In early 2020, just before the pandemic, Waxahatchee‘s Katie Crutchfield and Jess Williamson exchanged albums. Saint Cloud and Sorceress sparked a bond between the two songwriters, and now they’ve formed the duo Plains. As the name suggests, the project shows Crutchfield venturing further into the Lucinda Williams-esque country she leaned …
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Beyoncé is weeks away from delivering her much-anticipated LPRenaissance to the world. On Wednesday, the music icon shared the LP’s cover art and what making the album was like for her: it “allowed me a place to dream and to find escape during a scary time for the world.” Captioning …
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A trio of Frank Zappa‘s Rust Belt-area concerts, performed during one of the rock legend’s most artistically fertile period, are the focus of an upcoming six-CD box set dubbed Zappa/Erie. The box set captures a string of shows Zappa and his band (three different lineups) performed along the border of …
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Omar Apollo and Daniel Caesar explore the complexities of love, sexuality, and longing in the beautifully trippy video for “Invincible,” which dropped Wednesday. The clip opens with the angelic vocals of Daniel Caesar singing, “If I were to go, tell me would you notice me” as Apollo plays an electric …
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