High Road Touring

[NPR] By Bob Boilen & Marissa Lorusso On this week’s All Songs Considered, we have a brilliant collaboration between Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Matt Sweeney and the blistering guitar of the Tuareg musician Mdou Moctar. We’ve also got the first new song in five years from José González — and for the first time, this Swedish-Argentinian musician sings in Spanish. Then ...

[Rolling Stone] Singer-songwriter and Dobro master will release ‘Leftover Feelings’ on May 21st By JON FREEMAN  John Hiatt and the instrumental aces of the Jerry Douglas Band have teamed up for their first collaborative album, Leftover Feelings. The first release from the project, which is due out May 21st, is “All the Lilacs in Ohio.” Read full story (warning: ...

By LATESHA HARRIS Credit: Courtesy of the Artist NPR Music’s Tiny Desk series will celebrate Black History Month by featuring four weeks of Tiny Desk (home) concerts and playlists by Black artists spanning different genres and generations each week. The lineup includes both emerging and established artists who will be performing a Tiny Desk concert for ...

[Time] Phoebe Bridgers Phoebe Bridgers didn’t know the pandemic was coming. But you’d never know it from “I Know the End,” an opulent, chaotic song about our shared apocalypse from her Grammy-nominated album Punisher, widely regarded as one of the best new releases of 2020. Seer, artist, “master of collapse”—all of these descriptions are accurate, but the ...

[Aquarium Drunkard] Daniel Norgren :: Live A live album might seem like a strange entry point to an artist’s catalog but Daniel Norgren’s newly released Live offers just that—as well as expanding the Swedish blues interpreter’s sound. Recorded just over a year ago, before the pandemic shut down gigs for who knows how long, it finds Norgren ...