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  • Wednesday, January 14, 2015

    The line-up for the 2015 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival has been announced, and included are three artists familiar to readers of the Nonesuch Journal: Robert Plant, Punch Brothers, and Rhiannon Giddens. The four-day festival takes place in Manchester, Tennessee, and runs June 11–14. Tickets go on sale this Saturday, January 17, at noon ET.

    Journal Topics: Artist News, On Tour
  • Tuesday, January 13, 2015

    Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of "Inside Llewyn Davis" is out now on Nonesuch Records. The two-disc collection captures a one-night-only concert held at New York City’s Town Hall in 2013 to celebrate the music of the Coen brothers film Inside Llewyn Davis, featuring live performances by icons and rising stars of folk and Americana. They sang "in pitch perfect tone that left an oft-awestruck audience silently stunned," says the Los Angeles Times, "then vocally thrilled." The Independent on Sunday says it's "as excellent as you would expect with surprising collaborations and stately performances breathing new life into old songs and old fire into new ones."

    Journal Topics: Album Release, Artist News, Reviews
  • Tuesday, January 13, 2015

    Punch Brothers have released a new song, "My Oh My," from their forthcoming, T Bone Burnett–produced album, The Phosphorescent Blues. The song is available as an instant download with pre-orders of the new album, which is due out January 27, with the vinyl to follow on February 24. Listen to the song, as well as the two other instant-download tracks, "I Blew It Off" and Julep," here. Punch Brothers kicks off a brief tour of Ireland and the United Kingdom next week.

    Journal Topics: Artist News
  • Tuesday, January 13, 2015

    Nonesuch Records, which released the soundtrack to Richard Linklater's film Boyhood last year, has now digitally released two additional songs written specifically for the movie by Ethan Hawke: “Split the Difference (Daddy’s Lullaby),” performed by Hawke and Charlie Sexton, and “Ryan’s Song,” performed by Hawke with Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater, and Jennifer Tooley. “When Rick [Linklater] and I decided to make my character a songwriter," Hawke told the Hollywood Reporter, "he gave me the challenge to write some songs for the movie. We didn’t know at that time whether they would be in the movie or not, but it allowed me to take some time and get into character … If it had been a normal movie I never would have been able to come up with two songs, but I had 12 years!” 

    Journal Topics: Album Release, Artist News
  • Monday, January 12, 2015

    Congratulations to the cast and crew of the film Boyhood, which won three Golden Globe Awards, presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in Los Angeles last night: Best Motion Picture, Drama; Best Director for Richard Linklater; and Best Supporting Actress for Patricia Arquette. On Friday, Boyhood was nominated for five BAFTA Film Awards: Best Film; Best Director and Original Screenplay for Linklater; Best Supporting Actress for Arquette; and Best Support Actor, Ethan Hawke.

    Journal Topics: Film, News
  • Friday, January 9, 2015

    Emmylou Harris is being honored in concert in Washington, DC, by musicians including Rodney Crowell, Conor Oberst, Iron & Wine, Shawn Colvin, Sara Watkins, and many more ... Timo Andres performs with North Carolina Symphony and plays solo in DC ... Olivia Chaney continues Australia tour with Sydney Festival set ... Jacob Cooper music is in Carmina Slovenica choir show in Brooklyn ... Paul Thomas Anderson's film Inherent Vice opens across US ... Gidon Kremer joins the Naples Philharmonic in Florida ...

    Journal Topics: On Tour, Weekend Events
  • Friday, January 9, 2015

    Rhiannon Giddens's take on "Black Is the Color," from her forthcoming solo debut album, Tomorrow Is My Turn, is featured on NPR Music's Songs We Love. On the new album, "Giddens takes songs strongly linked to iconic female performers ... and somehow comes out owning them," says World Cafe host David Dye. On "Black Is the Color," often linked to Nina Simone, "Giddens celebrates and soars. She's confident in her instincts and her abundant talent, and she should be."

    Journal Topics: Artist News, Radio
  • Friday, January 9, 2015

    London-based singer-songwriter Olivia Chaney, who is currently touring Australia, will soon take the tour to North America. Chaney will visit select cities in the US and Canada in advance of the release of her Nonesuch Records debut album, starting at the World Café Live in Philadelphia on February 4, followed by stops in New York City, Brooklyn, Cambridge, Toronto, Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle, and Los Angeles. Stay tuned for details of Olivia Chaney’s forthcoming Nonesuch Records debut album and pre-order information coming soon.

    Journal Topics: Artist News, On Tour
  • Friday, January 9, 2015

    Paul Thomas Anderson's new film, Inherent Vice, opens in theaters across the US today. An adaptation of the Thomas Pynchon novel of the same name, Inherent Vice is set in the tail end of the psychedelic ’60s and stars Oscar nominees Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, and Owen Wilson. The Telegraph calls it "dazzling ... stupendous: as antic as Boogie Nights and Punch-Drunk Love, but with The Master and There Will Be Blood’s uncanny feel for the swell and ebb of history." The film's soundtrack, with music by Jonny Greenwood, Neil Young, Can, and more, is out now. "Paul Thomas Anderson’s films have great soundtracks," says the Daily Mail in a five-star review, and Inherent Vice "is no exception."

    Journal Topics: Film
  • Thursday, January 8, 2015

    The much-lauded film Boyhood was the focus of a TimesTalks conversation earlier this week. Filmmaker Richard Linklater and cast members Ethan Hawke and Ellar Coltrane spoke with New York Times reporter Cara Buckley about the unique project; you can watch the discussion here. Linklater is also the guest on the latest episode of WTF with Marc Maron. He talks with Maron about Boyhood and number of his other films.

    Journal Topics: Film, Video
  • Wednesday, January 7, 2015

    Pianist Tigran Hamasyan, whose new album, Mockroot, is due soon, is among the "Musicians You'll Tell Your Friends About in 2015," according to NPR Music's Ann Powers. Hamasyan's "startling combinations of jazz, minimalist, electronic, folk and songwriterly elements ... beckon listeners with a magical kind of openness," she says. "On Mockroot, his Nonesuch debut, Hamasyan and his collaborators travel musical expanses marked with heavy grooves, ethereal voices, pristine piano playing and ancient melodies." Powers concludes: "You'll hear nothing else like this album in 2015."

    Journal Topics: Artist News
  • Wednesday, January 7, 2015

    Rhiannon Giddens is among the artists "poised to breakout this year" according to the Wall Street Journal Speakeasy's list of "2015's Next Big Things: 8 Music Acts to Watch." After she "stole the show" at the 2013 concert celebrating the music of Inside Llewyn Davis (the album due next week) and "was out front of some of the best tracks" on last year's New Basement Tapes album, says the Wall Street Journal, comes her solo album, Tomorrow Is My Turn, next month, "in which she covers American icons like Patsy Cline, Libba Cotten, Odetta, and Dolly Parton. The thought of her classic takes on classic musicians has us salivating."

    Journal Topics: Artist News