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  • Wednesday,June 15,2011

    Pat Metheny's new album, What's It All About, was released yesterday on Nonesuch. MSN Music, which continues to stream the album in full, has now premiered the video of Metheny performing the Beatles classic "And I Love Her." You can also listen to the album in full this week at AOL Music and on Spinner. The Philadelphia Daily News says: "The ever-surprising Pat Metheny does it again with What's It All About." The Seattle Post Intelligencer says Metheny's latest "provides fundamental context to his craftsmanship."

    Journal Topics: Artist NewsReviewsVideo
  • Tuesday,June 14,2011

    Pat Metheny's latest Nonesuch album, What's It All About, is out today. The Boston Herald gives it an A-, saying: "Metheny’s thoughtful, loving approach elevates every tune he tackles to a realm of beauty." To mark the release, the album is streaming in full at MSN Music, and we've posted the third in a series of videos of Metheny performing songs on the new record: The Association's "Cherish." Watch it here.

    Journal Topics: Album ReleaseArtist NewsVideo
  • Monday,June 13,2011

    As Chris Thile and Michael Daves gear up to perform live at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival this Friday, NPR has posted a Tiny Desk Concert featuring the mandolin-and-guitar duo performing songs off their debut album, Sleep with One Eye Open, recently released on Nonesuch. You can listen to the complete performance here. "What stands out between these two musicians when they play traditional music," says NPR's Bob Boilen, "is the level of extremity they achieve. This is small-town music with New York City intensity."

    Journal Topics: Artist NewsVideoWeb
  • Monday,June 13,2011

    Pat Metheny's new album, What's It All About, is out tomorrow. To start the count down to the big day, we posted the first in a series of videos on Friday of Metheny performing songs off the new record. Now comes the second video in the series: "Garota de Ipanema" ("Girl from Ipanema") by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes. Watch it here.

    Journal Topics: Artist NewsVideo
  • Friday,June 10,2011

    Pat Metheny's latest Nonesuch album, What's It All About, is due out this Tuesday. Earlier this week, we posted a video of Metheny introducing the album. Today, we offer the first in a series of videos to be released in the coming days of Metheny performing full-length songs off the new record. Today's video: Carly Simon's "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be." Watch it here and check back on Monday and Tuesday for more videos in the series.

    Journal Topics: Artist NewsVideo
  • Tuesday,June 7,2011

    What's It All About, Pat Metheny's forthcoming sequel to his first solo baritone-guitar effort, One Quiet Night, features classic tunes from songwriters like Paul Simon, Lennon & McCartney, Burt Bacharach, and Henry Mancini. "With What's It All About," says All About Jazz, "Metheny's ability to think outside the box never comes at the expense of losing sight of it, making music that's easy and accessible, but with deeper layers simmering just beneath its calm surface." In a new video posted here, Metheny introduces the new album by performing a number of tracks and discussing the album's inspiration.

    Journal Topics: Artist NewsReviewsVideo
  • Thursday,June 2,2011

    Shawn Colvin, who is currently on tour, recently appeared on an episode of HBO's Treme. On the show, from David Simon, creator of The Wire, Colvin performs her song "I'm Gone," off her 2006 Nonesuch debut album, These Four Walls, with violinist Lucia Micarelli, who plays Annie on the series. You can watch some of their performance and see Colvin and Micarelli discuss how it all fits into the series in a video here.

    Journal Topics: Artist NewsVideoTelevision
  • Thursday,June 2,2011

    The New York City Ballet begins a six-show run of George Balanchine's Jewels, featuring music by Fauré, Stravinsky, and Tchaikovsky, at Lincoln Center tonight. Two selections from Jewels—"Emeralds" and "Diamonds"—are included in the Nonesuch DVD of the New York City Ballet's 1977 performance from the acclaimed PBS series Dance in America. The Los Angeles Times says the works became "instant classics" when filmed for the series.

    Journal Topics: VideoDance
  • Thursday,May 26,2011

    In a new video, Emmylou Harris lends her voice to the effort to stop mountaintop removal mining in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Maryland. Harris joins Naomi Judd, Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and local and national organizations to help raise public awareness about an upcoming march to end mountaintop removal and a new documentary feature film about the issue called The Last Mountain, set for release in early June. You can watch Harris's video here.

    Journal Topics: Artist NewsVideo
  • Tuesday,May 24,2011

    Bob Dylan celebrates his 70th birthday today, and what better occasion than that to revisit Wanda Jackson's take on the legendary songwriter's "Thunder on the Mountain," as heard on her new, Jack White-produced album, The Party Ain't Over. Dylan himself, who once described Jackson as "an atomic bomb with lipstick," had suggested Jackson record the song, and it paid off with what HitFix called a "motorcyle-movie nasty" rendition of the tune. Watch the video here. Jackson performs live this week in Little Rock, Memphis, and Knoxville.

    Journal Topics: On TourVideo
  • Thursday,May 19,2011

    Randy Newman was featured in the Observer last weekend, in which his song "Losing You" was described as "a reminder of what a poignant musician Newman can be." Now, as part of the Guardian and Observer's How I Wrote video series, he performs the song at the piano and shares the beautiful and touching true-life story behind the song. Watch the video here. The A.V. Club offers the uninitiated an introduction to Newman's work, calling him "one of the finest songwriters of his time."

    Journal Topics: Artist NewsVideo
  • Tuesday,May 17,2011

    Randy Newman was the musical guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night. He performed "Losing You," off his latest Nonesuch release, Songbook Vol. 2, which Fallon calls "a beautiful record." Prefix says the new album's "reinterpretations of his classic works offer a chance to hear his material with fresh ears," and the Late Night "performance demonstrates Newman’s famous way with words, but it also shows what an affecting singer he can be." Watch it here, along with a web-exclusive performance of "Short People."

    Journal Topics: Artist NewsVideoWebTelevision

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