FILE - Musician Jose Feliciano performs during the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize tribute concert on March 13, 2019, in Washington. Feliciano is celebrating 50 years of his bilingual Christmas classic âFeliz Navidad by releasing a new version featuring Jason Mraz, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Shaggy and more. (Photo by Brent N. Clarke/Invision/AP, File)
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Our Top Albums of 2020 Music that provided relief when it was sorely needed by Aaron Mook and Nick Warren
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This year offered an outstanding array of musical releases, with some helping us escape the harshness of reality and others boldly confronting it.
It seems like each December, we arrive at the end of the year in awe of everything that s led us here. Of course, it s no secret that this year has been particularly grueling for a number of reasons (one in particular), but all of that time inside with this music only makes the songs and albums that stuck with us even stronger. Consisting not only of the music that felt important and timely but of the records we simply couldn t put down, we invite our readers to join us in celebrating and hopefully discovering some of the best albums 2020 had to offer.
Jose Feliciano, Barenaked Ladies, Josh Groban top this week’s online concerts
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
Posted Dec 16, 2020
FILE - Musician Jose Feliciano performs during the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize tribute concert on March 13, 2019, in Washington. Feliciano is celebrating 50 years of his bilingual Christmas classic “Feliz Navidad (Photo by Brent N. Clarke/Invision/AP, File)Brent N. Clarke/Invision/AP
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CLEVELAND, Ohio It has been, believe it or not, 50 years since Jose Feliciano turned the Spanish holiday greeting “Feliz Navidad” into a worldwide smash and a perennial favorite of the season. The singer-songwriter, now 75, celebrates with the “Feliza Navidad 50th (FN50) Anniversary Livestream concert, taking place at 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 20, via FelizNavidad50th.com. The show will be hosted by Rudy Perez and feature guest appearances by Andres Cepeda, Austin Jenckes, Haley Reinhart and others, while a pre-show will be hosted by Styx’s Lawre
Foo Fighters
Christmas may be just around the corner, but musicians aren t quite ready to take a break for the holidays just yet. In fact, the week of Dec. 14-20 features a pretty packed schedule of streaming music events.
Among them are the Foo Fighters, who are closing out Amazon s Holiday Plays series hosted by Lil Nas X, a classic Pearl Jam show filmed in Rome in 2018, and various benefit shows that are aiming to help charities during this season of giving.
Check out the list below of livestreamed events for this week. We ll update the roundup as more shows are announced.
Natalia Vasnier: Buy the Mood (Deluxe Edition) by Tora
The Australian group Tora, composed of four members, offers a unique electric pop album. The remake of the 2019 album
Can’t Buy the Mood, it is composed of 21 songs, all written, produced and mixed largely by the band themselves.
This Deluxe Edition is in a more dynamic and collaborative than the 2019 album. The main songs have been remixed in collaboration with other independent artists, such as Two Another, allowing for a merge between Tora’s singular indie electro-pop style with other artists from the same genre.
Each song is constructed with the same musical elements: the calming voice of the main singer and electric instrumentalisation, giving life to a very soulful but at the same time a very modern style of electric pop.