NPR Music’s No. 1 Albums And Songs Of July: Madeline Kenney
[NPR] The musical tastes of the NPR Music crew are a delightful jumble. On this edition of All Songs Considered, we pick our favorite music released in July 2020, featuring everything from Madeline Kenney‘s bummer indie-rock and Nubya Garcia‘s dubby jazz to Taylor Swift‘s Aaron Dessner-assisted Folklore and pianist Christian Sands‘ take on a classic-rock song from 1969. — Bob Boilen Madeline Kenney: “White ...
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How Phoebe Bridgers (Begrudgingly) Writes a Rock Song
[New York Times] The singer and songwriter prefers a ballad. But collaborators yanked her out of her comfort zone for “Kyoto,” a breakout from her latest acclaimed album. Here’s how she made it. The 25-year-old singer and songwriter shows us how “Kyoto” transformed from a ballad into a rock song over months, combining a stray ...
Lucius Gets Down to (Small) Business With Indie Shop-Benefitting Livestream Series
[Variety] The fundraising webcasts have included guest performances from Brandi Carlile, Sheryl Crow, Jim James and Courtney Barnett. By Chris Willman Shervin Lainez You would hardly call Lucius all-business — not when the group, led by the twinned lead vocals of Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe, eschews pop norms to lead listeners to such playful or exquisitely haunted ...
Review: Ela Minus ‘Megapunk’
[Stereogum] By Ryan Leas CREDIT: Teddy Fitzhugh Back in April, the Colombian-born/Brooklyn-based electronic musician Ela Minus shared an excellent new single called “they told us it was hard, but they were wrong.” (It ranked amongst our favorite songs that week.) A shadowy dance track with a defiant mantra as its chorus, the song had an eerie, prescient ...
