Barbra Streisand's new album Release Me drops on Tuesday, Oct. 9. The music video from "I Think It's Going to Rain Today," is available to watch on Vimeo now.
Barbra Streisand "I Think It's Gonna Rain Today" from Columbia Records on Vimeo.
The electronic duo Orbital -- Paul and Paul Hartnoll -- is coming to the states next week to several west coast dates. They'll be playing major festivals, namely Nocturnal Wonderland, Beyond Wonderland, and Decibel Festival as well as dates in Vancouver and Portland.
Orbital's latest album is Wonky, their first in eight years. Pitchfork said of the album, "Thank whatever god you wish that Wonky mostly finds Orbital deciding to do what they've always done best: gorgeous blends of house drive and techno precision, linking airy whoosh and stadium stomp, melodic hook and rhythmic push. These are dance tracks that hit you with the immediacy of pop singles."
9/22 San Bernadino, CA @ Nocturnal Wonderland
9/29 Oakland, CA @ Beyond Wonderland Bay Area
9/26 Vancouver, BC @ Vouge Theatre
9/27 Seattle, WA @ Paramount Ballroom (Decibel Festival)
9/28 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
10/27 Asheville, NC @ Moogfest
Watch our Skype interview with Phil Hartnoll, recorded in May, 2012.
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I'm a big fan of Band of Horses, so I was actually thrilled to find the premiere of their latest video over at NPR.org. The song, "Knock, Knock," is unlikely to become one of my favorite BoH songs -- I prefer their slower, moodier stuff -- but the video for it, which approximates one of those crappy elementary school nature films, is rather clever.
The electronic dance duo Blaqk Audio (Davey Havok and Jade Puget of AFI) released the first of three videos taking a look into the duo's sophomore album, Bright Black Heaven, which will be released on September 11.
This is the first single from the album "All the Hidden Places," to be released on September 18.
No Doubt is releasing Push And Shove on Sept. 25. The debut single, "Settle Down," features remixes by Major Lazer, Jonas Quant and Baauer. Check out the video above and the remixes below.
The lineup for the this year's Virgin Mobile FreeFest presented by LG will include Jack White, Skrillex, M83, NAS, ZZ Top, Santigold, Alabama Shakes, Ben Folds Five, The Dismemberment Plan, Allen Stone, Trampled by Turtles, Portugal. The Man, Das Racist, Future Islands and Justin Jones.
The Dance Forest will feature Above & Beyond, Porter & Zedd (Back to Back), Thomas Gold, Nervo, Alvin Risk and Penguin Prison, plus others to be announced.
The 2012 Virgin Mobile FreeFest will be held Saturday, Oct. 6, at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md. Tickets will go "On Free" to the public at noon (EDT), Friday, Aug. 24, via Ticketfly.com. Fans who choose to follow Virgin Mobile Live on Twitter (@virginmlive) will see a link to participate in the private presale, which will be held Thursday, Aug. 23. Virgin Mobile customers and prior Virgin Mobile Festival ticket buyers will get special notification of the presale in advance as well. In keeping with the "free" mantra, Ticketfly is waiving all service charges on free tickets when fans pick them up at Merriweather or the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., or print their tickets at home.
Fans will be encouraged to make a donation to The RE*Generation, Virgin Mobile’s initiative to end youth homelessness.
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The Glasgow-based Paws will release Cokefloat on Oct. 9, but the band has made one of the tracks, "Miss American Bookworm" available for streaming.
Cokefloat, as the band puts it, is "like a sugar high...with the sugar comedown." Recorded with Rory Attwell (of Test Icicles) at Lightship95, a floating recording studio located on a boat moored at Trinity Buoy Warf in East London, the album captures the punch of the band's live shows.
The recently out Mika has released the video for “Celebrate”, from his forthcoming album The Origin of Love, due out October 16. The song, written by Mika and featuring Pharrell Williams on vocals, is already a hit in Europe. It was recently performed at the Olympics.
Todrick Hall, a one-time "American Idol" contestant, has released another hit YouTube video, this time with a fairytale request to "Legalize Love." His latest musical mix is a riff off of several pop songs and Disney fables. Some of the famous faces appearing in the video are Janice Dickinson, Shangella, Glozell Green and Lance Bass.
Continue reading Todrick Hall releases Disneyfied gay megamix, "Cinderfella" .
The Pet Shop Boys have released the video for "Winner," the first single from their new album, Elysium, slated for relase September 18. The video appears to be a part-documentary on British Women's Roller Derby league, and prominently features a transgender member.
In his new video, straight hip hop artist Murs deploys a powerful narrative to show support for gay rights. Read more at the Last Word.
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Wut is the new video from Le1f's Dark York mixtap. Can anyone say "homoerotic"?
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Madonna debuted the video for her new single "Turn Up The Radio." The video is directed by photographer Tom Munro. Clearly, sepia is the new Technicolor.
The Omaha electro-pop trio Icky Blossoms will release their debut album next week. We offer you the video for their first single, "Perfect Vision," which has a compelling, almost David Lynchian feel to it.
Over at Stereogum, where the video premiered on Thursday, the band notes:
We were dealing with a 6 1/2 minute long song. We had to keep things interesting. So it made the most sense for us to direct a short film and approach the video as such. We wanted the quality of it to be that of any film you would see in theaters. Coming from a film background, that is just the way we like to work.
We want the world we create to feel genuine and not thrown together. It is thought out and organized. The world you watch on the screen is as real as what is outside your window, or within your mind. Each of our music videos exist within the same universe. Reoccurring characters, places and ideas. We’ve been creating this world in our heads as we write Icky Blossoms’ music and now it is just a matter of manifesting that world visually. Part of the fun of living in reality as humans, is manifesting new realities that have never existed before. “Perfect Vision” is an example of that manifestation. A new universe from our imaginations and into yours.
The album can be streamed here.
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