Pitchfork : MGMT Announce New Album Loss of Life (by Matthew Ismael Ruiz)

Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser co-produced Loss of Life with Patrick Wimberly, and Dave Fridmann—who has had a hand in all of the band’s studio LPs—mixed the new album. Loss of Life spans 10 tracks and includes a collaboration with Christine and the Queens, marking the band’s first official feature on an MGMT album.

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SWR1 : Gitarrist Carl Carlton und Schauspielerin Melanie Wiegmann im Interview

"Glory of Love" von Blueslegende Carl Carlton und Schauspielerin Melanie Wiegmann: Ein dringender Hörtipp der SWR1 Musikredaktion. Welchen glücklichen Umstand die Liebe und das Album der beiden befeuert hat – wie die Songauswahl zustande gekommen ist und warum die beiden überhaupt zusammen Musik machen – das alles erzählen Sie SWR1 Musikredakteurin Katharina Heinius im Interview.

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American Songwriter : Rosanne Cash Shares Remastered “The Truth About You” from 30th Anniversary Edition of ‘The Wheel’

The Wheel was an album Cash needed to make during that moment in time. Reinventing the pathways of her sound and of her career, The Wheel encompassed a rebirth in life and love. “It’s satisfying and sweet to reintroduce ‘The Wheel’ in this 30th anniversary year,” said Cash in a previous statement. “I can’t look back at that time and separate the music from love. What was true then has become more true and more alive every day since.”

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The West Australian : Telethon 2023: Jimmy Barnes all about WA’s sick children as he closes out Telethon 2023 with daughter Mahalia

The legendary Jimmy Barnes shared a heartfelt message to WA’s sick children before he closed out this year’s Telethon extravaganza with his daughter Mahalia.Barnes, 67, performed songs Khe Sanh, Working Class Man and (Simply) The Best on the RAC Arena stage alongside his 41-year-old daughter to celebrate the end of another massive fundraising effort for the State’s sick children and their families.

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The Guardian : U2 change lyrics to Pride to honour ‘beautiful kids’ killed at Israeli music festival (by Janine Israel)

U2 have paid tribute to the hundreds of “beautiful kids” killed at the Supernova music festival in Israel by altering the lyrics to one of their biggest hits at a concert in Las Vegas on Sunday. During their performance at Sphere, where the Irish rock band are in the midst of a 25-show residency, frontman Bono reworded the lyrics to U2’s 1984 breakthrough song Pride (In the Name of Love), referring to those killed by Hamas fighters as “stars of David”. Before launching into Pride (In the Name of Love), Bono said: “In the light of what’s happened in Israel and Gaza, a song about non-violence seems somewhat ridiculous, even laughable, but our prayers have always been for peace and for non-violence."

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The Guardian : Bob Geldof gives nod of approval to the Old Vic’s Live Aid musical

The production will tell the story of the concert at Wembley Stadium on 13 July 1985, at which 70 global artists performed. More than 1.5 billion people watched the live broadcast. The concert, along with a second gig in Philadelphia, raised $127m for famine relief. Live Aid was conceived by Geldof after he was moved and angered by images of people starving to death in Ethiopia.

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New York Times : Perelman Arts Center Opens in New York and Welcomes the World (by Jon Pareles)

Global performers including Angelique Kidjo, Laurie Anderson and José Feliciano will inaugurate the theater at ground zero. The series affirms the city’s diversity with an international lineup that includes Grammy-winning stars — Angélique Kidjo on Sept. 19, Common on Sept. 21, José Feliciano on Sept. 23 — along with lesser-known musicians dedicated to preserving and extending deep-rooted traditions. The program for Devotion: Faith As Refuge, on Sept. 20, includes klezmer music from the Klezmatics, electronic transformations of Afro-Cuban Yoruba incantations by Ìfé and Moroccan Sufi trance music from Innov Gnawa.

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Washington post : At the Anthem, Patti Smith’s power and passions still have potency (by Chris Kelly)

For a few hours Saturday, Smith was the leader of a band of merry time travelers, reaching back through her years spent as the spiritual connection between the Beat Generation and the proto-punks, playing her own songs and those by like-minded sojourners. Smith, one of the baby boomers who never gave up the good fight, still has plenty to scream about. Along with remembering the departed, she encouraged the audience to keep in mind the people around the world in need: those affected by flooding in Libya and the earthquake in Morocco, women fighting for human rights in Iran, and workers striking for fairness in the United States. She dedicated “Peaceable Kingdom” to Palestinians, singing, “I wanted to tell you that your tears were not in vain.”

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Rolling Stone : Warren Haynes Started Gov’t Mule as an Allmans Side Project. 30 Years Later It’s Still Kicking (by Garret K. Woodward)

Interview with Warren Hayes about the latest Mule offering, "Peace…Like a River", an undulating sonic landscape blending elements of rock, blues, soul, funk and folk — all signature ingredients at the heart of what has made the band, and Haynes himself, one of the torchbearers of eclectic rock music. Wrangling an array of A-list musical talent like Billy F. Gibbons, Ivan Neville, and guitar phenom Celisse, Haynes crafted an album that doubles as a meditative journey along the river of life.

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