Denver-based powerhouse artist Anna Morsett has announced her newBetween Skies EP due out January 17, 2020 via Mod y Vi Records. The details arrive alongside lead single “Change Of Address' premiered with Ghettoblaster Magazine. This song is an exploration on ways to free oneself, whether it's seeing yourself in a new light or leaving a physical space behind.
“Everyone knows the character of Eve from the bible, and everyone has their own ideas about her. But if she was wandering around America in 2019, what the hell would she say?” wonders Siri Undlin of indie-folk band Humbird. Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and inspired by the crystalline chill of the state's Northern winters, Undlin creates experimental folk and environmental Americana tinged with the sophistication of classic orchestral compositions. Her upcoming album Pharmakon, out August 30, focuses on women and the female body in folklore as a poetic way to explore the human experience. Working with engineer Brian Joseph (Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens) and producer Shane Leonard (Field Report), Undlin's newest release joins the leagues of masterful indie storytellers.
Five Boroughs Music Festival (5BMF) presents the first concert of its 13th season featuring Founders—a songwriting collective combining classical and folk music with original compositions and pop arrangements—in a program entitled “Songs for the End of Time” on Monday, September 23 at 7:30pm at Judson Memorial Church (55 Washington Square South).
Come to the Jewish Museum every Thursday in August to toast the influential singer/songwriter on the occasion of the exhibition Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything. Enjoy cocktails in the Jewish Museum lobby or head downstairs to Russ & Daughters at the Jewish Museum to dine on food from the Appetizing Counter.
Returning for its fifth year, Emerging Music Festival (EMF) features eight on-the-rise indie rock, folk, singer-songwriter, and soul bands performing for thousands on the Bryant Park lawn. Between sets, attendees can purchase beer and wine, eat food from local vendors curated by Hester Street Fair, borrow a free picnic blanket, learn to juggle, and play giant lawn games.
Wilderado will release the new single, “Surefire,” tomorrow, 7/19/19, via Bright Antenna Records. Frontman Max Rainer explains finding inspiration for the song in an unlikely place - a poem by Tabitha King. “In the poem, she describes a bear coming out of hibernation and viewing the world again. I became jealous of this bear and what it must be like to be able to step back out into the world and see the morning for the first time again. The next day, I wrote 'Surefire.' The lyrics fell out fast and easy. Whether I like it or not, the sun is coming up and going down. But what if we could see the world the way a bear does on that first walk through the forest after months in the dark? This song is a reminder that if I view the day as the time I'm going to miss all it has to offer.'
Luray, the Richmond, VA by way of Wisconsin musician also known as Shannon Carey, is excited to announce upcoming tour dates in support of the new album Dig, out July 26th on 6131 Records. Dig was produced by her brother S. Carey and recorded with engineer Brian Joseph, whose own credits include Sufjan Stevens' Carrie & Lowell and Local Natives Sunlit Youth among others. Today Luray also sharing the new single “Green And Golden”. Early praise for the music found on Dig comes from The New York Times, who write that her songs take Carey “where introspection can carry her: from banjo picking to distant roaring electric guitars to glimmering thumb-piano plinks, from isolation to sweet intransigence.” All upcoming tour dates may be found below.
Today, the New Jersey native, LA based songstress Phoebe Ryan shares her newest single “Build Me Up” today on Neon Gold Records. The accompanying video is premiered by Youtube HERE and is directed by Matt Porter. “Build Me Up” follows the release of her catchy single, “A Thousand Ways” and comes ahead of a summer tour supporting Carly Rae Jepsen across North America.
Luray is thrilled to share “Unwritten”, the latest single from her forthcoming album Dig, the new album from Richmond, VA by way of Wisconsin musician Luray, aka Shannon Carey. Due out July 26th on 6131 Records, Dig was produced by her brother S. Carey and recorded with engineer Brian Joseph, whose own credits include Sufjan Stevens' Carrie & Lowell and Local Natives Sunlit Youth among others. On “Unwritten” Carey ruminates on coming to terms with life's uncontrollable and not always pleasant twists and turns over a lush and percussive soundscape of banjo, mbira, and layered vocals. “Unwritten” follows lead singles “Professional Photos” and “Dig”, which was featured in the New York Times Friday playlist column.
Acclaimed composer Nico Muhly to premiere new work in Sydney with Omega Ensemble.
Oklahoma husband / wife duo, The Imaginaries, Shane Henry (guitar, vocals) and Maggie McClure (keys, piano, vocals), recently finished recording their debut album, their first together as The Imaginaries, in famed Muscle Shoals, AL. It serves as both an introduction to their music together and the beginning of their journey as a band after both singer songwriters have had their own successes as solo artists. Maggie, with her subtly sweet vocals and piano style blends seamlessly with Shane's blues-rock grit to form their own unique blend of Americana music.
Bang on a Can and the Jewish Museum's 2019-2020 concert season, pairing innovative music with the Museum's exhibitions, begins on Thursday, July 11, 2019 at 7:30pm. The Young People's Chorus of New York City (YPC), founded and directed by Francisco J. Nuñez, perform a concert that will include songs and poems by Leonard Cohen and others, coinciding with the Jewish Museum's exhibition, Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything. Recognized throughout New York City and internationally as one of the leading and most diverse children's choirs, YPC is a longtime and frequent collaborator with Bang on a Can. The chorus has forged a unique presence in the city's music community both as a champion commissioner and performer of new works by today's leading composers and for its innovative vocal arrangements that consistently cross all musical borders.
In celebration of Pride Month, Sufjan Stevens is releasing two new songs today via Asthmatic Kitty on the topic of love: “Love Yourself” and “With My Whole Heart,” available on all digital platforms, and on limited-edition 7” vinyl on June 28.
6131 Records is excited to announce the July 26th release of Dig, the new album from Richmond, VA by way of Wisconsin musician Luray, aka Shannon Carey. Dig was produced by her brother S. Carey and recorded with engineer Brian Joseph, whose own credits include Sufjan Stevens' Carrie & Lowell and Local Natives Sunlit Youth among others. Today, Luray shares the new singles “Professional Photos” and “Dig”. Both songs touch upon the album's genesis, born of the intense emotions that come with the end of a marriage. “I think there's a bit of truth in a photo and a bit of a lie,” Carey shares of “Professional Photos”. “I wrote this song about the image of happiness versus the real thing, and how it's sometimes myself I'm trying to convince.”
Compagnia de' Colombari, an international collective of performing artists founded and directed by Karin Coonrod, presents More Or Less I Am: a music-theater piece drawn entirely from Walt Whitman's revolutionary free verse long poem, 'Song of Myself,'one of the original twelve pieces that comprise his 1855 collection Leaves of Grass. The next performance in this series, spanning multiple venues throughout the five boroughs, will take place on Sunday, May 26, 2019, 7:30 pm at Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn.
The Los Angeles Philharmonic celebrates 20 years of its popular KCRW's World Festival series during the Hollywood Bowl 2019 season. A partnership between LA Phil and KCRW that began in 2000, KCRW's World Festival series continues to feature a diverse array of cutting-edge artists making music on a global scale.
Bang on a Can and the Jewish Museum's 2018-2019 concert season, pairing innovative music with the Museum's exhibitions and showcasing leading female performers and composers, continues on Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 8pm.
Compagnia de' Colombari, an international collective of performing artists founded and directed by Karin Coonrod,celebrates the bicentennial of the birth of America's most influential poet, Walt Whitman, with a revival of their acclaimed production More Or Less I Am. Performances begin May 18, 2019 at multiple venues throughout the five boroughs, with most performances being free and open to the public. More information can be found at www.colombari.org.
After a six-year hiatus, John Vanderslice has returned with his highly anticipated new album The Cedars, out today on Native Cat Recordings. Vanderslice dedicated the past few years working in his renowned Bay Area studio Tiny Telephone, where artists like Death Cab For Cutie, Sleater-Kinney, and Spoon have recorded, but then returned to songwriting, pouring out an emotional series of songs about his despair over his mother's death, his complicated relationship with drugs, and his nostalgia for a pre-tech boom San Francisco. In an intimate interview with The Fader, Vanderslice calls The Cedars 'a bleak, dark, beautiful Christmas card.' Stream the record NOW.
“These songs come from a place of exhaustion, bewilderment and pure love,” says Nashville-based singer/songwriter Dawn Landes of My Tiny Twilight, a six-song collection out May 10 on Yep Roc Records.
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