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  • Friday, May 31, 2024

    The original cast recording of the current Tony-nominated Broadway show Illinoise: A New Musical is now available to stream and download via Nonesuch Records, with the CD due June 21 and vinyl August 30. The new work features music and lyrics by Sufjan Stevens based on his album Illinois, a book by Justin Peck and Jackie Sibblies Drury, and direction and choreography by Peck, with new arrangements by Timo Andres and music supervision and direction by Nathan Koci. The New York Times exclaims: “The vocalists do not seem to sing so much as pour emotion into our ears.” The Illinoise cast and on-stage band perform a song from the musical on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday, June 4.

  • Friday, May 31, 2024

    Brad Mehldau continues a sold-out Trios residency at Village Vanguard in NYC through the weekend. Sam Amidon is at Fire in the Mountain Fest in the UK. The Magnetic Fields performs 69 Love Songs in Atlanta. Natalie Merchant concludes her California tour at Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA, where Cécile McLorin Salvant performs as well before heading to Phoenix. Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered is performed in Costa Mesa, CA. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway hit three of the Four Corners states—Arizona, Utah, and Colorado. Yasmin Williams is in Charlottesville and Norfolk, VA.

  • Thursday, May 30, 2024

    Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion have released "Slow Motion," a new track from their upcoming album, Rectangles and Circumstance, due June 14. The track features Ringdown, the cinematic pop duo of Shaw and Danni Lee, who co-wrote the song with Sō. You can watch the video, made by Robert Edridge-Waks and the artists, here.

Artist Spotlight

  • The Tony-nominated Broadway show Illinoise: A New Musical features music and lyrics by Sufjan Stevens based on his album Illinois, a book by Justin Peck and Jackie Sibblies Drury, and direction and choreography by Peck, with new arrangements by Timo Andres and music supervision and direction by Nathan Koci. The album’s band includes Elijah Lyons, My Brightest Diamond, Tasha, Christina Courtin, Sean Peter Forte, Domenica Fossati, Daniel Freedman, Kathy Halvorson, Nathan Koci…

  • DAVÓNE TINES & THE TRUTH’s “LET IT SHINE” is the first song from their upcoming piece ROBESOИ, about the life and music of the singer, actor, and activist Paul Robeson. Tines has been heralded as a “singer of immense power and fervor” and one of "the most powerful voices of our time” by the Los Angeles Times and an “immensely gifted American bass-baritone [who] has won acclaim, and advanced the field of classical music" by the New York Times.

  • Hurray for the Riff Raff (aka Alynda Segarra) created The Past Is Still Alive during a period of personal grief, when they found inspiration in radical poetry, railroad culture, outsider art, the work of writer Eileen Myles, and activist groups like ACT UP and Gran Fury. Segarra uses their lyrics as a way to immortalize and say goodbye to those they have loved and lost, and to honor both the heartbroken and the hopeful parts of themselves. Though made in North Carolina by the Bronx-…

  • Brad Mehldau’s After Bach II and Après Fauré were released May 10. The Bach album comprises four preludes and one fugue from the Well-Tempered Clavier, as well as the Allemande from the fourth Partita, interspersed with seven compositions or improvisations by Mehldau inspired by the complementary works of Bach—including Mehldau’s Variations on Bach’s Goldberg Theme. On Après Fauré, Mehldau performs four nocturnes, from a thirty-seven-year span of…

  • The Black Keys' twelfth studio album, Ohio Players—a title inspired by the legendary Dayton, Ohio, funk band of the same name—features several collaborations between band mates Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney with various friends and colleagues, like Dan “The Automator” Nakamura, Beck, Noel Gallagher, Greg Kurstin, and others. “We had this epiphany: ‘We can call our friends to help us make music,’" Carney says. Auerbach adds, “No matter who we work with, it never feels like we're…

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Village Vanguard
New York, NYUnited States
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Village Vanguard
New York, NYUnited States
897226
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The Masonic
San Francisco, CAUnited States
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The Masonic
San Francisco, CAUnited States
901561
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The Carolina Theatre
Durham, NCUnited States
69 Love Songs 25th Anniversary
Thu, May 30
The Carolina Theatre
Durham, NCUnited States
901481
Fri, May 31
7:00 PM
The Orpheum Theater
Flagstaff, AZ United States
Fri, May 31
The Orpheum Theater
Flagstaff, AZ United States