Brandi Carlile, Norah Jones and More Honor Joni Mitchell on Live Tribute Album, Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration The album was recorded at her 75th birthday celebration last November By Ellen Johnson for Paste — Last November, Joni Mitchell celebrated her 75th birthday with 3,000 of her biggest fans, closest friends and most adoring peers. Everyone from Tom Hanks to Mandy Moore was in attendance that night (Nov.

By Garrett Martin Lady Gaga isn’t subtle. She is genuine, though, and that makes her new Vegas residency show, Enigma (running now through November at the Park Theater at Park MGM), an emotionally powerful spectacle. This is a woman who enters her show by floating above the audience in a sequined jumpsuit while playing a keytar and singing “Just Dance.” Whose show has a plot about an alien artificial intelligence tha

By Terrance Heath for LGBTQ Nation If ever an artist was ahead of their time, it was Jackie Shane. Before there was RuPaul or even Sylvester, there was Jackie Shane, a transgender woman and soul music performer who broke boundaries in the 1960s. Her first full-length album, a two-disc set titled after her hit single “Any Other Way,” was released in October 2017 and is nominated for a Best Historical Album Grammy Awar

A few years ago, Miley Cyrus earned her first Grammy nomination, a Best Pop Vocal Album nod for Bangerz. This year, she’s returning to the ceremony — not as a nominee, but as a performer. On Thursday (January 24), the Recording Academy announced Cyrus will take the stage at this year’s ceremony on February 10, along with R&B breakout star H.E.R., Americana singer Brandi Carlile, and — because it’

By Tom Lanham for Paste – It’s a moral conundrum particular to our media-savvy era—what happens when your public, online-enhanced persona begins to outshine, even commandeer your private life? What happens when your avatar takes over, becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy in the process? Grammy-nominated old-school rocker Elle King can clearly describe that surreal transition, which overtook her last year, at the

By Ellen Johnson for Paste – Mountain Man’s manager had a dream. Martin Anderson saw in this sleep-induced sequence the folk trio’s members—Amelia Meath, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig and Molly Sarlé—in a bar packed with, not blubbering beer-drinkers, but alpacas, the South American camelid baring a close resemblance to its cousin the llama. You only have to look at the album art for Magic Ship, their second LP and f

Nominees for 2019 induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame have been revealed. The list includes Janet Jackson, Stevie Nicks and Chaka Khan, along with Def Leppard, Devo, John Prine, Kraftwerk, LL Cool J, MC5, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Roxy Music, the Cure, Todd Rundgren, Rufus and the Zombies. Artists become eligible for selection 25 years after the release of their first record. An international votin

By Josh Jackson Brandi Carlile joined her childhood idols The Indigo Girls on tour the first time back in 2007. That marked the beginning of a friendship and a series of collaborations over the years, so it was no surprise that Amy Ray asked Carlile to sing on her brand new album, Holler, due out this Friday. Ray’s first solo albums explored her love of rock and even punk, but her latest digs into her Southern roots,

By Stephan Cho for Paste If you’ve gone to the theater to see a movie—any movie—at any point during the summer, you probably also caught the trailer for A Star Is Born, and may have even caught yourself singing along to the bits we hear of Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga’s singing in it. Gaga’s “haaaaaaahaaah” vocalizing in that ubiquitous trailer might already be a meme amongst hardcore moviegoers, but until now, we ha