With everything that happens in the music world on a weekly basis, you couldn’t possibly be expected to keep up with it all. But don’t worry, with the Reverb Week in Playlist we’ll keep our ears to the ground for the important music news and releases of the week and compile it into the most digestible form we know: a playlist.
After a one week hiatus to jet across the pond for Glastonbury, Week in Playlist is back. Since we have been gone there have been some breakups, some mid year reviews, and some new tracks released (we’re looking at you, Spoon) and we have weeded through a whole slew of music mumblings to pick out what we think you should walk away with this week. Plus a bonus track to commemorate America’s independence (which is funny because we are writing this from England.)
Death Grips loosen their grip and disband
The internet almost imploded in on itself this week when Death Grips announced that they were breaking up after less than four years on the scene. The experimental hip hop group has experienced critical acclaim for the length of their career and seem to be of the “it’s better to burn out than fade away” mindset, opening with “we are now at our best and so Death Grips is over” in their statement about disbanding. The rest of their tour is canceled, but their anticipated double album “The Powers That B” will still be released later this year.
A second The Last Shadow Puppets album isn’t on the horizon, but Alex Turner and Miles Kane may be collaborating again
You can keep “a second The Last Shadow Puppets album” in your wish jar alongside “LCD Soundsystem reunion” because Miles Kane and Alex Turner are collaborating on something totally different. Supposedly. We are skeptical, although in an interview with Digital Spy, Kane said he and Turner were writing an X-Men-esque superhero film set in the 1960s. We will wait until the trailer comes out or Alex Turner backs up the claim to start jumping up and down (and truth be told we would prefer to see “Humbug” turned into a rock opera first) but hey, if Turner and Kane want to take to the silver screen: we won’t hate it, that’s for sure.
Britpop fans should be popping with excitement thanks to the BBC
The BBC will release a compilation this month titled “Britpop at the BBC” filled to the brim (full of asha) of unreleased recordings for Radio 1’s “The Evening Session.” The track list includes performances from Britpop standards Blur, Pulp, Manic Street Preachers, Suede, Ash and more and will also include two more discs with 44 other Britpop singles. This combined with the announcement that Oasis is reissuing “(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?” is enough to make us think it’s 1995 again (and we aren’t complaining.)
Don’t riot yet, the fate of Riot Fest is still undecided
However, a decision about the fate of the three day festival set to take place in Byers, CO should be coming within the next 10 days. The festival is supposed to take place September 19th-21st, so the decision about whether or not they will be granted the permit they need to put on the festival is cutting it a little close. Traffic, drug use, and noise have the residents of Byers less than thrilled about the return of the punk and rock festival which features The Cure, The National and Rise Against as headlining acts this year. Let’s just hope for the acts’ and the fans’ sake that by Friday September 19th, Arapahoe County will be in love with the idea of bringing the festival back.
