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Jack White to release second solo album, Lazaretto, in June
Jack White has announced his second solo album. Lazaretto, the follow-up to 2012's Blunderbuss, will be released through White's Third Man Records on 9 June.
Unlike Blunderbuss, which White issued as several special packages, Lazaretto will get only one limited-edition treatment. Available only to subscribers of Third Man's Vault series – and only for people who subscribe before 30 April – the deluxe Lazaretto comes on split-colour blue-and-white vinyl, with a poster, a "linen, letter-pressed postcard", a 7in of two demos, and what press materials describe as a "lavish" hardbound 40-page book.
This summer, White is scheduled to appear at several North American music festivals, including Bonnaroo and New York's Governors Ball. He will continue to release twin-track singles with the group the Dead Weather and is reportedly to appear on Neil Young's upcoming covers album, A Letter Home.
Blunderbuss debuted at No 1 in the UK, spending 14 years on the album chart.
On Tuesday White gave an unusual first taste of the music to come: High Ball Stepper, released as a YouTube video, is a four-minute instrumental track with growling and reversed guitars, chewy distortion, and nary a single lyric. It recalls Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix and perhaps even Battles. White hasn't said if the rest of Lazaretto will be instrumental.
The album's lead track will be released later this month. "[The new album's] not one sound, it’s definitely several," White told Rolling Stone last year. "I don't pick my style and then write a song. I just write whatever comes out of me …"
VIA theguardian
Listen Up: Interpol "My Desire"
Interpol performed new material at their show in Newcastle, England last night. As reader Jonny Gray reports (and NME confirms), they played new tracks "My Desire," "Anywhere," and "All The Rage Back Home." Watch "Anywhere" in full and a clip of "My Desire" below.
Interpol are currently recording a follow-up to 2010's self-titled LP.
VIA Pitchfork
Download Munchi's Vol. II -Raserinha (Contos do Capderninho Verde EP
https://soundcloud.com/munchi_productions/munchi-x-frikitona-as-ruivas
Munchi and I have been friends for years, and I normally get a heads up on his releases, but it didn’t surprise me at all that he just randomly dropped an insane EP on a Friday night. What did catch me off guard though is that this is a Rasterinha release, a genre that Brice andComrade were pushing before anyone else. And a genre that most producers don’t quite have a handle on yet. I guess that shouldn’t have thrown me for a loop either, now that I think about it.
Vol II: Rasterinha – Contos Do Caderninho Verde is the latest on Munchi’s Selegna imprint, and it has that raw emotion that we knew Munchi for before he became a household name. Loosely translated as “Tales Of The Green Notebook,” this project was inspired from a journal that he kept between 2009 and 2010. The production is less aggressive and more musical than his last run of releases, and this is pulled off pretty flawlessly. There are only four tunes, and this only lasts 12 minutes, but it’s absolutely beautiful.
The man with the hair has been tucked at home for nearly a year just stacking content for his label and has a ton of shit in the the chamber for 2014, and the output has been ridiculous. You can stream Vol II: Rasterinha – Contos Do Caderninho Verde below. Take note that there’s a link to download this project for free in the Soundcloud description as well. You should also take the time to check out Comrade’s Rasterinha mixtape for DAD and Funk na Caixa’s Rasterinha EP while you’re here. They’re pretty marvelous.
VIA http://doandroidsdance.com/audio/munchi-vol-ii-rasterinha-contos-caderninho-verde/
What’s The Right Online Music Platform For You? by Peter Malkin
Whether you’re an avid collector of music or you’re obsessive about keeping your collection organized, whether you want to discover new music from a trusted source or you simply want to be able to listen to a song that you think of whenever and wherever you want will all help determine the ever important decision of which online music platform gets to carry the torch on your behalf. Other factors that you might base your decision on include price, how deep the catalog runs, being able to explore curated playlists, the ease with which you can share what you’re listening to with friends in social media, the ability to sync your music collection across multiple devices, the parameters of offline playback and skipping tracks, being able to have an uninterrupted ad-free experience, or whether you prefer a more linear experience of being programmed to or a more active on demand experience. Bottom line, if you love music, it’s a major decision! And there’s no one perfect answer in a world of dizzying choices.
First, it’s important to distinguish between different types of services that are offered. The big buzzword of late is “subscription” services in which you pay a monthly fee to have access to listen to anything that you want from the entire catalog of that particular service. But to be clear, in that scenario you’re not “owning” anything. So if for some reason you can’t get access to that service, then you’re out of luck. Another buzzword is “streaming” in which a platform acts like a radio station. You’ve got curated stations that are created by music services and are built around a genre or theme or even an artist and you’ve also got custom stations that you can create that behave by learning your preferences. Now some of these music platforms provide all of these services while others might be more focused on being really good at providing one service like programming. And finally there’s “cloud” service in which your entire collection is placed in the cloud to access from any device whenever you’re online.
Beyoncé Just Drops Brand New Album On iTunes
The “visual album” features 14 songs and 17 videos, with collaborators such as Frank Ocean, Drake, her husband Jay Z and their daughter Blue Ivy, who turns 2 in January.
"I see music," the Texas native said about the album’s visual element. "It's more than just what I hear."
Via NYDaily Mail