New music by Manchester Orchestra, Marianne Faithfull and more
Marianne Faithfull, She Walks in Beauty (BMG)
The elevator pitch for this album doesn t do it justice. The veteran singer, known for 60s cuts such as When Tears Go By, reads Romantic poetry (from Byron, Keats, Shelley and the like) over ethereal soundscapes by Nick Cave cohort Warren Ellis.
Sounds self-indulgent, right? It s anything but. Faithfull s weathered yet still-exquisite voice draws each degree of emotion from these classic lyric lines, and Ellis production proves sublime. This is a serene bit of beauty, a few moments of grace in a world that s too often graceless.
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At last, the collaboration weâve all been waiting for: HEALTH have teamed up with Nine Inch Nails for the first time on their new single âISNâT EVERYONE,â out today via Loma Vista Recordings. Dynamic, pulsating, and haunting, âISNâT EVERYONEâ was produced by HEALTH and Nine Inch Nails, and mixed by Atticus Ross. âItâs fucking Nine Inch Nails. That speaks for itself. You donât need a clever quote to encapsulate it,â says HEALTH.
âISNâT EVERYONEâ is HEALTHâs first new release since their 2020 LP
DISCO4 :: PART I, an album that collated all of the collaborations the LA-based band has released since 2017, featuring the likes of 100 gecs, JPEGMAFIA, Soccer Mommy, Full of Hell, Ghostemane, and more.
Los Lobos Debut Beach Boys, Thee Midnighters Covers From L.A.-Themed Native Sons Album (Track Premiere)
Los Lobos Debut Beach Boys, Thee Midnighters Covers From L.A.-Themed Native Sons Album (Track Premiere)
Variety has the premiere of their covers of Sail on Sailor and Love Special Delivery. Cesar Rosas tells how they came to record tracks by Jackson Browne, Little Feat, Willie Bobo and others.
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No music artist is more intrinsically identified with Los Angeles than Los Lobos unless, say, we’re talking the Beach Boys, Thee Midnighters, Jackson Browne, Little Feat, Buffalo Springfield or the Blasters, to name a few of the fellow homegrown musicians that the group proudly covers on “Native Sons,” their debut for the New West label.
St. Vincent Takes a Walk on the Wild Side on Her New Album Daddy s Home
Annie Clark, also known as St. Vincent, performs onstage
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Like David Bowie before her, Annie Clark, the innovative singer-songwriter-guitarist who goes by the stage name of St. Vincent (the moniker, she says, comes from a line in a Nick Cave song), has come up with alter egos tied to each of her albums. For 2011 s
Strange Mercy, she told
Billboard, she was a housewife on pills; for 2017 s Masseduction, she was a dominatrix at a mental institution. On her latest
Hard rockers Bad Mothers signed to Shooter Jennings label
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It took some time and a lot of work, but Bad Mothers got the break it was searching for. Last week, the Albany hard rockers were signed by Grammy-winning producer and outlaw country icon Shooter Jennings to his Black Country Rock label.
Hard Mothers drummer and local talent manager Brian Chiappinelli explained how it all came together.
“It happened off the strength of an Instagram DM,” he said. “I go on social media and find people who work with artists that are in a similar vein to the ones I manage.