Journal
- Friday, November 15, 2024
The Black Keys' Ohio Players (Trophy Edition), an expanded version of their latest album, which received two Grammy nominations last week, is out now. The new release features a two-LP set in a gatefold jacket complete with four new tracks, an alternate cover, and new album sequencing. The new tracks include collaborations with DannyLux, Alice Cooper, and Beck. The fourth new song, “Sin City,” co-written by Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney with Greg Kurstin and Beck, who also perform on the track, debuts today.
Journal Topics: Album Release, Artist News, Video
- Friday, May 25, 2018
This Memorial Day weekend, David Byrne and Rostam are at the Sasquatch! Music Festival in Washington … Jeremy Denk joins Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra … Fleet Foxes tour US Northeast … Lake Street Dive takes Free Yourself Up tour to California … Robert Plant is in the UK … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from Virginia …
Journal Topics: On Tour, Weekend EventsThursday, May 24, 2018Devendra Banhart has been named a curator of and performer at the 2018 Le Guess Who? festival. Le Guess Who? is a celebration of sound in the city of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Dedicated to boundary-crossing music from across the globe, the twelfth edition of the festival takes place November 8–11, 2018. The artists Banhart welcomes to the festival include Vashti Bunyan, Ghanaian Highlife musician Ebo Taylor, Japanese singer-songwriter Shintaro Sakamoto, and several others. This year's other curators are Asia Argento, Shabaka Hutchings, and Moor Mother.
Journal Topics: Artist News, On TourThursday, May 24, 2018Lake Street Dive were musical guests on Conan on TBS last night. The band performed "Good Kisser" from the new album Free Yourself Up. You can watch it here. The band has brought its Free Yourself Up tour to California, at the Ford Theater in LA last night, House of Blues in Anaheim tonight, The Fillmore in San Francisco on Friday, and BottleRock Napa Valley on Sunday.
Journal Topics: Artist News, Television, VideoTuesday, May 22, 2018Brad Mehldau has shared the story behind the title track to his new Trio album, Seymour Reads The Constitution!, in a new essay. "In 2014, I had a dream that the actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was reading the American Constitution to me," he begins. You can read what he has to say here.
Journal Topics: Artist EssaysTuesday, May 22, 2018Punch Brothers have shared a video of their live performance of "Julep," a song from their 2015 album, The Phosphorescent Blues, at the Taft Theatre in Cincinnati, Ohio, last summer. You can watch it here. The video comes about a month before the band's return to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, not long after which the big US summer tour begins (and after that, a European autumn tour).
Journal Topics: Artist NewsTuesday, May 22, 2018Cheers to Olivia Chaney, who has been busy signing the limited-edition prints included with pre-orders of her new album, Shelter, exclusively in the Nonesuch Store. Pre-orders also include an instant download of the album tracks "IOU" and "Roman Holiday," which you can hear here, and a download of the complete album available from release day, June 15. Tickets are on sale now for album release shows in NYC and London in June.
Journal Topics: Album Release, Artist NewsTuesday, May 22, 2018Audra McDonald was a guest on The Late Late Show with James Corden on CBS. She joined Corden and Dan Stevens for a few very special performances of inappropriate musicals. "Many of Broadway's biggest hit musicals have been based on movies," says Corden. "But there are so many more great movie possibilities. So tonight, we proudly present scenes from a trio of exciting screen-to-stage adaptations." Watch the performances here.
Journal Topics: Artist News, Television, VideoFriday, May 18, 2018Brad Mehldau Trio's new album, Seymour Reads the Constitution! , is out now. The pianist and his longtime trio—drummer Jeff Ballard and bassist Larry Grenadier—perform three Mehldau originals combined with interpretations of pop songs (Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson), jazz tunes (Elmo Hope, Sam Rivers), and the American songbook (Frederick Loewe). "This is sumptuous, collective improvisation of the highest order," exclaims The Arts Desk's five-star review. "It's so good, it sounds effortless ... Gorgeous."
Journal Topics: Album Release, Artist News, ReviewsFriday, May 18, 2018Thomas Bartlett and Nico Muhly's Peter Pears: Balinese Ceremonial Music is out now. The album is nine songs written by the duo plus three gamelan transcriptions by ethnomusicologist Colin McPhee that inspired the songs. Bartlett and Muhly play pianos and keyboards on the album, and Bartlett sings, joined by others on strings and metallic pitched percussion. Bartlett and Muhly perform from Peter Pears at LPR in NYC on May 24, National Concert Hall in Dublin on June 6, and LSO St Luke's in London on June 8.
Journal Topics: Album Release, Artist NewsFriday, May 18, 2018Lake Street Dive stopped by MPR's The Current while in St. Paul to perform a sold-out show at the Palace Theater. They spoke with host Mac Wilson about the new album Free Yourself Up and performed three songs from it: "Good Kisser," "Hang On," and "Doesn't Even Matter Now." You can watch videos of the first two performances here and listen to the complete session at thecurrent.org.
Journal Topics: Artist News, Radio, VideoFriday, May 18, 2018Olivia Chaney performs in Jimi Hendrix's bedroom in London … Timo Andres plays in Brooklyn … Devendra Banhart headlines LTDOMX in Mexico … David Byrne, Fleet Foxes, Rhiannon Giddens, Lake Street Dive continue US tours … Richard Goode plays solo in London … Emmylou Harris is in Austin … Tigran Hamasyan performs in Italy … Kronos Quartet performs in UK … Audra McDonald is in California … Brad Mehldau Trio concludes European tour … Joshua Redman joins Brooklyn Rider … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from Atlanta … and more ...
Journal Topics: On Tour, Weekend EventsThursday, May 17, 2018David Byrne, whose birthday was earlier this week, was given a special gift by Choir! Choir! Choir!. The group, through which directors Nobu Adilman and Daveed Goldman lead singers and non-singers alike to participate in a mass sing-along, dedicated its latest gathering in Toronto to Byrne's birthday, performing "Everybody's Coming to My House," from his new album, American Utopia. Grab a piece of cake and enjoy the performance here. Byrne joined Choir! Choir! Choir! in NYC to perform David Bowie's "Heroes" earlier this year.
Journal Topics: Artist News, Video