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:
Pitchfork Music Festival Paris is coming to Grande Halle de La Villette tomorrow, Thursday, October 29, through Saturday, October 31. Various sets will be live streaming on Pitchfork's homepage starting tomorrow and continuing throughout the weekend courtesy of La Blogothèque and CultureBox. (Some sets will replay over the weekend.) See the stream schedule below.
Three-day passes are now sold out. Individual day passes are still available for 54€. Ticket and hotel packages are available as well.
On Saturday, October 31, at Grande Halle de La Villette, RBMA Paris and Pitchfork will co-host the Pitchfork Paris Club Night featuring Hudson Mohawke (live), John Talabot b2b Roman Flügel, and Laurent Garnier. Find tickets here.
The stream schedule is as follows (times are EDT):
Thursday, October 29
6:40 Destroyer
8:30 Godspeed You! Black Emperor
9:55 Deerhunter
