#phoebe-bridgers

#phoebe-bridgers

Twenty-four years and nine albums into their career, the National are still examining their sadness.The New York-based band have recently pursued solo projects, with singer Matt Berninger releasing an album in 2021 and guitarist Aaron Dessner working with Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran, but on their latest effort the group return to produce a record that will satisfy longtime fans.

Ohio band's ninth studio album again features several guests including Taylor Swift and Phoebe Bridgers
There's so much emphasis on celebrating both youth and escape in rock, that a band who dares to ask searching questions about more mundane matters stands out.For over 20 years, Matt Berninger has written perceptively about let-downs and disappointments, about quiet triumphs and love against the odds.

A streak of conspiratorial glee runs through The Record, the full-length debut album by boygenius.It's a bad idea and I'm all about it, Julien Baker announces in $20, the album's brashest rocker, which leaps around with hard-strummed, odd-meter guitar riffs.Baker goes on to boast, In another life we were arsonists.

It's been over four years since Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus teamed up to release the boygenius EP, coming together like singer-songwriter Voltron and leaving an indelible imprint on the indie rock canon.Since then, boygenius have lived on as more of an idea than an entity, a brief-but-beautiful stopover in the careers of three young women.

When you watch Prime Video's Daisy Jones & the Six, it's easy to get whisked away into the world of 1970s rock and roll, and a huge part of that is that the actors cast to play the titular band actually came together as a band, learning every song and playing them all live."I think after we'd essentially been rehearsing for like a year, after our last stint in band rehearsal, we all kind of got to a point where we were going, 'You know, I think we got there,'" star Riley Keough tells Consequence with a laugh.

SZA's performance at Madison Square Garden Saturday night was vigorous, confident, theatrical and intimate the sort of show that manages the rare trick of feeling both vibrantly communicative and also protectively insular.But one particular five-song stretch encapsulated the range that has made SZA whose second studio album, SOS, has spent 10 weeks atop the Billboard album chart one of the most au courant performers of this era, a beacon for the vulnerable, the stubborn, the besieged and the broken.

One night before releasing their ninth album, The National appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to deliver a stirring rendition of "Eucalyptus."Watch the performance below.The appearance coincided with the release of The National's new album, The First Two Pages of Frankenstein (out today), and comes nearly two months after they last appeared on Fallon, when they performed "Tropic Morning News."

After the first 35 songs on her 44-song setlist at each stop along the Eras Tour, Taylor Swift reserves the next to two slots for secret songs, which are tracks from her discography that aren't already on the 3-hour setlist to perform exclusively for that night's audience.At the March 24 show in Las Vegas, the 12-time Grammy winner surprised a fellow musician with her selection.

The National have revealed another track from their upcoming album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein, with the new single "Eucalyptus."Though the song has been teased in the band's live set since last year, the official studio recording brings a greater vastness to the Dessners' soaring production and a clearer depth to lead vocalist Matt Berninger's nostalgia as his narrator ruminates on the logistical aftermath of a breakup.

Taylor Swift's Eras era has begun.The singer officially kicked off her Eras Tour with two back-to-back shows in Glendale Swift City, Eras-zona on March 17 and March 18.Despite unprecedented ticketing drama, thousands of Swifties showed up for the first stop of Swift's long-awaited return to live concerts.

The National appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Friday, where they gave a rousing performance of their new single "Tropic Morning News."Watch a replay below."Tropic Morning News" - a former Consequence Song of the Week - has a bit of a melancholy air in its official recording, but The National brought palpable excitement to their Fallon performance.

Song of the Week breaks down and talks about the song we just can't get out of our head each week.Find these songs and more on our Spotify Top Songs playlist.For our favorite new songs from emerging artists, check out our Spotify New Sounds playlist.This week, The National help us cut through the noise with "Tropic Morning News."

Here come your bands!Modest Mouse is teaming up with Pixies and special guest Cat Power.The supreme queen of R&B is coming out this summer for an outdoor concert at Edgefield.Plus, indie-rock supergroup (Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus) will bring girl power and Carly Rae Jepsen to Bend.

Some lucky boygenius fans who flew into Austin Airport and happened to stop by the baggage claim area today (March 14th) were greeted with a surprise show as part of the official SXSW festivities.The indie supergroup of Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, and Phoebe Bridgers played an acoustic set at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport sometime in the mid-afternoon, and you can check out some footage below.

Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus have shared the soaring "Not Strong Enough," the latest preview from , the debut album from their indie supergroup boygenius.According to a press release, the acoustic track is about "paradoxically experiencing self-hatred while having a God complex" as they trade vocals while coming together on the chorus: "I don't know why I am/ The way I am/ Not strong enough to be your man."

boygenius were a last-minute addition to the annual Tibet House US benefit in New York City on Wednesday (March 1st), during which the indie supergroup debuted the unreleased song "Cool About It" from their upcoming first full-length, .On the track, Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, and Phoebe Bridgers each have their chance with taking lead on vocals before coming together on the chorus.

Primal Scream will headline the Connect Music Festival when it returns to Edinburgh later this year.The band will present their breakthrough album Screamadelica and will be joined by fellow Scottish group Franz Ferdinand at the festival on Friday August 25.The festival will take place from the Friday until Sunday August 27 at the Royal Highland Centre in the Scottish capital.

Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week's most notable new songs and videos.Just want the music?Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes).Like what you hear?Let us know at theplaylist@nytimes.com and sign up for our Louder newsletter, a once-a-week blast of our pop music coverage.

Following news that SingleThread owners Kyle and Katina Connaughton were parting ways with plant-based restaurant Little Saint in December, the restaurant is now back open with a new look, new menu items, and a slate of musical guests set for the spring.Still in the works is a reopening of the main restaurant in the coming months, a restaurant representative shared, which will also see an update to its menu.

SZA has shed light on S.O.S, the long-awaited follow-up to her 2017 debut , in an interview via .Ahead of a December release, the TDE singer has admitted to feeling "currently stressed" about the impending deadline and the "red tape" that comes with it.Update - December 5th: SZA has revealed the album's 23-song tracklist, which includes collaborations with Phoebe Bridgers (!), the late Ol' Dirty Bastard (!!), Travis Scott, and Don Toliver.

Taylor Jenkins Reid's Daisy Jones & The Six has finally made the leap from page to screen, and with it comes the actualization of the titular band's most impactful album: Aurora.(It's basically their Rumours.)Reid actually included lyrics for the fictional band's song in her 2019 novel - but as she told Rolling Stone, she's "not a musician," per se.

There's a moment about halfway through Daisy Jones & the Six, Amazon's sprawling adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid's bestselling book, in which the show achieves the emotional jolt it so often mimes.It's the mid-1970s, and the Six, a combustible rock band loosely inspired by Fleetwood Mac, are performing at a music festival in Hawaii; Daisy Jones (Riley Keough), the ethereal Stevie Nicksian singer-songwriter who helped deliver the band's first hit, is supposed to join them four songs in.

From Nashville, US Recommended if you like Blake Mills, Julia Jacklin, Phoebe Bridgers Up next New album Honey released 27 January via Grand Jury Honey, the rich, raw second album by Samia, opens with an explosion of mild-mannered rage.Over organ and shimmering autoharp, the Nashville-based songwriter sings in a placid deadpan: I hope you marry the girl from your home town / And I'll fucking kill her / And I'll fucking freak out.