By: Staff – Aimee Mann’s Mental Illness, her first album in five years, will be released on March 31 via her own SuperEgo Records. With this follow-up to 2012’s Charmer, she returns to a more musically soft-spoken but still lyrically barbed approach, as heard in the album’s lead single, “Goose Snow Cone,” which debuts today. Listen/share the track here: aimeemann.com. Mental Illness can be pre-ordered … Continue reading
By: Staff – Ryan Adams today announced details of his first album of all new original material since 2014’s Ryan Adams. The new album, Prisoner, which is set for release on February 17th via Pax-Am/Blue Note, will include the first single “Do You Still Love Me?” which is available today for purchase and as an instant grat with all pre-orders. Stream it … Continue reading
By: Staff – Granger Smith was injured last night while performing a show at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey. Granger was standing on a monitor when it gave way, bringing Granger crashing off the stage into a metal barricade. Miraculously, Granger managed to get up and finish the set through excruciating pain, which ended with … Continue reading
Photos by: Orest Dorosh – Acclaimed singer-songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk, who released her sixth album, Hard Sail, on June 17th, 2016 via Warner Music Canada, which followed up her 2009 album, Plain Jane, performed at the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto last night.
Photos by: Sarah McNeil – UK alt-rock/pop singer-songwriter Banners, who released his self-titled debut EP on January 15th, 2016 via Island, which was produced by Stephen Kozmeniuk (Madonna, Nicki Minaj, Nelly Furtado), performed at the Drake Hotel in Toronto last night!
Photos by: Gunnar Mallon – Danish folk singer-songwriter Agnes Obel, who released her third album, Citizen of Glass, on October 21st, 2016 via Play It Again Sam, which followed up her 2013 album, Aventine, which charted inside the top 40 of the charts in nine countries, and which featured the singles “The Curse”, “Fuel to Fire”, and “Dorian”, performed at … Continue reading
Photos by: Adam Horton – UK folk-rock singer-songwriter David Gray, who released his fourth compilation album, The Best of David Gray, on October 28th, 2016 via IHT Records, performed at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto last night.
By: Staff – Matthew Good has gone into the famous Bathouse Recording Studio to record new versions of select songs from his most iconic album, Beautiful Midnight. Good will celebrate the release of this EP, titled I Miss New Wave: Beautiful Midnight Revisited with a 28 date Canadian tour, in which he will perform Beautiful Midnight in its entirety. Fans who purchase tickets … Continue reading
Photos by: Morgan Hotston – Irish alternative R&B singer-songwriter James Vincent McMorrow, who released his third album, We Move, on September 2nd, 2016 via Mahogany Books/Burning Rope, which was produced in part by Nineteen85 and Frank Dukes, and which followed up his 2014 album, Post Tropical, which McMorrow recorded in 2013 in the small desert town of Tornillo, Texas, performed at the … Continue reading
Photos by: Dan Fischer – New York City-based singer, songwriter, activist, director, and blogger Amanda Palmer, who released a book called The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help, on November 11th, 2014, which is partly based on Palmer’s successful fundraising of $1.2 million in a Kickstarter campaign to produce her 2012 album, Theater is … Continue reading