The 20th installment of AmericanaFest is in full swing in Nashville. While evening showcases and parties get most of the attention, the conference portion of the festival is just as rich a resource for incredible music, as well as insight into how it’s made. On Thursday afternoon, NPR Music hosted …
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“We gotta change around here,” Mavis Staples sang toward the very end of Wednesday night’s 18th annual Americana Honors & Awards Ceremony at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Having been presented the evening’s Inspiration Award by pioneering Civil Rights activist and Freedom Rider Ernest Patton earlier in the evening, Staples’ song was …
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“There is a misconception about inspiration: that you’re inspired earlier and then run out of steam as you get older,” says Jeremy Ivey, who turned 41 in August and will release his first album as a solo artist on Friday. “I don’t feel that way at all. I feel like …
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Martina McBride pointedly addressed Spotify on Monday, posting a series of Instagram stories that asked some tough questions of the streaming giant and its ratios of male and female performers. McBride even reached out to her Twitter followers to follow along. “Check out my insta story if you haven’t already. …
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UPDATE: FKA Twigs has released her second single fromMagdalene, titled “Holy Terrain.” The accompanying music video shows her dancing in the desert, performing a ritual around a fire and riding a bull while naked (as one does). “Holy Terrain” features a verse from Future and is co-produced by FKA Twigs, …
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In 2018, Greta Van Fleet released Anthem of the Peaceful Army, their first full-length album after two EPs that landed them three Grammy nominations and recognition from Robert Plant, Jack White and more. At the time of the album’s release, Rolling Stone critic Will Hermes said Michigan band “seem like …
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UPDATE: Placido Domingo has withdrawn from his upcoming scheduled performances at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City following multiple sexual harassment allegations, Associated Pressreports. The singer was scheduled to star in Verdi’s Macbeth beginning on Wednesday and also perform in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly in November. “I made my debut …
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Lizzo maintains her reign as 100% that bitch with “Truth Hurts” as Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart. Thanks to 18.9 million streams, the two-year-old track that was included on the pop star’s Cuz I Love You deluxe LP has continued to dominate the airwaves (it …
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Kiss‘ Paul Stanley called for action on gun violence in America following the latest mass shooting in Odessa and Midland, Texas, where seven people were killed and over 20 injured. “We don’t have more ‘crazy’ or ‘mentally unstable’ people in the US. What we DO have are commonplace mass shootings …
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Lana Del Rey has always been a pop classicist at heart — but she’s finally made her pop classic. The long-awaited Norman Fucking Rockwell is even more massive and majestic than everyone hoped it would be. Lana turns her fifth and finest album into a tour of sordid American dreams, …
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