Anais Mitchell's great 2010 folk opera Hadestown (which features Justin Vernon, Ani DiFranco, Greg Brown, The Low Anthem‘s Ben Knox Miller, and the Haden Triplets) already got a stage adaptation for the New York Theatre Workshop in 2015/2016 and now it's coming to Broadway in 2019..…
It's got some of their folkiest music yet, but also some of their most electronic music yet, and as we heard at SXSW, there's a song with lyrics about Ray Davies and a guitar solo that uses the vocal melody from The Kinks' ”Waterloo Sunset.”
The first single is "Don't Move Back To LA," which has Will Sheff's unmistakable voice joined by some airy, soulful harmonies over a laid-back musical backdrop. There's also a nice psychedelic guitar solo worked in...
Lady Lamb, Joyce Manor, Ladyhawke, Okkervil River's Will Sheff, Lucero's Ben Nichols, Xenia Rubinos, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Tacocat, Surfer Blood, Nikki Lane and many more have contributed to two new Valentines Day playlists for Amazon Music...
Tuesday night (1/24) was the "Sincerely L. Cohen: A Celebration of Leonard Cohen" tribute at Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg, which featured loving renditions of his songs as well as readings of his poetry.