Thursday Music News

06/30/2016

Janice Headley

The latest full-length from Boston-based artist Marissa Nadler is hauntingly beautiful, so it's fitting she presents a video just as lovely. Watch the clip for "Janie in Love" below, directed and animated by Nadler herself. Stop-motion animation is shot in greyscale and layered with live action footage. The result is spooky and pretty, just like her latest full-length Strangers, out now on Sacred Bones. Nadler returns to Seattle on Monday, August 8th, playing Barboza. [Spin]

Influential New Zealand group The Chills are reissuing their landmark 1986 singles compilation Kaleidoscope World, adding six new tracks of b-sides and demos. Stream an early version of "Oncoming Day" below, which later went on to appear on the band's 1990 full-length Submarine Bells. The Kaleidoscope World reissue hits stores on August 19th via Flying Nun Records (natch). [Stereogum]

Italian-born, Brooklyn-based musician Mauro Remiddi (better known as Porcelain Raft) shares a surprise EP of forgotten songs, titled Pressed Flowers. Remiddi explains, "Back in 2006 I was living in London and had a portable recorder where I noted music ideas, mostly 30 sec long. I’m sure it was 2006 because that year a whale was discovered swimming in the river Thames, in the center of London. That is something hard to forget. To my surprise few weeks ago, in my place in Los Angeles, I saw the little recorder resting peacefully in one of my boxes. I put new batteries on and pressed play. It felt like opening a giant book filled with pressed flowers, with the colors still intact. In 10 days I wrote lyrics and turned the notes into songs. Londoners gathered to see the rescue’s attempts. According to the press the reasons for the whale presence in the Thames were unclear." Hear the whole thing below: [Consequence of Sound]

Just in time for the Fourth of July, alt-rockers Weezer share the single "I Love the USA." The track was commissioned by NASA and Apple Music in honor of the Juno unmanned spacecraft, a probe that was sent out years ago to study Jupiter, and which will reach the planet's orbit this Monday. Though the song has nothing really to do with space, who can refute a song that shouts "Fuck yeah, this place is great"! Very patriotic. Listen below: [Under the Radar]

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