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, April 20, 2018
Brad Mehldau Trio tours US Northeast … Laurie Anderson is in LA … David Byrne, Fleet Foxes play Coachella … Olivia Chaney is in Amsterdam … Jeremy Denk performs Ives in NYC … Richard Goode gives recital in Berkeley … Shye Ben-Tzur, Jonny Greenwood, Rajasthan Express bring Junun to Brazil … Kronos Quartet plays New Mexico … Audra McDonald is on Long Island … Joshua Redman joins Antwerp Jazz Orchestra … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from NYC … and more ...
Journal Topics: On Tour, Weekend EventsThursday, April 19, 2018Lake Street Dive stopped by the Paste Studio at The Manhattan Center in NYC yesterday to perform three songs from their forthcoming album, Free Yourself Up: "Good Kisser," "I Can Change," and "Shame, Shame, Shame." Watch the performance here.
Journal Topics: Artist News, VideoWednesday, April 18, 2018Laurie Anderson joined author Neil Gaiman in conversation at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. They discuss their family histories, writing processes, sock puppetry, virtual reality, and more. Watch it here.
Journal Topics: Artist News, VideoTuesday, April 17, 2018Pat Metheny has announced several new North American tour dates this fall. He and his quartet—drummer Antonio Sánchez, bassist Linda Oh, and pianist Gwilym Simcock—will perform across the continent starting in the US Northeast in late September and making their way to the Midwest and Toronto, across to Colorado, the Pacific Northwest, Vancouver, and California. The month-long tour culminates at Royce Hall in LA on October 26. Metheny was celebrated as a 2018 NEA Jazz Master in a tribute concert at the Kennedy Center on Monday.
Journal Topics: Artist News, On TourFriday, April 13, 2018David Byrne, Fleet Foxes play Coachella … Shye Ben-Tzur, Jonny Greenwood, Rajasthan Express bring Junun to Buenos Aires … Olivia Chaney tours Benelux … Jeremy Denk, Richard Goode play solo in upstate New York … Rhiannon Giddens begins spring tour … Kronos Quartet is at Wesleyan … Brad Mehldau Trio is in Texas, Colorado … Joshua Redman performs in Switzerland … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from NYC … and more …
Journal Topics: On Tour, Weekend EventsFriday, April 13, 2018Rhiannon Giddens begins a spring North American tour at the Savannah Music Festival tonight. She has shows in the Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland, Florida, and Georgia over the next few weeks, closing out the month with a set at MerleFest. The tour resumes in mid-May, with shows in upstate New York, Ontario, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New England, Kentucky, and more. There are more shows scheduled for the summer as well.
Journal Topics: Artist News, On TourThursday, April 12, 2018Fleet Foxes have released a new vertical video for "If You Need To, Keep Time on Me," from their album Crack-Up. The vertical video, directed by Vidanoise, with animation by David Hession and Rosie Holtom, can be seen now on Spotify. "The vertical video format provided an opportunity to make a compositionally different visual," says Hession. "Taking advantage of the aspect ratio lent itself to the constantly evolving, impossible landscape, with each scene an expression of time passing and how time is measured through nature, as majestically delicate as the song itself."
Journal Topics: Artist News, VideoThursday, April 12, 2018Olivia Chaney follows her 2015 Nonesuch debut, The Longest River, with Shelter, due June 15, 2018, on Nonesuch. The album, produced by Thomas Bartlett, is eight original songs plus Chaney's takes on Purcell's "O Solitude" and Frank Harford & Tex Ritter's "Long Time Gone," first recorded by the Everly Brothers. Pre-order to download the track "IOU" now and get an exclusive autographed print. Watch the "IOU" video here.
Journal Topics: Album Release, Artist NewsThursday, April 12, 2018David Byrne has begun his North American American Utopia tour, with shows in San Diego, Arizona, and Las Vegas and sets at Coachella in the week ahead, and across the US and Canada in the months ahead. The tour includes songs from the new album as well as classics from his solo career and Talking Heads. A twelve-piece band joins Byrne on stage for an Annie-B Parson–choreographed concert that he has called "the most ambitious show I’ve done since Stop Making Sense."
Journal Topics: Artist News, On TourWednesday, April 11, 2018The Brad Mehldau Trio launches a tour ahead of the release of the new album Seymour Reads the Constitution!, due May 18. The tour begins in Baton Rouge, followed by shows in Texas, Colorado, Utah, New York, and Massachusetts, including a three-night residency at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston. The group heads to Europe in May for shows in Berlin, Dublin, Amsterdam, Rome, Prague, and more.
Journal Topics: Artist News, On TourTuesday, April 10, 2018Fleet Foxes launch their spring US Crack-Up tour at McDonald Theatre in Eugene, Oregon, tonight, making multiple stops in California—including sets at Coachella—and across the country, from Albuquerque to Atlanta, San Antonio, TX, to South Burlington, VT. There are summer dates on the books in the US and Europe as well.
Journal Topics: Artist News, On TourTuesday, April 10, 2018Paul Thomas Anderson's Academy Award–winning film Phantom Thread, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville, and Vicky Krieps, is now available on Blu-Ray and DVD in the US, following its recent digital release. The Guardian says there is "such pure delicious pleasure in this film"; Financial Times says Anderson "gets everything right here." The soundtrack, featuring Jonny Greenwood's Oscar-nominated score, is available on CD and digitally now, on vinyl April 20.
Journal Topics: Artist News, Film