Wednesday Music News

06/29/2016

Janice Headley

Holy shit. St. Vincent played a show last night at Le Poisson Rouge in New York, dressed as toilet. The evening also included performances from Father John Misty and Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Joan As Police Woman, and more, although none of them dressed as a sanitation fixture. Proceeds from the show are being donated to the son of her drummer, Matt Johnson, who is in recovery after a severe seizure in February. Watch fan-shot footage of "Bring Me Your Loves" below. (Warning: strobe lights in heavy use.) And stay tuned for, maybe, an explanation behind why she dressed as a toilet? [Spin]

Oh, the irony that the video for Parquet Courts's "Human Performance" stars puppets instead of, y'know, humans. Director Phil Collins (sadly, not that one) explained via a press release, "I was thinking about the track and how it paints a breakup both elliptically and with such devastating directness. And I wondered what it would be like if this drama was enacted not through naturalism or authenticity but through its partners in crime, doubling and artificiality. So puppets seemed an obvious choice." Watch the clip below (and their KEXP in-studio session here). The album Human Performance is out now via Rough Trade. [Under the Radar]

Richard David James -- better known as Aphex Twin -- continues to share singles from his forthcoming EP Cheetah. Check out the track "CHEETAHT7b" below, via Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 show. Cheetah hits stores July 8th via Warp. [Pitchfork]

Long-running Athens, GA-via-outer space band of Montreal are poised to release their 14th album, Innocence Reaches, later this summer. Today, they share a dance party video for "It’s Different for Girls." Frontman/founding member Kevin Barnes explains, "The ‘girls’ I’m singing about in the song aren’t exclusively of the biologically female variety. It’s more of a paean to all the wild-hearted counter culture groups of our species. In a way, I feel like most of us transition back and forth, psychologically, between female and male and that sexual identity is a fluid concept.” Innocence Reaches is out August 12th via Polyvinyl. [Consequence of Sound]

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