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Finneas Announces Debut Album ‘Optimist’ and Lead Single ‘A Concert Six Months From Now’

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Finneas Announces Debut Album ‘Optimist’ and Lead Single ‘A Concert Six Months From Now’

Eight-time GRAMMY® Award-winning musician, songwriter and producer FINNEAS returns today with a new song, “A Concert Six Months From Now,” which is taken from his forthcoming debut album, Optimist set for release on October 15.

Also revealed today, is his official music video for the single, directed by Sam Bennett and filmed on location at the iconic Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.

With the new track comes the exciting news that FINNEAS will release his debut album as a solo artist, Optimist on October 15, having recently signed to Interscope Records. The album, which is available to pre-save starting today features 12 brand new, never before heard tracks, plus the previously released, “What They’ll Say About Us,” FINNEAS’ heartbreaking ballad, written in lockdown as a moving dedication to human strength and connection when faced with life’s tribulations.

Also announced today, FINNEAS will be heading out on tour in North America this Fall. Kicking off October 25 in San Diego, the 15 city tour will see FINNEAS make stops in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Denver, Chicago, Athens, OH, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, New York, Boston, and Montreal before concluding in Toronto on November 21.

To ensure tickets get in to the hands of fans, the tour has partnered with Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan platform. Fans can register HERE now through Monday, August 9 at 11:59pm PT for the Verified Fan presale. Registered fans who receive a code will have access to purchase tickets before the general public on Thursday, August 12 at 12pm local time through 10pm local time. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, August 13 at 12pm Local time.

FINNEAS will also be making the festival rounds this Fall, including confirmed solo slots at BottleRock in Napa, CA on September 3 (TICKETS), iHeartRadio Music Festival on September 18 in Las Vegas (TICKETS) and October 1 & 8 at Austin City Limits in Austin, TX (TICKETS). For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit www.finneasofficial.com.

Earlier this year, FINNEAS received two additional GRAMMY® Awards with his sister Billie Eilish for ‘everything i wanted’ (Record of the Year), as well as a Best Song Written For Visual category for “No Time To Die,” the official James Bond theme song, both produced by FINNEAS.

His upcoming debut album follows the release of FINNEAS’ critically acclaimed debut EP, Blood Harmony, the DELUXE version which is available now. Written and produced entirely by the 24-year-old artist, the eight-track collection exemplifies his skills as a songwriter, producer and storyteller.

In 2020, FINNEAS received an impressive 6 GRAMMY Awards® including the prestigious Producer of the Year, Non-Classical and Best Engineered Album, Non Classical as well as Record of the Year, Album of the Year and Song of the Year with his sister Billie Eilish for her groundbreaking No. 1 debut album WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? and hit single ‘bad guy.’

FINNEAS’ trademark production can also be heard on recent songs from Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Camila Cabello, Tove Lo, Ben Platt, and throughout Billie Eilish’s recently released sophomore album, ‘Happier Than Ever.’

Optimist Tracklist

1. A Concert Six Months From Now
2. The Kids Are All Dying
3. Happy Now?
4. Only a Lifetime
5. The ’90s
6. Love Is Pain
7. Peaches Etude
8. Hurt Locker
9. Medieval
10. Someone Else’s Star
11. Around My Neck
12. What They’ll Say About Us
13. How It Ends

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
09/03 – BottleRock Festival – Napa, CA**
09/18 – iHeart Radio Music Festival – Las Vegas, NV**
10/01 – Austin City Limits – Austin, TX**
10/08 – Austin City Limits – Austin, TX**
10/25 – The Observatory North Park – San Diego, CA
10/27 – The Wiltern – Los Angeles, CA
11/01 – The Fillmore – San Francisco, CA
11/03 – Crystal Ballroom – Portland, OR
11/04 – Showbox SoDo – Seattle, WA
11/06 – The Depot – Salt Lake City, UT
11/08 – Summit – Denver, CO
11/10 – Vic Theatre – Chicago, IL
11/12 – Ohio University – Athens, OH^^
11/13 – Theatre of The Living Arts – Philadelphia, PA
11/14 – 9:30 Club – Washington, DC
11/16 – Irving Plaza – New York, NY
11/18 – House of Blues – Boston, MA
11/20 – Théâtre Corona – Montreal, QC
11/21 – The Danforth Music Hall – Toronto, ON
** Festival Set
^^Rescheduled Date

Elvis Presley’s Graceland to Host First-Ever Gospel Music Festival

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Elvis Presley’s Graceland to Host First-Ever Gospel Music Festival

Graceland – the historic home of “The King of Rock & Roll,” Elvis Presley – is set to host it’s first-ever Gospel music event. In a special partnership with Singing News and Sea Walker Media, the Graceland Gospel Music Festival will welcome fans from across the globe from November 3-5, 2021, in Memphis, TN on the Graceland property at the Soundstage.

The three-night event will feature an incredible lineup of gospel music, including: Triumphant Quartet, Joseph Habedank, Brian Free & Assurance, Greater Vision, Emily Ann Roberts, Hoppers, Karen Peck & New River, Mark Trammell Quartet, The Sound, Carolina Quartet, Legacy Five, The Isaacs, Jeff & Sheri Easter, Mike Lefevre Quartet, Michael Combs, and more.

In addition to evening concerts, the festival will feature matinee concerts, morning Bible studies and a very special matinee presentation called “The Gospel Side of Elvis.”

“It’s no secret that Elvis Presley loved Gospel music, including Gospel music in his concerts and recordings,” said Ray Flynn, Sea Walker Media President. “In fact, Elvis won all three of his GRAMMY® Awards in Gospel categories. We feel this is the perfect way to help expand the genre of Southern Gospel music by bringing it back to Elvis Presley’s Graceland.”

“When I met with the wonderful folks at Graceland four years ago, I never dreamed we would be able to do something so special,” said Scott Godsey, Sea Walker Media CEO. “The artists and industry support through our Sea Walker and Singing News brands completely transformed the opportunity with this amazing entity. It’s the love of Gospel music that gave Elvis a reason to sing and it’s an honor to bring that music back to his home.”

Elvis Presley has been called the greatest entertainer in the history of music. He topped the charts of almost every genre of music. He was literally awarded with 101 gold albums, 57 platinum and 25 multi-platinum, and in addition, 139 million LP records. During his lifetime, he won three GRAMMY awards, all for gospel music – There are many pictures and videos documenting Elvis with Southern Gospel Quartets and this event will be historic as Gospel Music continues at Graceland.

The Guest House at Graceland hotel is located just footsteps from the home of Elvis Presley just across the street from the Soundstage at Graceland, and is offering special rates for a limited number of rooms for attendees of the festival.

Tickets are on sale now at https://graceland.com/gospel or by calling toll free at 877-777-0606. This event is expected to sellout.

Duran Duran Release Brand New Track ‘More Joy!’ Feat. CHAI Ahead Of New Album Out October 22

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Duran Duran Release Brand New Track ‘More Joy!’ Feat. CHAI Ahead Of New Album Out October 22

Duran Duran release their brand-new track ‘More Joy!’ feat CHAI, taken from their upcoming fifteenth studio album ‘Future Past,’ set for global release on October 22 via TAPE MODERN. Listen HERE.

On the new track – ’MORE JOY!’ – Duran Duran channel just that; drilling down on their signature pop energy while adding a flavor of J-pop-disco-punk with collaborators CHAI, the fast-rising all-girl punk band from Nagoya, Japan. With ‘More Joy!’ Duran Duran show off all the reasons why they’re still one of the most exciting and forward-looking bands on the planet. With fast-paced synths, driving percussion and CHAI’s group chant of “more joy!”, the track does nothing but evoke pure elation.

Speaking from London about the new track, keyboardist Nick Rhodes said: “The song ‘More Joy!’ was born out of a crazy jam with Duran Duran, Graham Coxon and Erol Alkan. It was such an unusual piece we weren’t quite sure if it would fit in at first. It reminded me of one of those retro Japanese video games, which I always found quite uplifting. We came up with the chant “more joy” early on, and that became the key to the rest of the track. We all agreed that it would sound really great with Japanese female voices on it, and that’s when Simon had the inspired idea to ask CHAI if they would possibly collaborate with us. To our joy they agreed, and the result most certainly brought an incredible new energy to the song. They are so special!!

On bringing CHAI on board, Simon Le Bon reveals, “Nick suggested some girlish voices on ‘More Jo!’ and I knew exactly where to find them – CHAI, post-modern, all-girl Japanese punk band, whose energy and pure sense of fun might actually blow your ears off! We are honoured to have them sprinkle their pink neon magic spikey dust onto our song. Now it’s ‘More Jo!’ (feat. CHAI). CHAI- beloved forever!”

On being asked to collaborate, CHAI said; “We are full of joy! When Duran Duran asked us to join their new song, we listened to it and thought ‘this is lively, rock, cool and fun’, and we danced! We added our voices to their rock sound, making it even more ‘More Joy’! Because we are More Joy. Thank you, Duran Duran!”

Enrolling the help of some of the most exciting names of the last 50 years, with ‘Future Past’ Duran Duran has delivered yet another incredible genre-spanning piece of work that once again sets them apart from the pack. Working alongside British DJ / producer Erol Alkan and pioneering Italian composer / producer Giorgio Moroder, the band has enlisted the help of some of the most unexpected and inspiring names in pop – including Multi-platinum Swedish hit-maker Tove Lo, ‘Queen of Drill’ Ivorian Doll, and Japan’s CHAI on ‘More Joy!’. In addition, Blur’s Graham Coxon co-wrote and lends his guitar to several tracks on the record, and David Bowie’s former pianist Mike Garsonadds an exquisite sonic layer to album closer ‘Falling’. The record, which was recorded across studios in London and LA over lockdown, also features long-time collaborator Mark Ronson who co-wrote and played on ‘WING’ and was mixed by Mark ‘Spike’ Stent.

Earlier this year, Duran Duran captivated American audiences with their spellbinding performance at the Billboard Music Awards where they debuted their single ‘Invisible’ as well as classics, ‘Notorious’ and ‘Hungry Like The Wolf.’ They also recently played on NBC’s The Today Show (WATCH) and just days ago paid a visit to Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live! With Andy Cohen.

FUTURE PAST will be available on all digital platforms, as well as in a variety of physical formats: standard CD, cassette, a limited edition deluxe hardback book CD featuring three additional tracks, and colored vinyl. The official album store will also offer exclusive vinyl and cassette formats with limited edition signed prints.

The band continue the trend of being trailblazers across both technology and music with a special collaboration with 360 Reality Audio, a new immersive music experience using Sony’s spatial sound technologies. A separate version with 360 mixes will be released of ‘FUTURE PAST’, together with new 360 versions of their back catalogue. 360 Reality Audio is on supported streaming services Amazon Music HD, TIDAL HiFi, and Deezer HiFi.

Future Past Track Listing
INVISIBLE
ALL OF YOU
GIVE IT ALL UP (Feat. Tove Lo)
ANNIVERSARY
FUTURE PAST
BEAUTIFUL LIES
TONIGHT UNITED
WING
NOTHING LESS
HAMMERHEAD (Feat. Ivorian Doll)
MORE JOY! (Feat. CHAI)
FALLING (Feat. Mike Garson)

DW Home Is Selling A Record Store-Scented Candle

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DW Home Is Selling A Record Store-Scented Candle

The familiar scent of pressed vinyl and warm woods fills the air, accented by notes of sweet blossoms, hints of amber and soft fruit is now available from DW Home. I wonder if Pitchfork will review it?

Tom Morello, Bruce Springsteen and Eddie Vedder Covers AC/DC’s “Highway To Hell”

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Tom Morello, Bruce Springsteen and Eddie Vedder Covers AC/DC’s “Highway To Hell”

From Tom Morello’s upcoming album ‘The Atlas Underground Fire’, out Oct 15, 2021

Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James Official Trailer from SHOWTIME

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Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James Official Trailer from SHOWTIME

Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James is an intimate yet propulsive look at Rick James, one of rock, funk and R&B’s most legendary and often under-appreciated figures. Remember, kids, he once played in a band with Neil Young. Watch the premiere on September 3 on SHOWTIME.

Steely Dan’s ‘Northeast Corridor’ And Donald Fagen’s ‘The Nightfly Live’ Both Available September 24

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Steely Dan’s ‘Northeast Corridor’ And Donald Fagen’s ‘The Nightfly Live’ Both Available September 24

teely Dan’s Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live! and a live version of the acclaimed solo album by Donald Fagen – THE NIGHTFLY LIVE – will both be released on September 24, 2021. Both albums will be available on 180g-vinyl on October 1, 2021. The first live Steely Dan album in more than 25 years, Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live!, was recorded across tour dates at New York City’s Beacon Theatre, The Met Philadelphia, & more, and showcases selections from Steely Dan’s extraordinary catalog of slinky grooves, sleek subversive lyrics, and infectious hits. Donald Fagen’s The Nightfly Live was performed live by The Steely Dan Band. A full track listing can be found below.

Both albums by the legendary jazz-rock icons are available for pre-order today. Fans who pre-order Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live! will instantly receive a digital download of “Reeling In The Years” and those who pre-order The Nightfly Live will instantly receive a digital download of “I.G.Y.”

STEELY DAN helped define the soundtrack of the ’70s with hits such as “Reeling in the Years”, “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number,” “Peg,” “Deacon Blues,” “Babylon Sisters,” and “Hey Nineteen,” culled from their seven platinum albums issued between 1972 and 1980 (including 1977’s groundbreaking Aja). Both their sound and their notoriety survived the ’80s despite Becker and Fagen’s only occasional surfacing for a solo project. They reunited as Steely Dan in the early ’90s, touring successfully throughout the decade and releasing a live album in 1995 (Alive In America). In 2000 they released their multi-GRAMMY winner, Two Against Nature, and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001.

Steely Dan – Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live!

CD/Digital:

Black Cow
Kid Charlemagne
Rikki Don’t Lose That Number
Hey Nineteen
Any Major Dude Will Tell You
Glamour Profession
Things I Miss the Most
Aja
Peg
Bodhisattva
Reelin’ in the Years
A Man Ain’t Supposed to Cry

2LP:

LP 1, Side A:
Black Cow
Kid Charlemagne
Rikki Don’t Lose That Number

LP 1, Side B:
Hey Nineteen
Any Major Dude Will Tell You
Glamour Profession

LP 2, Side A:
Things I Miss the Most
Aja
Peg

LP 2, Side B:
Bodhisattva
Reelin’ in the Years
A Man Ain’t Supposed to Cry

Donald Fagen – The Nightfly Live

CD/Digital:
G.Y
Green Flower Street
Ruby Baby
Maxine
New Frontier
The Nightfly
The Goodbye Look
Walk Between the Raindrops

1LP

Side A:
G.Y
Green Flower Street
Ruby Baby
Maxine

Side B:
New Frontier
The Nightfly
The Goodbye Look
Walk Between the Raindrops

John Mellencamp Announces The Pre-Order Of ‘The Good Samaritan Tour 2000’ Live Album

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John Mellencamp Announces The Pre-Order Of ‘The Good Samaritan Tour 2000’ Live Album

John Mellencamp launches the pre-order for the live album to accompany the upcoming documentary The Good Samaritan Tour 2000 out on August 27th. Pre-order The Good Samaritan Tour 2000 live album HERE.

The Good Samaritan Tour 2000 will also be streamed on Turner Classic Movie’s (TCM) YouTube channel August 27th with Mellencamp appearing as a guest programmer on the network in September. The documentary, which is narrated by Academy® Award winner Matthew McConaughey, chronicles Mellencamp’s historic tour in 2000 when he performed for free in public parks and common spaces across the country. The film was executive produced by Federal Films, produced by John Mellencamp and Randy Hoffman, directed by Shan Dan Horan, mixed by Andy York and has special contributions by Nora Guthrie.

Holly Humberstone Announces “The Walls Are Way Too Thin” EP Set For Release On November 5

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Holly Humberstone Announces “The Walls Are Way Too Thin” EP Set For Release On November 5

Today, breakthrough artist of 2021 and the Ivor Novello Rising Star nominee Holly Humberstone announces her highly anticipated second EP The Walls Are Way Too Thin, set to be released on 5 November on Polydor/Darkroom/Interscope/Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company. Featuring the landmark A-List title track and the immaculately beautiful ‘Haunted House’, the six-track EP includes brand new song ‘Please Don’t Leave Just Yet’, a collaboration with Matty Healy, frontman of one of Holly’s favourite bands The 1975. When Holly Humberstone entered the studio with Matty, it was mid-pandemic and the 21-year-old felt a yearning for human connection. She pictured drifting out to sea with the city lights behind her, feeling lost and rudderless. Matty, Holly and longtime collaborator Rob Milton, put these universal feelings into the song, another example of Holly’s exquisite ability to connect with our deepest, darkest emotions.

In Holly’s own words: “The song is about wanting someone to stay so badly, even if only for five more minutes, because you know how much it’ll hurt when they leave. I think the desperation in the words really sums up how I was feeling at the time and how so many people must’ve been feeling last year when we were all completely starved of human connection! I often write songs with a bit of a visual in my head, and I kept picturing solitary places, like drifting far out to sea, so far that you can’t find a way back, or old deserted cargo shipping yards with all the lights at the edge of the city.

Holly’s second EP The Walls Are Way Too Thin follows her critically acclaimed debut Falling Asleep At The Wheel, which marked the first chapter in the story of a new global talent. Having just been announced as the Ivor Novello Rising Star Nominee, to being named the BBC Sound of 2021, Apple’s Up Next Artist, VEVO DSCVR’s Artists To Watch 2021, and internationally heralded by the likes of Jimmy Kimmel, James Corden, Triple J, The Sunday Times, NME (5*), The Guardian, i-D, ELLE, and Billboard, it is Holly’s remarkable storytelling that has captured the hearts and minds of fans globally. Holly wants her lyrics to be the ones people could tattoo on themselves and her songs embrace and translate some of life’s most intense feelings in a way that typical conversations all too often fail to capture, from mental health struggles to the dizzying feelings of displacement as you grow out of adolescence.

“This EP represents a feeling of being lost. It’s the kind of lost that makes you question who you are and where you belong. So lost that someone might need to find you again because you can’t find yourself. That’s how it felt to move to Liverpool, then London, and be in transit between cities and never settling” – says Holly.

The news comes after the long awaited return of live music, with Holly playing to her fans for the first time ever, stating “I’ve never seen physical proof my fans actually exist” (Metro). The 21-year old became the breakthrough artist of an unprecedented year – whilst her streaming numbers rocketed to over 150M global streams and her story grew from her crumbling house in Grantham – Holly was unable to play for her growing fanbase. Now, having set festival stages alight at Latitude, Standon Calling and Tramlines, Holly prepares for her first sold out London headlines, with four shows at Omeara next week.

Creating a visionary world within her music, Holly has also set up the Fifth Sister Swap initiative, as a way for her and her fans to swap clothes without relying on fast fashion. It’s an idea that stemmed from her three sisters constantly borrowing from and swapping their own wardrobes, and growing up in a house of women has made Holly passionate about issues affecting women. The artist recently filmed a session for Splendour In The Grass Festival in the Mind Charity shop in Camden, with the focus being on the incredible work Mind do in the UK for mental health, an issue close to her heart. Wanting to bring her initiatives directly to her fans, Holly will be launching the first IRL Fifth Sister Swap at her sold-out Omeara headlines.

The Walls Are Way Too Thin Tracklist
Haunted House
The Walls Are Way Too Thin
Please Don’t Leave Just Yet
Thursday
Scarlett
Friendly Fire

TOUR AND FESTIVAL DATES
06 Aug Wilderness (Chipping Norton)
13 Aug Boardmasters (Festival Newquay)
15 Aug Omeara (London) SOLD OUT
16 Aug Omeara (London) SOLD OUT
17 Aug Omeara (London) SOLD OUT
18 Aug Omeara (London) SOLD OUT
27 Aug Reading & Leeds
29 Aug Reading & Leeds
30 Aug All Points East (London)
10 Sept TRNSMT Festival (Glasgow)
17 Sep This Is Tomorrow Festival (Newcastle)

07 Oct The Troubadour (Los Angeles, USA)
09 Oct Austin City Limits (Austin, USA)
12 Oct Bowery Ballroom (New York)
26 Oct The Cluny (Newcastle Upon Tyne)
27 Oct Brudenell Social Club (Leeds) SOLD OUT
28 Oct Yes (The Pink Room) (Manchester) SOLD OUT
30 Oct Whelan’s (Dublin)
31 Oct Oh Yeah Music Centre (Belfast)
02 Nov King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut (Glasgow) SOLD OUT
03 Nov O2 Institute 3 Birmingham SOLD OUT
04 Nov Clwb Ifor Bach Cardiff SOLD OUT
08 Nov O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire (London)
10 Nov Rescue Rooms Nottingham SOLD OUT
02 June Primavera Sound (Barcelona)
18 June Hurricane Festival (Germany)
19 June Southside Festival (Germany)

Adia Victoria Announces New Album ‘A Southern Gothic’ Out September 17

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Adia Victoria Announces New Album ‘A Southern Gothic’ Out September 17

Adia Victoria has announced the forthcoming release of her new album, A Southern Gothic.  The LP is out September 17 via Canvasback Records. The record was executive produced by T Bone Burnett, and features guest contributions from Jason Isbell, Margo Price, and Matt Berninger.  Today Adia reveals the first single off A Southern Gothic, “Magnolia Blues.”   She notes:

“In an unpublished manuscript in 1933, William Faulkner spoke on the Southerner’s ‘need to talk, to tell, since oratory is our heritage.’

After a year spent in my room in Nashville, I wondered what stories I had to tell. Often the only view of the South beyond my window was the magnolia tree in my backyard. It blocked the rest of the world from my sight. I limited my gaze to its limbs, its leaves and the obscene bloom of its iconic white flower.

The magnolia has stood as an integral symbol of Southern myth making, romanticism, the Lost Cause of the Confederates and the white washing of Southern memory. ‘Magnolia Blues’ is a reclaiming of the magnolia – an unburdening if its limbs of the lies it has stood for. This song centers the narrative of a Black Southern woman’s furious quest to find her way back home to the South under the shade of her Magnolia.

‘Magnolia Blues’ is an ode to Southern Black folk—too often hemmed out of what we mean when we say ‘Southerner’ – and it is also an ode to the South itself.  To rescue it from – in the words of William Faulkner –  ‘a make believe region of swords and magnolias and mockingbirds which perhaps never existed.’

With A Southern Gothic Adia continues her journey through the conflicts of the American South and the troubling resonance of its past.  Sonically, the album is full of frequent juxtaposition. It is equal parts historical montage and modern prophesy, dark and light, love and loathing. The 14 tracks are the musical embodiment of the relationship that so many people, especially Black women, have with the South.

During the writing process, Adia listened to Alan Lomax’s old field recordings and the sounds became the heartbeat of her new music, upon which she and creative partner Mason Hickman later layered other parts. And in many ways, the story of working with Hickman to write and produce A Southern Gothic is as critical to the project as the stories Victoria tells across the album.  Recording for A Southern Gothic began in Paris in 2019/early 2020, and it was while in France that Victoria discovered a sense of clarity about her home that she didn’t always have when she was writing from her home. “I would say that the philosophy behind this record is, ‘Necessity is the mother of invention,’” Victoria says. “It’s also, ‘When you don’t have excess, when that’s all stripped away, what you gon’ do with that?’ What art can you make from walking through your mother’s garden?”

Without excess or access—to musicians, producers, studio—Victoria and Hickman became a two-man band of sorts, connecting over Victoria’s collection of Southern tales as they tried to keep the pandemic from killing them. Hickman taught himself mandolin and banjo while Victoria cut drum and piano parts. And later, even when the world began to re-open, vaccines became available, and Victoria was able to get in the studio with T-Bone Burnett, the recordings that Victoria and Hickman had done on their own remained.

“I wanted the album to be a time stamp of where I was in 2020,” Victoria says. “I wanted to pay homage and be honest to what I had to work with. I didn’t feel the need to go back and change it and pretty it up. It was honest and it was true.”

The result is a project that fits perfectly into Victoria’s catalogue and the rich legacy of Black Southern storytelling, even as it stands alone as a freshly innovative work.   T Bone Burnett says, “Adia Victoria sings on an arc between Memphis Minnie and Sojourner Truth.”

Adds Victoria: “With this project, I was so anchored in the past and the Black brilliance that came before me that it was kind of a road map. They said, ‘Sweetie, we’re gonna locate you, and we’re gonna allow you to move it forward.’”

A Southern Gothic is Adia’s 3rd album and marks the follow up to 2019’s critically acclaimed Silences, produced by Aaron Dessner. Around its release, The Songwriters Hall of Fame presented Adia with the Holly Prize which recognizes and supports a new “all-in songwriter.”  She toured the U.S. and Europe on the “Dope Queen Tour”  which included a performance on Live From Here with Chris Thile and at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, the Newport Folk Festival, and a performance at Mass MOCA and Boston Calling.  She has also appeared on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.  Last year saw Adia participate in a panel discussion, “Black Equity in Americana: A Conversation, hosted by the Americana Music Association and moderated by Marcus K. Downling.

A Southern Gothic tracklisting

  1. Magnolia Blues
  2. Mean-Hearted Woman
  3. You Was Born To Die (ft. Kyshona Armstrong, Margo Price & Jason Isbell)
  4. Whole World Knows
  5. Troubled Mind
  6. Far From Dixie
  7. Please Come Down
  8. My oh My (ft. Stone Jack Jones)
  9. Deep Water Blues
  10. Carolina Bound
  11. South For The Winter (ft. Matt Berninger)

 

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