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Carrie Baxter Pray. We asked her the BIG questions . . .   Carrie has been living in London since 2009, when she moved there to study at the London School of Musical Theatre. We need your consent to load this YouTube contentWe use YouTube to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences Speaking about Pray, she says, "I wrote Pray in 2018, it is the last song from...

Albums of the Year 2020: bdrmm - Bedroom | reviews, news & interviews Albums of the Year 2020: bdrmm - Bedroom Albums of the Year 2020: bdrmm - Bedroom A shoegaze debut that lifts its eyes, looks to the future and elevates the form by Barney HarsentSaturday, 26 December 2020 It’s become something of an end-of-year list cliché to say that 2020 has been a great year for music despite being a catastrophic shitstorm when judged by any other metric you care to mention. “Ah!” s...

LOMA VISTA Recording in Hollywood with Sturgill Simpson in the producer’s chair, the Midwest farmer’s daughter tried her hand at a West Coast pop album for her third LP. Rather than country confessionals, then, here were 10 songs taking in Heartbreakers-esque new wave, gospel and prime Fleetwood Mac. Complete with a more oblique, lyrical voice from Price, the result was another step forward for a musician who respects tradition but has never been shackled by it. 49 GWENIFER RAYMOND TOMPKINS...

Bandcamp / Buy Fifty-some years ago, Nina Simone recorded a song for the children. On its face, “To Be Young, Gifted and Black” offers encouragement and hope. Beneath the surface, its somber chords and heavy gait reach for something more complex, unable to ignore the darkness clouding the aspirations of the next generation. In 1969, there were plenty of reasons for a young Black person to feel broken. Within the decade, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and four little girls in...

Best Comic of the Week: Post Americana #1 – Steve Skroce returns with a new series set after the fall of the American Empire.  A secret government facility has been housing the remnants of the military, and a bunch of rich people, who are now ready to pull a First Order, and take over the Wasteland.  A small group tries to stop them, and two escape.  At the same time, a young woman is discovered by a tribe of cannibals and scavengers, who go to investigate the crash of the vessel the first...

Adrian Spinelli December 17, 2020Updated: December 17, 2020, 6:32 pm Seu Jorge performs onstage during the 2019 Cruilla Festival at Parc del Forum in Barcelona. Photo: Jordi Vidal, Getty Images This week’s “Listen” column looks back at this year’s best music. Check in next week for The Chronicle’s best Bay Area albums of 2020.  Seu Jorge & Rogé, “Night Dreamer Direct-to-Disc Sessions” (Night Dreamer) After growing up in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, Seu Jorge rose to...

Albums of the Year 2020: Cleo Sol - Rose in the Dark | reviews, news & interviews Albums of the Year 2020: Cleo Sol - Rose in the Dark Albums of the Year 2020: Cleo Sol - Rose in the Dark A luminous highlight of a Brit soul renaissance by Joe MuggsFriday, 18 December 2020 Among the glints of light in this overcast year, one particularly bright one has been the state of British soul music. Not just in the sense of good records released, although there’ve been plenty of those – ...

2020 has been a year unlike anything else weve ever experienced. The past 12 months have pushed us all to the brink, changing the role music plays in our lives in the process. Its not exactly been a pleasant experience - we can say that with some certainty - but this year has also driven home a number of important factors. Each of us, from freelance writers straight through to the Editor In Chief, are enormously grateful to have a platform with which to express ourselves, and also to support, s...

Last modified on Wed 16 Dec 2020 09.58 EST In a recent essay for Harper’s magazine the author Garth Greenwell wrote about his problem with creating work that is described as “relevant”. He argued that there is “something demeaning about approaching art from a predetermined angle”, and that increasingly artists are being asked if their work is timely and therefore of importance. No one knows whether Sault were asking themselves that question when they made Untitled (Blac...