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'Movement' Podcast Announces Season 2 for 2024
by Michael Major - October 24, 2023 Movement’s podcast, live shows and radio broadcasts uplift the voices, stories and songs of immigrant musicians, claiming public space for these artists to sing and speak their stories with complexity and nuance. The Movement team has also announced significant investment in the show via partnership...
Yasser Tejeda Shares 'En El Naranjo (feat. Vincente Garcia)' From Upcoming Album 'La Madrugá'
by Michael Major - April 19, 2023 Artist and composer Yasser Tejeda announced the May 19 release of his new album, La Madrugá, with the uplifting single, 'Tú Ere' Bonita.' The composition praises the natural beauty of women, with a chorus that affirms their power and connection with nature....
Xenia Rubinos Releases New Single & Announces West Coast Tour Dates
by Michael Major - July 18, 2022 Xenia Rubinos, the prolific New York City-based artist who’s broken barriers of sound and style is back with “Dia Libre en el Yanky” - the third in a series of re-imagined tracks from her critically acclaimed album Una Rosa. The track features a gut-punching cypher from Cuban rapper El Individuo....
Geese Covers Nick Drake for Sound of Saving's 'Song That Found Me at the Right Time' Series
by Michael Major - June 13, 2022 Sounds of Saving, in collaboration with the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, has released a new episode of their “Song That Found Me At The Right Time” series. SoS sat down with Brooklyn-band Geese and discussed Nick Drake’s “Place To Be” and how that song was instrumental in their path to ment...
Elsewhere Announces Robust Summer Season Lineup as Rooftop Opens
by Michael Major - June 02, 2022 With recent studies showing that live entertainment is more important than ever before, famed independent music venue Elsewhere today announced its 2022 summer season calendar and the opening of the Rooftop. With a lineup spanning three in-venue stages and countless genres, Elsewhere will host over ...
Xenia Rubinos Releases Single 'Madrugada' & Announces New Tour Dates
by Michael Major - April 18, 2022 The track, a reimagining of “What Is This Voice” from the Una Rosa, features a collaboration with Cuban rapper El Individuo, who crafted extremely impactful verses that float above atmospheric electronics, interwoven with Xenia’s soulful vocals. Plus, check out upcoming tour dates!...
La Neve (Downtown Boys) Unleashes New Single 'Rough Music'
by Michael Major - April 13, 2022 La Neve, the dance-punk project of Rhode Island-based musician, organizer and historian Joey La Neve DeFrancesco, is set to release their gripping new History Solved EP this Friday April 15. A special 200-copy limited edition vinyl pressing of the History Solved EP has just been announced with the p...
La Neve Debuts New Single 'Soft Power'
by Michael Major - March 30, 2022 La Neve, the dance-punk project of Rhode Island-based musician, organizer and historian Joey La Neve DeFrancesco has debuted “Soft Power.' The new project was produced by Marco Buccelli (Giovanni Truppi, Xenia Rubinos, Lady Lamb) and mastered by Heba Kadry (Animal Collective, Big Thief, Courtney Bar...
Xenia Rubinos Releases New Single 'Sacude'
by TV News Desk - August 03, 2021 ‘Sacude’ is the fifth single off of Xenia Rubinos’ forthcoming album Una Rosa which is due out October 15 via Anti- Records. The record comes five years after her critically acclaimed 2016 release Black Terry Cat....
Xenia Rubinos Announces New Album 'Una Rosa', Shares New Single
by TV News Desk - July 13, 2021 Una Rosa, Xenia’s first full length album in five years, was visually structured before all of the music was done- it’s a cinematic obra- an imagined night time space where you’re transported through the lives of various characters, all of whom are sonically painted in each track....
Xenia Rubinos Shares New Track & Video 'Cógelo Suave'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - May 11, 2021 The track was recorded in the height of quarantine (Spring 2020), when the world was slipping into a deep kind of chaos, Xenia’s mom had an experience with covid, and it was generally hard to tell which way was up, the process of making the track provided a cloak of resilience. ...
Xenia Rubinos Shares Cover of The Clash's SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO
by Tori Hartshorn - May 08, 2019 New York City's Xenia Rubinos is thrilled to share her Spanish language cover of The Clash's classic song “Should I Stay Or Should I Go”, personally approved by The Clash's lead guitarist Mick Jones. Listen to Rubinos' rendition of the song HERE....
Full Lineup and Schedule Announced For Bang on a Can Marathon at NYU Skirball
by Tori Hartshorn - April 12, 2018 Bang on a Can announces its 2018 Bang on a Can Marathon, presented for the first time at the NYU Skirball on Sunday, May 13, 2018 from 12-10pm. This incomparable super-mix of boundary-busting music from around the corner and around the world features ten hours of rare performances by some of the mos...
Performances Announced For 2018 Bang on a Can Marathon, Featuring 10 Hours of Free Live Music
by Tori Hartshorn - March 01, 2018 Performances Announced For 2018 Bang on a Can Marathon, Featuring 10 Hours of Free Live Music...
KRONOS QUARTET Joins FACE THE MUSIC For Performance at the 2018 Ecstatic Music Festival Next Week
by Macon Prickett - February 02, 2018 The adventurous, Grammy-winning Kronos Quartet – one of the most celebrated and influential ensembles of our time – joins NYC's acclaimed youth new music ensemble Face the Music (“a force in the New York new-music world” – New York Times) to perform new works written for Kronos' “Fifty for the Futur... |