In an effort to defend trans rights in the United States, the U.K., and Canada, dozens of artists have recorded cover songs for a new compilation that will raise money for organizations in those countries. Joanna Sternberg recorded Caroline Rose’s “Everywhere I Go I Bring the Rain,” Rostam interpreted Lucinda Williams’ “Change the Locks,” Wednesday took on Elliott Smith’s “Christian Brothers,” and Model/Actriz perform the Ting Tings’ “That’s Not My Name” on the 44-track Fader + Friends Vol. 1 compilation available on Bandcamp for one month, starting today.
- 11/1/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Fader has released Fader & Friends Vol. 1, a real star-studded covers compilation benefitting charities fighting for transgender rights.
There’s a whole lot in these 44 tracks, but here are just a few notable highlights: CoSign alums Wednesday recorded their rendition of Elliott Smith’s “Christian Brothers,” Rostam covered Lucinda Williams’ “Change the Locks,” Ratboys did The Beatles’ “I Wanna Hold Your Hand,” and NNAMDÏ did The Beach Boys’ “Wouldn’t It Be Nice.”
While most of the performers on the compilation — including Caroline Rose and Joanna Stenberg, who covered each other — are relative newcomers, the crop of songs constitute a vast timeline. There are covers of Big Thief, Perfume Genius, and Ethel Cain mixed together with songs by Stevie Wonder, Abba, Tina Turner, and Selena. There’s even an old English folk song (courtesy of Helena Deland).
Fader & Friends Vol. 1 will be available exclusively on Bandcamp for the month of November only,...
There’s a whole lot in these 44 tracks, but here are just a few notable highlights: CoSign alums Wednesday recorded their rendition of Elliott Smith’s “Christian Brothers,” Rostam covered Lucinda Williams’ “Change the Locks,” Ratboys did The Beatles’ “I Wanna Hold Your Hand,” and NNAMDÏ did The Beach Boys’ “Wouldn’t It Be Nice.”
While most of the performers on the compilation — including Caroline Rose and Joanna Stenberg, who covered each other — are relative newcomers, the crop of songs constitute a vast timeline. There are covers of Big Thief, Perfume Genius, and Ethel Cain mixed together with songs by Stevie Wonder, Abba, Tina Turner, and Selena. There’s even an old English folk song (courtesy of Helena Deland).
Fader & Friends Vol. 1 will be available exclusively on Bandcamp for the month of November only,...
- 11/1/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Doja Cat shows a softer side on the fifth single off her new album, Kylie Minogue delivers explosive dance-pop, and Blink-182 get existential on their first track with guitarist Tom DeLonge in over a decade. Plus, stellar collaborations from Shakira with Fuerza Régida, Jean Dawson with Sza, and Zach Bryan with Noah Kahan.
Doja Cat, “Agora Hills” (YouTube)
Kylie Minogue, “Hold On to Now” (YouTube)
Blink-182, “One More Time...
Doja Cat, “Agora Hills” (YouTube)
Kylie Minogue, “Hold On to Now” (YouTube)
Blink-182, “One More Time...
- 9/22/2023
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
Ezra Furman sings about sex and love on three newly released songs that accompany the newly released fourth and final season of Sex Education. The singer-songwriter dropped “You Like Me,” “Tether,” and “Honeycomb” on Thursday as an EP titled Sex Education — Songs From Season 4.
The songs all play off themes in the show, which is about high schoolers becoming sex therapists for their fellow students. On the gentle, softly rocking “You Like Me,” she sings, “You like me and it freaks me out/Sometimes I don’t know what you’re talking about.
The songs all play off themes in the show, which is about high schoolers becoming sex therapists for their fellow students. On the gentle, softly rocking “You Like Me,” she sings, “You like me and it freaks me out/Sometimes I don’t know what you’re talking about.
- 9/21/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Bonnaroo will stream a number of this weekend’s performances on Hulu.
The livestream schedule includes Foo Fighters, Paramore, Three 6 Mafia, Sheryl Crow, My Morning Jacket, Tyler Childers, Odesza, Pixies, Rina Sawayama, Franz Ferdinand, Marcus Mumford, Portugal. the Man, Alex G, Jenny Lewis, Muna, Sylvan Esso, Girl In Red, Suki Waterhouse, Ezra Furman, and more. Check out the complete schedule below.
The Bonnaroo stream is available to all Hulu subscribers from June 15th-18th. If you’re not currently a subscriber, you can sign up for a 30-month free trial — after which plans start at $7.99 per month.
Also be sure to check out The What Podcast for coverage on all things Bonnaroo. The latest episode for example is full of tips and tricks to know ahead of attending the festival.
Bonnaroo Livestream Schedule:
* = All times in Ct; channels noted in parentheses
Thursday, June 15th:
04:05 p.m. – Briscoe (1)
04:30 – Ezra...
The livestream schedule includes Foo Fighters, Paramore, Three 6 Mafia, Sheryl Crow, My Morning Jacket, Tyler Childers, Odesza, Pixies, Rina Sawayama, Franz Ferdinand, Marcus Mumford, Portugal. the Man, Alex G, Jenny Lewis, Muna, Sylvan Esso, Girl In Red, Suki Waterhouse, Ezra Furman, and more. Check out the complete schedule below.
The Bonnaroo stream is available to all Hulu subscribers from June 15th-18th. If you’re not currently a subscriber, you can sign up for a 30-month free trial — after which plans start at $7.99 per month.
Also be sure to check out The What Podcast for coverage on all things Bonnaroo. The latest episode for example is full of tips and tricks to know ahead of attending the festival.
Bonnaroo Livestream Schedule:
* = All times in Ct; channels noted in parentheses
Thursday, June 15th:
04:05 p.m. – Briscoe (1)
04:30 – Ezra...
- 6/14/2023
- by Consequence Staff
- Consequence - Music
End Of The Road Festival: Angel Olsen, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and Greentea Peng to perform
The lineup for this year’s End of the Road festival has been announced with acts including Future Islands, Angel Olsen and Greentea Peng on the bill.
The headline slots go to King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Wilco, with further performances from Ezra Furman and Arooj Aftab.
The festival, which is held between 31 August and 3 September in Larmer Tree Gardens, Dorset, Wiltshire, hosts music, comedy and literature.
Beginning in 2006, End Of The Road has become recognised as one of the alternative scene’s leading festivals in the UK.
Last year, The Independent’s Mark Beaumont called it “the most imaginative and explorative festival of the summer” in his five star review of the weekend.
This year’s lineup will also include sets from exciting new acts such as Biig Piig, Divorce and Heartworms.
The 2023 edition has been the festival’s the fastest selling yet, with just...
The headline slots go to King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Wilco, with further performances from Ezra Furman and Arooj Aftab.
The festival, which is held between 31 August and 3 September in Larmer Tree Gardens, Dorset, Wiltshire, hosts music, comedy and literature.
Beginning in 2006, End Of The Road has become recognised as one of the alternative scene’s leading festivals in the UK.
Last year, The Independent’s Mark Beaumont called it “the most imaginative and explorative festival of the summer” in his five star review of the weekend.
This year’s lineup will also include sets from exciting new acts such as Biig Piig, Divorce and Heartworms.
The 2023 edition has been the festival’s the fastest selling yet, with just...
- 1/31/2023
- by Megan Graye
- The Independent - Music
This was music’s emancipation year. After 18 months of delay, restraint and career/identity crises, pop music returned – rejuvenated – to the dancefloor, flouting a revived sexual confidence but also struggling with a hangover of pandemic introspection. Its lockdown listening appeared to have exploded its horizons; industrial rock, experimental electronics and a leftfield sonic mindset were wholeheartedly embraced by the mainstream, making ear-widening, genre-fluid pop records virtually the norm.
Alternative acts, meanwhile, pivoted away from the ghetto. Yard Act, Fontaines DC and Wet Leg evolved the post-punk and sprechgesang trends in more accessible directions, the latter act even defying the algorithm’s diktat of conformity to shed welcome light on their eclectic Isle Of Wight scene, turning heads to the wonderful Plastic Mermaids. There was oversharing and tubthumping aplenty in 2022, but largely in the spirit of musical renaissance and tentative celebration. And here are the records most worth celebrating.
20. Lizzo – Special...
Alternative acts, meanwhile, pivoted away from the ghetto. Yard Act, Fontaines DC and Wet Leg evolved the post-punk and sprechgesang trends in more accessible directions, the latter act even defying the algorithm’s diktat of conformity to shed welcome light on their eclectic Isle Of Wight scene, turning heads to the wonderful Plastic Mermaids. There was oversharing and tubthumping aplenty in 2022, but largely in the spirit of musical renaissance and tentative celebration. And here are the records most worth celebrating.
20. Lizzo – Special...
- 12/14/2022
- by Mark Beaumont and Helen Brown
- The Independent - Music
This was music’s emancipation year. After 18 months of delay, restraint and career/identity crises, pop music returned – rejuvenated – to the dancefloor, flouting a revived sexual confidence but also struggling with a hangover of pandemic introspection. Its lockdown listening appeared to have exploded its horizons; industrial rock, experimental electronics and a leftfield sonic mindset were wholeheartedly embraced by the mainstream, making ear-widening, genre-fluid pop records virtually the norm.
Alternative acts, meanwhile, pivoted away from the ghetto. Yard Act, Fontaines DC and Wet Leg evolved the post-punk and sprechgesang trends in more accessible directions, the latter act even defying the algorithm’s diktat of conformity to shed welcome light on their eclectic Isle Of Wight scene, turning heads to the wonderful Plastic Mermaids. There was oversharing and tubthumping aplenty in 2022, but largely in the spirit of musical renaissance and tentative celebration. And here are the records most worth celebrating.
20. Lizzo – Special...
Alternative acts, meanwhile, pivoted away from the ghetto. Yard Act, Fontaines DC and Wet Leg evolved the post-punk and sprechgesang trends in more accessible directions, the latter act even defying the algorithm’s diktat of conformity to shed welcome light on their eclectic Isle Of Wight scene, turning heads to the wonderful Plastic Mermaids. There was oversharing and tubthumping aplenty in 2022, but largely in the spirit of musical renaissance and tentative celebration. And here are the records most worth celebrating.
20. Lizzo – Special...
- 12/9/2022
- by Mark Beaumont and Helen Brown
- The Independent - Music
“He’s all broken/ Fallen from the stars…” laments Redcar, also known as Christine and the Queens. In this new presentation, the artist now using he/him pronouns is a “suited, demented, broken-down man”. Much of Redcar Les Adorables Étoiles finds him yowling (mostly in French) into a dark maze of lost and looping grooves, his questing vocals echoing over the unyielding crunch of Eighties synths and the occasional agonised electric guitar. Imagine the Eurythmics and Jean-Michel Jarre hooking up to jam through on an operatic jazz odyssey in an underground car park somewhere beneath a rain-drenched Paris at 2am, and you’re about there.
To understand the pain and disorientation Redcar is expressing, you need the back story. In a tearful interview with The Guardian last week, the 34-year-old French artist born Heloise Letissier spoke of the sudden loss of his mother, Martine, to a heart infection in 2019. He...
To understand the pain and disorientation Redcar is expressing, you need the back story. In a tearful interview with The Guardian last week, the 34-year-old French artist born Heloise Letissier spoke of the sudden loss of his mother, Martine, to a heart infection in 2019. He...
- 11/11/2022
- by Helen Brown
- The Independent - Music
When Ezra Furman first heard Transformer, Lou Reed’s louche, bristling second album, it was as though she’d found her way out of a locked room. “Who I thought Lou Reed was [when I was] in high school became, like, ‘Oh, I’ll follow that. That’s a way to go.’” The seminal 1972 record – which celebrates its 50th anniversary today – was to become a touchstone for Furman’s own subversive work.
You can hear it in her sound. The raw crackle. The often distorted guitars. The slightly haughty vocals. Reed’s fingerprints are all over Furman’s music. And, in her own words, Transformer “had a lot to do with being publicly androgynous and queer”. Furman, who came out as a trans woman last year and is bisexual, has in the past called Reed “an ideal figure to me”. In fact, Reed’s sound and philosophy spoke to Furman so much that,...
You can hear it in her sound. The raw crackle. The often distorted guitars. The slightly haughty vocals. Reed’s fingerprints are all over Furman’s music. And, in her own words, Transformer “had a lot to do with being publicly androgynous and queer”. Furman, who came out as a trans woman last year and is bisexual, has in the past called Reed “an ideal figure to me”. In fact, Reed’s sound and philosophy spoke to Furman so much that,...
- 11/7/2022
- by Roisin O'Connor
- The Independent - Music
Jack White has expanded his extensive Supply Chain Issues world tour ahead of Entering Heaven Alive, his second second new album of the year, out July 22. The musician will be joined by a dozen special guest openers across the international trek, including The Paranoyds, Cat Power, and Ichi-Bons across select dates in September and October.
After the initial set of North American tour dates wrap on Aug. 29, White will pick back up on Sept. 15 in Louisville, Kentucky. The newly released shows include stops in Flint, Asheville, Atlanta, Miami, New Orleans,...
After the initial set of North American tour dates wrap on Aug. 29, White will pick back up on Sept. 15 in Louisville, Kentucky. The newly released shows include stops in Flint, Asheville, Atlanta, Miami, New Orleans,...
- 6/21/2022
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
On her latest single “Book of Our Names,” Ezra Furman is determined to push back against evil and save as many souls from being forgotten, or brushed aside, in silence.
“This song is about what it feels like to live together under an empire that doesn’t value your lives,” Furman said in a statement. “I sing it as a Jew and as a trans woman, knowing well the stakes and consequences of being part of a hated population.”
“Book of Our Names” follows “Point Me Toward The Real,” which Furman released last month,...
“This song is about what it feels like to live together under an empire that doesn’t value your lives,” Furman said in a statement. “I sing it as a Jew and as a trans woman, knowing well the stakes and consequences of being part of a hated population.”
“Book of Our Names” follows “Point Me Toward The Real,” which Furman released last month,...
- 4/4/2022
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
Lauded producer/songwriter Linda Perry is teaming up with philanthropist Alisha Ballard for EqualizeHer, an initiative working to bring gender equity to the music industry. It launches at South by Southwest with panels and showcases running March 15 and 16 at Lustre Pearl Rainey in Austin, Texas. The events are open to the public.
“The imbalance of women represented in the music industry has gone on far too long. Alisha and I (and so many others) share in this passion to create a more equitable music business across all aspects of the music industry,...
“The imbalance of women represented in the music industry has gone on far too long. Alisha and I (and so many others) share in this passion to create a more equitable music business across all aspects of the music industry,...
- 3/9/2022
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Ezra Furman is a person who has a successful musical career. Both a songwriter and a singer, Furman can be found performing alone as well as with a band. Furman’s musical career is long, and fans continue to flock to the musician to hear what might come next. Since 2008, Furman has been making music either solo or with several different bands – typically bands that take the name Ezra Furman in some manner or another. Now that Furman has come out and announced being a transgender woman, the world is curious to know more about the musician. 1. Furman
10 Things You Didn’t Know about Ezra Furman...
10 Things You Didn’t Know about Ezra Furman...
- 7/17/2021
- by Tiffany Raiford
- TVovermind.com
Ezra Furman came out on Wednesday as a transgender woman and has been a mother for over two years.
“About being a trans woman: For my own reasons I have been hesitant to use these words, especially the ‘woman’ word,” she wrote on Instagram. “I have often described myself as non-binary, which maybe is still true (I’m just gonna sit with that question for the moment). But I’ve come to terms with the fact that I am a woman, and yes for me it’s complex, but it...
“About being a trans woman: For my own reasons I have been hesitant to use these words, especially the ‘woman’ word,” she wrote on Instagram. “I have often described myself as non-binary, which maybe is still true (I’m just gonna sit with that question for the moment). But I’ve come to terms with the fact that I am a woman, and yes for me it’s complex, but it...
- 4/21/2021
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Angel Olsen, Brittany Howard, Kathleen Hanna and Phoebe Bridgers are among the artists performing during Panache’s upcoming Village of Love Planned Parenthood benefit concert. In partnership with Like Management, the virtual event takes place on October 25th via Live.ly, where tickets are available.
The lineup also includes Deep Sea Diver, Devendra Banhart, Ezra Furman, Kah-lo, Mac DeMarco, Margo Price, Perfume Genius, Rodrigo Amarante, Spellling, Tenacious D and Weyes Blood, who will perform originals and covers through the course of the event. The night also features a raffle, silent auction,...
The lineup also includes Deep Sea Diver, Devendra Banhart, Ezra Furman, Kah-lo, Mac DeMarco, Margo Price, Perfume Genius, Rodrigo Amarante, Spellling, Tenacious D and Weyes Blood, who will perform originals and covers through the course of the event. The night also features a raffle, silent auction,...
- 10/8/2020
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
John Cameron Mitchell has released “New American Dream,” the wacky title track to his new benefit album out on Friday.
Directed by Matthew Zanfagna, the video opens with Mitchell laying on the grass swaddled in an American flag. Later, hilarious animation shows Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell eating President Trump. “Thus the diseased body will pass/through Mitch’s gut,” Mitchell sings. “And resolve itself into a stew/a kind of vile fondue.”
Mitchell recorded New American Dream during lockdown. More than 40 collaborators contributed to the record, including Leland, Hedwig...
Directed by Matthew Zanfagna, the video opens with Mitchell laying on the grass swaddled in an American flag. Later, hilarious animation shows Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell eating President Trump. “Thus the diseased body will pass/through Mitch’s gut,” Mitchell sings. “And resolve itself into a stew/a kind of vile fondue.”
Mitchell recorded New American Dream during lockdown. More than 40 collaborators contributed to the record, including Leland, Hedwig...
- 9/1/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Ezra Furman wrote Sex Education’s standout track “Every Feeling” during one of her “depression days.” The song is featured on The Sex Education Original Soundtrack, out Friday via Bella Union.
“When I first wrote it, I thought it was too simple to even be legitimate. I thought it was half of a song,” she tells Rolling Stone. “I honestly wrote it in three minutes on the way out the door. It was a normal day, but I felt like, ‘I don’t even know if I can do this...
“When I first wrote it, I thought it was too simple to even be legitimate. I thought it was half of a song,” she tells Rolling Stone. “I honestly wrote it in three minutes on the way out the door. It was a normal day, but I felt like, ‘I don’t even know if I can do this...
- 1/23/2020
- by Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
On Tuesday Ezra Furman announced a new album, Twelve Nudes, and released its first single, “Calm Down aka I Should Not Be Alone.” The song is accompanied by a surreal animated video by Beth Jeans Houghton, a.k.a. Du Blonde.
“Desperate times make for desperate songs,” Furman wrote of the song in a statement. “I wrote this in the summer of 2018, a terrible time. It’s the sound of me struggling to admit that I’m not Ok with the current state of human civilization, in which bad men crush us into submission.
“Desperate times make for desperate songs,” Furman wrote of the song in a statement. “I wrote this in the summer of 2018, a terrible time. It’s the sound of me struggling to admit that I’m not Ok with the current state of human civilization, in which bad men crush us into submission.
- 5/21/2019
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
If you haven't watched Netflix's new series Sex Education yet, then you're not only missing out on a hilariously awkward comedy, you're also missing out on its insanely catchy soundtrack. In Sex Education - starring Gillian Anderson and Asa Butterfield - an inexperienced high school student, who ironically has plenty of sexual knowledge thanks to his sex therapist mother, decides to team up with a bad girl and open an underground sex therapy clinic at school. The soundtrack combines the best of the '80s and '90s - including music from A-ha, the Violent Femmes, and Billy Idol - with jams from songwriter Ezra Furman, who teamed up with the Sex Education creators to make the soundtrack. The result is basically magic. Take a listen to see for yourself.
Related: Will Netflix Renew Sex Education For a Second Season? Fingers Crossed...
Related: Will Netflix Renew Sex Education For a Second Season? Fingers Crossed...
- 1/16/2019
- by Corinne Sullivan
- Popsugar.com
Netflix's newest teen comedy series, Sex Education, is another raunchy, but fully compassionate look at hormone-crazed adolescents.
It’s a great time to be coming of age. Not since the late ‘90s has there been such an explosion of movies and television shows centered on the discomfort and growing pains of the teenage experience. Hell, with movies like Lady Bird being nominated for Academy Awards and this year’s Eighth Grade in serious contention, coming-of-age teen entertainment has never been taken more seriously as legitimate art.
Netflix in particular has become a hub for these stories. All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Sierra Burgess Is a Loser, and Alex Strangelove are entertainment for and about teens, while raunchier fare like American Vandal or the animated, adolescent-focused Big Mouth (our favorite comedy of 2018) ask adults to reminisce on their awkward years. Stories about teenagers...
It’s a great time to be coming of age. Not since the late ‘90s has there been such an explosion of movies and television shows centered on the discomfort and growing pains of the teenage experience. Hell, with movies like Lady Bird being nominated for Academy Awards and this year’s Eighth Grade in serious contention, coming-of-age teen entertainment has never been taken more seriously as legitimate art.
Netflix in particular has become a hub for these stories. All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Sierra Burgess Is a Loser, and Alex Strangelove are entertainment for and about teens, while raunchier fare like American Vandal or the animated, adolescent-focused Big Mouth (our favorite comedy of 2018) ask adults to reminisce on their awkward years. Stories about teenagers...
- 1/11/2019
- Den of Geek
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