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  • Monday, November 21, 2011

    k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang close out their three-week tour of Australia—and months-long world tour—at the Brisbane Riverstage tomorrow night. The Age, reviewing one tour stop, says: "lang's voice remains a marvel." While in Sydney for a sold-out, six-night residency, lang and the band took time out for a special invitation-only live performance and audience Q&A that aired on Channel 7's Sunday Night. Fans around the world can now watch online via the show's site.

    Journal Topics: On Tour, Artist News, Web, Television
  • Friday, November 18, 2011

    Philip Glass's Satyagraha at the Met makes its way to movie theaters ... Carolina Chocolate Drops' Dom Flemons joins Pete Seeger in NJ ... Richard Goode plays with Boston Symphony Orchestra ... Wanda Jackson plays the Grand Ole Opry ... Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica tour Germany ... k.d. lang closes out Sydney residency ... Cheikh Lô celebrates James Brown ... The Low Anthem tour Europe ... Jessica Lea Mayfield joins Drive-By Truckers ... Natalie Merchant joins Levon Helm upstate NY ... Pat Metheny Trio tours Spain ... Mandy Patinkin joins Patti LuPone on Broadway ... Punch Brothers tour Midwest with Paul Simon ... Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau take duo show to Germany ... Allen Toussaint launches Joe's Pub residency in NYC ... Sara Watkins joins Blind Boys of Alabama in their home state ... and more ...

    Journal Topics: On Tour, Weekend Events
  • Friday, November 18, 2011

    Following yesterday's news that The Black Keys will join Steve Buscemi on Saturday Night Live on December 3 comes word that the band will perform on The Colbert Report on Comedy Central on December 6, the release day for their new record, El Camino, followed by the Late Show with David Letterman on CBS December 7.

    Journal Topics: Artist News, Television
  • Friday, November 18, 2011

    Emmylou Harris and Jessica Lea Mayfield are among the artists who will be showcased on the PBS special ACL Presents: Americana Music Festival, along with Robert Plant, Gregg Allman, Alison Krauss, The Avett Brothers, and others, airing on Austin City Limits this Saturday. The hour-long special was filmed live at the Ryman Auditorium on October 13, during the sold-out Americana Music Association's Honors and Award Show. Catch a sneak peek of Mayfield's performance here.

    Journal Topics: Artist News, Video, Television
  • Thursday, November 17, 2011

    The Black Keys will perform on NBC's Saturday Night Live on December 3, just days before the release of their latest album, El Camino, due out December 6. This is the band's second time this year as musical guests on the show, a "rare distinction," says Rolling Stone, which broke the news in an exclusive this morning. Steve Buscemi will host. The Black Keys will perform at KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas extravaganza in LA on December 11; tickets go on sale tomorrow morning.

    Journal Topics: Artist News, Television
  • Wednesday, November 16, 2011

    Nonesuch Records releases Kronos Quartet’s Music of Vladimir Martynov on January 10, 2012. The album includes three works written or rescored for Kronos by the contemporary Russian composer Vladimir Martynov—The Beatitudes, Schubert–Quintet (Unfinished), and Der Abschied—and features a special guest performance from former Kronos cellist Joan Jeanrenaud. Kronos’ artistic director and founder David Harrington says Martynov’s music “straddles various points of musical history and time; the music seems to me to reflect and absorb humanity in such a beautiful way." The album is available for pre-order.

    Journal Topics: Album Release, Artist News
  • Wednesday, November 16, 2011

    Last week, Björk concluded a nine-show residency in her hometown of Reykjavik, featuring music from her new album, Biophilia. Nonesuch teamed up with Icelandair to send two fans to the closing-night performance. The winners, Justin Allan and Adam Spencer of Seattle, also enjoyed a few welcome surprises along the way. You can read all about it in Justin's words here. "The whole Icelandic adventure was pretty damn amazing, from beginning to end," he says. "Just like magic. It was truly amazing and spectacular, in every sense of the word."

    Journal Topics: On Tour, Artist News
  • Wednesday, November 16, 2011

    Senegalese singer/songwriter Cheikh Lô is back in North America for a ten-day tour with Still Black, Still Proud: An African Tribute to James Brown. Lô joins Brown's longtime band leader Pee Wee Ellis and a band the Boston Globe has called "a pancontinental funk-soul supergroup," featuring Maceo Parker and Vusi Mahlasela, to celebrate the music of the legendary Godfather of Soul. The tour begins tonight at the University of North Carolina and includes stops in Massachusetts, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Ontario.

    Journal Topics: On Tour, Artist News
  • Wednesday, November 16, 2011

    Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin reunite on Broadway for An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, which begins in previews at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre tonight. Patinkin, who has released five solo albums on Nonesuch Records, and LuPone, who can be heard on Nonesuch's 2006 Broadway cast recording of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, first appeared together giving Tony Award–winning performances in the original production of Evita. The Los Angeles Times says: “These two music and theatre legends deliver a sparsely elegant master class in the art of conjuring emotional truth in dramatic song.”

    Journal Topics: Artist News
  • Tuesday, November 15, 2011

    The Black Keys are featured on the latest edition of NPR's All Songs Considered, the show's last regular episode of the year. "Run Right Back," off the band's forthcoming album, El Camino, due out December 6, kicks off the show. All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen calls it "wonderful" and says of the band: "They're the pillars. You just know they're gonna put out really solid rock." Derrick Tuggle, the star of the video for the album's first single, "Lonely Boy," stopped by the Ellen show yesterday. Watch the segment here.

    Journal Topics: Artist News, Web, Radio
  • Tuesday, November 15, 2011

    The nominees for the 2011 fRoots Critics Poll have just been announced, and included among them are Ry Cooder's new album, Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down, which has been nominated for Album of the Year, and Kate & Anna McGarrigle's three-CD collection Tell My Sister, released this spring on Nonesuch, which was nominated for Reissue/Compilation Album of the Year. Nominees are chosen by experts in the UK and worldwide; winners will be announced by BBC Radio 3 in a special edition of World On 3 on December 2.

    Journal Topics: Artist News
  • Tuesday, November 15, 2011

    Nonesuch released guitarist/composer Jonny Greenwood’s instrumental score to director Tran Anh Hung’s film Norwegian Wood earlier this year. An adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s bestselling novel, the film was released in the UK in the spring of 2011 and will be released in the US beginning January 6, 2012. The Mail on Sunday said: “Jonny Greenwood wrote the film’s majestic music which features classical strings and modern experimental sounds that brilliantly enhance the emotional turmoil of young love and the stunning natural landscapes.” Pick up the soundtrack here.

    Journal Topics: Artist News, Film