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...Thirty-three years after its birth, Journey is getting a second wind from an unexpected place. In December, the band signed on new lead vocalist Arnel Pineda, a Filipino singer who they found leading a Manila cover band on YouTube. Six months later, the band has kicked off a tour of Europe and the U.S. and released Revelation, a new album featuring original songs and re-recorded classics that has already shot up to the fifth highest-selling album in the U.S. since its debut two weeks...
...prone to nodding off at concerts, we have the perfect event for you. On June 12, a group of topflight Japanese musicians - including violinist Iwao Furusawa, tenor Masafumi Akikawa and wispy-voiced female vocalist Aoi Teshima - will perform a series of works with the intention of sending the audience to sleep. The concert, to be held at the Tokyo International Forum, is a live rendition of music selected for a Japan Airlines in-flight audio relaxation channel. The pieces, which include Schubert's Ave Maria and a Mozart Divertimento, were tested by a physician specializing in sleeping disorders and compiled...
...bleak: everything’s minor-key. Drummer ?uestlove’s usual crisp snare work has to wade through a sea of fuzzy synths to make itself heard. While a headphone album is nothing new for the Roots, the unenergetic electronic textures get claustrophobic quickly. The album features vocalist cameos, but it doesn’t have a melody to speak of. This means listeners are left with little but Black Thought’s musings for an entire album’s worth of entertainment. His subpar flow has its moments on “Rising Down...
...Here, as elsewhere, a tongue-in-cheek attitude prevails that’s refreshing and funny. They dip into Streets-style flirtatious wordplay with the track “Girl,” and it suits the bluesy, British-accented, simultaneously raspy and rich voice of vocalist Kelvin Swaby surprisingly well, as he claims, “Girl / You look like you could have some fun / Better yet you look like you could have some fun,” chuckling intermittently. Their self-aware sense of humor makes their bluesy, heartbroken songs even more moving, as in the acoustic track...
...production giving the song space to swell, breathe, resolve, and disappear. Even so, the album’s conclusion, “Things Ain’t Like They Used to Be,” is its most startling and triumphant success. With the help of young vocalist Jessica Lea Mayfield, not to mention additional organ and guitar support, Auerbach seems to mourn the tattered remains of an old love with a kind of self-denying defiance: “It doesn’t mean a thing to me, / ’Cause it’s about time...