Tuesday Music News

02/23/2016

Janice Headley

Local lad Will Toledo -- better known to KEXP listeners as Car Seat Headrest -- shares a new video today for the track "Vincent" off the upcoming Matador Records release Teens of Denial, out this Spring (not to be confused with the previous release, Teens of Style). As the YouTube caption states: "Will plays guitar while a guy has a bad time." Toledo elaborates via a press release that the song is about "fighting to hold one’s place in the crowd, to hold one’s drink. It’s about shouting to be heard, but what’s the point, no one’s saying anything worth listening to. It’s about wanting to leave but not wanting to go home. The music is too loud.” Watch the clip, directed by Quinn George, below, and watch his KEXP in-studio session from last fall here. [Spin]

Post-punk legends Wire return this spring with their 15th studio album, Nocturnal Koreans, out April 22nd via singer/guitarist Colin Newman’s swim~ imprint. Check out the title track below. Newman compares it to last year's self-titled full-length saying, "The WIRE album was quite respectful of the band, and Nocturnal Koreans is less respectful of the band — or, more accurately, it’s the band being less respectful to itself — in that it’s more created in the studio, rather than recorded basically as the band played it, which was mostly the case with WIRE. A general rule for this record was: any trickery is fair game, if it makes it sound better." [Consequence of Sound]

Brooklyn freak-folk-faves Woods share another new track from their forthcoming album, City Sun Eater In The River Of Light. Stream the single "Can’t See At All" below, which totally keeps in the psychedelic-sunshine sound the band have become known for. City Sun Eater In The River Of Light hits stores on April 8th via their own Woodsist label. [Stereogum]

Soul legend Mavis Staples stopped by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert in support of her latest Livin’ on a High Note, produced by M. Ward. Watch her bring the house down with "Take Us Back," a track co-written with Benjamin Booker, and stay tuned for her chat with Colbert where she reminisces on the time The Staple Singers opened for Martin Luther King, Jr. [Consequence of Sound]

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