A little-known gem from Willie Nelson’s third album, “Are You Sure” made a quiet comeback earlier this summer — 50 years after its original release — as a hidden track on Kacey Musgraves’ Pageant Material. Reborn as a duet between Musgraves and Nelson, the song’s new version was dreamt up… Source: RollingStone Link: See Kacey […]
Jay Rock reunites with his acclaimed Black Hippy crew – Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul and Schoolboy Q – on “Vice City,” a boast-filled cut from the rapper’s new LP, 90059. Joe Weil’s black-and-white music video finds the quartet navigating a surreal building filled with barely-clad women, piñatas and broken glass. “Vice… Source: RollingStone Link: Jay Rock […]
Former Dirty Projectors vocalist and bassist Angel Deradoorian has become one of out-rock’s most valued utility players, collaborating with some of the brightest, most bizarre artists of our generation, including Björk, Flying Lotus and Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks — not to mention lending her dulcet pipes to songs by Brandon Flowers… Source: RollingStone Link: Angel Deradoorian: […]
Sometimes the most impressive songs end up sounding the simplest, and Baby E’s “Finessin” is an audacious example of plain construction. The track contains a few notes on a synthesizer, a slightly more active bass and a busily programmed but not overly fussy beat, to which E adds a springy,… Source: RollingStone Link: What New […]
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Opera star Renee Fleming is returning to her western New York roots to conduct master classes and lessons at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Soprano Renee Fleming taking post at New York music school
Karachi, Pakistan's biggest and most diverse city, was once home to a famous nightclub scene where alcohol flowed freely and luminaries from the world of jazz played to packed crowds eager for a taste of Western culture. Today, a new generation is seeking to revive the partying traditions of their parents and grandparents — albeit […]
The deal was made in advance of the film’s world premiere this week at the Toronto Film Festival. Source: Yahoo Music Link: TIFF: Yo-Yo Ma Doc 'The Music of Strangers' Nabbed by The Orchard, HBO
Some artists undergo reinventions. What Nathaniel Rateliff accomplishes on his first LP with the Night Sweats — transforming himself from folk troubadour to funky soul bandleader — is a revelation. Rateliff comes on like Van Morrison fronting Booker T. & the MG’s, reviving the glory days of his label, Stax…. Source: RollingStone Link: Nathaniel Rateliff […]
The R&B slow-burners and bouncy pop jams on 19-year-old Canadian singer Alessia Cara’s debut EP feel more like a personal manifesto than a party playlist. On her excellent single “Here,” she’s an “anti-social pessimist” brooding over a Portishead sample; on the joyous “Seventeen,” she provides a savvy update on Janis… Source: RollingStone Link: Four Pink […]
Smoky bedrooms and stale airport terminals set the vibe for the third LP from the Internet, the Los Angeles funk crew fronted by singer, songwriter and lovelorn Casanova Syd tha Kyd. Over 12 warm, spacey tracks, Syd reappropriates the satin romanticism of classic Seventies soul for 21st-century girls who want… Source: RollingStone Link: Ego Death