Journal
- Monday,April 23,2018
Rhiannon Giddens was on NPR's All Things Considered on Sunday. She spoke with host Michel Martin about her MacArthur Fellowship, the role of the banjo in her work, and her latest album, Freedom Highway, from which she performed two songs: "At the Purchaser's Option" and "Julie." You can hear the conversation and performance here.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsRadioMonday,April 23,2018Shye Ben-Tzur, Jonny Greenwood, and the Rajasthan Express, currently touring Latin America as special guests of Radiohead, performing songs from their album Junun, will join Radiohead on its North American tour this summer. The tour starts with two sold-out nights at Chicago's United Center, followed by four sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden in New York City; two nights each in Montreal and Toronto; shows in Detroit, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh; and two nights each in Boston and Philadelphia. The Times of London called Junun "essential listening."
Journal Topics: Artist NewsOn TourFriday,April 20,2018Lake Street Dive has shared a behind-the-scenes look at their video for the track "I Can Change," from their forthcoming album, Free Yourself Up. "It's about a person who's looking at various things that are going on in the world and feeling a lot of frustration and a lot of anger over it," says singer Rachael Price. "And instead of giving in to those feelings, they're choosing to look inside themselves and say, 'Well, I have the ability to change myself.'" Watch the making-of and the official "I Can Change" videos here.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsVideoFriday,April 20,2018Fleet Foxes release a new, limited-edition black vinyl 7" single at independent record stores for Record Store Day on Saturday: a special recording of the title track to their 2017 album, Crack-Up, performed with Icelandic women’s choir Graduale Nobili, in Reykjavik (watch a video here), b/w an intimate version of "In the Morning" recorded live at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Fleet Foxes' perform at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley tonight and return to Coachella on Saturday.
Journal Topics: Album ReleaseArtist NewsThursday,April 19,2018Lake Street Dive stopped by the Paste Studio at The Manhattan Center in NYC yesterday to perform three songs from their forthcoming album, Free Yourself Up: "Good Kisser," "I Can Change," and "Shame, Shame, Shame." Watch the performance here.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsVideoWednesday,April 18,2018Laurie Anderson joined author Neil Gaiman in conversation at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. They discuss their family histories, writing processes, sock puppetry, virtual reality, and more. Watch it here.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsVideoTuesday,April 17,2018Pat Metheny has announced several new North American tour dates this fall. He and his quartet—drummer Antonio Sánchez, bassist Linda Oh, and pianist Gwilym Simcock—will perform across the continent starting in the US Northeast in late September and making their way to the Midwest and Toronto, across to Colorado, the Pacific Northwest, Vancouver, and California. The month-long tour culminates at Royce Hall in LA on October 26. Metheny was celebrated as a 2018 NEA Jazz Master in a tribute concert at the Kennedy Center on Monday.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsOn TourFriday,April 13,2018Rhiannon Giddens begins a spring North American tour at the Savannah Music Festival tonight. She has shows in the Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland, Florida, and Georgia over the next few weeks, closing out the month with a set at MerleFest. The tour resumes in mid-May, with shows in upstate New York, Ontario, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New England, Kentucky, and more. There are more shows scheduled for the summer as well.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsOn TourThursday,April 12,2018Olivia Chaney follows her 2015 Nonesuch debut, The Longest River, with Shelter, due June 15, 2018, on Nonesuch. The album, produced by Thomas Bartlett, is eight original songs plus Chaney's takes on Purcell's "O Solitude" and Frank Harford & Tex Ritter's "Long Time Gone," first recorded by the Everly Brothers. Pre-order to download the track "IOU" now and get an exclusive autographed print. Watch the "IOU" video here.
Journal Topics: Album ReleaseArtist NewsThursday,April 12,2018Fleet Foxes have released a new vertical video for "If You Need To, Keep Time on Me," from their album Crack-Up. The vertical video, directed by Vidanoise, with animation by David Hession and Rosie Holtom, can be seen now on Spotify. "The vertical video format provided an opportunity to make a compositionally different visual," says Hession. "Taking advantage of the aspect ratio lent itself to the constantly evolving, impossible landscape, with each scene an expression of time passing and how time is measured through nature, as majestically delicate as the song itself."
Journal Topics: Artist NewsVideoThursday,April 12,2018David Byrne has begun his North American American Utopia tour, with shows in San Diego, Arizona, and Las Vegas and sets at Coachella in the week ahead, and across the US and Canada in the months ahead. The tour includes songs from the new album as well as classics from his solo career and Talking Heads. A twelve-piece band joins Byrne on stage for an Annie-B Parson–choreographed concert that he has called "the most ambitious show I’ve done since Stop Making Sense."
Journal Topics: Artist NewsOn TourWednesday,April 11,2018The Brad Mehldau Trio launches a tour ahead of the release of the new album Seymour Reads the Constitution!, due May 18. The tour begins in Baton Rouge, followed by shows in Texas, Colorado, Utah, New York, and Massachusetts, including a three-night residency at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston. The group heads to Europe in May for shows in Berlin, Dublin, Amsterdam, Rome, Prague, and more.
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