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Superhero Clubhouse, a company that creates theater to enact climate and environmental justice, presents the world premiere of Mammelephant, a musical epic exploring displacement and identity in the era of climate change as experienced by the world’s first mammoth-elephant hybrid. ....
Text by Akhil Sood Singer and composer Priya Darshini wrote the Grammy-nominated Periphery (Best New Age Album), in less than two weeks and then recorded it live, in one take, in an abandoned Brooklyn church over a single day. In the run-up to the awards, we speak to the Chennai-born artiste about her deep-rooted classical background, that time when she almost charted a career for herself in Bollywood and the process of putting together this introspective, out-of-the-box album Photographed by Ben Rosser How did your journey in music begin? Everybody from my family has studied Carnatic classical music. And they’re just deep lovers of every style of music. My grandmothers on both sides have been musicians. My sister and I were always immersed in music at home – my mum started teaching me singing when I was maybe three or four. Then my grandmother was my teacher. As I got a little older – I must have been eight or nine – I started studying with Bombay ....
Credit Photo by Marisa Waddell The DJs at KCBX clearly love to explore and enthusiastically share new music. Here are some of their picks for the top albums and songs of 2020. Neal Losey, KCBX Music Director – The Morning Cup & Night Train While I appreciate everyone who did a top ten list, I don t really do em. My brain doesn t work like that. Everything with me is sort of just off the top of my head, as it happens. I also have succumbed to being a music director for 25 years and I sort of think of music in terms of what I like to play on my show instead of what I like personally. For instance, played the Jason Isbell a lot on my show because I know people liked it. Number of times listened to at home = 0. What did I listen to at home? Lots of Johnny Guitar Watson. So, top ten albums on the Morning Cup this year? Probably ....