Tuesday Music News

05/10/2016

Britta Plyler

Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National
photo by Dominick Mastrangelo

On May 20, Day Of The Dead, an extensive, six-hour Grateful Dead tribute album will be released. Brothers Bryce and Aaron Dessner of The National have been the driving force behind the collection, which features contributions from Sharon Van Etten, The Flaming Lips, Local Native, and many more. Last night, The National performed The Dead's "Morning Dew" on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. [CoS]

UK supergroup, Minor Victories will drop their self-titled debut album on June 3. The band includes brothers Justin Lockey of Editors and James Lockey of Hand Held Cine Club, also Slowdive's Rachel Goswell, and Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite. Today they've shared the video for album track "Breaking My Light." Watch below. [Pitchfork]

James Blake shared the video for his stunning Bon Iver collaboration "I Need a Forest Fire." This is the first song from his recently released The Colour in Anything to get the video treatment. [SPIN]

Lucius also released a new video, just in time to promote their upcoming tour, which hits Seattle tomorrow with a sold-out show at Neptune Theatre (they'll also be live on KEXP at 12PM). Watch the eerie stop-motion video for "Gone Insane", painstakingly created in over a month, premiering today [via Pitchfork].

Last night, during Beyonce's Formation tour stop in Houston, Queen B delivered a rhapsodic tribute to Prince. Her cover of his 1984 hit "Beautiful Ones" will leave you spellbound. Thanks to some awesome fan video you can relive the moment. [SPIN]

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