Even more of my favorite music videos from this past year…
♩ DJ Shadow – Nobody Speak (ft. Run The Jewels) [from The Mountain Will Fall]
Director: Sam Pilling
♩ Radiohead – Burn The Witch [from A Moon Shaped Pool]
Director: Chris Hopewell
♩ Kishi Bashi – Say Yeah [from Sonderlust]
Director: Geoff Hoskinson
♩ Sleigh Bells – I Can Only Stare [from Jessica Rabbit]
Directors: Alex Ross Perry and Derek Miller
♩ Justice – Fire [from Woman]
Director: Pascal Teixeira
From RTJ3, out 1/13 and featuring the likes of Danny Brown, Trina, Tunde Adebimpe, Joi Gilliam, BOOTS, and Kamasi Washington.
“Run the World” tour kicks off in January in support of RTJ3. Check the dates below and don’t miss out if there’s a show near you.
01/11 – Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
01/12 – Washington, DC @ Echostage
01/13 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre
01/14 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
01/16 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
01/17 – Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works
01/18 – Norfolk, VA @ The NorVa
01/20 – Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz
01/21 – Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle
01/23 – Orlando, FL @ The Beacham Theatre
01/24 – St. Petersburg, FL @ Jannus Live
01/25 – Miami, FL @ The Fillmore
01/29 – Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
01/30 – San Diego, CA @ The Observatory
02/01 – Los Angeles, CA @ Shrine Expo Hall
02/02 – San Jose, CA @ San Jose Civic Auditorium
02/03 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
02/05 – Arcata, CA @ Van Duzer Theatre
02/06 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
02/07 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
02/08 – Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre
02/10 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex
02/11 – Denver, CO @ The Fillmore
02/13 – Kansas City, MO @ The Midland
02/14 – St. Paul, MN @ Myth
02/15 – Madison, WI @ Orpheum Theater
02/17 – Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theatre
02/18 – Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre
02/19 – Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall
02/21 – Montreal, QC @ Metropolis
02/22 – Portland, ME @ State Theatre
02/24 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues
02/25 – New York, NY @ Terminal 5
06/17-19 – Aarhus, DK @ NorthSide Festival
It’s official. Run The Jewels 3 is on the way! I am seriously so excited for this. Run The Jewels is easily producing my favorite hip hop these days. I definitely love me some Chance the Rapper, but the duo of Killer Mike and El-P is untouchable right now. Like previous offerings, the new single from RTJ3 is straight fire. Enjoy “Talk To Me” below and stay tuned for more.
A nice appetizer while we wait for 2016 and Run the Jewels III.
♩ Run the Jewels – Rubble Kings Theme (Dynamite) [single]
“For the past decade, Los Angeles-based film composer Dean Hurley has been David Lynch’s right-hand-man for all things sound-related. He did the music supervision and sound mixing for Inland Empire as well as producing and co-writing some of the auteur’s own studio albums, like 2011’s Crazy Clown Time, 2013’s The Big Dream, and 2014’s the Air Is On Fire. To tide you over for Twin Peaks‘s long-awaited return to network television this year, we recommend checking out his very romantic, sample-delic new solo album, Days of Thunder & Rain, which was constructed almost entirely from old soul samples, and takes its name from Hans Zimmer’s synthy score for ’90s Nascar thriller Days of Thunder. He’s released it for free download, along with the above short film, directed by Nicholas Wurz and William Renton, commissioned by Virginia-based film studio Mondial, and co-starring a bunch of creepy mannequins.” (via Emilie Friedlander, The Fader)
♩ Dean Hurley – How Can Love Grow From Pain? [from Days of Thunder & Rain]
“When Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon saw Norway’s Highasakite perform at the 2012 Oya Festival in Oslo, he fell in love. Soon the two bands were touring together. Now the only band I know that tours with a flugabone has taken one of Vernon’s songs and made it even more majestic than the original.” (via All Songs Considered)
♩ Highasakite – Heavenly Father [single]