Music Monday (3/16): This Week's New Albums + Videos

Metacritic
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This week's new album releases

Each title listed below will go on sale beginning Tuesday, March 17 unless otherwise indicated.

Modest Mouse
. Strangers to Ourselves

Nearly eight years to the day since the release of their previous studio album, We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank, Modest Mouse finally return with a proper follow-up in the form of the 15-song Strangers to Ourselves. The new album (just the sixth in the band's 22-year existence) will not include previously reported collaborations with Big Boi and Krist Novoselic, though those could still surface in a future project. In fact, the band plans to follow Strangers with another new "partner" album in the immediate future, with work on that second new LP "pretty far along" as of last week.

Twin Shadow
. Eclipse LISTEN (NPR)

How will the jump to a major label change George Lewis, Jr.'s sound on his third Twin Shadow album (and first since 2012's Confess)? Find out this week with the arrival of Eclipse, his bigger, dramatic, 1980s-influenced Warner Bros. debut. A tour (rescheduled from last year) will follow.

Additional releases

Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield Seth Avett & Jessica Lea Mayfield Sing Elliott Smith LISTEN (NPR)
AWOLNATION Run
Bad Veins The Mess Remade
Andrea Balency Volcano EP
Tom Demac Smoke Stained Ivories EP
Football, etc. Disappear EP LISTEN (AV Club)
Ghost Bath Moonlover
Ghostpoet . Shedding Skin
Glen Hansard It Was Triumph We Once Proposed… Songs of Jason Molina EP
Five-song tribute album
Jon Hopkins LateNightTales
Houndmouth Little Neon Limelight LISTEN (NPR)
Inventions . Maze Of Woods LISTEN (NPR)
Second collaboration between Explosions In The Sky’s Mark T. Smith and Matthew Cooper (Eluvium)
Tobias Jesso Jr. . Goon
King Khan & BBQ Show Bad News Boys
Mark Knopfler . Tracker LISTEN (YouTube)
Eighth solo album from the Dire Straits frontman
Marina and the Diamonds . Froot
The Monochrome Set . Spaces Everywhere
Allison Moorer . Down to Believing
Pyramids A Northern Meadow LISTEN (Stereogum)
Xavier Rudd & The United Nations Nanna
Sleeping With Sirens Madness
Various Furious 7 OST
Various Galavant OST
Various Insurgent OST
Soundtrack to Friday's film features music from M83 (feat. HAIM), Woodkid (feat. Lykke Li), Royal Blood, and more
Wand Golem
Yeesh No Problem

Stream upcoming albums and new tracks

Active Child
TRACK "1999" streaming at SoundCloud.
Courtney Barnett
ALBUM Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (out 3/24) streaming at CoS.
Beat Connection
TRACK "Illusion" streaming at SoundCloud.
Best Coast
TRACK "Heaven Sent" streaming at YouTube (lyric video).
Buena Vista Social Club
ALBUM Lost And Found streaming until its 3/24 release at NPR.
The Cribs
ALBUM For All My Sisters streaming until its 3/23 release at The Guardian.
Mikal Cronin
TRACK "ii) Gold" streaming at SoundCloud.
Death Cab for Cutie
TRACK "Little Wanderer" streaming at Rolling Stone.
Tom DeLonge
TRACK "New World" streaming at YouTube.
Daughn Gibson
TRACK "Shatter You Through" streaming at YouTube.
The Go! Team
ALBUM The Scene Between streaming until its 3/24 release at NPR.
Grimes / Bleachers
TRACK "Entropy" streaming at YouTube.
Heems
TRACK "Step Aside" (new non-album track) streaming at SoundCloud.
JEFF the Brotherhood
ALBUM Wasted on the Dream streaming until its 3/24 release at NPR.
Kendrick Lamar
ALBUM To Pimp a Butterfly (out 3/23) streaming at Spotify.
Liturgy
ALBUM The Ark Work streaming until its 3/24 release at NPR.
Lower Dens
TRACK "Ondine" streaming at YouTube.
Laura Marling
ALBUM Short Movie streaming until its 3/24 release at NPR.
Mastodon
TRACK "White Walker" streaming at Pitchfork.
Mini Mansions
TRACK "Vertigo" (feat. Alex Turner) streaming at YouTube.
Van Morrison with Mark Knopfler
TRACK "Irish Heartbeat" streaming at YouTube.
Mumford and Sons
TRACK "Believe" streaming at YouTube.
Muse
TRACK "Psycho" streaming at YouTube (lyric video).
Prefuse 73
TRACK "You Are Now Poison" streaming at SoundCloud.
Snoop Dogg
TRACK "Peaches N Cream" (feat. Charlie Wilson/prod. by Pharrell) streaming at Spotify.
Sufjan Stevens
TRACK "Should Have Known Better" streaming at YouTube.
Surfer Blood
TRACK "I Can't Explain" streaming at SoundCloud.
Tame Impala
TRACK "Let It Happen" streaming/downloadable at SoundCloud.
Villagers
TRACK "Hot Scary Summer" streaming at YouTube.
Warpaint
TRACK "No Way Out" (new single) streaming at Spotify.
TRACK "I'll Start Believing" (B-side) streaming at Spotify.
The Waterboys
TRACK "The Girl Who Slept For Scotland (Radio Edit)" streaming at YouTube.
Wire
TRACK "Split Your Ends" streaming at SoundCloud.
Young Fathers
TRACK "Shame" streaming at SoundCloud.
Zero 7
TRACK "Last Light" (feat. Jose Gonzalez) streaming at SoundCloud.

On TV this week (new episodes only)

  • Monday: Tobias Jesso Jr. (Conan), Madonna (Ellen), La Sera (Carson Daly), Brad Paisley (Kimmel), Smallpools (Meyers), Matthew E. White (Letterman), Wiz Khalifa (Fallon)

  • Tuesday: Glen Hansard (Letterman), Madonna (Ellen), Modest Mouse (Fallon), OK Go (Conan), Spoon (Kimmel), Tijuana Panthers (Carson Daly)

  • Wednesday: James Bay (Kimmel), Boots (Fallon), Madonna (Ellen), Tove Styrke (Meyers), Sweat Lodge (Carson Daly)

  • Thursday: Madonna (Ellen), Misterwives (Carson Daly), Purity Ring (Conan), Rixton (Fallon), The Weeknd (Kimmel)

  • Friday: Ariana Grande (Fallon), Madonna (Ellen), Kanye West (Kimmel)

Recent artist and industry news

  • Leonard Cohen's Popular Problems was named album of the year at this weekend's Juno Awards, Canada's equivalent to the Grammys.

  • Billboard offers some analysis of the implications stemming from last week's "Blurred Lines" verdict, in which Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were ordered to pay $7.3 million to the estate of Marvin Gaye after a jury determined that Thicke's hit song infringed on the copyright of Gaye's “Got To Give It Up." Thicke and Williams plan to appeal the verdict.

  • Jay-Z now owns a pair of Swedish streaming services. - Billboard

  • Toto bassist Mike Porcaro died Sunday at the age of 59. - Rolling Stone

The latest music videos

Björk, "Lionsong":

Björk, "Family":

Death Grips, "On GP":

Of Montreal, "Bassem Sabry":

Deerhoof, "Tiny Bubbles":

Devonté Hynes and Neneh Cherry, "He She Me":

Rae Sremmurd feat. Nicki Minaj and Young Thug, "Throw Sum Mo":

Calexico, "Falling From The Sky":

Reggie Watts feat. Tears for Fears, "Bomb Song":

In the studio / coming soon

  • Kendrick Lamar's album now has a title (To Pimp a Butterfly) and a tracklist, though it looks like the original March 23 release date will stick despite the fact that Interscope briefly (and accidentally) put the album on sale at a few digital outlets on Sunday night. (It has since been pulled.) However, you can stream the whole thing right now at Spotify.

  • The upcoming Muse album Drones has just been announced for release on June 9th. - Billboard. The first single should be out next week, while a non-single album track, "Psycho," is streaming above.

  • A new Hudson Mohawke album, Lantern, arrives on June 16 via Warp. Guests include Miguel, Antony, and Jhené Aiko.

  • The Fall's 31st studio album, Sub-Lingual Tablet, arrives May 25th.

  • Deftones are shooting for an autumn release for their next album. - Rolling Stone

  • Here's the full release list for Record Store Day, which takes place at an indie record shop near you on April 18th.

Visit Metacritic's Album Release Calendar for a full listing of upcoming release dates, updated daily.

Tours and festivals

  • Iggy Azalea has rescheduled her North American tour. - Billboard

  • Clap Your Hands Say Yeah will perform their 10-year-old debut album in full on an upcoming tour. - CoS

  • The Eagles will make the rounds in the U.S. again from May through July. - Billboard

  • Foxygen's "Farewell Tour" begins at the end of March. - Pitchfork

  • The New Pornographers have added some summer dates. - CoS

  • Robert Plant will tour with the Sensational Space Shifters this spring and summer, with the Pixies serving as openers on some dates. - Rolling Stone

  • Shabazz Palaces will tour the world this spring. - Pitchfork

  • Tyler, the Creator is touring this spring. - Pitchfork