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Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. Ready Full-Length Debut, Premiere Trailer
Detroit duo Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. are currently readying their full-length debut It’s a Corporate World, set to be released on June 7th via Quite Scientific Records. Check out the promotional trailer and tour dates to promote the new album below.
Listen: World’s End Girlfriend – “Teenage Ziggy”
Seven Idiots Tracklisting:
1. The Divine Comedy Reverse
2. Les Enfants du Paradis
3. TEEN AGE ZIGGY?
4. DECALOGUE minus 8
5. ULYSSES GAZER
6. Helter Skelter Cha-Cha-Cha
7. GALAXY KID 666
8. Bohemian Purgatory Part.1
9. Bohemian Purgatory Part.2
10. Bohemian Purgatory Part.3
11. Der Spiegel im Spiegel im Spiegel
12. The Offering Inferno
13. unfinished finale shed?
Listen: Chiddy Bang – “When You’ve Got Music (feat. The Knocks)”
With their new mixtape Peanut Butter & Swelly just a few days away from release, Chiddy and Xaphoon of Chiddy Bang have decided to release a new song every day this week. The three new tracks released this week will lead up to the mixtape’s official release this Friday. The first track from the mixtape is titled “When You’ve Got Music” and features producer Xaphoon Jones sampling The Knocks, long-time friends of the rap duo. If you aren’t already excited for the mixtape’s release, this preview should spark some interest. Download and stream are below.
Just a few days ago, we talked to Chiddy and Xaphoon about the release of Peanut Butter & Swelly, as well as the release of their upcoming debut album Breakfast due out later this year via EMI. You can read that interview here.
Watch: Frank Ocean – “Acura Integurl”
Odd Future‘s Frank Ocean has released visuals to “Acura Integurl”, which features the 24 year old singer driving around town in an Acura MSX. $90k seems to be no big deal to Mr. Ocean, now that Def Jam is finally taking him seriously and will be rereleasing his album Nostalgia, Ultra. Check out the music video below.
Stream New Death Cab For Cutie and Cults
Two of this month’s most highly anticipated releases are now available for streaming on NPR’s First Listen series. This week includes full album streams of Death Cab For Cutie‘s Codes and Keys (artwork is featured to the right) and Brooklyn duo Cults‘ self-titled debut album.
Both albums are set for release on May 31. Codes and Keys will be available via Atlantic Records, while Cults will be available via In The Name Of / Columbia Records. Check out the albums and others here and the tracklistings below.
Cults Tracklist:
01. Abducted
02. Go Outside
03. You Know What I Mean
04. Most Wanted
05. Walk At Night
06. Never Heal Myself
07. Oh My God
08. Never Saw The Point
09. Bad Things
10. Bumper
11. Rave On
Codes and Keys Tracklist:
01. Home Is A Fire
02. Codes And Keys
03. Some Boys
04. Doors Unlocked And Open
05. You Are A Tourist
06. Unobstructed Views
07. Monday Morning
08. Portable Television
09. Underneath The Sycamore
10. St “Peter’s Cathedral
11. Stay Young, Go Dancing
Listen: Drake – “Dreams Money Can Buy”
Drake, who is currently working on his sophomore album Take Care, has debuted a brand new song on his blog this morning entitled “Dreams Money Can Buy”. The song samples Jai Paul‘s “BTSTU” and according to Drizzy is simply “A song that I felt the need to share. Not my single. Just a piece of my story. Hear me out though…” Listen or download the track below.
Jagjaguwar Post Lyrics to Bon Iver’s ‘Bon Iver, Bon Iver’
Jagjaguwar has posted the official lyric sheet to Bon Iver‘s upcoming album Bon Iver, Bon Iver. The highly-anticipated follow up to 2007’s For Emma, Forever Ago is set to be released on June 21 in the US via Jagjaguwar and on June 20 in the UK and Europe via 4AD. Unsurprisingly, the lyrics are chock full of Justin Vernon’s signature undecipherable lyrics. Our favorite lines?
Here are some early contenders:
- armour let it through, borne the arboretic truth you kept posing
sat down in the suit, fixed on up it wasn’t you by finished closing
- settle past a patience where wishes and your will are spilling pictures
- …and at once I knew I was not magnificent
- I… we’re sewing up through the latchet greens
I… un-peel keenness, honey, bean for bean
same white pillar tone as with the bone street sand is thrown where she stashed us at
all been living alone, where the cracks at in the low part of the stoning - errant heat to the star
and the rain let in
the hawser rolls, the vessel’s whole and Christ, it’s thin
As for an explanation behind the album title? No official word from Vernon yet, but due to the number of location-based songs on the tracklist, Bon Iver, Bon Iver may be a play on words along the lines of “Minnesota, WI”, “Hinnom, TX” and “Lisbon, OH”.
Frank Ocean’s ‘Nostalgia, Ultra.’ to Be Released by Def Jam
When Odd Future‘s Frank Ocean released his debut album Nostalgia, Ultra. earlier this year as a free download, he took the world by storm, surprising even his own record label, Def Jam. The record label reportedly was planning on releasing Ocean’s debut album this year, but passed on it, which led to the singer to release the album on Tumblr like the other Odd Future releases.
Now, Def Jam have agreed to commercially release the album, announcing a release date of July 26th. The first single will be “Novacane”, which will be released on May 31st. We reviewed “Novacane” back in March, giving it a score of a 9/10.
Interview: Chiddy Bang
Check out the full interview below.
Chidera “Chiddy” Anamege: Yo yo yo what’s up? How are you doing?
LitS: Good, how are you?
Chiddy: Good, good, just chilling in Orlando, Florida.
Noah “Xaphoon Jones” Beresin: Wassup?
LitS: First off, Chiddy, congratulations on your new world record. Nine hours is an incredibly long time. What was going through your head while you were freestyling?
Chiddy: What was going through my head was like, “Man, I hope I have the endurance to be able to successfully rap for nine hours.” After the first hour, I was like man I could do this because I thought I had been rapping for maybe twenty minutes or so, but when I looked at the clock it had already been an hour, hour-fifteen. I was like, oh that went by kind of fast! Time pretty much flew by.
LitS: Why did you guys decide to do the freestyle in the first place?
Noah: I think it was actually our manager’s idea, right?
Chiddy: Yeah, it was our manager’s idea.
Noah: Our manager came up to Chiddy and was like, “Yo, you’re gonna rap for nine hours. It’s gonna happen.”
Chiddy: And I was just like, “Okay, I mean, I can rap, you know what I’m saying?” I thought about it and was like it’s a big achievement, you know, and I was thinking to myself, like I could actually have a Guinness Record. This was something I felt that although it was long and extremely strenuous, I did it. (more…)
Listen: Bon Iver – “Calgary”
The first single from Bon Iver‘s new album is entitled “Calgary” and can now be streamed or downloaded in exchange for an email. “Calgary” is our first taste of Bon Iver’s highly anticipated self-titled album, which will be available on June 21 via Jagjaguwar in the US and on June 20 via 4AD in the UK and Europe.
Bon Iver:
01 Perth
02 Minnesota, WI
03 Holocene
04 Towers
05 Michicant
06 Hinnom, TX
07 Wash.
08 Calgary
09 Lisbon, OH
10 Beth/Rest
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