Reptile Aliens Made of Light
This Week's Spotify Soundtrack looks ahead to Jack White, Pell, Janelle Monae, The Kills and more; and features new music from Sturgill Simpson, The Roots, Conor Oberst and more.
This Week's Spotify Soundtrack looks ahead to Jack White, Pell, Janelle Monae, The Kills and more; and features new music from Sturgill Simpson, The Roots, Conor Oberst and more.
This Week's Soundtrack on Spotify
1. "Walk on By (feat. Dent May)" - Pell: The New Orleans- based rapper will play a CD-release party Wednesday at Gasa Gasa for Floating While Dreaming.
2. "Super Rich Kids" - Frank Ocean, Earl Sweatshirt: A song that came to mind while listening to Pell.
3. "Cat Rider" - Little Dragon: From the recent Nebuma Rubberband. Little Dragon will play The Republic June 10.
4. "Love Stories" - Little Daylight: From the new album, Love Stories.
5. "Do It Again" - Röyksopp & Robyn: New
6. "It's Chemical" - Uh Huh Her: The all-woman electronic trio plays the House of Blues Friday.
7. "Slippery Stones" - Yann Tiersen: From his new album, (Infinity symbol.
8. "When the People Cheer" - ... and then you shoot your cousin: From a socially stark new album from The Roots and friends.
9. "Dream Baby Dream (Four Tet remix)" - The Cherry Thing: In 2012, Neneh Cherry teamed with avant garde group The Thing to record punk covers. This version of the Suicide classic recently recorded by Bruce Springsteen is here remixed by Four Tet.
10. "Thorn in Her Pride" - King Khan and the Shrines: King Khan plays One Eyed Jacks Sunday.
11. "Pale Blue Eyes" - The Kills: A building version of The Velvet Underground classic. The Kills play the House of Blues Saturday.
12. "Art Smock" - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: From this year's album, Days of Abandon.
13. "Zigzagging Toward the Light" - Conor Oberst: From his new album, Upside Down Mountain.
14. "This is the Ballad" - The Old 97s: The Dallas-based Americana band still has the lineup it started with, and it will play One Eyed Jacks on Wednesday.
15. "Turtles All the Way Down" - Sturgill Simpson: Classic country with a twist from the new album, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music.
16. "Really Wanna See You" - Lydia Loveless: Loveless will open for The Old 97s at One Eyed Jacks on Wednesday.
17. "Just One Drink" - Jack White: Another advance track from his upcoming Lazaretto. White will play The Saenger June 3.
18. "Rocket USA" - Suicide: From the self-titled debut album in 1977.
19. "Real Thing" - tUnE-yArDs: They'll play The Republic Saturday night.
20. "Q.U.E.E.N. (feat. Erykah Badu)" - Janelle Monae: Monae will return to The Essennce Music Festival this year and perform on opening night - July 4 - with Prince and Nile Rodgers.
21. "Glasblasern" - Moskus: From the new album Mestertyen from the Norwegian adventurous music group.
22. "Good Complexion" - Tobacco: Tobacco is the grittier flip side of Black Moth Super Rainbow's Tom Fec, and he has a new album, Ultima II Masage.
23. "Pleasant Heart" - Ought: New post-punk from the Montreal-based band's album, More Than Any Other Day.
