• Father John Misty Talks Taylor Swift Covers & Trolling the Media in New Interview

    Father John Misty, aka Josh Tillman, found himself in the national spotlight when he covered two Taylor Swift songs via Ryan Adams via The Velvet Underground via Lou Reed, and in a new interview for Louisville radio station WFPK 91.9 FM he comes clean on the whole story from the inception of the idea to his trolling of the media.

  • Father John Misty Releases New Song 'The Memo' After Crazy Week

    Father John Misty has had a crazy week, covering Ryan Adams' covers of Taylor Swift in the style of the Velvet Underground, which he later took down due to a spiritual encounter he had with Lou Reed, and accusations of ripping-off a 'Funny or Die' sketch with Dave Franco. He's capping the week off with a new song called "The Memo" released Friday (September 25).

  • Treasure Island 2015 Lineup: Deadmau5, The National, The War On Drugs Headline

    Festival season is in full swing right now in the Northern Hemisphere with Bonnaroo taking the headlines this weekend in the United States. It is a marathon, not a sprint, to get through one, let alone the whole season, yet the announcements just keep on coming. A new contender has announced itself for the very end of the season - Treasure Island, which will feature some big names across music like deadmau5, The National, Father John Misty, The War On Drugs and many more.

  • Mikal Cronin Announces Tour, with Opening Dates for Death Cab for Cutie

    Mikal Cronin has released his touring schedule for this Spring/Summer/Fall and he'll be spreading his time between headlining gigs, festival stops, and opening sets for performers including Death Cab For Cutie, Father John Misty and the Cairo Gang. The guitar-centric alt rocker will stay in Europe until early June before returning home to play festivals such as FYF Fest and Bumbershoot over the summer. His new album, 'MCIII,' was released last week.

  • Deluxe Packaging Damages Vinyl for Father John Misty's 'I Love You, Honeybear'; Sub Pop Promises New Pressing

    The appeal in vinyl is that it's just much more fun to hold, and the possibilities for packaging stretch much farther. But only so far, as Sub Pop Records and Father John Misty found out when they built an elaborate pop-up art installation into a deluxe edition of the performer's new album 'I Love You, Honeybear.' Turns out that all the aesthetics ended up damaging the actual disco holding the music

  • Father John Misty Streams Hilarious MIDI Version of New Album 'I Love You, Honeybear'

    These days, it seems as if every big album has to be streamed online for free before its official release date, but singer-songwriter -- and former Fleet Foxes drummer -- Josh Tillman, better known as Father John Misty, has found a sly way to get around that. According to "Stereogum," Tillman has made his upcoming studio album "I Love You, Honeybear" available for streaming on his website through a new streaming service called SAP, but instead of uploading the actual studio recordings, Tillman has uploaded instrumental MIDI versions of the entire album, and it sounds hilariously awful.

  • Fleet Foxes's Robin Pecknold Writes Music for Off-Broadway Play 'Wyoming'

    It has been nearly four years since we have heard a new Fleet Foxes album, but today it was revealed that Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold has composed the music for an upcoming off-Broadway play titled "Wyoming," which was written by Pecknold's cousin Brian Watkins and directed by Danya Taymor. According to "Stereogum," Pecknold co-wrote the music along with percussionist Neal Morgan, who is best known for his work with Bill Callahan and Pecknold's old touring partner Joanna Newsom — perhaps that is where they met?According to "Broadway World," "Wyoming" is a "biting, brilliant family drama about buried memories of a confounding childhood crime" produced by Lesser America. As of right now, Pecknold has no plans to record or release his score, which means you will have to go see the play, which runs from Jan. 15 to 31 at Theater for the New City in New York City. You can purchase tickets for "Wyoming" here.Fleet Foxes's most recent album "Helplessness Blues" was released in 2011. It was the Seattle band's second studio album overall, following their self-titled, debut album from 2008. Most recently, Pecknold embarked on a tour with members of Grizzly Bear, Wye Oak, Beach House and The Walkmen celebrating the music of late Byrds member Gene Clark.

  • Music Times 25 Best Songs of 2014: Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, Hozier, St. Vincent & More

    2014 was the year of a thousand controversies: Taylor Swift pulled all of her music from Spotify, Sun Kil Moon started a feud with The War On Drugs, Jack White accused The Black Keys of ripping him off (again), and almost nobody went platinum. When you put all of that aside, however, what you're left with is a bunch of incredible songs, which is really what it's all about. Here are the 25 best songs from 2014, as determined by Music Times writers Ryan Book, Caitlin Carter, Joey DeGroot, Kyle Dowling, and Carolyn Menyes.

  • 10 Best Cover Songs Of 2014: Lorde, Sam Smith, Miley Cyrus, And More [LISTEN]

    Because cover songs don't garner nearly as much traction on the radio or the charts as they once did, artists these days treat them more like fun little experiments, where they can try out things they normally wouldn't on one of their albums or original singles. This has resulted in plenty of inventive and fascinating covers, especially this past year. Here are the year's 10 best cover songs (in no particular order).
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