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.
Time to get your bangs trimmed: She & Him are releasing another album
Yesterday the indie dream team She & Him (Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward) teased a new album via 44 second video. We assume this fourth album will follow the same trend and be titled “Volume 4” but regardless of what it is titled it will be released this fall. This will be the first record (including that Christmas album from a few years back) not released Merge and will be released on Columbia.
Lady Gaga has a bad romance with high altitude
More often than not artists make a crack at the altitude while performing in the Mile HIgh City. Altitude sickness is a very real thing, and Lady Gaga found that out on Wednesday night. After her artRAVE: The ARTBOP Ball tour stop at the Pepsi Center Lady Gaga was taken to the hospital for altitude sickness. She was able to post a selfie though, so everything is alright.
Twin Peaks releases second album, and it’s better than the second season of “Twin Peaks”
Chicago indie rockers Twin Peaks dropped their follow up to last year’s “Sunken” on Tuesday titled “Wild Onion.” The album is the perfect end of summer album that was built to be repeated. We are big fans of anything that references David Lynch (Twin Peaks once did a secret show under the name “The Laura Palmers”) but we think this second album definitely gives the second season of Lynch’s cult classic a run for its money. But then again, what doesn’t?
XL Recordings is Turning 25; Throwing own birthday party
Indie label XL Recordings is turning 25 this year and to celebrate being able to legally rent a car, they are releasing a new compilation to blast in that mid-sized sedan. The compilation, “Pay Close Attention”, will include tracks from Radiohead, The xx, Adele, The Horrors, Vampire Weekend and more. The compilation will be released as a quadruple LP box set with a DVD and poster, as a 2 CD set and a download. The website is also chronicling the history of the label.
Which means they have also shared a 15 minute Vampire Weekend documentary
Since Vampire Weekend are on XL Recordings, it makes sense that they would be involved with the celebrations. Especially after their complete indie take over of 2013. The Pay Close Attention website is paying homage to the history of the label. They have shared a 15 minute documentary about the making of Vampire Weekend’s second album Contra, released in 2010. The documentary is featured below.
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Erin Browne is a New York-based writer and a new contributor to Reverb.
