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- Monday,December 10,2018
k.d. lang's Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special, which features a concert celebrating the 25th anniversary of her acclaimed 1992 album Ingénue from the Majestic Theater in San Antonio, TX, premieres this Friday, December 14, on PBS. Ahead of its television debut, you can now watch her performance of "Miss Chatelaine" from the special here.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsTelevisionVideoMonday,December 3,2018Lake Street Dive's Rachael Price was on Live From Here with Chris Thile broadcast live from The Town Hall in NYC on Saturday. She sat in with Thile and the band throughout the show and stepped out to perform the classic Steve Winwood–penned Blind Faith tune "Can't Find My Way Home" and the Bruce Hornsby / Chaka Khan tune "Love Me Still," both of which you can watch here.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsVideoFriday,November 23,2018In conjunction with The Criterion Collection’s special-edition DVD and Blu-ray release of David Byrne’s 1986 film True Stories, Nonesuch and Todomundo Records release a comprehensive soundtrack, collected for the first time in one package and in film sequence: True Stories, A Film by David Byrne: The Complete Soundtrack is now available on vinyl LP, CD, and digital formats. "I always imagined that the music written for True Stories should be heard as it is in the film," says Byrne. "It makes the most sense this way.”
Journal Topics: Album ReleaseArtist NewsFilmVideoFriday,November 16,2018Gaby Moreno and Dannielle DeAndrea came together to record Bill Monroe's "The One I Love Is Gone" for the Hootenanny One Mic Series in Los Angeles. The performance—which follows Moreno's recent Spanish-language take on Paul Simon's "American Tune" with Davíd Garza for the series—was captured in a new video you can watch here.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsVideoFriday,November 9,2018Gabriel Kahane was on PBS NewsHour last night to discuss his Nonesuch debut album, Book of Travelers. The album is a musical travelogue about the looping railway journey across the US he embarked upon the day after the 2016 US election and the people he met along the way. For the show's "Brief But Spectacular" segment, he offers his own take on "why trains in America are the road to radical empathy." You can see what he has to say in the piece here.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsTelevisionVideoTuesday,October 30,2018Gaby Moreno and Davíd Garza came together to record a timely-as-ever bilingual take on Paul Simon's "American Tune" for the Hootenanny One Mic Series in Los Angeles. The performance, featuring Moreno's Spanish translation of the lyrics, was filmed for the series' inaugural video, which you can watch here. Moreno and Van Dyke Parks released a recording of David Rudder's song "The Immigrants" in July to support CARECEN and its efforts to empower immigrants.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsVideoWednesday,October 24,2018Olivia Chaney made her debut as a guest on Later... with Jools Holland last night, performing "Roman Holiday" from her new album, Shelter, live on BBC Two last night. Watch it again here. And tune in to BBC Two again this Saturday night for the full, one-hour episode of Later for another performance from the album.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsTelevisionVideoMonday,October 22,2018David Byrne, who has begun his American Utopia arena tour of the UK and Ireland, was a guest on BBC Newsnight on Friday. He spoke with Kirsty Wark about the American Utopia album and tour, the forthcoming release of the complete True Stories soundtrack, and his collaborations with St. Vincent and Fatboy Slim. He also strongly encourages US voters to turn out for the November 6 midterm elections!
Journal Topics: Artist NewsTelevisionVideoMonday,October 22,2018Gabriel Kahane was a guest on Live From Here with Chris Thile on Saturday. You can watch him perform songs from his new album, Book of Travelers—"November," "Baltimore," and "Little Love," for which he was joined by Thile—here. "I love him," says Thile; "now so do you." Kahane joins Andrew Bird and the NSO at the Kennedy Center in DC this weekend and resumes his Book of Travelers tour in Austin next week.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsRadioVideoThursday,October 18,2018In honor of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch puppeteer Caroll Spinney's retirement from Sesame Street after nearly 50 years, we revisit Kronos Quartet's trip to that beloved street in 1987 to talk with Big Bird about the string quartet and making music. "His open and kind-hearted view of the world and how we should treat each other is something we should forever aspire to," Kronos says of Spinney, and we concur.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsTelevisionVideoWednesday,October 17,2018In conjunction with The Criterion Collection’s special-edition DVD and Blu-ray release of David Byrne’s 1986 film True Stories, Nonesuch and Todomundo Records release a comprehensive soundtrack, collected for the first time in one package and in film sequence: True Stories, A Film by David Byrne: The Complete Soundtrack is due on vinyl LP, CD, and digital formats on November 23, 2018. Nonesuch Store pre-orders include an exclusive, limited-edition 12” print of a production photo taken by Byrne. "I always imagined that the music written for True Stories should be heard as it is in the film," says Byrne. "It makes the most sense this way. Me singing the song that was written for John Goodman’s character, Louis Fine, always felt weird to me. It was written for that character, not for me.”
Journal Topics: Album ReleaseArtist NewsFilmVideoMonday,October 15,2018Olivia Chaney stopped by The Current in St. Paul, MN, during her US tour this summer, to perform songs from her new album, Shelter, on Radio Heartland. She spoke with host Mike Pengra about the album and performed three songs: "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," "Arches," and "Roman Holiday." Watch "Arches" here.
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