Journal
- Friday,June 11,2010
Tune in to the Tony Awards ceremony, airing live on Sunday, June 13, at 8 PM ET on CBS, for a performance from the cast of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, which has been nominated for four Tony Awards: Best Revival of a Musical, Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for Catherine Zeta-Jones, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for Angela Lansbury, and Best Sound Design of a Musical.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsTelevisionFriday,June 11,2010Musicians and music fans from around the world have begun to converge on Manchester, Tennessee, for the 2010 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. Among them are three Nonesuch artists: Punch Brothers, Carolina Chocolate Drops, and The Black Keys. For those unable to attend, many of the musical performances will be streaming on NPR.org and webcast on Bonnaroo's YouTube channel.
Journal Topics: On TourThursday,June 10,2010Punch Brothers will perform on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno next Thursday, June 17, just two days after the release of their new album, Antifogmatic. Two songs from the album are now on Nonesuch Radio, and a new video about it is now on nonesuch.com/media. USA Today includes "Rye Whiskey" among "ten intriguing tracks from 2010's Bonnaroo artists." Punch Brothers' Bonnaroo set will stream on NPR.org and be webcast on YouTube.
Journal Topics:Thursday,June 10,2010Tune in to watch legendary drummer Tony Allen on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight, sitting in with the show's house band, The Roots. He kicks off a week-long North American tour this weekend. The A.V. Club says Allen's new album, Secret Agent, "expertly blends jazz, funk, and rock into earthbound extraterrestrial jams." It is "an undisputed fact of science that Allen," insists Time Out, "ranks among the globe’s funkiest residents."
Journal Topics: On TourTelevisionThursday,June 10,2010Before World Cup football action begins tomorrow, Amadou & Mariam join Alicia Keys, Black Eyed Peas, Hugh Masekela, Soweto Gospel Choir, and others performing at the World Cup Kick-Off Celebration Concert at Orlando Stadium in Soweto today. It will be webcast live on vevo.com. "With Amadou & Mariam as cultural ambassadors from the continent to the rest of the world," says the Times of London, "Africa is truly spoiling us."
Journal Topics: Artist NewsWebTelevisionThursday,June 10,2010Natalie Merchant's US summer tour is still a month away, but a select few will enjoy a performance of songs from her recent album, Leave Your Sleep, this weekend, as she performs at the West Chester Poetry Conference. The Philadelphia Inquirer calls the album "an ambitious work that embraces fun, story, and sadness." Conference co-founder Dana Gioa calls it "unprecedented" and tells the Inquirer: "She's the Franz Schubert of folk-rock."
Journal Topics: On TourWednesday,June 9,2010Radiohead drummer Philip Selway will release his first solo album, Familial, August 31 on Nonesuch Records. The album will be available for pre-order late June. A collection of fragile, haunting, and heartfelt songs, Familial is likely to surprise many—and not solely because these understated performances are coming from a drummer; it makes the case for Selway as a natural born singer-songwriter.
Journal Topics: Album ReleaseArtist NewsWednesday,June 9,2010Ry Cooder will appear on New York public radio station WFUV, 90.7 FM, on Thursday to premiere his latest effort, "Quicksand," a new song he wrote in response to Arizona's recent immigration law, SB 1070. The track will be available exclusively on iTunes beginning June 29, with all proceeds going to support MALDEF, the Mexican American Legal Defense & Education Fund.
Journal Topics: Album ReleaseArtist NewsRadioWednesday,June 9,2010The BBC World Service arts program The Strand headed to New Orleans for a look at how the city's arts community had been recovering in the five years since Hurricane Katrina struck and in light of the current BP oil disaster. The show features New Orleans legend Allen Toussaint, whose album The Bright Mississippi showcases the work of New Orleans jazz greats. "The spirit here is alive and well," he says.
Journal Topics: RadioTuesday,June 8,2010Laurie Anderson's forthcoming Nonesuch album, Homeland is due out on June 22. You can listen to it in its entirety now through release day as an NPR First Listen. "Anderson's performance pieces can be mind-altering; when they work, they can change the way you see the everyday," says NPR's Bob Boilen. "It's not an everyday record, but Homeland does draw on the everyday, in new and inventive ways."
Journal Topics: Artist NewsWebTuesday,June 8,2010Following the June 22 release of her new album, Homeland, Laurie Anderson will bring an intimate live show, Another Day in America: Songs from the Album "Homeland" and Other Stories, to New York’s Le Poisson Rouge, Philadelphia’s World Café Live, and Alexandria, Virginia's The Birchmere, in addition to performing on The Late Show with David Letterman. You can watch "Victory," an installment in the weekly series of videos featuring her male alter ego, Fenway Bergamot, here at Nonesuch.com.
Journal Topics: On TourArtist NewsMonday,June 7,2010The Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed-curated festival Vivid LIVE at the Sydney Opera House culminated this weekend with a number of events, including one that captured the hearts of Sydney's canine community and the attention of news media across the globe: Music for Dogs, a 20-minute piece Anderson wrote and performed for an audience of purebreds and mutts alike. Anderson called it "a highlight of my life."
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