
^ with Alex G
Watch Built to Spill's "Never Be the Same" video:
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Waxahatchee Announces Early Recordings Reissue
Last year, Waxahatchee released the album Ivy Tripp. They have now announced a new reissue collection Early Recordings. Out June 17 via Merge Records, it contains some of Katie Crutchfield’s first songs for Waxahatchee; they were previously released on a 2011 split cassette. It will be available digitally and on cassette. Check out the tracklist, cover art (by Chelsea Dirck), and Waxahatchee’s upcoming tour schedule below.
Crutchfield has made the song “Home Game” available now for $1, via The Spark Mag. All proceeds for the track will go to DIY PHL’s event First Time’s the Charm. The annual gathering “encourages inclusion and diversity in the music community by actively soliciting the participation of women, queer-identified folks, transgender people, people of color, and musicians playing a new instrument or in a band for the first time.” Purchase “Home Game” here.
In a press release, Crutchfield explained why she is re-releasing these songs now:
They came out five years ago as a super limited split cassette that was mostly for friends and family, and truth be told, I had largely forgotten about them until this spring while on a solo tour of the West Coast. At first I was tentative about re-listening to these recordings, but the nostalgia I felt when re-hearing them was warm, and I thought it might be nice to make them available again.
Read our feature, “Pull the Thread and Unravel Me: Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield.”
Early Recordings:
01 Black Candy
02 Clumsy
03 Home Game
04 Sister Saint
05 Whiskey + Math
Waxahatchee:
06-03 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer ^
06-06 Washington, DC - Black Cat *
06-07 Asheville, NC - The Mothlight *
06-09 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
06-10 Atlanta, GA - Aisle 5 *
06-11 Birmingham, AL - Saturn *
06-13 Oxford, MS - Proud Larry’s *
06-14 St. Louis, MO - Off Broadway *
06-15 Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews *
06-16 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club *
06-17 Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon *
06-19 Chicago, IL - Beat Kitchen *
06-20 Grand Rapids, MI - Pyramid Scheme *
06-21 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom *
06-22 Lancaster, PA - Chameleon Club *
07-07-09 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Gridlock Festival %
^ with Hop Along
* with Allison Crutchfield
% Katie Crutchfield solo performance
Watch Waxahatchee play “La Loose” at Pitchfork Music Festival 2015:
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De La Soul Enlist Snoop Dogg for New Song “Pain”: Listen
After announcing their new album and the Anonymous Nobody... earlier this month, De La Soul have shared a new song from the upcoming project. “Pain” is available now, and it features a verse from Snoop Dogg. Listen to it below. The track is accompanied by an interactive lyric video game, in which the player has to dart around the lyrics as they rain down. and the Anonymous Nobody... is out August 26 via AOI Records. De La Soul are also doing a string of European dates this summer, bookended by festival shows in New York and California; see those below.
De La Soul:
06-04 New York, NY - Governor's Ball
06-11 Brighton, England - Wild Life Festival
06-12 Manchester, England - The Parklife Weekender
06-15 Belfast, England - Limelight
06-16 Dublin, Ireland - Olympia Theatre
06-18 Düsseldorf, Germany - Stahlwerk
06-21 Rotterdam, Netherlands - Annabel
07-08 Moseley, England - Mostly Jazz, Funk & Soul Festival
07-09 Newquay, England - Electric Beach Festival
07-14-16 Lisbon, Portugal - Super Bock Super Rock
07-22 Amersham, England - Penn Fest
07-28 Berlin, Germany - Yaam
07-29 Hünxe, Germany - Out4Fame Festival
08-12 Riverhead, NY - FOLD Festival
09-23-25 Long Beach, CA - Music Tastes Good Festival
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Nils Frahm and Woodkid Accompany Robert De Niro in Ellis Trailer: Watch
ELLIS is a short film directed by French artist JR and starring Robert De Niro. It is about an immigrant (played by De Niro) who walks the abandoned hallways of the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital. Woodkid composed the film’s score, which is played and also co-written by Nils Frahm. That score is now being released as a mini-album on CD, 12” vinyl, and digitally, along with a 12-page picture booklet. ELLIS is out July 8 via Erased Tapes. Below, watch a trailer for the film, listen to excerpts of “Winter Morning I” and “Winter Morning II” (with narration from De Niro) from the score, and see the ELLIS cover art.
Read our interview, “Nils Frahm’s Piano Is Bigger Than Yours.”
In a press release Nils Frahm said:
The opportunity to work on JR’s fantastic short film ELLIS came through my good friend Yoann aka Woodkid. We agreed on recording the piano parts in my studio in Berlin and so it happened that JR and Woodkid were guests at Durton studio on a wonderful late summer day in 2015. We managed to record all the crucial elements that day. The music fell in our laps and melted with the images: a wonderful experience. The film has stuck in my head ever since; it moved my heart and changed my soul.
A couple of weeks later I had to cancel a trip to Brussels because of a terror warning; all events got cancelled and I stayed home, having an unexpected day off. I felt rather depressed that day, thinking that the Europe I knew was already gone. I sat down at the harmonium, listened to Robert De Niro’s voice and played for the rest of the day. The result is “Winter Morning II,” the B-side of the ELLIS soundtrack release.
Robert says it all in 17 minutes. We are not facing a refugee crisis. We are facing a crisis because we do not embrace, we do not sympathise and we cannot give up fear. Art can encourage so I hope this project will help fight the fear in all of us.
Woodkid added:
Ellis is my second collaboration with JR after the New York City Ballet piece for Les Bosquets. I initially wanted this piece to sound like it was recorded on an old piano that we found in the ruins of Ellis Island, in the restricted area that is not open to the public, where JR pasted the pictures on the walls for the film Ellis.
I had worked with Nils before and I wanted him to create a sound for this piano part that I composed that was extremely gentle and organic. I wanted the listener to hear the mechanisms, the breathing of the instrument. I wanted it to be imperfect, to sound like a ruin, a trace, an echo, the way the pastings on the walls seem to be ghosts, almost imperceptible.
After a few rehearsals, Nils stripped down my piano parts and we removed almost all orchestration around the piano. He then worked on the extended version that is his interpretation of my piece, with Robert de Niro’s vocals.
Because this film and this recording is historically meaningful, it was important for us to create this piece as an echo to the immigration situation in Europe, and decided to release it in support of Sea Watch.
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Minor Victories (Slowdive, Mogwai, Editors) Delay North American Tour
Minor Victories is the supergroup of Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell, Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite, Editors’ Justin Lockey, and his brother James Lockey of Hand Held Cine Club. They have been touring Europe in anticipation of their self-titled debut record, which is out June 3. The band were planning on touring North America in June behind the album, but have had to postpone the shows “due to visa delays beyond their control.” Their European dates remain intact, and they plan to reschedule the U.S. and Canada concerts. Read the band’s official statement on the matter below. Scroll down for their current tour schedule.
Minor Victories are sorry to announce that their tour dates in the USA and Canada are being postponed due to visa delays beyond their control. The band are currently looking to reschedule the dates and want all those who have booked tickets to know that they are keen to get details of these shows announced as soon as possible.
Minor Victories:
06-03 Dudingen, Switzerland - Bad Bonn Kilbi Festival
06-04 Mannheim, Germany - Maifeld Derby Festival
06-17 Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands - Best Kept Secret Festival
06-19 Washington, D.C. - Rock & Roll Hotel
06-20 Cambridge, MA - The Sinclair
06-21 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
06-22 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
06-24 Toronto, Ontario - The Opera House
06-25 Columbus, OH - The A&R Bar
06-26 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
06-28 San Francisco, CA - The Independent
06-29 Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroom
07-15-17 Salacgriva, Latvia - Positivus Festival
07-17 Henham Park, England - Latitude Festival
08-05-07 Katowice, Poland - Off Festival
08-07 Sicily, Italy - Ypsigrock Festival
08-12 St Malo, France - La Route Du Rock Festival
08-13 Haldern, Germany - Haldern Pop Festival
08-17-20 Paredes, Portugal - Vodafone Paredes de Coura
08-20 Hasselt, Belgium - Pukkelpop Festival
10-27-29 Paris, France - Pitchfork Music Festival Paris
11-02-06 Reykjavík, Iceland - Iceland Airwaves
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Kaytranada Remixes Rihanna’s “Kiss It Better”: Listen
Kaytranada just released his very good new album 99.9%. Today, he discussed the record during an interview on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 radio show. He revealed to Lowe that he is at work on a follow-up mixtape, aptly titled 0.01%. In addition, Zane Lowe premiered Kaytra’s new remix of Rihanna’s ANTI highlight “Kiss It Better.” Listen to his rework and the interview below.
Watch the “Kiss It Better” video:
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Beach House’s Victoria Legrand Gives Advice to Teenage Girls for Rookie’s “Just Wondering”
Rookie has a recurring feature “Just Wondering,” in which adults give advice to teenage girls who send in questions. Beach House’s Victoria Legrand is the latest grownup to participate, giving long answers to two questions. First, a 16-year-old says she has a hard time talking with her parents about her “negative emotions and scary feelings.” Legrand suggests speaking with “music, friends, counselors, yoga, and nature,” as well as her parents, about difficult topics. She reminds the reader that her parents love her and that she will grow apart from them before getting closer again later in life. She adds, “Try making some art, too!!!”
In the second question, a 17-year-old tells Legrand that her best friend finds her annoying, so they are growing apart. She asks how to “proceed or how to talk about it.” Legrand assures, “The number one thing to know at your age, and for the rest of your life, is that almost everything happens for a reason.” Later, she wonders if her friend needs space or if he may even have a crush on her. She ends with the touching message:
You’ll never be perfect—no one is. You will drive someone crazy and be driven crazy as well. You will lose people, and they will lose you. Just know that loving is also letting go, so if your friend needs a break, let him go. He may come back. Just know you did the right thing. BE brave and take a risk. BE free.
Read Victoria Legrand’s full “Just Wondering” column here. Beach House will go back out on tour behind last year’s Depression Cherry and Thank Your Lucky Stars tomorrow. See their dates here.
Watch Beach House play “Beyond Love” at Pitchfork Music Festival Paris 2015:
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James Blake Announces Tour
James Blake released his new album The Colour in Anything earlier this month. He has now announced a tour behind the record. The North American trek includes his stop at Justin Vernon’s Eaux Claires Music & Arts Festival. See the dates and a poster for it below.
Blake recently played songs from The Colour in Anything live in Los Angeles. See video from his show here.
James Blake:
8-12 Eau Claire, WI - Eaux Claires Music & Arts Festival
9-23 Dallas, TX - House of Blues
9-24 Houston, TX - House of Blues
9-25 Austin, TX - ACL Live at the Moody Theater
9-27 New Orleans, LA - Orpheum Theatre
9-28 Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle
9-30 Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory
10-01 Washington, DC - Lincoln Theatre
10-03 New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall
10-04 Boston, MA - House of Blues
10-05 Montreal, Quebec - Metropolis
10-07 Toronto, ON - Massey Hall
10-08 Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre
10-09 Chicago, IL - Cadillac Palace Theater
10-12 Seattle, WA - Moore Theatre
10-13 Vancouver, British Columbia - Orpheum Theatre
10-14 Portland, OR - Roseland Theater
10-18 Santa Barbara, CA - Arlington Theatre
10-20 Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Palladium
Watch James Blake’s full set at Pitchfork Music Festival Paris 2014:
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Listen to Jack White’s Theme Song for Maya Rudolph and Martin Short’s New Variety Show
Tonight, Maya Rudolph and Martin Short’s new variety show “Maya & Marty” debuts on NBC. Third Man Records has now shared the program’s theme song, which is written and produced by Jack White; he also played drums on it. In addition to White, Dean Fertita (of Queens of the Stone Age, the Dead Weather, and Iggy Pop’s Post Pop Depression band) plays organ on “The Maya and Marty Theme Song;” Dominic Davis is on bass, and Lillie Mae Rische and Fats Kaplin play guitar. According to Third Man, it is the first time White has written music for a TV show. Hear it and see the track artwork (a silly photo of Rudolph and Short with a llama) below.
Earlier this year, White appeared on ABC’s “The Muppets.” On the show, he sang the White Stripes’ “Fell in Love With a Girl” with Kermit the Frog and covered Stevie Wonder’s “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” with the Muppets house band.
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Daniel Radcliffe and Paul Dano Star in Andy Hull and Robert McDowell's "Montage" Video: Watch
Swiss Army Man is an upcoming film starring Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. The film is soundtracked by Andy Hull and Robert McDowell from Manchester Orchestra, and its first single is "Montage." Below, you can watch a lyric video for the song that features Dano and Radcliffe singing along. They also provided vocal contributions on the recorded version. Swiss Army Man is out July 1, while the soundtrack will be released June 24.
Swiss Army Man is directed by Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, known as DANIELS. Watch DANIELS talk about how they started making music videos and their unique hybrid of live action, motion graphics, and comedy in Pitchfork.tv's "Director ID" series.
Check out a trailer for the movie:
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Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy, Cypress Hill Members Form Prophets of Rage Supergroup
Prophets of Rage, the supergroup featuring members of Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy, and Cypress Hill, have officially announced their existence. The group's lineup is: Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello, Tim Commerford, and Brad Wilk, Public Enemy's Chuck D and DJ Lord, and Cypress Hill's B-Real. Zack de la Rocha is not involved. They'll debut tonight at the Whiskey a Go-Go in Los Angeles, and will perform songs by all three groups, as well as new music. Proceeds from the show will benefit PATH, an organization that works to end homelessness. In an interview with KROQ, Morello referred to the band as "an elite task force of revolutionary musicians." Watch the interview below. They also teased more news through a forthcoming countdown on their website. (A previous countdown ended this morning, though the website subsequently glitched.)
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Listen to Amanda Palmer and Jherek Bischoff Cover Prince’s “Purple Rain”
Earlier this year, Amanda Palmer teamed up with Jherek Bischoff for Strung Out in Heaven, a David Bowie covers EP. Now the two have paired up once more to cover Prince. The 10-minute string quartet cover begins with the intro to “Let’s Go Crazy” before Palmer moves into singing “Purple Rain.” The proceeds from the cover will be donated to Elevate Hope–a charity that provides music therapy for abused and abandoned children. Stream the song, see the cover art (by Sarah Beetson), and read Palmer and Bischoff’s respective statements about the song below.
See more tributes and read more about Prince’s legacy here.
Amanda Palmer:
Jherek and I had already bonded over our deep love of Prince while were touring together in support of my kickstarter-ed record; we even decided to learn the entirety of the Purple Rain album - every strange synth part on every song - for a New Years Eve show at Terminal 5 in 2012. Unsurprisingly, there’s no evidence or footage on youtube…every fan video was wiped by Prince’s team in the 48 hours after the show. I respected that. Even though Prince’s attitude towards the internet frustrated and sometimes baffled me, I could always see things from his perspective; I found myself thinking that it must have been so incredibly frustrating for him to become fluent in a language - the language of 1908s and 1990s record labels, contracts and ownership - that was becoming a dead tongue in his own lifetime. Especially when his knowledge was so hard-won.
“Purple Rain”, the album/soundtrack, was my first cassette tape, purchased with allowance money when I was about ten years old. It became the sole resident of the book-size silver sony walkman that I wore around my neck on a nylon strap (they hadn’t quite figured out the hip-clip method back in 1985, we all walked around looking really silly with those neck-walkmen).
The Walkman was a life-changing invention for the young music listener: my entire world became a film to which Prince was the soundtrack: my walk to school, my walk home from school, family trips in the car, my own little universe at night, falling asleep with headphones on, gazing at the Prince poster above my bed (this one, to be exact). He created my universe in song, and mansions full of doves and computers and Darling Nikkis danced in my head as I slept.
In a move that’s part ironic and part poetic we used the money from my patreon, a subscription system I’ve been using (instead of using a record label for this project). My patreon greatly resembles Prince’s "NPG Music Club” , which was a proto-crowfunding website back in 2001(2001!) into which fans could pay a yearly subscription and get their Prince-content directly from Prince (it failed, alas...he, like Bowie, was ahead of his time).
Jherek and I are putting this version of “purple rain” up for as close to “free” as we are able on bandcamp.com ($1 and up), given that Prince’s publishing rights need to be paid. We are giving the remainder of the profit, until further notice, to Elevate Hope, a charity that provides music therapy for abused and abandoned children founded by Prince-coterie member Shiela E.
Jherek recorded the strings live in L.A., and I cut the vocal for this song in a huge converted church in Hudson, NY. I found myself thinking, as we started recording, that the entire experience of Prince could be summed up by those first two lines of “Let’s Go Crazy” (which we decided to mash into our arrangement, because why not). It sums up, perhaps, the experience of any human who tries to hammer out some offering that can become to soundtrack of our lives; the music to which we can dance and sing and scream ourselves clean. The mantra, basically, of any artist who humbly stands before an audience and offers their voice:
Dearly Beloved.
We are gathered here today to get through this thing called life.
…….
Thank you, Prince. With your music in our ears, we will hopefully punch a higher floor.
Jherek Bischoff:
Amanda and I had recently made the EP of David Bowie covers and when Prince passed away, we went back and forth about whether we should make something. We knew in our hearts that we wanted to, but it seemed like a bit much, so soon after the Bowie record. But losing Prince was just too much. Losing them both, just too much. Making the Bowie record had been so extremely therapeutic for us, and getting deep into those songs was such an intense and beautiful experience. It was no different working on this. It just gave me an even deeper love of one of the greatest musicians ever to walk this earth.
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Surfer Blood Guitarist Thomas Fekete Has Died
Surfer Blood guitarist Thomas Fekete has died. The news was shared by his wife, who said he passed away last night. The cause was complications from a rare form of cancer, which Fekete was diagnosed with last year. "I am full of comfort knowing that he is now free, and long for the day I get to be with him again," she wrote on the GoFundMe page established to assist with the costs of treatment.
Fekete was a founding member of Surfer Blood, who formed in 2009. Surfer Blood released three studio albums and one EP, all of which Fekete played on. Last year, he left the band after being diagnosed with cancer. In November, the band enlisted Real Estate, Yo La Tengo, Guided by Voices, Yoko Ono, Interpol, and other artists in auctioning off unreleased songs to raise funds. In December, Fekete released Burner, a cassette of solo music.
On the GoFundMe page, his wife wrote:
Our sweet Thomas passed on last night, peacefully in his sleep, holding my hand. With one last sigh, he let go of the burden of pain and suffering that he has been bravely carrying for so long. I am full of comfort knowing that he is now free, and long for the day I get to be with him again.
May we all carry on Thomas' legacy by being the very best versions of ourselves for the rest of our days, and do as much as we can to help others in his honor. If we can strive to be half the person Thomas was, this world will be a better place.
I plan to host a celebration of his life here on the beach in South Florida, the first weekend of July, just after his birthday on 1st. I will share specific details as soon as possible. I invite anyone who holds Thomas in their hearts to please join me in celebrating him.
It was an absolute privilege to stand next to Thomas and face this monster head on. Even as his body failed him, his mind and spirit soldiered on. Never was there a day that we weren't filled with hope. Never was there a day that he even considered throwing in the towel. He was the kind hearted, funny, fearless, magnetic beam of light you all knew him to be up until his very last breath.
Thomas John Fekete, I love you and live for you. Nothing will make me more proud than being able to call myself your wife.
Now, my beautiful angel, go find Bowie and jam.
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Axwell Λ Ingrosso Swap Faces in “Thinking About You” Video: Watch
Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso—two thirds of the former DJ supergroup Swedish House Mafia—have teamed up as Axwell Λ Ingrosso. Their latest track, “Thinking About You,” now has a video. Watch it below. Directed by Nicolas Caeyers, it features the duo face-swapping with a dancer in a boardroom, the bride at a wedding, children, and more.
Axwell Λ Ingrosso head out on tour soon. See their dates below.
Axwell Λ Ingrosso:
06-11 Seoul, Republic of Korea - Ultra
06-17 Las Vegas, NV - Hakkasan
06-18 Las Vegas, NV - EDC Vegas
06-25 Scheessel, Germany - Hurricane
06-26 Neuhausen, Germany - Southside
06-30 Sopron, Hungary - VOLT Festival
07-01 Kristiansand, Norway - Palmesus
07-03 Toronto, Ontario - Digital Dreams Festival
07-06 Ibiza, Spain - Ushuaïa
07-07 Plainfeld, Austria - Electric Love
07-08 Udine, Italy - Project X
07-09 Milton Keynes, England - EDC UK
07-13 Ibiza, Spain - Ushuaïa
07-15 Le Barcarés, France - Electrobeach Festival
07-16 Sant Adrià De Besòs - Barcelona Beach Festival
07-16 Weeze, Germany - Parookaville
07-20 Ibiza Spain - Ushuaïa
07-22 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia - Alfa Future People Festival
07-23 Boom, Belgium - Tomorrowland Belgium
07-27 Ibiza Spain - Ushuaïa
07-30 Rotterdam, Netherlands - The Flying Dutch
08-03 Ibiza Spain - Ushuaïa
08-05 Parnu, Estonia - Weekend Festival Baltic
08-05 Helsinki, Finland - Weekend Festival Finland
08-06 Skanderborg, Denmark - Smukfest
08-10 Ibiza Spain - Ushuaïa
08-17 Ibiza Spain - Ushuaïa
08-24 Ibiza Spain - Ushuaïa
08-27 Daresbury, England - Criemfields
08-31 Ibiza Spain - Ushuaïa
09-07 Ibiza Spain - Ushuaïa
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Tame Impala, Damon Albarn, Christine and the Queens, More Join Glastonbury Bill
This year's Glastonbury Festival will take place in Pilton, England, from June 22-26. Today, the lineup has been announced in full. Damon Albarn and the Africa Express will open the Pyramid Stage on Friday morning, while Tame Impala will play just before Adele's Saturday headline set. Eavis also revealed the organizers will host a new event “in 2019 or 2018, but probably 2019,” in a new location, the Guardian reports.
“We are going to do a show somewhere else with the same team behind Glastonbury but it hasn’t got a name yet and we’re still not entirely sure what shape it’s going to take,” Eavis told the Guardian. “For now we’re all [focused] on Worthy Farm. We’re not thinking too far down that road because we’re quite busy with this one at the moment!”
As previously reported, Adele, Muse, and Coldplay are set to headline. The festival will also feature sets from LCD Soundsystem, PJ Harvey, Beck, Grimes, New Order, Christine and the Queens, Jeff Lynne's ELO, M83, James Blake, ZZ Top, Foals, Skepta, Savages, Stormzy, Floating Points, the Last Shadow Puppets, Vince Staples, Little Simz, Kamasi Washington, Kurt Vile, Bat for Lashes, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Mac DeMarco, and many more. David Bowie's headlining set from 2000 will also be screened in its entirety to honor the late rocker.
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Kraftwerk Lose Hip-Hop Copyright Case
Kraftwerk have lost a copyright battle in Germany's highest court over a two-second drum sample, the BBC reports. The ruling gives artists greater freedom to sample small segments of copyrighted music, as well as acknowledging “the essential place that the practice of sampling has in the hip-hop genre,” according to AFP.
The dispute began almost two decades ago, when Kraftwerk’s Ralf Hütter claimed that Moses Pelham, a hip-hop producer, had infringed Kraftwerk’s intellectual property rights by sampling “Metall auf Metall” (“Metal on Metal”) without permission on Sabrina Setlur's 1997 song “Nur Mir.” In 2012, Germany’s highest court for non-constitutional legal matters ruled in Kraftwerk's favor, apparently because Pelham used the sample despite having the means to record the same sounds himself. The defense attorney, Udo Kornmeier, appealed the case to the highest court in Germany, which overturned the previous verdict. It argued that composers should be able to create work without financial risks or restrictions. Sampling is therefore allowed, as long as the new work does not directly compete with the sampled work and does not financially harm the patent holders, the court ruled. If the impact on the usage rights of the intellectual property owner is “negligible, then artistic freedom overrides the interest of the owner of the copyright,” the court said, according to AFP.
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Death Grips Enlist Primus' Les Claypool on New Song "More Than the Fairy": Listen
Death Grips recently released Bottomless Pit. Now they've shared a new track called "More Than the Fairy." It features Primus' Les Claypool. Stream it below.
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Andrew W.K.'s NYC Club Santos Party House Closed Amid Neo-Nazi Controversy
Downtown New York City venue Santos Party House, owned in part by Andrew W.K. and Despot, has closed, DNA Info reports and Event Coordinator Jackalyn Tipchaieuh confirms. Last night, Santos Party House hosted the second night of NYC Oi! Fest, a punk festival with ties to neo-Nazis that has been condemned by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The festival had been moved to Santos from Black Bear Bar in Williamsburg. The club has not yet issued an official statement, and it has not been confirmed that the closing had anything to do with the controversy around NYC Oi! Fest.
Manager Sean Kane was quoted by DNA Info as saying, "It was a 10 year lease. Our lease is up and we're not renewing it." An auto-reply email from Tipchaieuh said, "Our last day open will be Sunday - May 29th, 2016. If you have an event after the previously mentioned date, please consider it cancelled."
Pitchfork has reached out to Andrew W.K.'s team for comment. On Twitter, Despot denied any knowledge of the booking of NYC Oi! Fest in advance and stated that he tried to put a stop to it once he was made aware. He did not comment on the club's closing.
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Diplo Announces New Major Lazer Song Will Feature Justin Bieber, MØ
After tapping Justin Bieber for the Jack Ü mega-hit “Where Are Ü Now,” Diplo will team up with the Canadian pop star again for the latest Major Lazer single “Cold Water,” also featuring past Major Lazer collaborator MØ. It will premiere via the new Lazer Sound show on Beats 1. An exact release date has yet to be set, but Diplo says it's “coming up in a couple weeks.” Bieber and Diplo teased at the new song on Twitter a few weeks before it was announced; it will be the first single off Major Lazer's new LP.
@diplo when are we bringing this new music?
— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) May 16, 2016
@diplo @MAJORLAZER it's happening
— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) May 17, 2016
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Speedy Ortiz Release Open Mike Eagle Remix of “Puffer”: Listen
Earlier this month, Speedy Ortiz announced the Foiled Again EP, featuring remixes of Foil Deer tracks from Lazerbeak and Open Mike Eagle. Today, the band shares the latter's remix of “Puffer.” Listen to it below via Spotify. Foiled Again is out June 3 via Carpark.
Watch Speedy Ortiz perform “Everything's Bigger” at Pitchfork Music Festival:
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Listen to Curren$y's New Mixtape The Legend of Harvard Blue
Curren$y has shared a new mixtape, The Legend of Harvard Blue. The eight-song release is his sixth of 2016. The project takes its name from the villainous pimp in the 1974 blaxploitation movie Truck Turner, starring Isaac Hayes. Listen below.
The Legend of Harvard Blue:
01 Enter
02 Game for Sale
03 Leroy
04 Grand Piano
05 Ferrari Saga
06 Supply & Demand
07 The Collective
08 Kilo Jam
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Bon Iver and the National Join Forces for Invisible Bridge Project
The National’s Bryce Dessner has organized a new concert, Invisible Bridge, taking place September 25 at Paris’s Philharmonie. For the show, he's enlisted brother and National bandmate Aaron Dessner, who'll join Bryce on guitar, as well as Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon on vocals. Other band members include eighth blackbird (who contributed a song to the National’s recent Grateful Dead tribute comp) and pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque. Read the Philharmonie’s event description below:
Passing nimbly between rock and contemporary music, Bryce Dessner cultivates the art of collaboration with shared compositions and performances. For this concert, he brings together guests from a variety of backgrounds: his brother and close collaborator Aaron Dessner (The National), singer Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), and the Labèque sisters.
Watch the National and Justin Vernon do “Slow Show” at Primavera 2014:
Watch the National’s “Over/Under” on Pitchfork.tv:
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Kanye West Yeezus Vinyl Mock-Up Revealed
The art for Kanye West's 2013 album Yeezus is famously minimal—clear packaging, a CD, and a red strip. The album came out on CD, but never got an official vinyl release. A label is now saying that the idea for a Yeezus LP was floated at one point. LuckyMe—the Glasgow-based label that's released music by Hudson Mohawke, TNGHT, Rustie, and Baauer—shared the above image. The label claims it was asked to “look into a vinyl spec” for the album years ago. In a comment on Instagram, LuckyMe notes that two mirror-backed inserts were put in place to hide prints by photographer Nick Knight. Earlier this year, Kanye said “the Yeezus packaging was an open casket to CDs” and said he won't release his albums on CD ever again. The Life of Pablo hasn't been released on vinyl, either, though bootleg copies surfaced earlier this year.
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Listen to Chance the Rapper and Donnie Trumpet's Unused Surf Material
Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment have shared “The First Time,” a ten-minute mix of unreleased material from the sessions for their album Surf. Chance the Rapper appears throughout. “The First Time” was released to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the release of Surf; in the SoundCloud description, Donnie Trumpet calls the mix “an ode to the era.” Listen below.
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Kanye West's Personal Studio Robbed
TMZ reports that on Tuesday of this week, about $20,000 worth of equipment (laptops and desktop computers) was stolen from Kanye West's Calabasas studio. Law enforcement has yet to identify any suspects. According to TMZ they've already replaced all of the equipment, and no sensitive information was compromised due to "heavy-duty tech security. "
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The Smell, L.A. DIY Institution, Receives Demolition Notice
The Smell is a Los Angeles music and art space that's hosted affordable, all ages shows since 1998. HEALTH, No Age, Ty Segall, Mika Miko, the Babies, Ponytail, and tons of others played at the institution. A 2009 DVD features 10 bands performing at the venue; the venue is featured on the cover of No Age's Weirdo Rippers (below). Today, the venue shared the below photo of a notice that was posted to their door, which reveals that a company has apparently filed paperwork to demolish the Smell. L&R Group of Companies, “one of the largest parking property owners in the nation,” posted the notice to every building on the same block. The notice says that as long as the L&R's plans comply with the city's applicable laws and municipal codes, “public comment will have no impact on this project.”
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Robyn Announces Remix Series
Robyn has announced that she's invited nine artists to remix tracks that span her career. Some of the remixes include an Axel Boman remix of "Hang With Me" and Wolfgang Voigt remixing "Who Do You Love," Robyn's feature on Otherness by Kindness. She'll be debuting these remixes at her festival performances in the upcoming week, the first of which will be tonight at Boston Calling. She'll also appear at Governors Ball and Field Trip in Toronto. The remixes from the live shows will be released later this month. Find a list of the remixes and her tour dates below.
Robyn shared this note explaining her reasons for the remixes:
“Remixes make me listen to a song in a different way; they stretch you out as a listener and leave space for other things that a pop song usually doesn’t. I hope to be able to share this experience with my audiences at Governor’s Ball, Boston Calling, and Field Trip over the next week and just dancing together…"
Axel Boman: “Hang With Me”
Cassius: “Dancing On My Own”
Harry “Choo Choo” Romero: "Love Kills”
Joakim: “With Every Heartbeat”
Mr. Tophat: “Main Thing”
The Black Madonna: “Indestructible”
The Mekanism: “Don’t Fucking Tell Me What To Do”
Wolfgang Voigt: “Who Do You Love?” [ft. Robyn]
Zhala & Heal the World: “Stars 4 Ever”
Robyn:
05-28 Boston, MA - Boston Calling
06-03 New York, NY - Governors Ball
06-05 Toronto, Ontario - Field Trip
Watch the music video for "Hang With Me":
Watch our interview with Robyn on Pitchfork.tv:
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Watch Courtney Barnett Cover the Grateful Dead's “New Speedway Boogie” on “Fallon”
Courtney Barnett was the musical guests on last night's episode of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” She performed “New Speedway Boogie,” her contribution to the massive Grateful Dead tribute compilation Day of the Dead. Watch her performance below. Last week, as the musical guest on “Saturday Night Live,” she performed her songs “Nobody Really Cares If You Don't Go to the Party” and “Pedestrian at Best.” Recently, the National and Bonnie “Prince” Billy performed Grateful Dead songs on “Colbert” and “CBS This Morning.”
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Mark Pritchard and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Share New Song "Now:Now": Listen
Mark Pritchard and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith both released new albums in recent months—Under the Sun and EARS, respectively. Now, the two artists have come together for a new track called "Now:Now." Hear the song below. The collaboration is a part of a remix series sponsored by The Absolut Company. The series offers artists the opportunity to "either work on a remix or offer a track to be remixed by an artist they admire." There will be a new installment in the series every last Thursday of the month.
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Watch Radiohead Debut "Glass Eyes" Live
Radiohead's world tour is currently underway in support of the band's ninth studio album, A Moon Shaped Pool. At their second show at the Roundhouse in London, England, the band played "Glass Eyes" live for the first time. Find footage of the performance below. At the first London show, they messed up "Nude." Earlier this week in Paris they played “True Love Waits” live for the first time since 2011, along with rare performances of "Creep" and OK Computer’s “No Surprises,” which hadn't been played live in seven years. Watch the entirety of the tour opener here.
Read Pitchfork's new feature, “Internet Explorers: The Curious Case of Radiohead’s Online Fandom.”
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Skrillex to White Hinterland: "We Didn't Steal" Justin Bieber's "Sorry"
Casey Dienel, the musician who records as White Hinterland, filed a lawsuit against Justin Bieber and Skrillex over Bieber's 2015 hit "Sorry." She claims the song mimics the "unique characteristics of the female vocal riff" from her 2014 song "Ring the Bell." Now, Skrillex has responded to the allegations on Twitter with a clip demonstrating how the sample was produced. The caption on the video reads, "SORRY but we didn't steal this." Watch the clip below.
Dienel said she asked Bieber to stop using the sample in December, but that she was ignored. The song's co-writers—Julia Michaels, Justin Tranter, and Michael Tucker—are also listed on the lawsuit. She is asking for money, as well as for Bieber to stop playing the song. "Justin Bieber is the world’s biggest artist, and I’m sure that he and his team will launch a full attack against me," she said in a Facebook post. "But, in the end, I was left with no other option. I believe I have an obligation to stand up for my music and art.” Earlier today, Diplo weighed in saying, "I'm sure they'll work out a deal with her. They don't want to go to court with it."
SORRY but we didnt steal this 🙏🏻 @justinbieber @bloodpop http://pic.twitter.com/9897j9sfY7
— SKRILLEX (@Skrillex) May 27, 2016
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Feist Covers the Tragically Hip's "Flamenco": Listen
Earlier this week, the Tragically Hip announced that lead singer Gord Downie has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. Feist posted a cover of the Tragically Hip's "Flamenco" to her Facebook in support of his fight. Hear it below. The cover is accompanied by some words of encouragement: "For Gord. We’ll all be there this summer to see you bring out the new songs with your singular guts and panache.... and the golden oldies that are so golden. All my respect, admiration and love, Leslie."
Downie is a founding member of the Tragically Hip, which formed in 1984. The band has won multiple Juno Awards, and been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. The band will release a new album, Man Machine Poem, on June 17.
Hear the original:
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Watch 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne Battle In Split Screen In "Gotta Lotta" Video
2 Chainz and Lil Wayne have just shared a music video for "Gotta Lotta," a track from their collaborative album, Collegrove, which they released back in March. In between fast moving split screens, the two rappers trade verse after verse. Watch the video below.
Read 2 Chainz's "Guest List" feature.
Also check out Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz joining forces with Chance the Rapper for "No Problem"
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Belly Releases Mixtape Featuring Lil Wayne, Travi$ Scott, More
The Canadian rapper Belly has just shared his mixtape Another Day In Paradise, the follow-up to his 2015 mixtape Up For Days. Another Day In Paradise includes guest spots from Travi$ Scott, Lil Wayne, Waka Flocka, Kehlani, and others. Earlier this week Belly was supposed to join The Weeknd for a performance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," but cancelled in opposition to sharing the bill with Donald Trump that night.
You can download the mixtape here and you can also stream it in full from Apple Music. Below you'll find the album's artwork, tracklist, and Belly's upcoming tour dates.
Another Day In Paradise:
01 It’s All Love [ft. Starrah]
02 Money Go [ft. Travi$ Scott]
03 Ballerina
04 Exotic [ft. Waka Flocka]
05 You [ft. Kehlani]
06 Another Day In Paradise
07 Favorite Color
08 God Bless
09 Barely Sober [ft. Lil Wayne]
10 Amsterdam
11 Zanzibar [ft. Juicy J]
12 Angels & Demons [ft. B-Real]
Belly:
06-27 San Francisco, CA - The Independent
06-28 Sacramento, CA - Ace of Spades
06-30 Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theater
07-01 Seattle, WA - Crocodile
07-02 Surrey, British Columbia - Fvded in the Park
07-07 Chicago, IL - Bottom Lounge
07-08 Toronto, Ontario - The Opera House
07-09 Quebec City, Quebec - Festival d'été de Québec
07-10 Ottawa, Ontario - Ottawa Bluesfest
07-12 Montreal, Quebec - Le Belmont
07-13 Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
07-14 New York, NY - The Gramercy Theatre
07-15 Philadelphia, PA - The Foundry
07-17 Baltimore, MD - Baltimore Soundstage
07-19 Atlanta, GA - The Loft
07-21 Austin, TX - Antones
07-22 Dallas, TX - Cambridge Room
07-23 Houston, TX - Bronze Peacock
07-25 Denver, CO - Marquis Theatre
07-26 Salt Lake City, UT - The Complex
07-28 Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom
07-30 Pomona, CA - Hard Summer Music Festival
07-31 Las Vegas, NV - Drais Nightclub
Watch "Zanzibar" [ft. Juicy J]
Watch "Might Not" [ft. The Weekend] the song Belly was slated to perform on "Kimmel"
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Diplo: Justin Bieber and Skrillex Probably Have to Pay White Hinterland
Yesterday, Casey Dienel, the musician who records as White Hinterland, filed a lawsuit against Justin Bieber and Skrillex over Bieber's 2015 hit "Sorry." In the lawsuit, Dienel claimed the song duplicates “the specific and unique characteristics of the female vocal riff” from her 2014 song “Ring the Bell.” She also said she had been ignored by Bieber's legal team after initially contacting him about the sample in December. Today, TMZ caught up with Diplo, who has collaborated with Skrillex and Bieber, to ask him about the lawsuit.
Diplo told TMZ he wasn't familiar with the particulars, noting, "I thought they sampled it, but I thought they cleared it." Pointing out how many people worked on the song, he said it "must have been an oversight," and that "somebody added it and then didn't tell anybody." (He also called White Hinterland "pretty dope.")
He then compared it to his work producing Beyoncé's "All Night," where he noted that horns resembling OutKast's "SpottieOttieDopaliscious" had been added to the song, and that the group needed to be credited. "I told them, and then we had to give OutKast 25% of the record, which kinda sucks for me, but whatever, you gotta pay," he said. He concluded: "I'm sure they'll work out a deal with her. They don't want to go to court with it."
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Kendrick Lamar Co-Directs Lance Skiiiwalker’s “Could It Be” Video: Watch
Chicago singer/producer Lance Skiiiwalker is the newest member of Top Dawg Entertainment, Today, he’s shared the video for his new song “Could It Be.” It’s directed by PANAMÆRA and the little homies–which is the duo of Kendrick Lamar and TDE president Dave Free, Pitchfork confirms. In the video, Skiiiwalker and a woman are sitting in the woods on a nice day before things take a turn for the worse. Watch it below.
In the past, the little homies have been credited for work on the videos for “Alright,” “i,” “These Walls,” and “For Free? (Interlude).”
Read “On Kendrick Lamar and Black Humanity” on the Pitch.
Watch Kendrick Lamar perform “A.D.H.D” at Pitchfork Music Festival 2012:
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Arthur Russell Archives Acquired by New York Public Library
The late Arthur Russell's archives have been obtained by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, as The New York Times reports. The archives contain letters, photographs, unreleased recorded material contained on cassette tapes, VHS, reel, DATs, and Beta, and more. Once the archive's papers have been digitally logged, visitors to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts will be able to explore its contents. The unreleased material will be digitally logged and made available for listening, too. The archive, which is listed as spanning 166 linear feet, was acquired by Tom Lee, Russell's partner. Jonathan Ham, the library's curator for the project, said it's the largest amount of material documenting a composer's creative process that the library has ever received. The archival process is expected to take up to a year.
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Four Tet’s New Track Has a Bonkers, Insanely Long Title: Listen
Last year, Kieran Hebden, aka Four Tet, released the album Morning/Evening. Today, he has shared a new song to commemorate eclipsing 1 million followers on his SoundCloud. It has a great title: “TrackI’veBeenPlayingOnRadio+StuffSeemsNiceThing2DropBecause
SmashingItOnInternetShouts2B.UFO+A.Naples.” When you download the track, the full file name is: “A lost track that I ve been playing on the radio and stuff. Seemed like a nice thing to put out there because of smashing it on the internet etc. Shout out to Ben UFO and Anthony Naples. May 2016.mp3.” Hear it and see his celebratory tweets below.
it's telling me I've got over 1 million followers on soundcloud now. boom.
— Four Tet (@FourTet) May 27, 2016
hang on... going to upload something in celebration
— Four Tet (@FourTet) May 27, 2016
won't let me upload because song title is too long
— Four Tet (@FourTet) May 27, 2016
Watch Four Tet’s full set at Pitchfork Music Festival Paris 2014:
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Radiohead Selling New Merch, Including Chiffon Scarves
Last week, Radiohead launched their tour in support of their ninth album, A Moon Shaped Pool. The band is selling new merchandise at the tour, which has made its way to their W.A.S.T.E. site. They're selling new shirts, posters, a slip mat for your records, a notebook, a chiffon scarf with the album's art on it (perfect for your fall ensemble), and other items that will begin shipping on June 6. Check them out here. (The new items are the ones marked "Expected to dispatch week commencing 6th June" at the bottom.)
Read our new feature, "Internet Explorers: The Curious Case of Radiohead’s Online Fandom."
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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds New Album and Film Coming in September
In 2013, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds released their album Push the Sky Away, as well as a live collection called Live From KCRW. Since then, Cave wrote a book, The Sick Bag Song (originally written by hand on airplane sick bags) in 2015, but the last Bad Seeds song is 2014’s “Give Us a Kiss” from the film 20,000 Days on Earth. Now, it appears the band are coming back with a new album later this year, according to a listing on the Laemmle Theatres website (as reader Jon Davies points out).
It lists a currently untitled film, which will premiere September 8 and document the band performing songs from their new album, which is scheduled for release the following day, September 9. The listing also indicates that the film will be the first time any of the songs from the album are available to hear, as Cave & the Bad Seeds have no plans to release singles from the record. Laemmle offered a description of the album and film:
The record has an intimacy and starkness that the film’s photographic style will reflect. It will be shot in black and white, color and 3-D. The idea is to create an experience that is immersive but also elegant, that feels both immediate and archival.
Pitchfork has reached out to Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ reps for more information.
Watch Nick Cave on Pitchfork.tv:
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