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From USA Today- Music superstars, including John Legend, Bruce Springsteen, Pink and Sia, sang and spoke of mourning, remembrance, resilience and healing during a Wednesday concert focused on overcoming racial prejudice and injustice. A two-hour version, Shining A Light: A Concert For Progress on Race in America, will run Friday at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Read more | Read about the concert at USA Today
You can now stream the new Kingsley Flood EP, ‘The Good Fight,’ in full at Stereogum. The EP is officially available on November 20th. Says Stereogum…”Kingsley Flood frontman and bandleader Naseem Khuri writes songs about feeling like an outsider who is looking in. The band’s new EP The Good Fight revolves around themes of society and change Read more | Stream the full EP at Stereogum
Juliana Hatfield and Paul Westerberg team up to form The I Don’t Cares. The project’s debut album, Wild Stab, is forthcoming. Read more about the collaboration and listen to their first single “1/2 2 P” at Consequence of Sound. Read more | Full article & streaming link at Consequence of Sound
Walter Matin’s new album has just been announced at Pitchfork. “Last year, the Walkmen‘s Walter Martin released a solo album of kid-friendly songs titled We’re All Young Together. On January 29, he’ll release Arts & Leisure on his label Ile Flottante Music. Check out the artwork, tracklist, and trailer below.” Read more
From Nonesuch Records- On the heels of her highly acclaimed solo debut Tomorrow Is My Turn, Rhiannon Giddens‘s five-song vinyl EP Factory Girl is released on Nonesuch Records on November 27, 2015, to coincide with the Black Friday Record Store Day event; a digital version of Factory Girl is available December 11. The EP is culled from Read more
Nashville, TN July 16, 2015 — Rosanne Cash, Mark James, Even Stevens and Craig Wiseman will be inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in October, according to an announcement made today by Pat Alger, chair of the organization’s board of directors. The four new inductees will join the 196 existing members of the elite Read more | Read more about this year's inductees
Jeffrey Foucault’s new album ‘Salt As Wolves’ receives a great review from The New York Times. The Times says of the album, “…the singer-songwriter-producer Jeffrey Foucault sings in a rich, textured, word-smearing voice about subjects of burned-out middle age: love, lying, regret, highways, hauntings, escape, aloneness, forgiveness, the value of a simple thing, the void Read more | Read the full review on The New York Times website here
Nonesuch just premiered the video for Rhiannon Giddens new single, “Black is the Color” off of her solo debut album “Tomorrow is my Turn”. The video, directed by Peter Zavadil, premiered as an NPR Music First Watch. You can watch it below: “We all had such a great time filming this video,” says Giddens, “and Read more | watch the video premiere on Nonesuch here
Songlines Magazine just named Leyla McCalla’s “Vari-Colored Songs” (Dixie Frogs) one of the 50 best world music albums of the last five years. The album is Leyla’s first solo album. Born in New York to Haitian parents, McCalla grew up reading the works of American poet and social activist Langston Hughes and in tribute, has Read more | See the Songlines list here
Rhiannon Giddens was just recorded as part of The Mountain Stage Radio Show. You can see more about Rhiannon’s performance on Mountain Stage’s facebook page, here. And listen to her performing here. Rhiannon is touring now through November and will continue to tour into 2016 with new dates being added every day. To see a Read more | listen to part of Rhiannon's Mountain Stage performance here