New Track – Yann Tiersen : Midsummer Evening
The new track is streaming below.
New Video – Screaming Females : Boyfriend
“Boyfriend” is from Screaming Females first ever live album, Live At The Hideout, recorded over two nights in Chicago, IL by Steve Albini. Music video Edited and Directed by Mark Pallman.
GovBall Announces Single Day Lineup
CITI PRE-SALE
Want first dibs on single day tickets? If you have a Citi card you can buy them in advance: tomorrow, Wednesday, April 2 at 10:00am EST. All you need to do is enter the first 6 digits of your Citi credit or debit card to unlock your special promo. Tickets can be found HERE.
ON-SALE TIMING AND PRICING INFO
- Citi Pre-Sale starts at 10:00am EST tomorrow, Wednesday, April 2.
- General On-Sale is at 12:00pm (Noon) EST on Friday, April 4. BE READY. Single day tickets are limited in quantity.
Single day tickets are $100 + $15 in fees, while 3-day tickets (which are selling fast) are just $230 + $20 in fees. If our arithmetic is correct, that means you can attend a 3rd day for an additional $20. The choice is yours, make the right one.
Julian Casablancas + The Voidz unveil new music in video interview
Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas introduced his new band The Voidz in this VHS-style video interview, which you can watch below.
New Video – Bleachers : I wanna Get Better
Bleachers‘ debut single I Wanna Get Better is set for a July 14th UK release. The as-yet-untitled debut album will follow on August 4th though Columbia records. Watch the new video, directed by Lena Durham (Girls) :
New Video – Small Black : Real People
Small Black has released a video for “Real People”, the title track off of their forthcoming 12″ EP. Helmed by Nick Bentgen, this video perpetuates the off-beat beauty from Bentgen and Small Black’s previous joint venture for “Breathless”. Bentgen described the concept behind the video and working with Small Black:
Help LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy make the NYC subway into a symphony
New York, I love you, but your subway sounds are bringing me down…
LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy wants to soundtrack New York City’s subway system. Sign the petition & let’s make this happen New York!: http://www.subwaysymphony.org/
Live – Man Man @ The Constellation Room at The Observatory, LA
It’s been nearly 4 years since I last saw Man Man perform (Forecastle, June 2010) and seven years since the first time I had the pleasure of seeing them. Following that last time seeing them, Honus Honus commented in a mild-mannered fashion contrary how he liked my smile and would like to kidnap me in order to get my face on the side of milk cartons under the missing persons section. Fortunately for me that practice was stopped in the late ’80s.
On Saturday, in The Constellation Room at The Observatory, it was nice to see that the insanity never stopped. Following the arrival of Pow Pow, Brown Sugar & Shono all wearing matching backwards skeleton costumes (a departure from the tennis uniforms I’d seen a few years ago), Honus Honus arrived donning a sparkly robe in the style of a boxer or priest, back to the crowd, commanding the energy levels of the room rise to the animlaistic madness that was shortly to pursue and like a practicioner of black magic, his commands to rise had their intended effect. Launching into “End Boss” from last fall’s “On Oni Pond,” the frenzy began and left nothing wanting.
Honus Honus and Pow Pow both have such fantastic stage presence, particularly the former who reminds me of my two-year nephew at Halloween….trying on every costume and playing with every toy that he can find. That includes a space alien mask, a fur coat, a naval jacket, and of course the aforesaid skeleton costume and robe. Falling in dramatic exasperation a number times, Honus Honus and the whole band at large just seem to have so much fun performing; all actors playing the roles they’ve crated for themselves. And their fans love it…sporting warpaint, headbands, capes and a disproportionaltely high number of violations of the wearing-a-band-shirt-to-that-band’s-concert rule.
Opener Xenia Rubinos who had a very tribal, animalistic pop-singed set herself, joined for a number of songs in her own skeleton costume, dancing and acting a back-up singer to the madness happening on stage. Her drummer for the night joined briefly just long enough to stage dive.
With a 20 song set they spanned their entire discography in a strangely cohesive way considering the stylistic differences of the later two albums. While naturally the bulk of the set was dedicated to showcasing their latest, Rabbit Habbits also saw a lot of attention and the other three received at least 2 songs, largely all in their epic 7 song encore. Those in the crowd chanting “one more song” at the end of the first set had no idea what they were in store for. As the encore started with “Steak Knives” it became apparent to any Man Man fan that they couldn’t end on such a light note and that wild times were coming.
setlist:
- End Boss
- Top Drawer
- Zebra
- Loot My Body
- Mr. Jung Stuffed
- Paul’s Grotesque
- Pink Wonton
- Head On
- King Shiv
- Piranhas Club
- Push the Eagle’s Stomach
- Doo Right
- Born Tight
Encore:
- Steak Knives
- Life Fantastic
- El Azteca
- Sparks
- Engrish Bwudd
- Werewolf (On the Hood of Yer Heartbreak)
- Sarsparillsa
Live – Marissa Nadler @ Church on York, LA
Julian Casablancas contributes a New Track to “The Unseen Beauty” documentary
Listen to Julian Casablancas“Human Sadness” at the 7:00 minute mark of The Unseen Beauty trailer, which you can watch below.
Explosions in the Sky and Eluvium form New Duo – Inventions
On April 1st Temporary Residence Ltd. will release the debut full length from Inventions, a new band formed by longtime friends, tourmates, and labelmates Matthew Cooper of Eluvium, and Mark T. Smith of Explosions In The Sky. The group represents somewhat of a dream duo for anyone familiar with the unparalleled emotional resonance of Cooper and Smith’s respective outlets: Eluvium has long been at the vanguard of the ever-burgeoning worlds of ambient and neoclassical, while Explosions in the Sky’s towering output has garnered them the kind of critical respect and commercial success that typically eludes instrumental music.
Song Premiere – Villa Kang : Naked Trees
“Naked Trees”, Villa Kang’s latest track, is noticeably categorized as Downtempo, Post-EDM, Noir Pop. The song invites its listener into a drug-addled, pre-dawn soundscape that intros sparsely with choir, guitar and vocals but soon drops with dark, pitched vocal yelps, a thick driving bass, rich synths, and a down-tempo, dance beat.
Exclusive first listen here:
2014 Governors Ball Line-up Revealed
The 2014 lineup for New York’s Governors Ball Music Festival is here.
You can look forward to:
OutKast, Jack White, Vampire Weekend, the Strokes, Damon Albarn, Phoenix, TV on the Radio, Julian Casablancas, James Blake, Disclosure, Interpol, Foster the People, The Kills, Grimes, Spoon, Neko Case, Empire of the Sun, Tyler the Creator, Earl Sweatshirt, Childish Gambino, Janelle Monáe, Kurt Vile, Chance the Rapper, Jenny Lewis, Broken Bells, Sleigh Bells, Washed Out, AlunaGeorge, Run the Jewels (El-P and Killer Mike), Deafheaven, Banks, SKATERS, Wild Belle, Bastille, The Head and the Heart, The Naked and Famous, Fitz and the Tantrums, RJD2, Tanlines, Diarrhea Planet, La Roux, and The Glitch Mob.
June 6th-8th at Randall’s Island Park.
Three-day General Admission and VIP passes are available through the festival’s website.
New Track – Chromeo : Come Alive
Chromeo has been hard at work promoting their new album White Women. The duo unexpectedly resurrected Death From Above 1979 as their backing band to perform “Sexy Socialite” on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, they shot an epic album trailer with Parisian design firm Surface to Air to preview“Over Your Shoulder” and partnered with contemporary artists Snarkitecture, MILK Studios & Tumblr to create The White Room installation in New York. The newest edition (pun intended) in an ever growing and exciting list of collaborators is Toro y Moi, featured on their buoyant new single,“Come Alive”.
Listen here:
Why stop there:
New Track – Warm Soda : Young Reckless Hearts
Warm Soda Premieres New Track “Young Reckless Hearts” on Rolling Stone.
You can also Listen to “When Your Eyes Meet Mine” on Soundcloud:
New Track – Nicole Atkins : Girl You Look Amazing
We have a brand new track from indie/psych crooner Nicole Atkins called “Girl You Look Amazing,” off her new album Slow Phaser, coming February 4th via her own imprint Oh’ Mercy!