This week's playlist includes new music by redveil (ft. JPEGMAFIA), Wednesday, Underworld, Godflesh, Avalon Emerson, Youth Lagoon, CHAI, Blondshell, and more.
This week in the Basement: FACS, Mudhoney, Tricky collaborator Marta, Kings of Convenience's Erlend Øye, electronic producer James Holden, and Marbled Eye offshoot Public Interest.
“Love is a Lonely Thing“ is one of two Feist collaborations on Kings of Convenience‘s new album, ‘Peace or Love.‘ Erlend Øye says it's “really just the three of us going in there, and really just playing music without too much thinking.“
‘Peace or Love‘ is Kings of Convenience‘s first album in 12 years. “You want to be taken on a little emotional journey,“ Øye says of the album, “where you are sitting there daydreaming, and then you move with the music.“
Stuck in Mexico after a festival got canceled from COVID-19, The Whitest Boy Alive's Sebastian Maschat & Erlend Øye made an album together, Quarantine at El Ganzo.
Bon Iver's Justin Vernon and The National's Aaron and Bryce Dessner hosted the second annual PEOPLE festival in Berlin over the weekend (August 18 & 19). Much like their streaming music platform of the same name, the festival was all about unique collaborations, and encouraged attendees to just go with it...
Justin Vernon and The Dessners' PEOPLE Festival will include Leslie Feist, Kurt Wagner, Shara Nova, Fionn Regan, members of Arcade Fire, and much more.