Los Angeles-based, Norwegian-born singer/songwriter Sondre Lerche has announced his ninth studio album Patience will release on June 5th. After living in New York City for over a decade, the album is his first since relocating to the west coast. Recorded mostly in Norway, the inspiration for this record, as Lerche tells it, comes from a recently discovered love of ambient music, running marathons, and a quest for serenity. Today, he shared the video (directed by Jon Danovic) for the album's lead single 'You Are Not Who I Thought I Was.' The album is now available for pre-order.
Grammy-nominated Boston songwriter Alastair Moock rescheduled his all-ages release concert for his new album, Be a Pain: An Album for Young (& Old) Leaders (originally slated for March 22) to May 3, 2020 at 12pm at The Burren in Somerville, MA. Tickets are available now via The Burren.
Louis Prince's debut album Thirteen is out today, March 13th, on Last Gang Records. The creative project of musician Jake McMullen, Louis Prince's Thirteen draws equal inspiration from the lush, ornate world of jazz while recalling the intricate work of like-minded auteurs like Sandro Perri, Nicholas Krgovich, and Destroyer's Dan Bejar. “The '80s-inspired woozy synths and shimmering guitars,” found on the record writes Exclaim!, “are joined here by pianos, muted horns and a feel for space and texture that leads to some impressively lush arrangements.”
The circus is coming to town and it's arriving unhinged... Baby Monster Productions will present the world premiere of Slaughter Brothers Dime Circus by Sean Sullivan with original music by Matthew Reid and Sean Sullivan.
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and producer Jonny Polonsky presents his new 'Kingdom of Sleep' LP and the new video for his latest single 'Ghost Like Soul' featuring Cedric Bixler-Zavala (The Mars Volta/ At The Drive-In), directed by Paul Elledge, a legend in the world of professional photography with work featured in publications as diverse as Rolling Stone and Forbes.
Singer/Actress Marissa Mulder moved to New York City in 2007 from Syracuse, NY and has gone on to become one of the most successful young cabaret artists on the Manhattan scene. In 2011, she beat out 60 other singers to win the Metro Star Challenge at the Metropolitan Room, an American Idol type contest for up and coming cabaret artists. Since then she has performed in several of her own shows. Stephen Holden of the New York Times called her show ' Tom...In His Words, the songs of Tom Waits', 'Far and away the season's best show, everything the genre can be but almost never is.'
Following the release of her most recent album The Ballad of the Runaway Girl, JUNO Award winning artist Elisapie today shares her intimate and powerful NPR Tiny Desk concert. The performance features songs from her latest record and stories of her Inuit upbringing she previously explored on NPR's All Things Considered. Arguably the most significant work in the singer-songwriter's career, Elisapie recently spoke more about the album on the Good Life Project podcast and the Basic Folk podcast, before embarking on tour.
Cover your ears, because Zachariah Hickman has the perfect way to celebrate leap year... using every swear word you can think of! Hickman has assembled a band to celebrate the big day with a concert so filthy it would make a sailor cry. Hickman and his cast of co-conspirators will present an evening dedicated to the finest songs that feature cursing. Hickman's 'Beep Year Show is an adults only show on Saturday, February 29th at Club Passim in Cambridge. Tickets are on sale now at Passim.org.
Last Gang Records is excited to announce the March 13th release of Thirteen, the debut album from Louis Prince, the creative project of musician Jake McMullen. Thirteen draws equal inspiration from the lush, ornate world of jazz while recalling the intricate work of Like minded auteurs like Sandro Perri, Nicholas Krgovich, and Destroyer's Dan Bejar. The album weaves self explorative soul searching into its gorgeous sonic template, with Paste Magazine describing a blend between “the post-internet sensibilities of Bon Iver's recent work” and “an understated jazz” framework.
Much-lauded cabaret artist Susanne Mack continues to prove why she has developed the reputation she has earned as an artist, with her show WHERE I BELONG in a recent performance at Don't Tell Mama
Renowned songwriter and Walkmen co-founder Walter Martin released today his critically acclaimed new album The World At Night via Ile Flottante Music. Produced by multi-instrumentalist Josh Kaufman (The National, Hiss Golden Messenger, The War On Drugs), the album is Martin's most richly orchestrated and grandly cinematic collection to date, as well as his most poignant. Dedicated to his dear friend and late Jonathan Fire*Eater bandmate Stewart Lupton, it balances soul-baring intimacy with sophisticated arrangements as they walk a delicate tightrope between despair and hope, faith and doubt, security and uncertainty.
The Roosevelt String Band returns in celebration of Morven's exhibition Dreaming of Utopia: Roosevelt, New Jersey to present an encore performance with songs to warm the heart including Bill Withers' Lean on Me, If Not for You and Make You Feel My Love by Bob Dylan, Carole King's You've Got a Friend, Tom Waits' Martha, and Michael Peter Smith's The Dutchman, among many others for this two hour concert.
Having just completed a month long coast-to-coast Canadian arena tour as well as a run of dates in the U.S. this past Fall, City and Colour, acclaimed singer, songwriter and performer Dallas Green, announces a run of U.S. tour dates, taking place this Spring. The tour kicks off May 12 in Pittsburgh, PA and finishes close to home, in Niagara Falls, NY on May 29. Joining the tour as support, is Katie Pruitt. Public on-sale begins this Friday, January 31 at 10am local time in each market. Fans can Visit cityandcolour.com for direct ticket links.
Enjoy Broadway in your backyard with the Maltz Jupiter Theatre's 2020/21 season!
With just the ticket for everyone, the award-winning regional theatre's upcoming season will begin with I Hate Hamlet (October 25 - November 8), Paul Rudnick's hilarious comedy in which rising star Andrew Rally is visited by the ghost of a legendary actor who is determined to convince the young artist to pursue a life on the stage.
Today, Early James the Alabama native and latest signing to Dan Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound roster, shares the music video for “It Doesn't Matter Now,” his latest single off Singing for My Supper (Easy Eye Sound, 3/13), via an interview with Billboard. Director Tim Hardiman says about the making of the video, “The subject matter for this song is pretty heavy. I felt there needed to be some aggression on screen but didn't want it to play out like a typical break up. For some reason, Sideshow Bennie, whom I worked with several years ago, popped in my head. I looked him up and learned he was now working with a sidekick, Anna Fiametta. When I read how they met, I thought it was a funny story that would fit the song. The thought of them inflicting pain on each other, and the pleasure they receive from it, was intriguing. I pitched the idea to Early and I'm grateful he got it and trusted my vision for his song.”
From the WA teams that created the break-out Fringe hits The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer and The Ballad of Frank Allen comes RAGNARØKKR, a cabaret/theatre performance with the armour stripped off and the speakers turned up to 11!
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and producer Jonny Polonsky has announced his new album 'Kingdom of Sleep', scheduled for release on March 6, 2020. Ahead of that, he presents the lead single 'The Weeping Souls'. Self-produced by Polonsky, this album was mixed and mastered by Mike Tholen (Chris Connelly, Revolting c*cks).
Known collectively as Hawktail, fiddler Brittany Haas, bassist Paul Kowert, guitarist Jordan Tice, and mandolinist Dominick Leslie are proud to share their much-anticipated sophomore album, Formations today. With the help of co-producer Chris “Critter” Eldridge, the band recorded the album in just four days at Nashville's Southern Ground Studios. The album has received high praise from critics, including NPR Music who complimented the band's “rustic” sound on All Songs Considered's “New Music Friday” this morning. No Depression commented, “As new album Formations proves, the band members defy expectations based on other projects or instruments of choice by constantly pushing each other's creative boundaries,” while Folk Alley praised the band's unprecedented musicianship, noting, “We simply haven't seen these instruments played this way and with this exuberance... except by Hawktail.” The group will begin touring this month at Folk Alliance in New Orleans, followed by two Nashville performances including an album release show at Little Harpeth Brewing and a special performance at the Grand Ole Opry on February 1. Formations is available today, click here to purchase or stream.
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and producer Jonny Polonsky has announced his new album 'Kingdom of Sleep', scheduled for release on March 6, 2020. Ahead of that, he presents the lead single 'The Weeping Souls'. Self-produced by Polonsky, this album was mixed and mastered by Mike Tholen (Chris Connelly, Revolting c*cks).
