Journal
- Thursday,July 11,2019
Devendra Banhart has shared a new song from his forthcoming album, Ma: "Abre Las Manos," which translates to "Open Your Hands." The song, sung in Spanish, was inspired by Banhart's relationship with his motherland, Venezuela, and was released along with a slideshow of amateur Flickr photos of Caracas and El Avila National Park in Venezuela, which you can watch here.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsVideoWednesday,July 10,2019Kronos Quartet’s groundbreaking 2002 collaboration with composer Terry Riley, Sun Rings, will be available in full for the first time on August 30 via Nonesuch Records. Riley incorporates into his composition "space sounds" (plasma waves) that NASA had collected from the Voyager probes, as well as a choir that represents, in his words, "the voice of humanity in its struggle to understand the meaning of our place in this unfathomable universe." Musical America calls it "a spaceship that faces ahead into the planets but also looks back toward its starting point on Earth." Pre-order to download the track "Beebopterismo" now.
Journal Topics: Album ReleaseArtist NewsTuesday,July 9,2019Donnacha Dennehy's The Hunger, which explores Ireland's Great Famine, is due August 23, 2019, on Nonesuch Records. Performed by Alarm Will Sound led by Alan Pierson, soprano Katherine Manley, and sean nós singer Iarla Ó Lionáird, the libretto draws from first-hand accounts by American humanitarian Asenath Nicholson. The Hunger "bears hearing and rehearing," said the Washington Post. "It is powerful, and it makes a statement." Pre-order to download the track "Black Potatoes" now.
Journal Topics: Album ReleaseArtist NewsTuesday,July 9,2019Soul-singer Robert Finley will perform on America's Got Talent on NBC tonight at 8pm ET. You can watch him wow the judges—Simon Cowell included—with a performance of "Get It While You Can," from his Dan Auerbach–produced album Goin' Platinum! in a special early look at the show here.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsTelevisionVideoMonday,July 8,2019Congratulations to The Black Keys, whose ninth studio album, "Let's Rock," debuted at No. 1 on the US Top Current Album Chart, and No. 4 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. The album is also No. 1 in the following categories: Top Current Rock Albums, Current Alternative Album, Current Digital Albums, LP Vinyl Album, and Top Internet. Internationally, "Let's Rock" is the band's third consecutive top 10 album in the UK, debuting at No. 3, as well as top 10 in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and Switzerland, among others.
Journal Topics: Album ReleaseArtist NewsMonday,July 8,2019Yola performed at the Glastonbury Festival, showcasing songs from her debut album, Walk Through Fire. "She has the most phenomenal voice and amazing, great songs as well ... Fabulous," said BBC Radio 2's Jo Whiley introducing the set live on air. You can watch Yola's Glastonbury performance of the album track "Shady Grove" here, and see her on tour in the US.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsOn TourVideoWednesday,July 3,2019This July 4 extra long weekend, Lake Street Dive tours US West, including Red Rocks with The Avett Brothers … Laurie Anderson is in Milan for Terraforma festival … Gabriel, Jeffrey Kahane join Grant Park Orchestra in Chicago ... Kronos Quartet gives free concert in Portugal … Lianne La Havas joins Lionel Richie, Corinne Bailey Rae for Stevie Wonder celebration in London … Gaby Moreno plays High Sierra Music Festival in California … Robert Plant brings Carry Fire to Roskilde Festival …
Journal Topics: On TourWeekend EventsWednesday,July 3,2019Daughter of Swords recently stopped by WFUV in NYC to perform an FUV Live set of two songs from her debut album, Dawnbreaker: the title track and "Shining Woman." You can watch the performances here. No Depression says of the new album: "Dawnbreaker is the companion we need for those long, solitary summer drives or walks where we allow our minds to wander and imagine the possibilities we’ve not yet discovered for ourselves."
Journal Topics: Artist NewsRadioVideoMonday,July 1,2019The Black Keys were on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday to discuss their new album, "Let's Rock." "We just kind of have always had this connection, where we can make music without really talking about it or thinking about it," says Dan Auerbach. "And when we were sixteen, that's why—that's what we realized right away. We just started playing, and it worked, you know? And that's just how it's always been." Patrick Carney adds: "I think this record—it made the most sense just to keep it simple and bring it back to the basics, which was just guitar and drums." You can hear the full interview here.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsRadioMonday,July 1,2019Composer William Brittelle has shared the full score for and story of "Forbidden Colors," from his new album, Spiritual America. On the album, Wye Oak, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, and the Metropolis Ensemble perform a genre-defying electro-acoustic song cycle written by Brittelle, who works to reconcile his youth in a conservative Christian household with his adult life as an "agnostic Buddhist." You can download the "Forbidden Colors" score and follow along as Brittelle breaks it down here.
Journal Topics: Artist EssaysFriday,June 28,2019The Black Keys' ninth studio album, "Let's Rock," is out now. The long-awaited album, the band's first in five years, is a return to the straightforward rock of the singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney's early days as a band. Auerbach says, "When we're together we are The Black Keys, that's where that real magic is, and always has been since we were sixteen." The band will tour North America this fall.
Journal Topics: Album ReleaseArtist NewsFriday,June 28,2019Dawnbreaker, the debut album from Daughter of Swords, aka Mountain Man's Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, is out now on Nonesuch. Working with Sylvan Esso's Nick Sanborn, who co-produced the record with her, Sauser-Monnig shaped what began as quiet reflections into confident compositions, crackling with country swagger and a sparkling pop warmth, preemptive odes to the next phase of life. Guests include Mountain Man's Amelia Meath and Molly Sarlé, bandleader Phil Cook, and guitarist Ryan Gustafson.
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