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  • Monday,June 22,2015

    Lianne La Havas has unveiled a music video for "What You Don't Do," the second single off her forthcoming album, Blood, which is due out later this year. The song has just premiered on BBC Radio 1 as Annie Mac’s Hottest Record. The video was directed by Leila and Damien De Blinkk. You can watch it here. Download the song, as well as the album's first single, "Unstoppable," when you pre-order the new album.

    Journal Topics: Artist NewsVideo
  • Monday,June 22,2015

    In celebration of Father's Day, NPR's All Things Considered took at a look at the special nature of father-son collaborations in jazz and the unique music that can result from it. NPR's Audie Cornish spoke with bassist-composer Christian McBride, who is also a host of NPR's Jazz Night in America, about this, and their conversation began with a discussion of saxophonists Joshua Redman and his father Dewey Redman. The show opens with the father-son Redman duo performing John Coltrane's "India," from Joshua Redman's album Back East, released on Nonesuch Records in 2007. It was one of his father's last recordings before he died. "I loved hearing those two play together," says McBride. "It was something very, very special."

    Journal Topics: Artist NewsRadio
  • Friday,June 19,2015

    The Telluride Bluegrass Festival continues with sets from Punch Brothers, Chris Thile, Ry Cooder this Father's Day weekend ... Sam Amidon tours Northeast ... The Bad Plus Joshua Redman plays three nights in Seattle ... Olivia Chaney performs in Kentucky and Michigan ... Rhiannon Giddens heads to home state of North Carolina ... Jonny Greenwood joins LCO in the Netherlands ... Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell kick off Australia tour in Perth ... k.d. lang participates in LA benefit ... Conor Oberst closes out tour in Midwest ... and more ...

    Journal Topics: On TourWeekend Events
  • Friday,June 19,2015

    St Germain (aka Ludovic Navarre), who will release his first album in 15 years with a self-titled record due October 9, has unveiled the music video for "Real Blues," the first single off the album. The video, directed by Charlotte Vasseneix, features the street artist GREGOS hanging casts of Navarre's face throughout the streets of Paris. Watch the video, which premiered via Resident Advisor, here. Get the song now with pre-orders of the album.

    Journal Topics: Artist NewsVideo
  • Friday,June 19,2015

    Songlines magazine has posted its list of the Top 25 Mali Albums, originally from the July 2013 issue of the magazine, and included are several artists and albums familiar to readers of the Nonesuch Journal: Ali Farka Toure, Toumani Diabaté, Amadou & Mariam, Rokia Traoré, Oumou Sangare, and Fatoumata Diawara. "Mali remains a wellspring of great music and culture," says Songlines. "After much deliberation, we are proud to present the top 25 albums to come from Mali, reminding us that there is an endless amount to celebrate in its music."

    Journal Topics: Artist NewsReviews
  • Thursday,June 18,2015

    Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell take the music of their acclaimed new duo album, The Traveling Kind, and their 2013 Grammy Award-winning album Old Yellow Moon, to Australia for a six-city tour, starting at Perth Concert Hall this Saturday, June 21. The tour continues with stops in Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney, Wollongong, and Gold Coast. "The way their voices blend is pure delight," exclaims the Australian in a four-star review of The Traveling Kind. "Both fall effortlessly in behind the other, never upstaging and always supporting." Following the Australia tour, Harris and Crowell take the tour to Europe and North America for dates through the summer and into the fall.

    Journal Topics: Artist NewsOn Tour
  • Thursday,June 18,2015

    The Black Keys recently gave an intimate performance for fans at the iHeartRadio Theater in New York City, featuring songs from their latest album, Turn Blue, and favorites from throughout their career. Watch the performance tonight, June 18, at 10 PM ET, via iheart.com.

    Journal Topics: Artist NewsOn Tour
  • Thursday,June 18,2015

    Wilco has released a full-length documentary film entitled Every Other Summer, about the band's music and arts festival, Solid Sound. Directed by Christoph Green and Brendan Canty of Trixie Films and shot in 2013, it documents the three-day event, which takes place at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA. The film features appearances and performances from a number of festival artists including Sam Amidon, who returns to Solid Sound next weekend with Bill Frisell. The two give a free set in Brooklyn's Prospect Park tonight for Celebrate Brooklyn!. 

    Journal Topics: Artist NewsFilmVideo
  • Wednesday,June 17,2015

    The 42nd annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival kicks off in Telluride, Colorado, on Thursday and continues through the weekend to coincide with the summer solstice, with main-stage performances from Rhiannon Giddens, Punch Brothers, Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer, and Ry Cooder; a FirstGrass set from Giddens tonight; and a closing NightGrass show from Punch Brothers on Sunday. The festival will stream live via KOTO.org

    Journal Topics: Artist NewsOn Tour
  • Wednesday,June 17,2015

    David Littlejohn, who taught journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, for 35 years, died at his home in Kensington, California, on June 4. He was 78. Littlejohn published some 400 works—reviews, profiles and critical essays—and 14 books in his lifetime. He also worked on the arts program Critic at Large, which aired on PBS stations across the United States. Nonesuch Records President Bob Hurwitz, who was a student of Littlejohn’s at Berkeley in 1971, offers this remembrance.

    Journal Topics: NewsStaff
  • Wednesday,June 17,2015

    The Staves' Nonesuch Records debut album, If I Was, has been named to Stereogum's list of the 50 Best Albums of 2015 So Far. "Some albums demand gushing, so here goes: Once I got past thinking of the Staveley-Taylor sisters as Justin Vernon's pet project or the English folk-rock Haim and immersed myself in If I Was, I scoffed at past-me for ever seeing them as anything but the Staves, one of the greatest bands in the universe," exclaims Stereogum's Chris DeVille. "These 12 elegies for a failed romance are brutally honest and unimaginably beautiful."

    Journal Topics: Artist NewsReviews
  • Tuesday,June 16,2015

    Rhiannon Giddens's debut solo album, Tomorrow Is My Turn, has been named to Rolling Stone's list of the 45 Best Albums of 2015 So Far. "Over the past two years, Rhiannon Giddens has become one of the most promising voices in American roots music," exclaims Rolling Stone. On the album, she gives classic songs made famous by Nina Simone, Dolly Parton, Odetta, and more "a freshness and vitality that feel right at home in 2015." Also on the list is the debut album from Congolese band Mbongwana Star, From Kinshasa. The album, a World Circuit release distributed in North America by Nonesuch, is a "heady and high-energy Afrofuturist collaboration," says Rolling Stone.

    Journal Topics: Artist NewsReviews

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