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Jack White announces tour

The always restless Jack White has a new album entitled Lazaretto out June 10, and to support his sophomore solo-release through Third Man Records he'll be heading out on the road this summer. After a tune-up gig in Nashville at Third Man on April 19, White will begin the tour proper on May 29 in Tulsa, OK. Kelley Stoltz and Benjamin Booker will join White, who will trek through Europe and a sizable portion of the Midwest before the summer is up. 

Find the dates below, along with a clip for eerie-scorcher "High Ball Stepper" from the forthcoming Lazaretto.

Tour Dates:
4/19 Nashville, TN - Third Man Records
5/29 Tulsa, OK - Cain's Ballroom (w. Kelley Stoltz)
5/30 Lubbock, TX - Wild West (w. Kelley Stoltz)
5/31-6/1 Houston, TX - Free Press Summer Festival
6/2 Shreveport, LA - Municipal Auditorium (w. Kelley Stoltz)
6/3 New Orleans, LA - Saenger Theatre (w. Kelley Stoltz)
6/5 Charlotte, NC - The Fillmore Charlotte (w. Kelley Stoltz)
6/7 New York, NY - Governors Ball
6/12-15 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
6/25-29 Somerset, England - Glastonbury Festival
6/26 Dublin, Ireland - Royal Hospital Kilmainham
6/29 Paris, France - L'Olympia
6/30 Paris, France - L'Olympia
7/3 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Heineken Music Hall
7/4 Gdynia, Poland - Open'er Festival
7/5 London, England - Eventim Apollo
7/19 Louisville, KY - Forecastle Festival
7/20 St. Louis, MO - Fox Theatre (w. Benjamin Booker)
7/21 Milwaukee, WI - Eagles Ballroom (w. Benjamin Booker)
7/23 Chicago, IL - Chicago Theatre (w. Benjamin Booker)
7/24 Chicago, IL - Auditorium Theatre (w. Benjamin Booker)
7/27 Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE Outdoors (w. Benjamin Booker)
7/28 Detroit, MI - Fox Theatre (w. Benjamin Booker)
7/30 Detroit, MI - Masonic Temple Theatre (w. Benjamin Booker)
7/31 Toronto, Ontario - Air Canada Centre (w. Benjamin Booker)
8/1-3 Montreal, Quebec - Osheaga Music & Arts Festival

Coldplay releases black-and-white video for "Magic"

"Stark" isn't one of the words that tends to leap out at me when I hear a Coldplay song or see one of their videos. But that's precisely the word that comes to mind when I see their new video for "Magic", the first offering from their upcoming Ghost Stories LP. Directed by Jonas Åkerlund and starring Ziyi Zhang (of The Grandmaster and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon fame) as a magician, the entirely black-and-white clip sees lead-singer Chris Martin split time as her overbearing husband and lovestruck assistant. Despite the change in color-schemes, the video still contains plenty of the earnestness people have come to love from Coldplay.

Ghost Stories is out on May 19 via Parlophone/Atlantic.

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De La Soul releases J Dilla mixtape for download

Earlier this month I reviewed "Dilla Plugged In", a warm bare-bones affair that acted as the first sample of the pairing between the legendary De La Soul and fallen hero J Dilla. Now we have more than a sample, as the Long Island trio has released Smell the D.A.I.S.Y. The entire mixtape, which runs 11 tracks, sprinkles reworked De La lyrics over unreleased Dilla beats and has one feature from frequent Method Man collaborator Redman. You can download the tape now for free through BitTorrent and cop the Dilla documentary Still Shining along with it.

Along with Smell the D.A.I.S.Y., De La Soul have two new albums planned for 2014 entitled You're Welcome and Premium Soul on the Rocks, which will be produced by DJ Premier and Pete Rock.

Tracklist:
1. "Let the King Ascend
2. Who ft. Redman
3. Dilla Plugged In
4. "Goes the Word"
5. "Vocabulary Spills"
6. "The Pitch"
7. "Taking the Train"
8. "Leave Your Cares Behind"
9. "O'Shut Up"
10. "No More No Less"
11. "Marvin Jaye"







More Johnny Cash albums of unreleased material could be on the way

Yesterday, Out Among the Stars, the latest posthumous release from Johnny Cash dropped via Columbia. But apparently another collection of unreleased material from the Man in Black maybe just around the corner.

According to Cash's son John Carter Cash "There are a few things that are in the works right now – probably four or five albums if we wanted to release everything," he speculated in an interview with the Guardian. Cash went on to say that there maybe "three or four"more albums worth of material his father recorded during the storied "American Recording" sessions with go-to producer Rick Rubin. 

In that same piece, Rubin backed Cash's claims. "We released the work we had been planning to release along with John [Carter Cash] and the idea of the Unearthed boxset of outtakes was his idea," Rubin affirmed. He went on to add, "We will probably put out additional Unearthed material recorded since the last Unearthed box, in keeping with John’s wishes."  With so much of Cash's work still coming down the pipeline, the Man in Black is becoming the country equivalent of 2Pac.

Until a new collection of Cash tunes surfaces, there's Out Among the Stars to enjoy along with the terrific video for album cut "She Used to Love Me A Lot".

Kate Bush adds more dates to first tour in 35 years

Last Friday, the Guardian reported that noted British pop-perfectionist Kate Bush was embarking on her first tour since 1979. And now, before Bush has even played a note of a single show, she's expanded the tour. Pitchfork notes her Hammersmith Odeon residency "Before the Dawn" has expanded from "15 to 22 shows" and now includes gigs on "on September 20, 23, 24, 26, 27, 30, and October 1, as well as the originally announced dates on August 26, 27, 29, and 30, as well as on September 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17,
 and 19."

If you can't make it to any of those shows, you can always enjoy the video for Bush's classic 1985 track "Running Up That Hill". 

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M.I.A. to tour with A$AP Ferg

In support of last year's under-appreciated Matangi, musical firestarter M.I.A. will be going on a late-spring North American tour with none other than A$AP Ferg. According to Brooklyn Vegan, she'll kick off the tour with a festival date in Miami before teaming up with the A$AP Worldwide member in Washington D.C. on April 27th. Once her tour with the new Shabba concludes, she'll embark on a European for additional festival dates. Given both M.I.A.'s and Ferg's dancehall obsessions, I can only hope this tour results in a collabo effort.

Tour Dates:
3/28 Miami, FL - Ultra Music Festival
4/25 Upper Darby, PA - Tower Theater
4/26 Asheville, NC - Moogfest
4/27 Washington, DC - Echostage (w. A$AP Ferg)
4/28 Pittsburgh, PA - AE Stage (w. A$AP Ferg)
4/30 Detroit, MI - Detroit Masonic Temple (w. A$AP Ferg)
5/1 Chicago, IL - Riviera Theater (w. A$AP Ferg)
5/3 Toronto, Ontario - Yonge-Dundas Square
5/4 Montreal, Quebec - Metropolis
5/5 Boston, MA - House of Blues (w. A$AP Ferg)
5/6 Portland, ME - State Theater (w. A$AP Ferg)
5/8-9 Queens, NY - Knockdown Center
5/24 Quincy, WA - Sasquatch Festival
6/28 Seinajoki, Finland - Provinssi Rock
6/30 Arendal, Norway - Hovefestivalen
7/5 Belfort, France - Eurockeenes Festival
7/11 Gräfenhainichen, Germany - Splash Festival
7/12 Liège, Belgium - Les Ardentes Festival
7/19 London, England - Lovebox
7/20 Valencia, Spain - Benicassim International Festival 

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Girl Talk and Freeway set to release Broken Ankles EP

 

All the way back in October on the blog, news surfaced that sample wizard Girl Talk was partnering with Philly-Freezer, Freeway himself to craft an EP tentatively titled Broken Ankles. According to Pitchfork, that EP is now official and will be available April 8 for free download via Datpiff. The 6-track release will also feature rappers: Waka Flocka Flame, Jadakiss, and Young Chris. 

In an official press-release for the EP, Girl Talk (born Gregg Gillis) discussed the stylistic differences between this upcoming record and prior albums: 

"I wanted to work closer to traditional song structure compared to my last few albums, but still include some detailed sample splicing and change-ups when it felt appropriate. The overall structure is what I thought worked best with Freeway's style... It's always important to me to have an album that works as a whole; something that has a calculated flow to it, which is intended to be listened to front to back."

To promote Broken Ankles, Girl Talk and Freeway have teased a video for "Tolerated", their collaboration with Waka Flocka Flame. You can view it below, along with the official Broken Ankles tracklist. 

Broken Ankles:
1. "Broken Ankles Intro"
2. "Tolerated" ft. Waka Flocka Flame
3. "Tell Me Yeah" ft. Young Chris
4. "I Can Hear Sweat" ft. Jadakiss
5. "Suicide"
6. "Lived It"

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M.I.A. releases Matangi bonus track

It's been a little more than a month since sonic manipulator M.I.A. released her fourth studio album Matangi. The genre-hopping album found time for raucous hip hop, ear-splitting electronic workouts, dancehall, and bhangra while getting bitingly political and interpolating Y.O.L.O. for reincarnation purposes. Today she continues that proud "everything but the kitchen sink" tradition with bonus cut "Trouble Again". The song's a Spotify exclusive so if you're Thom Yorke, you probably won't be hearing it anytime soon.


 



Toro y Moi side-project drops new music

When he's not making retro psychedelic dance/soul-pop as Toro y Moi, frontman Chaz Bundick somehow finds time to record as side-project Sides of Chaz. Next Tuesday he'll be releasing a new 7" under the moniker. A-side "Sweet Tea" is  manages to incorporate more jagged guitar than is the norm for Toro y Moi and Bundick's vocals are more self-assured. Besides doubling up on recording projects, he's "seeing double" in the swirling, slightly T.Rex indebted number.

The new 7" will be released through the Fork and Spoon label and also feature B-side "Take My Car". Listen to "Sweet Tea" below.

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks announce North American Tour

On January 7 Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks will be releasing their sixth studio album, the awesomely titled Wig Out At Jigbags. To celebrate the new release, the former Pavement frontman and his cohorts will embark on a 2014 North American tour set to begin in Denver on February 12th. Support for the band will come courtesy of: Speedy Ortiz, Tyvek, Purling Hiss, Disappears, and Endless Boogie.

Check out the tour dates below along with the French-lyric video for the breezy garage-rock cut "Lariat".

Tour Dates:

2/12 Denver, CO - Gothic Theatre (w. Tyvek)
2/14 Columbia, MO - Mojo's (w. Tyvek)  
2/15 St. Louis, MO - Old Rock House (w. Tyvek)
2/16 Omaha, NE - The Waiting Room (w. Tyvek) 2/18 Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Center (w. Tyvek) 2/19 Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon (w. Tyvek)
2/20 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall (w. Disappears)
2/21 Ferndale, MI - The Loving Touch (w. Disappears)
2/22 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace (w. Disappears)
2/23 Montreal, Quebec - Cafe Campus (w. Disappears)
2/25 Boston, MA - Paradise (w. Disappears)
2/26 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom (w. Disappears)
2/27 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg (w. Endless Boogie)
2/28 Washington, DC - Black Cat (w. Endless Boogie)
3/1 Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts (w. Endless Boogie)
3/3 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle (w. Purling Hiss)
3/4 Atlanta, GA - Terminal West (w. Purling Hiss)
3/5 Birmingham, AL - The Bottletree (w. Purling Hiss)
3/6 New Orleans, LA - The Parish at House of Blues (w. Purling Hiss)
3/7 Houston, TX - Fitzgerald's Upstairs (w. Purling Hiss)
3/9 Dallas, TX - Granada Theater (w. Purling Hiss)
3/15 Portland, OR - Star Theater
3/27 San Francisco, CA - Slim's (w. Speedy Ortiz)
3/28 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre (w. Speedy Ortiz)
3/29 San Diego, CA - Casbah (w. Speedy Ortiz)
3/30 Pioneertown, CA - Pappy & Harriet's Pioneertown (w. Speedy Ortiz)
4/1 Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom (w. Speedy Ortiz)
4/2 Las Vegas, NV - Beauty Bar (w. Speedy Ortiz)
4/3 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge (w. Speedy Ortiz)
4/5 Missoula, MT - Top Hat (w. Speedy Ortiz)
4/7 Calgary, Alberta - Republik (w. Speedy Ortiz)
4/8 Edmonton, Alberta - Starlite Room (w. Speedy Ortiz)
4/10 Vancouver, British Columbia - Rickshaw Theatre (w. Speedy Ortiz)
4/11 Victoria, British Columbia - Lucky Bar (w. Speedy Ortiz)
4/12 Seattle, WA - Neptune Theatre (w. Speedy Ortiz)

"Lariat"

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