Monday Music News

11/09/2015

Janice Headley

The War on Drugs in front of my office // photo by Renata Steiner

Over the weekend, long-running TV series Austin City Limits aired an excellent double-bill featuring The War on Drugs and TV on the Radio. TVotR highlighted five tracks from last year's excellent full-length Seeds, while TWoD focused on 2014's stellar Lost in the Dream. Watch below, and keep track of all these musical highlights with KEXP's TV Eye column. [Spin]

Local lads Death Cab for Cutie teamed up with legendary avant-pop star Yoko Ono to remix her single "Forgive Me My Love." Hear their haunting take below. The track will appear on Ono's remix album, Yes, I’m A Witch Too, out February 19th via Manimal, which will also feature the work of tUnE-yArDs, Cibo Matto, Sparks, Sean Ono Lennon, Moby, and more. [Stereogum]

Spanish garage-rock girls Hinds share the fun new track "San Diego" today. The single will appear on their full-length debut Leave Me Alone, out January 8th via Mom + Pop. Listen below, and check out a review of the Madrid-based band's recent Seattle show on the KEXP Blog here. [Stereogum]

As KEXP returns from our Iceland Airwaves Music Festival broadcast, the country's iconic star Björk has released a video calling for global action to save Iceland's highlands. In the clip, she says the following: "Icelanders have a deadline. For 11 more days they can go online and protest an overhead high voltage power-line. It will be built across the whole island. Iceland has now the largest untouched nature in Europe. This would end that. The government has plans to build over 50 dams and power plants in this area, and to start next year. This could end Iceland's wilderness in a few years. We propose to start a national park in our highlands. Surveys have already proved that the majority of Icelanders are behind us. We ask for the world to support us against our government." Watch below, and visit Heart of Iceland to help. [Pitchfork]

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