The Black Keys appear on Fuse's SPIN25 show, tour Florida ... John Adams conducts El Niño with San Francisco Symphony, Dawn Upshaw ... Timothy Andres accompanies a serial-killer song-cycle in Brooklyn, appears on NPR's From the Top ... Carolina Chocolate Drops, The Low Anthem tour the South together ... Ben Folds shows his photos at National Geographic in DC ... Audra McDonald plays ARTrageous benefit in Arizona ... Allen Toussaint heads New Orleans Artists Against Hunger and Homelessness benefit ... and more ...
Tune in to Fuse tonight at 9 PM ET to see two songs from The Black Keys' performance at SPIN25, the New York City concert series from earlier this year celebrating SPIN magazine's 25th anniversary. The Black Keys open the show with "Your Touch" and "Tighten Up," the song that brought the band just a couple of their six Grammy nominations for Brothers earlier this week. The SPIN25 show also includes performances by Smashing Pumpkins, the National, Spiritualized, and the Flaming Lips. You can catch a preview at spin.com.
The Black Keys are back on the road with three shows in Florida this weekend: X102.9's Big Ticket at Metropolitan Park in Jacksonville tonight; the House of Blues Orlando in Lake Buena Vista on Saturday; and the 97 X Next Big Thing at the 1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheatre in Tampa on Sunday.
Brothers recently landed at the No. 5 spot on MOJO's list of the Top 50 Albums of 2010 (a list that also included Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté's Ali and Toumani). The Keys also landed at No. 28 on the last.fm list of the Best of 2010.
The band's video for "Tighten Up" has made Paste magazine's list of the 25 Best Music Videos of 2010, coming in at No. 17. "Sometimes great music videos tell a story. Sometimes they make you chuckle," says Paste. "This one does both." See the complete list and watch the videos at pastemagazine.com.
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John Adams, in residence with the San Francisco Symphony, conducts El Niño, his 2000 Nativity oratorio, at the Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, California, tonight and Saturday, following last night's opening performance. Dawn Upshaw, one of El Niño's original singers, performed in last night's concert and will do so again on Saturday. Jessica Rivera, who starred in Adams's A Flowering Tree, will perform the soprano role tonight. Michelle DeYoung and Jonathan Lemalu will appear in all three performances.
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Timothy Andres will play piano in Matt Marks's serial-killer song-cycle The Adventures of Albert Fish, as a part of Opera Grows in Brooklyn at Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, New York, on Sunday. Andres's Nonesuch debut album, Shy and Mighty, was recently selected by the New York Times for their Holiday Gift Guide, citing the "inventiveness and originality of Mr. Andres's own compositional voice."
You can hear an excerpt from Shy and Mighty on a special alumni episode of NPR's From the Top, which follows up on five successful young artists who previously appeared on the show, including Andres. From the Top airs on NPR stations across the United States, including WQXR 105.9 FM in New York City on Saturday at 6 AM EST, and Sunday at 6 PM. You can find out when the program is playing near you and listen online at fromthetop.org.
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Carolina Chocolate Drops perform at the Michigan Theatre in Ann Arbor, Michigan, tonight. The North Carolina-rooted trio then joins fellow Nonesuch artists The Low Anthem for a five-show tour through the South, beginning with a concert at the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday.
The Low Anthem follow the tour's opening concert with a performance with the Delicate Cutters at The Bottletree in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday. The band will be playing in Nashville twice in the coming week, first with Carolina Chocolate Drops at the Mercy Lounge on Tuesday and then with Emmylou Harris for the Opry at the Ryman next Saturday. As such, the trio is the subject of a feature profile in the Nashville Scene, which you can read at nashvillescene.com.
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Ben Folds presents his photography and shares stories behind the images in a talk moderated by photographer Mark Seliger at the National Geographic headquarters in Washington, DC, tonight. It's part of the four-part National Geographic Live! series Music on…Photography.
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Audra McDonald performs Broadway favorites, classic Hollywood film songs, and original music with a jazz trio at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts' Virginia G. Piper Theater in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Saturday. The concert is centerpiece of the ARTrageous gala benefit for the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Strange Powers, the new film documenting nearly a decade in the lives of Stephin Merritt and The Magnetic Fields, opens in Denver, Colorado, and Duluth, Minnesota. The film is also back by popular demand for one week, starting tonight, at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin, Texas. The Denver Post calls it "a nice introduction to an amiably dour tunesmith who once wrote that 'all art aspires to the condition of Top 40 bubblegum pop.'" For more information on the film and screenings, visit strangepowersfilm.com.
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Allen Toussaint heads the New Orleans Artists Against Hunger and Homelessness (NOAAHH) 25th Anniversary Gala, which also features performances by Jimmy Buffett, Dr. John, Irma Thomas, and others at Generations Hall in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Sunday. Toussaint founded the organization in 1985 with Aaron Neville and a group of New Orleans musicians to support the hungry and homeless of New Orleans.
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