Thursday Music News

09/22/2016

Janice Headley

South Carolina-via-Seattle group Band of Horses galloped on to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night. Watch the guys perform the track "Casual Party" off their latest, Why Are You OK, out now on Interscope/American Recordings, and produced by Jason Lytle of Grandaddy. KEXP was lucky to have the band stop by the station last month; check out photos from that performance here on the KEXP Blog! [Under the Radar]

Meanwhile, over on a competing television network, Wilco took the stage at Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Following a jam session with frontman Jeff Tweedy and Colbert on didgeridoo, the Dad Rock icons performed "Someone To Lose" off their latest, Schmilco (an album title Tweedy recently defended on the show). Schmilco is out now via Anti-/dBpm. [Stereogum]

Fans of The Replacements, and of roguish bassist Tommy Stinson in particular, will be excited to hear he's reformed his project Bash & Pop. The new line-up includes Chip Roberts (one-400’s), Steve Selvidge (The Hold Steady), Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi All-Stars, The Word), Frank Ferrer (Guns N’ Roses), Joe “The Kid” Sirois (The Mighty Mighty Bosstones), Cat Popper (Jack White, Ryan Adams & The Cardinals), Justin “Carl” Perkins (Screeching Weasel), Tony “Tone Tone” Kieraldo, and Ryder Cooley. Stinson says not only will a new album be out in 2017 via Fat Possum, but they'll be reissuing the band's 1993 debut, Friday Night Is Killing Me, on vinyl for the first time in January. [Pitchfork]

Former Seattleite Reggie Watts makes a guest appearance in the new Tegan & Sara video. The Wes Anderson-style clip for the song "Stop Desire" features the siblings in search of, well, sex. Tegan says, via Facebook, "Director Allister Ann created a colorful treatment that included highly descriptive vignettes that really piqued our interest. The idea of having Sara and me live out a day in this strange and colorful world – where we remain straight-faced while encountering highly suggestive characters doing every day things – really made us laugh." Watch below: [Consequence of Sound]

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