WBUR: For Ukrainian American artists, music made in the U.S. can benefit a country under attack
The long-running, self-described “gypsy punk” band Gogol Bordello had just finished recording its first new album in five years in February. Days later, Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, where the band’s frontman Eugene Hütz was born and raised. “We realized we had to get more Ukrainian voices involved,” says Hütz. “So we’re adding collaborations with […]
BLACKBOOK MAGAZINE: Datarock’s Frederick Saroea’s Chamber Performance of ‘Heaven Knows Those Songs Weren’t Heaven Sent’
Published: April 19, 2022 With film and television productions halted, and art galleries essentially shut down, music artists took a particularly exigent position at the forefront of our cultural survival in the early months of the coronavirus crisis. Frederick Saroea, frontman of Norwegian indie stalwarts Datarock, in particular wrote and recorded the album Rona Diaries, which came out […]
NEW YORK TIMES on AEON STATION: The 18-Year Wait for New Wrens Music Is Over. Sort Of.
By Hugo Lindgren Sept. 20, 2021 The New Jersey indie rockers promised a final album. Their day jobs and families have expanded, but the band’s two creative forces kept writing — separately. How do you know it’s time to pull the plug on the band you started as a teenager? Is it when you get married […]
JAZZTIMES: Archival Jazz Clips from The Ed Sullivan Show Featured in April
The show’s YouTube channel to feature historic appearances by Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Billy Eckstine, and more PUBLISHED APRIL 11, 2022 Remembered most for world-changing appearances by Elvis Presley and the Beatles, The Ed Sullivan Show, which aired in primetime from 1948 to 1971, featured artists and celebrities across just about every […]
FLOOD Magazine: Lyrics Born Walks Us Through Each Collaboration on His New LP Mobile Homies Season 1
You may know the story by now: Global pandemic prevents artist from performing for the indefinite future, artist—with little better to do—turns to having meaningful conversations with other artists which get live streamed to audiences who also have little better to do, bonds between artists grow stronger. Yet in the case of rapper/actor Lyrics Born, this story is […]
FLAUNT: QUEEN KWONG exorcises life and loss with “I KNOW WHO YOU ARE”
BY Tina Benitez-Eves In Andrzej Żuławski’s 1981 horror film Possession, Anna is having an out-of-body and spiritual breakdown in the passageway of Berlin subway station. Flailing in hysterics, screaming and laughing, she splatters milk and eggs against the tile walls then writhes on the floor before the bloody mixture of liquids spew from her mouth, onto […]
PEOPLE MAGAZINE: Roberta Flack, 85, Planning Comeback After Stroke and COVID
“I sang it about my cat who just died.” – Roberta Flack on her 1972 smash “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.” Online version here.
ELIZA & THE DELUSIONALS Release new single “Halloween”
From Their Debut Album Now And Then Out May 20 via Cooking Vinyl APRIL 8, 2022 (Melbourne, Australia) – “‘Halloween’ was written around a time in life where it felt like we had no responsibilities and we could explore who we wanted to be and it never felt like we were attached to anything. It’s about feeling like you’re the main […]
FRANK SINATRA remastered concept album WATERTOWN, set for release on June 3rd
Pre-Order here: https://sinatra.lnk.to/WatertownPR. April 8, 2022 – The legacy of Frank Sinatra – one of the world’s most enduring singers – includes a studio album no one anticipated: Watertown. Recorded in 1969 and released in 1970, the concept of Watertown unfolds as a personal tragedy about a working man with children whose wife suddenly leaves him. Sinatra’s performance elicits sadness, defeat and forlornness. […]
The Ed Sullivan Show Youtube Channel Celebrates Licorice Pizza
Iconic Clips And Historic Performances Officially Available Worldwide Via Streaming Platforms From UMe And SOFA Entertainment Watch The Ed Sullivan Show “Yours, Mine And Ours” Segment: Santa Monica, CA – March 1, 2022 – Academy Award® nominated Licorice Pizza celebrates coming-of-age during the early 1970s with wonderful moments from popular culture. The pre-teen childhood experiences […]