Tuesday Music News

Daily Roundups
06/14/2016
Britta Plyler
photo by Matthew B. Thompson

  • Last weekend, Disclosure headlined their Wild Life music festival in Brighton, UK. During their performance they premiered a new song called "Boss." You can get a pretty good feel for the song thanks to some fan footage. Hopefully a studio version will be out soon. [Pitchfork]

  • The Avalanches debuted "If I Was a Folkstar," on Australia's Triple J radio show. The track is a new single from their upcoming album Wildflower - the band's first new album in 16 years. It's a collaboration with Toro y Moi and samples Queens Of The Stone Age's "You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire." Wildflower drops on July 8. [CoS]

Listen to "If I Was a Folkstar" HERE.

  • Dream pop duo Puro Instinct will release their sophomore LP, Autodrama, on June 24. Sisters Piper and Skylar Kaplan have shared "Peccavi," an ethereal album track, who's title means "I have sinned" in Latin. Listen below. [Pitchfork]

  • After a career spanning nearly two decades, rapper Aesop Rock finally made his television debut on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. To mark this momentous occasion he was backed by indie rockers Yo La Tengo for his performance of "Dorks." It was amazing. [Stereogum]

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