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Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson & More to Join 38th Annual Tibet House US Benefit Concert
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 19, 2024 One of the longest-running and most renowned live cultural events in New York City, the Annual Tibet House US Benefit Concert, will return to The Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall. Learn how to attend. ...
Ordinary Elephant to Release Self-Titled Album Produced By Dirk Powell in May
by Michael Major - February 22, 2024 Ordinary Elephant (Crystal Hariu-Damore and Pete Damore) returns with their enthralling self-titled album. For Ordinary Elephant, the duo enlisted producer/multi-instrumentalist Dirk Powell (Joan Baez, Levon Helm), recording the album in Powell's studio in Beaux Bridge, Louisiana, on the banks of Ba...
Bowen Yang & Christian Lee Hutson Join 37th Annual Tibet House US Benefit Concert Lineup
by Michael Major - January 26, 2024 Previously announced performers include: Laurie Anderson, Joan Baez, Maggie Rogers, Maya Hawke, Gogol Bordello, The Philip Glass Ensemble, Tenzin Choegyal, Scorchio Quartet and more to be announced. Uma Thurman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Arden Wohl and Jonah Freeman will serve as the eveni...
SYBLING Announces 'Strange Ways' EP & Releases 'Radio' Single
by Michael Major - September 21, 2023 Listen to a new single by dark folk duo SYBLING (comprised of sisters Alice and Mariana Makwaia) whose haunting melodies, electric harmonies and thoughtful, poetic lyrics harken back to an era long forgotten, while also remaining firmly rooted in the present landscape of sound....
Global Music Collective The Scooches Release New Single 'Stop This Climate Change' For Earth Day
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 21, 2023 Global music sensation The Scooches have released a vital new single entitled 'Stop This Climate Change,' a poetic and uplifting call to action fraught with cataclysmic imagery, yet infused with the desire for change....
Canadian Music Legend Ian Tyson, CM AOE, Has Died at 89
by Michael Major - December 30, 2022 Ian Tyson upped stakes from Vancouver Island and hitchhiked to Toronto, where he met a young singer from small-town Ontario called Sylvia Fricker. As Ian & Sylvia, they were the Canadian stars of the early ’60s folk boom that gave the world Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, the Clancy Brothers, and t...
Canadian Music Legend Ian Tyson Has Died At 89
by A.A. Cristi - December 29, 2022 The family of the late Canadian country legend Ian Tyson, CM AOE, has confirmed the singer-songwriter died from on-going health complications on December 29th, 2022 at his ranch in southern Alberta, Canada at age 89....
Tasmanian Band Releases Christmas Single 'Song Of The Birds' Worldwide
by A.A. Cristi - December 20, 2022 Antipodean Baroque group Van Diemen's Band announced today the worldwide release of its single Song of the Birds on major streaming platforms....
Sara Bareilles to Perform Benefit Concert at the Capitol Theatre In Port Chester, NY Tomorrow
by Michael Major - October 05, 2022 The full length concert is exclusively performed by Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles, who recently completed an eight-week engagement of the fantasy musical, “Into The Woods” on Broadway. Sara’s self-described “piano based pop soul” and powerful lyrics give voice to the diffic...
Ada Marques Releases New Single 'Porcelain'
by Michael Major - September 28, 2022 Rising indie-folk singer-songwriter Ada Marques has revealed that her debut EP, Creature Of Habit. Alongside the EP announcement, Marques has released the evocative new single “Porcelain,” the third song taken from Creature Of Habit. “Porcelain” is now available to download and stream on all digital...
Ada Marques Releases New Single 'Napkin'
by Michael Major - July 20, 2022 The new track, written as a letter to herself, takes a candid look at buried sadness. Recorded during an impromptu writing session between Marques and Grammy-nominated producer Chris Reynolds, held during an out-of-the-ordinary Los Angeles rainstorm, the song mirrors the melancholy atmosphere of the...
Singer-Songwriter Ada Marques Drops Dreamy Debut Single, 'Bell'
by Marissa Tomeo - June 04, 2022 Rising indie-pop artist Ada Marques has released her debut single, “Bell.” The song takes a captivating and honest look at how our prior relationships can distort our self-image and impact the way we approach future opportunities. “Bell” is now available on digital music platforms worldwide. ...
VIDEO: Naomi Alligator Shares Video for New Single 'Blue for You'
by Michael Major - May 10, 2022 Naomi Alligator, the project of Los Angeles-based songwriter and multi-media artist Corrinne James, shares a self-directed video featuring original animations for her new single “Blue For You.' Naomi Alligator’s home-spun recordings serve as a platform for James’ lyrical narratives. Watch the new mu...
Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink, & Marcy Marxer Announce Album Collaboration
by Michael Major - May 03, 2022 GRAMMY® Award-winning folk icons Tom Paxton, and Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer (who make music as Cathy & Marcy), have announced their forthcoming live, double album collaboration, ALL NEW. Today, the trio released the project’s first single, “Pete’s Shoulders: The Power Of Song,” a tribute to the leg...
SuperTonic & Big Sugar's Gordie Johnson Debut 'Wide Awake'
by Michael Major - February 24, 2022 The complementing video for the song features SuperTonic co-fronts Jay Stiles and David Pulkingham in a room of candles as their combined vox soothes and calms over the melodies; the listener is dared to identify with the lyrics, the opening nearly melancholic, as it fades into beautiful optimism....
VIDEO: Single Girl, Married Girl & Mary Lattimore Release 'Scared to Move' Music Video
by Michael Major - February 10, 2022 L.A.-based pop/folk/Americana outfit Single, Girl, Married Girl writes simultaneously beautiful and devastating songs with poetic, perceptive lyrics that astutely capture what it means to be human. The band worked with the artist Ryan D. Anderson to create a striking visual accompaniment for the son...
British Songwriter John Smith Announces US Tour
by Michael Major - January 11, 2022 To support the 2021 release of John Smith's much-lauded album 'The Fray,' the singer has announced a bi-coastal tour that travels East in January before heading to the West coast in February. As a session musician, Smith has played guitar with artists as diverse as Joan Baez, David Gray, Joe Henry, ...
Morrison Hotel Gallery's 'The American Sound' Serves as a Visual Soundtrack to Social Change
by Sarah Jae Leiber - January 19, 2021 Now more than ever, art, activism, and collective agency are paramount to evoking real social change....
Steve Earle & The Dukes Release New Album 'J.T.'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - January 04, 2021 Today, Steve Earle & The Dukes have released J.T. This marks Steve’s 20th studio album, and is a tribute to Steve’s late son, Justin Townes Earle, who would have turned 39 years old today....
Eliza Gilkyson Premieres Stop-Motion Video for 'Promises to Keep'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - December 08, 2020 Eliza Gilkyson, the two-time GRAMMY-nominated (2006/2014) folk singer, songwriter and activist is one of the most respected musicians in Folk Roots/Americana music today....
THE MASTERSONS Premiere 'In the Name of God' Single
by Sarah Jae Leiber - October 06, 2020 The Mastersons, singer-songwriters/multi-instrumentalists Chris Masterson and Eleanor Whitmore, channel vintage acoustic rock (think Fairport Convention, Fleetwood Mac and even Led Zeppelin's folk songs) on their somber new track, 'In the Name of God,' premiering today at Glide. ...
David Poe's 'Smart, Sophisticated' 'Gun For A Mouth' Out Now
by A.A. Cristi - October 02, 2020 Singer, songwriter, guitarist and composer, David Poe, premieres the video for his latest release, 'Gun For A Mouth' today via PopMatters. ...
Dirk Powell Returns With 'When I Wait For You'
by A.A. Cristi - September 04, 2020 Renowned producer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and sideman Dirk Powell is releasing his first album on Compass Records today. WHEN I WAIT FOR YOU, included in NPR New Music Friday's “New and Notable” releases today, confirms why Powell has achieved near legendary status in the international ro...
Jeannette Byrne Releases New Album WOMEN OF THE ONE WORLD
by Kaitlin Milligan - March 31, 2020 Irish music artist Jeannette Byrne has released her fourth album 'Women Of The One World'. Women Of The One World is a concept album that hosts a collection of covers from influential female artists of the 1960s and 1970s, many of whom continue their great work today. With songs from Buffy Sainte Ma... |