The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, which takes place each year in Manchester, Tennessee, has been postponed for the third time. The festival was previously rescheduled from its usual summer slot in June to September of this year, but was then canceled entirely with the plan to return in June 2021. Now, it’s been announced that the festival will take place in autumn of next year, from September 2-5.
“We want to thank you for being a loyal Bonnaroovian,” the festival’s website wrote in a post today (September 30). “We appreciate your patience as we navigate the best options.”
The line-up for Bonnaroo 2020 was set to feature performances from Lizzo, Tame Impala, Vampire Weekend, Lana Del Rey, Miley Cyrus, Run the Jewels, and more.
The original dates for Bonnaroo 2021 have changed. Bonnaroo will now take place on Sept. 2-5, 2021. Stay tuned for info on lineup, camping + more. We encourage you to rollover your tickets to the new dates, but refunds will be available for those who cannot attend. pic.twitter.com/i78MnMITdY
Tame Impala have announced the rescheduled tour dates for their 2021 North American tour. The tour was meant to kick off in May this year in support of their latest album, The Slow Rush, but was then postponed to February of 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic before now being pushed back to July. Check out the full schedule below.
Tame Impala’s North American tour is set to commence on July 22, 2021 in Mexico City, and will conclude on October 18 in Miami, Florida. Tickets sold for the original dates will be honored for the new shows, and refunds will be issued to those who won’t be able to attend.
The Slow Rush was released back in February. A few days ago, Blood Orange shared a remix of the album track ‘Borderline’, which Tame Impala recently performed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon!.
Tame Impala North American Tour Dates:
July 2021: Thursday 22 – Mexico City, Foro Sol
Wednesday 28 – Glendale, Gila River Arena
Friday 30 – Denver, Pepsi Center August 2021:
Monday 2 – Portland, Moda Center
Wednesday 4 – Vancouver, Rogers Arena
August 6 – George, Gorge Amphitheatre
Thursday 12 – Houston, Toyota Center
Friday 13 – Dallas, American Airlines Center
Saturday 14 – Austin, Frank Erwin Center September 2021:
Wednesday 15 – San Francisco, Chase Center October 2021:
Monday 4 – Toronto, Scotiabank Arena
Tuesday 5 – Detroit, Little Caesars Arena
Thursday 7 – Chicago, United Center
Friday 8 – Milwaukee, Fiserv Forum
Sunday 10 – St. Paul, Xcel Energy Center
Wednesday 13 – Washington, Capital One Arena
Friday 15 – Atlanta, State Farm Arena
Sunday 17 – Orlando, Amway Center
Monday 18 – Miami, American Airlines Arena
Helen Reddy, the Australian singer best known for her feminist anthem ‘I Am Woman’, has passed away at the age of 78. Reddy’s children, Traci and Jordan, confirmed the news in a statement posted on the ‘Helen Reddy Official Fan Page’ on Facebook. “It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved mother, Helen Reddy, on the afternoon of September 29th 2020 in Los Angeles,” they wrote. “She was a wonderful Mother, Grandmother and a truly formidable woman. Our hearts are broken. But we take comfort in the knowledge that her voice will live on forever.”
Born in Melbourne in 1941, Reddy grew up in a show-business family and started singing publicly at the age of 4. By 1966, she won a talent contest on a television program called Bandstand, and later moved to Los Angeles to pursue an international singing career. She recorded her debut singles ‘One Way Ticket’ and ‘I Believe in Music’ in 1968 and 1970 respectively, but it was with the B-side of the latter single, ‘I Don’t Know How to Love Him’, that she scored her first hit. Having signed to Capitol Records, she found international success in the 1970s, topping the US Billboard Hot 100 three times: first with 1972’s ‘I Am Woman’, followed by 1973’s ‘Delta Dawn’ and ‘Angie Baby’ a year later.
Reddy went on to host the variety program The Helen Reddy Show and became a musical theater mainstay in the ’80s. She announced her retirement in 2002 but made a brief comeback within the past decade before being diagnosed with dementia in 2015. In 2017, she performed an a cappella version of ‘I Am Woman’ at the Women’s March in LA. A biopic titled I Am Woman, directed by Unjoo Moon and starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey, was released earlier this year.
Paying tribute to the late singer, Moon said: “She paved the way for so many and the lyrics that she wrote for I Am Woman changed my life forever like they have done for so many other people and will continue to do for generations to come.”
The video opens with the singer-songwriter discussing her own experiences with depression. “It doesn’t make you a weak person for talking about your darker times, you know,” she said. “It actually makes you stronger by being vulnerable and open and sharing who you are with the people you care about.”
Speaking about her relationship with ‘Hurt’, she added: “I was the cliché middle child and always felt misunderstood, and then the oldest brother was the one that I connected to the most with music. When I was learning to play guitar, he gave me a box of cassettes. By the time “Hurt” came on, I just remember connecting to it so much but also realizing that my brother had listened to it, and we’d never really talked about any deep feelings, but we always shared music. It was my first sign that my brother was trying to connect with me on a more emotional level than just “we’re sharing music.””
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The xx’s Romy Madley Croft has shared her first official solo single. It’s called ‘Lifetime’ and it was produced with Fred again.. and Marta Salogni in London during the coronavirus lockdown. In a statement, the artist said the track is about “being totally in the moment and celebrating it.” Check it out below.
Romy Madley Croft first revealed that she is working on her debut solo project during an Instagram Live session in April, where she performed new music. She described it as being “a lot more upbeat”, adding it’s “not exactly going to be guitar music, but it’s going to be fun.” The xx’s most recent album was 2017’s I See You.
Jeff Rosenstock and his band were the musical guests on last night’s episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers. They performed ‘Scram!’ from Rosenstock’s most recent album, NO DREAM. All the musicians wore masks, with Rosenstock having written ‘Black Lives Matter’ on his with a Sharpie. Check out the performance below.
“The least we deserve in trying times like these is great punk music — punk music that stands for something,” Seth Meyers said while introducing Rosenstock. “This next guy is one of my favorites. He’s angry and urgent and prescient, and while I’m super bummed that he and his band are not here live tonight, at least we will not have to pay for a studio roof that they surely would have ripped off.”
NO DREAM was surprise-released back in May, followed by his 2020 DUMPEP earlier this month.
Following his holiday-themed EP Hark! last year, Andrew Bird has now announced a full-length Christmas LP, also titled Hark!. The 13-track album will include six songs from the EP, as well as seven additional tracks. Among these are covers of John Prine’ ‘Souvenirs’ and John Cale’s ‘Andalucia’, the latter of which you can hear below.
Another one of the tracks is an original called ‘Christmas in April’. Of the song, Bird wrote in a statement: “There’s an original tune I wrote in April during the most disorienting phase of the pandemic, when I couldn’t help but wonder where we’ll be when the holidays come, if we could be together or not. I’ve been writing a lot of songs inspired by this uninspiring predicament. Let’s hope they all become obsolete as soon as possible.”
Speaking of the release as a whole, he added: “Let’s not talk about the dubious motives that might lead an artist to make a holiday record. It’s a complicated relationship many of us have with the holidays and the requisite music we hear. So let’s admit that it’s a utilitarian thing. The music is just one contributing factor to our communal or solitary joy and melancholy. As a musician, it’s an excuse to take a break from writing the next record and indulge in an unapologetically nostalgic exercise.”
Hark! comes out digitally on October 30, with a vinyl edition set to arrive on November 13 via Loma Vista. Check out the cover art and tracklist below.
On October 10, the singer-songwriter will perform his 2005 album Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs live on Seated.
Hark! Cover Artwork:
Hark! Tracklist:
1. Andalucia
2. Alabaster
3. Greenwine
4. Christmas in April
5. Souvenirs
6. Oh Holy Night
7. Mille Cherubini in Coro
8. Night’s Falling
9. Glad
10. Christmas Is Coming
11. White Christmas
12. Skating
13. Auld Lang Syne
First emerging in 2019 as a quartet, Pittsburgh-based dream pop outfit Drauve are now back as a duo consisting of original members Victoria Draovitch and Stephen Grzenda. Returning with a newfound sense of clarity and focus, their latest series of singles – ‘SO LOW’, ‘TRY’, and ‘LMK’ – retain the woozy, ethereal mood that characterises the genre, but also draw more directly from familiar pop textures that serve as a necessary form of escape. On the mellow yet groovy ‘TRY’, Draovitch delivers a honeyed vocal performance as she dreams of planning a getaway but ultimately laments, “I think about it but I’ll never try.” The stand-out ‘LMK’ imbues its infectious refrain – “You said you’d let me know when you get home last night” – with an underlying sense of trepidation, making it Drauve’s most compelling and evocative release to date; the recently unveiled ‘SO LOW’ builds on that feeling of anxiety, bringing those undertones into the forefront with stark vulnerability. One can easily get lost in the sounds of dream pop, but with sticky melodies and emotive songwriting, Drauve manage to rise above.
We caught up with Drauve for this edition of our Artist Spotlight series, where we showcase up-and-coming artists and give them a chance to talk about their music.
How did you form Drauve?
We met at a local show in Pittsburgh in December 2017. After that show, we started hanging out and writing music together. We wrote for about year and a half, then put out our first single for Drauve called ‘Haunted’ in July 2019.
How would you describe your sound without using any genre terms?
I would describe Drauve as having a “wall of sound” aspect to our music. We like our music to have big moments, and encompass the listener in the sounds we’ve chosen for each song. A lot of people also describe our music as “chill”, but I think upon listening to our lyrics our music becomes more existential and anxious-feeling.
Who are some of your biggest influences, both individually and as a group?
Individually, Victoria’s main influences are Hayley Williams and The Cure. Stephen’s influences are The Killers and Steely Dan. As a group, our biggest influences are The Japanese House and Tame Impala.
What’s your creative process like?
We usually record a basic idea on guitar or synth first and loop it so Victoria can write lyrics over it. After that, we’ll usually tackle production ourselves, but sometimes we’ll work with an outsider producer which we did on our song ‘TRY’. Once production is done, Stephen actually mixes the song on his own. We have a home studio, so it makes the creative process feel really comfortable and gives us a lot of freedom to express ourselves.
What was the inspiration for your two latest singles, ‘TRY’ and ‘LMK’?
Both songs were written during March & April of 2020, so it was in the early stages of the coronavirus lockdown. We were working on music nonstop to distract ourselves from the anxiety of the pandemic, and we were also planning a move from Pittsburgh to Los Angeles. Having so much anxiety and so much time on our hands definitely had a massive impact on ‘TRY’ and ‘LMK’. Both songs deal with the anxiety of the unknown, and writing them really helped us cope with and reflect on our feelings.
How has the response to the new songs been?
The response to the new songs has been incredible. So many new people have discovered us because of the new songs, and it’s cool to know they’re connecting with something so deeply personal to us. We’re beyond grateful for the support we’ve received, especially considering we’ve only had this project for a little over a year!
What are your plans for the near future?
Well, we recently moved to Los Angeles, so we are just getting adjusted to our new home and working on new music! We just put out a new single on September 22 called ‘SO LOW’, and we will be putting out an EP in early 2021.
21 Savage and producer Metro Boomin are set to release the long-awaited follow-up to Savage Mode this Friday. The album announcement came in the form of a trailer narrated by Morgan Freeman and directed by Gibson Hazard. Check it out below.
In the clip, Freeman reads the following script: “Savage is defined as fierce, beastly, and untamed. Mode is defined as a way of operating or using a system. So to be in savage mode is to go hard, not allowing anything to stop or deter you from your mission. Basically, this means when someone’s in savage mode, they are not to be fucked with.”
21 Savage’s last studio album was 2018’s Grammy-nominated i am > i was. That same year, Metro Boomin released his own solo studio debut, NOT ALL HEROES WEAR CAPES.
Last week, it was announced that K-pop superstars BTS would be appearing for five consecutive nights on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon! They kicked things off last night (September 28) with an a cappella rendition of their latest single, ‘Dynamite’, joined by Fallon and The Roots, followed by a closing performance of the Love Yourself: Answer track ‘Idol’. Check it out below.
