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03/29/2016
Janice Headley
photo by Jason Quigley

  • case/lang/veirs -- the super-group of Neko Case, k.d. lang, and Laura Veirs -- share a track from their forthcoming self-titled debut. Stream the single "Best Kept Secret" below, which premiered on Lena Dunham's website Lenny Letter. case told Dunham, "It was done in one or two takes, and it went down super-fast. We were all dancing. It just had so much joy. Then Neko came up with that ba-da-da ba-da-da ba-da-da ba-da-da. It just kind of unfolded in this really joyful, celebratory way. I wasn’t a huge fan of it in the demo stage. It was kind of straightforward. I was wrong. It tracked really well and it is super-joyful." case/lang/veirs hits stores on June 17th via ANTI- Records, and the ladies will perform on Thursday, June 30th at the Woodland Park Zoo. [Spin]

  • Pickathon, the idyllic outdoor festival on Pendarvis Farm, just outside Portland, OR, has announced the final artists to their 2016 lineup, adding KEXP favorites Mac DeMarco, King Sunny Ade, Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, and Open Mike Eagle, among several others. Check out the full lineup, which already features Jeff Tweedy, Beach House, Wolf Parade, Ty Segall & The Muggers, Yo La Tengo and much more, and find out how to get tickets here.

  • Chicago quartet Twin Peaks had an inspirational time at last year's SXSW; check out the single "Butterfly" below. Songwriter Clay Frankel explained in a press release, "This song was written in Texas last year for SXSW, when I was in a sickened state after playing twelve or so shows in five days. So the lyrics are a mixture of negativity and exhilaration. Exhilaration because I was doing what I most loved to do, and negativity because it was really taking a toll on my mind and body. Death was on the mind. Also sex. Also the Zombies (they played SXSW and there were posters of them everywhere). So I took the gentle and fleeting image of a butterfly and a simple group of chords and lots of yelling to make a sort of doomy dance song that quite honestly could be summed up as 'let's have sex because we're all going to die.'" The single will appear on their upcoming album Down in Heaven, out May 13th via Grand Jury, and the band return to Seattle on Sunday, June 19th at WaMu Theatre with Portugal. The Man, and Cage the Elephant. [Pitchfork]

  • UK trio Fear of Men get ritualistic in the clip for "Island," a single from their forthcoming full-length Fall Forever, out June 3rd via Kanine. The video, directed by Eleanor Hardwick, shows the threesome surrounded by candles in a church somewhere in the English countryside. Frontwoman Jessica Weiss describes the album as "a love album," adding it's a "very personal and genuine record exploring where my life is at the moment." [Under the Radar]

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