Wednesday Music News

11/02/2016

Janice Headley

Uncanny timing! As KEXP broadcasts from the Iceland Airwaves Music Festival, we've got news from headliner, Björk. The Reykjavík-born artist has announced a virtual reality (VR) video for the Vulnicura track "Notget" is on the way. Watch a trailer below. Björk has previously released VR Videos for "Family," "Stonemilker," and "Black Lake." All these clips will be on display with the Björk Digital exhibit, running through November 12th as part of Red Bull Music Academy Montreal. [Spin]

Earlier this week, we shared a trailer for the forthcoming Japandroids album, Near to the Wild Heart of Life, out January 27th via ANTI- Records. You can now check out the title track below, which will also be released as a 7” single with a cover of Talking Heads’ “Love → Building on Fire” as the b-side. In an interview with Pitchfork, singer/guitarist Brian King says, "In some ways, we’re approaching this like it’s our very first record. We’re removing all the self-imposed rules that led to the songs and the sound of our whole career up until now. When you do that, you can try anything." [Pitchfork]

Despite a "farewell tour" in 2015, Cali-psych band Foxygen have a new album, titled Hang, out January on Jagjaguwar. Director Cameron Dutra captures vocalist Sam France leading a choreographed dance team for a song appropriately titled "Follow The Leader." Watch below: [Stereogum]

It's been 22 years, but Tommy Stinson is reviving his Bash & Pop project for an album appropriately titled Anything Could Happen, out January 20th via Fat Possum. The one and only album from the Replacements' bassist side project, Friday Night is Killing Me, came out in 1993, a couple of years after the band's (first) break-up. Check out the track "On the Rocks" below, which Stinson says, is "one of the first songs that I penned for this record in the rock department. I’ve been writing a whole bunch of stuff over the last few years, and this is the one that I decided was going to be sort of the lead-in kind of song as far as how the record is going to sound." Has anyone tried texting the number in the video? Apparently, 605 is an area code for South Dakota, not Minneapolis. [Consequence of Sound]

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