It’s that time of year again. Time to head west, forget your troubles, and dream in the desert. To help you along, we’ve put together a comprehensive Coachella 2013 playlist featuring a selection of both the legendary and emerging artists at this year’s festival. Godspeed.
Before we go H.A.M. on our 2012 end-of-year lists, we’ve got another Spotify playlist full of breezy new tunes to get you through the day. Subscribe below and stay tuned for more each and every week.
MTV: Obama has “99 problems but Mitt ain’t one,” Jay-Z raps at last night’s Ohio rally. Go vote, people.
Pitchfork: TV On The Radio And Deerhunter announce the first bands at this year’s ATP Festivals.
NME: The Cure, The Stones Roses, and Metallica have been nominated for Headline Performance of the Year at the UK Festival awards.
COS: Stream Green Day’s ¡Dos! in full before it drops on November 13th via Reprise.
Hypebot: Instagram rolls out new web profiles feature.
Good morning. Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world, and you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. Mankind, that word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can’t be consumed by our petty differences any more. We will be united in our common interest. Perhaps it’s fate that today is October 29th, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom. Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution, but from annihilation. We’re fighting for our right to live, to exist and should we win the day, Hurricane Sandy will no longer be known as an American Hurricane, but as the Hurricane when the world declared in one voice, ‘We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on, we’re going to survive.’
Shake off that CMJ-hangover with a fresh edition of All Things Go Spotify Picks. This week’s all about new releases, with fresh cuts from Pacific Air, Icona Pop, Wildcat! Wildcat!, and Bats For Lashes. Subscribe below and be sure to peep the massive CMJ edition here.
September was a heavenly month of new music. Last week alone, we saw new singles from St. Lucia, Lana Del Rey, and Tegan & Sara among others. This week’s Spotify playlist showcases a few of those tunes and is — as always — primed to get you through the week. Get involved folks.
COS: Beck and Flying Lotus hit the studio for a new collaborative single.
Pitchfork: Watch highlights from Jay-Z’s Made In America Fest.
NME: The Killers announce fall UK arena tour kicking-off in late October.
Billboard: Sty, the Korean pop star behind the video sensation “Gangnam Style”, is set to appear at MTV’s VMAs.
RollingStone: Nicki Minaj raps: “I’m a Republican voting for Mitt Romney.” So, there’s that.
NYC-based label Glassnote has quite an extensive roster that includes ATG faves Childish Gambino, Oberhofer, and Two Door Cinema Club. Now they’ve added a new signee: LA by way of Seattle producer and 8-bit aficionado Robert DeLong. RDL recently released “Global Concepts,” an aptly-titled track infused with rhythmic Moombahton-esque percussion, reverberating synths, and an utterly massive chorus. Catch DeLong alongside Matt and Kim, Oberhofer, and The Royal Concept on September 22nd at Pearl Palooza.
Robert DeLong – “Global Concepts”
COS: New Order are reuniting for a string of North American tour dates this fall.
Billboard: Mariah Carey has signed on to judge the 12th season of “Wild N’ Out” “American Idol”.
BYT: Win a pair of tickets to the All Things Gold One Year Anniversary show this Friday at the 9:30 Club featuring RAC, The Knocks, POP ETC, Vacationer, and French Horn Rebellion.
NME: Bat For Lashes — Natasha Khan – strips down on The Haunted Man album cover.
Pitchfork: The final verdict on Passion Pit’s latest effort, Gossamer.
This week, Oxford’s Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs leaned heavy on the synth and handclaps, and Foxygen are proving that they’re worthy of recent buzz with a fuzzy 60′s throwback. Down-under indie darlings Van She drop another new wave single from their upcoming album, while Los Campesinos! covered fellow UK natives The Beautiful South. Rounding things out, A Place to Bury Strangers come back with a noisy vengeance on their second album this year.
STREAM: Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – “Stronger”
