This past Saturday at Symphony Space marked the third night of the four-show A Stephin Merritt / The Magnetic Fields Residency that features two nights of Magnetic Fields, and a show each for his bands The Gothic Archies and Future Bible Heroes...
Richard Thompson's tour includes a couple of ”All Requests Live!” shows at NYC's Symphony Space on Friday February 7 and Saturday February 8, 2020, where he'll eschew a setlist in favor of spontaneity, letting the audience decide what he plays in real time by drawing requests onstage.
”I sat down to write this song with my son. I said, ’what should we call this jam?’ He said ‘Skeleton’s Tooth’, Darnielle laughed, ”So I wrote Skeleton’s Tooth.”
Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle will ”explore the connective tissues between songwriting and storytelling” for 'Selected Shorts,' ”a weekly public radio show broadcast” that ”[features] stories around a lively theme, the favorite works of a guest author, or a special collaboration.”
Pop-indie band Polica and composer André de Ridder's orchestral ensemble s t a r g a z e recently released their Music For the Long Emergency project as an album and now they're currently bringing it to the stage on tour.
The leading light of Garifuna music has come home to roost. After his adventurous 2011 release --for which he traveled to Senegal and recorded with West African musicians--Aurelio understood anew that his strength as a musician lay in his own roots...
Today is John Lennon's birthday, and so Yoko Onois giving Lady Gaga an award, in Iceland. John would've been 72. Check out a gallery of the former Beatle's drawings (like the one above) over at the Huffington Post...