Weekend Showcase 3.17

It’s that time of the week where we run down some of the great new music of the past week. The Weekend Showcase 3.17 edition has 53 songs, featuring a few unexpected comebacks and, of course, hidden gems you ought to know. The featured artists represent 11 countries, including: Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and the United States.

The playlist and tracklisting, as usual, follows the list of articles from the past week.

Enjoy the great music and discover music’s hidden gems.

Premieres:

• Quinn Devlin & The Bridge Street Kings – “Three Star Cellophane Cocaine Brain” (single premiere)

Albums:

• Feist – Pleasure (Polydor Records)

• Kikagaku Moyo – Stone Garden (Guguru Brain)

• Louis Barabbas – Jocasta: A Musical Tragedy (Debt Records)

• First Impressions: Slowdive – Slowdive (Dead Oceans)

Singles:

• The Matinee May 1st – Frills, FRND, The Lightning Year, Little Grim, Lovespeake, Suntrodden

• The Matinee May 2nd – Brass Phantoms, Casja Slik, INHEAVEN, Land of Talk, Nicole Atkins, The Sunday Reeds, Temples of Youth, Wild Year, Yule

• Melodic Tonic ’17 May 3rd – Asgeir, Babeheaven, Doug Tuttle, Junius Meyvant, The Stevenson Ranch Davidians, Twinsmith

• The Matinee May 4th – Fake Shark, Heaters, HotKid, Jack Ladder, Jesse Jo Stark, The Magpie Salute, Mammut, MANKIND, Modern Pleasure

• The Matinee May 5th – Axel Flóvent, Calais, Grizzly Bear, Jamila Woods, Lauren Ruth Ward, LCD Soundsystem, Mt. Joy, T O F F E, Wavves

• Saturday Sampler May 6th – Beth Ditto, Cody ChestnuTT, Fifi Rong, Indigo Velvet, Jason Loewenstein, Luunes, mono mono, WAAX, Wilder Maker

Other:

• Andrew Keoghan delights the crowd at Meow in Wellington (photo essay)

• Four-band showcase at Cargo, London – 27 April 2017 (photo essay)

• JAWS Sink Their Teeth Into Scala, London (photo essay)

• Shea Stadium Benefit Show (photo essay)

Weekend Showcase 3.17 Tracklisting

• LCD Soundsystem – “American Dream” and “Call the Police” (Brooklyn, USA)

• Temples of Youth – “Amber” (Winchester, England)

• Fake Shark – “NOFOMO” (Vancouver, Canada)

• Fifi Rong – “The Same Road” (London, England)

• WAAX – “Wild & Weak” (Brisbane, Australia)

• Grizzly Bear – “Three Rings” (Brooklyn, USA)

• Mammút – “Breathe Into Me” (Reykjavík, Iceland)

• Wilder Maker – “New Streets” (Brooklyn, USA)

• Jason Loewenstein – “Superstitious” (Brooklyn, NY via Northampton, MA USA)

• Lauren Ruth Ward – “Blue Collar Sex Kitten” (Los Angeles via Baltimore, USA)

• INHEAVEN – “Vultures” (London, England)

• Mt. Joy – “Cardinal” (Philadelphia & Los Angeles, USA)

• Quinn Devlin & The Bridge Street Kings – “Three Star Cellophane Cocaine Brain” (New York City, USA)

• Cody ChestnuTT – “Image of Love” (Atlanta, USA)

• Beth Ditto – “Oo La La” (Portland, USA)

• Wavves – “No Shade” (Los Angeles, USA)

• MANKIND – “Three Handfuls Of Dirt” (Stockholm, Sweden)

• Luunes – “Torrents” (Newcastle, Australia)

• Land of Talk – “Heartcore” (Montreal, Canada)

• Feist – “Any Party” (Toronto, Canada)

• T O F F E – “Painting Pictures” (Stockholm, Sweden)

• Andrew Keoghan – “Queues at Dani Keys” (Los Angeles, USA via Christchurch, New Zealand)

• mono mono – “Rumors” (Vejle / Aarhus, Denmark)

• Indigo Velvet – “Mona” (Edinburgh, Scotland)

• Axel Flóvent – “Quiet Eyes” (Húsavík, Iceland)

• Yule – “I’m A Stranger” (Melbourne, Australia)

• Júníus Meyvant – “Honey Babe, Don’t Be Late” (Reykjavik, Iceland)

• The Lightning Year – “The Needle” (London, England)

• The Magpie Salute – “Omission” (Marietta, Georgia, USA)

• Heaters – “Cap Gun” (Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA)

• Jamila Woods – “Holy” (Chicago, USA)

• Nicole Atkins – “Goodnight Rhonda Lee” (Asbury Park, NJ, USA)

• Jack Ladder – “Susan” (The Blue Mountains, Australia)

• Twinsmith – “Matters” (Omaha, USA)

• Doug Tuttle – “Only In a Dream” (Boston, USA)

• Jesse Jo Stark – “April Flowers” (Los Angeles, USA)

• Little Grim – “Hoodie” (London, England)

• Kikagaku Moyo – “Backlash” (Tokyo, Japan)

• Babeheaven – “Your Love (feat. Deem Spencer)” (London, England)

• Modern Pleasure – “Charonné” (Leeds, England)

• Frills – “My Love” (Brooklyn, USA)

• FRND – “Be Happy” (Los Angeles, USA)

• HotKid – “Caught In The Light” (Toronto, Canada)

• Calais – “Seeing It All” (Brisbane, Australia)

• Brass Phantoms – “Waiting Up” (Dublin, Ireland)

• Suntrodden – “Pure” (Atlanta, USA)

• The Stevenson Ranch Davidians – “Holy Life” (Los Angeles, USA)

• Lovespeake – “Novocaine” (feat. Max Frost) (Sandvika, Norway)

• Wild Year – “Twitching + Teasing” (Los Angeles, USA)

• LCD Soundsystem – “Call the Police” (Brooklyn, USA)

• The Sunday Reeds – “Drowning In My Love” (Melbourne, Australia)

• Cajsa Siik – “Empire Mine” (Stockholm/Umeå, Sweden)

• Ásgeir – “Stardust” (Reykjavik, Iceland)

Supporting labels:AWAL, Bella Union, Birds Records, Columbia Records, Crooked Paintings, DFA Records, Dead Oceans, Debt Records, Dine Alone, Eagle Rock Entertainment, Fuzz Club Records, Ghost Ramp, Guruguru Brain, Handsome Dad Records, Jagjaguwar, Joyful Noise Recordings, Lazy Octopus Records, Light Organ Records, One Little Indian Records, PIAS Cooperative, Picture In My Ear Records, Polydor Records, Quiet One Recordings, Record Records, Saddle Creek, Scruff of the Neck, Single Lock Records, Supernatural Recordings, Toothfairy, Trouble in Mind Records, Universal Music Group, Virgin Records.

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