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- Wednesday,February 13,2019
Mountain Man stopped by NPR to perform a Tiny Desk Concert of songs from its Nonesuch debut album, Magic Ship. You can watch it here. "Mountain Man is the perfect band for a Tiny Desk concert," says host Bob Boilen. "These three women make the most intimate music; and behind the desk, [their] voices were the stars." He goes on to say that "there's a true kinship that happens in this trio ... There's no other band like them." Mountain Man resumes its US tour in March and has just announced several new dates in May and June.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsOn TourVideoWebTuesday,February 12,2019Lake Street Dive has added several new headlining shows to its spring and summer tour schedule, as well as several co-headlining concerts with The Wood Brothers. The new dates begin in Raleigh on June 7 and include shows in Virginia, Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Colorado, Idaho, and Nevada. They follow Lake Street Dive's European tour in April and come before and after the band's shows with The Avett Brothers.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsOn TourMonday,February 11,2019Congratulations to Punch Brothers, Laurie Anderson, and Kronos Quartet, all of whom won Grammy Awards on Sunday! Punch Brothers' new album, All Ashore, won the Grammy Award for Best Folk Album, the band's first Grammy Award. Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet's collaboration Landfall won the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance, Anderson's first Grammy Award.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsMonday,February 11,2019Gabriel Kahane will bring music from his Nonesuch debut album, Book of Travelers, to Europe on tour this April. The tour begins with performances of the complete 8980: Book of Travelers work from which the album was drawn in Paris and Lyon, followed by concerts in London, Dublin, Glasgow, Genk, Amsterdam, Brussels, The Hague, Berlin, and Nantes. Before then, Kahane has shows in the US and tours as special guest of Punch Brothers.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsOn TourFriday,February 8,2019Jeremy Denk's new album, c.1300–c.2000, is out now. The double album presents a centuries-long story of constantly emerging possibilities and styles of musical expression, an evolution drawn in a single arc by the music of twenty-four different composers, from Guillaume de Machaut to György Ligeti. "A piano recital covering 700 years of music: by most accepted definitions, that ought to be not just an oxymoron but an impossibility," says the Telegraph. "But the usual barriers fall whenever Jeremy Denk is at the keyboard ... Quite exhilarating." "Full of contrast and surprise," says the Observer, "this is a richly personal gallery of sound."
Journal Topics: Album ReleaseArtist NewsThursday,February 7,2019Yola stopped by the Paste Studios in NYC for a live session ahead of her concert at Rockwood Music Hall yesterday. She performed the three songs that are out now from her forthcoming album, Walk Through Fire: “Ride Out in the Country,” “Love All Night (Work All Day),” and “Faraway Look.” You can watch the session here.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsVideoTuesday,February 5,2019The singer Sanford Sylvan passed away at his home in New York City at the age of 65 last week. Nonesuch Chairman Emeritus Bob Hurwitz, who was the label's longtime president, brought Sandy to Nonesuch and served as executive producer on his recordings. He offers this remembrance.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsStaffTuesday,February 5,2019Chris Thile had a few familiar faces—and voices—join him as guests on Live From Here broadcast from Los Angeles last weekend. Nickel Creek—Thile, Sara Watkins, and Sean Watkins—reunited to perform "21st of May" and Sam Phillips's "Where Is Love Now?" from their album A Dotted Line, plus the instrumental "Scotch and Chocolate." You can watch all three performances here.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsRadioVideoMonday,February 4,2019Sam Amidon begins a tour of England, as special guest of singer-songwriter Laura Veirs, at the Norwich Arts Center tonight. The tour continues in Nottingham, York, Liverpool, Birmingham, and Winchester, culminating at The Bullingdom in Oxford on February 11.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsOn TourFriday,February 1,2019Yola's video for her single "Love All Night (Work All Day)" has premiered via Relix, which says: "The song showcases the warm, soulful vocals that continue to engage new audiences across the globe." The track is the third pre-release song from her forthcoming, Dan Auerbach–produced debut solo album, Walk Through Fire, due February 22 on his Easy Eye Sound label. You can watch the video, directed by Dan Teef, here.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsVideoThursday,January 31,2019Joshua Redman Quartet’s new album, Come What May, is due March 29 on Nonesuch Records. This is the first recording in almost two decades for this group of musicians—the recently Grammy-nominated saxophonist and his longtime friends and colleagues pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer Gregory Hutchinson—and features seven Redman tunes. The Quartet tours internationally throughout this year. Pre-order in the Nonesuch Store to download the album track "How We Do" now and get an exclusive, limited-edition print autographed by the group while supplies last.
Journal Topics: Album ReleaseArtist NewsThursday,January 31,2019Pianist Jeremy Denk's new album, c. 1300–c. 2000, out next Friday, February 8, is streaming in full till then as an NPR First Listen. The new album presents a centuries-long story of musical expression, an evolution drawn in a single arc by the music of twenty-four different composers, from Guillaume de Machaut to György Ligeti. "Life, of course, runs in cycles," NPR's Tom Huizenga concludes in his First Listen review, "and Denk's c.1300–c.2000 lets us know that music—with its special powers of creation, expiration and restoration—does, too."
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