Pj Harvey will embark on her first North American tour in nearly a decade this fall in support of her latest album, last year’s I Inside the Old Year Dying. Tickets go on sale on Friday.
In addition to the tour announcement, the singer is also releasing a video for the LP’s “Seem an I.” The clip opens with scenes of an ominous barn, a tree with a cutting of black hair hanging from it, and an open meadow. Then actress Ruth Wilson (The Affair, Luther) comes speeding through the shot,...
In addition to the tour announcement, the singer is also releasing a video for the LP’s “Seem an I.” The clip opens with scenes of an ominous barn, a tree with a cutting of black hair hanging from it, and an open meadow. Then actress Ruth Wilson (The Affair, Luther) comes speeding through the shot,...
- 2/26/2024
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
This past July, Pj Harvey returned with her 10th studio album, I Inside the Old Year Dying, and subsequently embarked on a tour in support of its release. Now, Harvey is back with a concert film that captures a performance from this past fall.
Directed by Antoine Carlier and shot by Walter Films in collaboration with Arte Concerts, the concert was filmed at L’Olympia in Paris, France on October 13th, 2023. Over the course of a 22-song setlist, Harvey and her bandmates — John Parish, James Johnston, Giovanni Ferrario, and Jean-Marc Butty — run through I Inside the Old Year Dying, as well as a handful of “oldies,” including “Down by the Water,” “White Chalk,” and more.
Throughout the show, Harvey’s distinct artistry is displayed, as the visuals, lighting, costumes, and arrangements seamlessly come together to create an entrancing vibe. The concert film premiered on Arte Concerts’ YouTube channel on Wednesday,...
Directed by Antoine Carlier and shot by Walter Films in collaboration with Arte Concerts, the concert was filmed at L’Olympia in Paris, France on October 13th, 2023. Over the course of a 22-song setlist, Harvey and her bandmates — John Parish, James Johnston, Giovanni Ferrario, and Jean-Marc Butty — run through I Inside the Old Year Dying, as well as a handful of “oldies,” including “Down by the Water,” “White Chalk,” and more.
Throughout the show, Harvey’s distinct artistry is displayed, as the visuals, lighting, costumes, and arrangements seamlessly come together to create an entrancing vibe. The concert film premiered on Arte Concerts’ YouTube channel on Wednesday,...
- 12/8/2023
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
Pj Harvey performed a recent Tiny Desk Concert in support of her latest album I Inside the Old Year Dying.
Joined by her usual bandmates John Parish and James Johnston, Harvey performed four songs from the new LP: “I Inside the Old I Dying,” “A Noiseless Noise,” its lead single “A Child’s Question, August,” and its title track. The songs off I Inside the Old Year Dying closely tie in with the singer-songwriter’s epic poem Orlam, in which a distressed young girl merges with a forest around her in refuge; with minimal backing performers and hardly any chatter between songs, Harvey’s lyrics were the main focus of her Tiny Desk Concert, bringing the vivid imagery of her poem to life.
Lastly, Harvey performed the title track off her 2007 album White Chalk, almost as if to subtly nod to just some of the characters she’s embodied through her music over the years.
Joined by her usual bandmates John Parish and James Johnston, Harvey performed four songs from the new LP: “I Inside the Old I Dying,” “A Noiseless Noise,” its lead single “A Child’s Question, August,” and its title track. The songs off I Inside the Old Year Dying closely tie in with the singer-songwriter’s epic poem Orlam, in which a distressed young girl merges with a forest around her in refuge; with minimal backing performers and hardly any chatter between songs, Harvey’s lyrics were the main focus of her Tiny Desk Concert, bringing the vivid imagery of her poem to life.
Lastly, Harvey performed the title track off her 2007 album White Chalk, almost as if to subtly nod to just some of the characters she’s embodied through her music over the years.
- 11/17/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Pj Harvey recently treated the NPR office to four songs from this year’s I Inside the Old Year Dying, an album that found her singing in the archaic dialect of Dorset, where she grew up, as well as an occasional nod to Elvis Presley’s “Love Me Tender.” She sang in a cluttered corner of the radio network’s office for the 16-minute Tiny Desk Concert, supported by multi-instrumentalist James Johnston and her longtime collaborator John Parish, both of whom backed her up on lyrics like “chalky children of...
- 11/17/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
During the interview portion of Pj Harvey’s multimedia event in Brooklyn on Tuesday — her first U.S. live appearance in six years, which included a poetry reading, a conversation, and a musical performance — she told the audience that she felt her voice has only gotten better with age. “I definitely feel it’s the best singing I’ve ever done,” she said. “I think being older helps. One of the good things about aging, actually, is the voice is in a really lovely place. It’s much richer, and...
- 11/8/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Pj Harvey has announced her first live appearance in North America in six years, an event at Warsaw in Brooklyn called “I Inside the Old Year Dying: Poetry, Conversation, Music” taking place on November 7th.
The evening will feature Harvey reading from her latest poetry book, Orlam, before sitting down for a conversation with author and New Yorker staff writer Amanda Petrusich. To close out the event, the English singer-songwriter will perform songs from her latest album, I Inside the Old Year Dying, with bandmates John Parish and James Johnston.
A Live Nation pre-sale for “I Inside the Old Year Dying: Poetry, Conversation, Music” will begin on Wednesday, October 25th (use access code Vocals) ahead of the general on-sale slated for Friday, October 27th via Ticketmaster.
Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform,...
The evening will feature Harvey reading from her latest poetry book, Orlam, before sitting down for a conversation with author and New Yorker staff writer Amanda Petrusich. To close out the event, the English singer-songwriter will perform songs from her latest album, I Inside the Old Year Dying, with bandmates John Parish and James Johnston.
A Live Nation pre-sale for “I Inside the Old Year Dying: Poetry, Conversation, Music” will begin on Wednesday, October 25th (use access code Vocals) ahead of the general on-sale slated for Friday, October 27th via Ticketmaster.
Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program. StubHub is a secondary market ticketing platform,...
- 10/24/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
Pj Harvey will make her first U.S. appearance in six years next month when she reads poetry from her recent novel in verse, Orlam, and performs songs from her latest album, this year’s I Inside the Old Year Dying, in Brooklyn. The event, titled “I Inside the Old Year Dying: Poetry, Conversation, Music,” will take place at the Warsaw on Nov. 7. Tickets go on sale Friday via Ticketmaster.
The artist, who has been touring in support of the album in Europe, will perform several songs alongside bandmates John Parish and James Johnston.
The artist, who has been touring in support of the album in Europe, will perform several songs alongside bandmates John Parish and James Johnston.
- 10/24/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Parquet Courts frontman A. Savage has returned with “Thanksgiving Prayer,” his first new solo music since 2017. Along with the single, he announced a solo tour for this fall. Listen to the song and check out the full list of upcoming dates below.
“Thanksgiving Prayer” is an intimate and intricate composition. While perhaps a bit somber at first listen, the lyrics elevate the song with a sense of hope and wonder, conveying Savage’s knack for speaking to complicated emotions. The song feels like light in the darkness — it doesn’t shy away from the turmoil of life, but still finds a way to embrace its beauty.
The single arrived with a corresponding music video directed by Tiff Pritchett. “She had this idea to sort of do a silent film tribute,” Savage explained. “The scene from Renoir’s film Rules of the Game where Danse Macabre is played was referenced, as was Klaus Nomi.
“Thanksgiving Prayer” is an intimate and intricate composition. While perhaps a bit somber at first listen, the lyrics elevate the song with a sense of hope and wonder, conveying Savage’s knack for speaking to complicated emotions. The song feels like light in the darkness — it doesn’t shy away from the turmoil of life, but still finds a way to embrace its beauty.
The single arrived with a corresponding music video directed by Tiff Pritchett. “She had this idea to sort of do a silent film tribute,” Savage explained. “The scene from Renoir’s film Rules of the Game where Danse Macabre is played was referenced, as was Klaus Nomi.
- 7/13/2023
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
Pj Harvey is back with I Inside the Old Year Dying, her first album since 2016’s The Hope Six Demolition Project. Listen to the project below.
Harvey recorded I Inside the Old Year Dying at London’s Battery Studio with longtime collaborator John Parish and producer Flood. Marking her 10th studio album to date, the artist ascribed a sort of pensive feeling to the LP while citing the likes of Jonny Greenwood, Mica Levi, Hildur Guðnadóttir, and — of course — Bob Dylan as musical influences.
“I think the album is about searching, looking — the intensity of first love, and seeking meaning,” Harvey said in a statement. “Not that there has to be a message, but the feeling I get from the record is one of love — it’s tinged with sadness and loss, but it’s loving. I think that’s what makes it feel so welcoming: so open.”
Harvey will...
Harvey recorded I Inside the Old Year Dying at London’s Battery Studio with longtime collaborator John Parish and producer Flood. Marking her 10th studio album to date, the artist ascribed a sort of pensive feeling to the LP while citing the likes of Jonny Greenwood, Mica Levi, Hildur Guðnadóttir, and — of course — Bob Dylan as musical influences.
“I think the album is about searching, looking — the intensity of first love, and seeking meaning,” Harvey said in a statement. “Not that there has to be a message, but the feeling I get from the record is one of love — it’s tinged with sadness and loss, but it’s loving. I think that’s what makes it feel so welcoming: so open.”
Harvey will...
- 7/7/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Music
Pj Harvey’s I Inside the Old Year Dying opens with a whining guitar, which serves as a kind of warm embrace for fans of the often abrasive alt-rock that defined the singer-songwriter’s early work. The album abounds in curious and compelling guitar tones, stretching and mutating across “Autumn Term” and gathering like a smoky haze on “August.” Sometimes, the guitar work plays up the album’s contrasts: The title track, for one, is driven by a triumphant acoustic guitar while an electric one howls and snarls in the background.
Perhaps most reminiscent of albums like 1993’s Rid of Me is the maelstrom of dissonance that Harvey and frequent collaborator John Parish fire up on the album’s thrilling closing track, “A Noiseless Noise,” after a fake-out of twinkling guitar and bird chirps. But despite acting as a delivery system for arresting six-string rockers, I Inside the Old Year...
Perhaps most reminiscent of albums like 1993’s Rid of Me is the maelstrom of dissonance that Harvey and frequent collaborator John Parish fire up on the album’s thrilling closing track, “A Noiseless Noise,” after a fake-out of twinkling guitar and bird chirps. But despite acting as a delivery system for arresting six-string rockers, I Inside the Old Year...
- 7/6/2023
- by Charles Lyons-Burt
- Slant Magazine
In “A Child’s Question (July),” Pj Harvey sings in a jaunty rhythm, “Who’s inneath the Ooser-Rod?/Horny devil? Goaty God?”
The words sound playful as her guitar swells liquidly around her voice, and the couplet goes by so mellifluously, chased by whispers and chirping birds, that it’s easy go with the flow without wondering just what the heck an Ooser-Rod is. But when you look up the words’ meaning in Orlam — the novel in verse Harvey released last year, which she wrote in the dying (or maybe dead) dialect of the Dorset,...
The words sound playful as her guitar swells liquidly around her voice, and the couplet goes by so mellifluously, chased by whispers and chirping birds, that it’s easy go with the flow without wondering just what the heck an Ooser-Rod is. But when you look up the words’ meaning in Orlam — the novel in verse Harvey released last year, which she wrote in the dying (or maybe dead) dialect of the Dorset,...
- 7/6/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Pj Harvey is back with “I Inside the Old I Dying,” the second look at her upcoming album I Inside the Old Year Dying. Check out the new single below.
Harvey’s latest offering feels particularly ghostly, bringing to mind the atmospheric sounds of 1998’s Is This Desire? “The dead brakes host the holly’s bloody beads/ They are His crown of thorns and He will rise again,” the artist cries. Even though I Inside the Old Year Dying was recorded live, Harvey’s voice sounds miles away from the song’s gentle guitar.
“This delicate and beautiful song eluded us until the very last day in the studio,” Harvey said in a statement. “Over the previous five weeks we had tried so many times to capture it and failed, and/but then John reinvented the feel of the guitar pattern. As he was demonstrating it in the control room,...
Harvey’s latest offering feels particularly ghostly, bringing to mind the atmospheric sounds of 1998’s Is This Desire? “The dead brakes host the holly’s bloody beads/ They are His crown of thorns and He will rise again,” the artist cries. Even though I Inside the Old Year Dying was recorded live, Harvey’s voice sounds miles away from the song’s gentle guitar.
“This delicate and beautiful song eluded us until the very last day in the studio,” Harvey said in a statement. “Over the previous five weeks we had tried so many times to capture it and failed, and/but then John reinvented the feel of the guitar pattern. As he was demonstrating it in the control room,...
- 6/7/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Music
Pj Harvey is set to release her first album since 2106, I Inside the Old Year Dying — and she’s previewing it today with a somber track she’s titled, “A Child’s Question, August.” Although she quotes the King of Rock & Roll on the tune — “Love me tender, tender love” — the song revisits the folkish sound of her 2010 album, Let England Shake, with its easy tempo, sparse instrumentation, and Harvey’s soprano singing about rooks, corn, and cuckoos. She’ll reveal the full context of the song when she releases the album,...
- 4/26/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Pj Harvey has confirmed her first new album in seven years. Entitled I Inside the Old Year Dying, it’s due out on July 7th via Partisan Records. As a preview, Harvey has unveiled “A Child’s Question, August” as the lead single. Watch the song’s accompanying video below.
The songs featured on I Inside the Old Year Dying came together in “about three weeks.” Harvey then recorded the album live at London’s Battery Studio with longtime collaborator John Parish and producer Flood.
“I think the album is about searching, looking – the intensity of first love, and seeking meaning,” Harvey said. “Not that there has to be a message, but the feeling I get from the record is one of love – it’s tinged with sadness and loss, but it’s loving. I think that’s what makes it feel so welcoming: so open.”
I Inside the Old...
The songs featured on I Inside the Old Year Dying came together in “about three weeks.” Harvey then recorded the album live at London’s Battery Studio with longtime collaborator John Parish and producer Flood.
“I think the album is about searching, looking – the intensity of first love, and seeking meaning,” Harvey said. “Not that there has to be a message, but the feeling I get from the record is one of love – it’s tinged with sadness and loss, but it’s loving. I think that’s what makes it feel so welcoming: so open.”
I Inside the Old...
- 4/26/2023
- by Alex Young
- Consequence - Music
Nick Drake’s discography proved to be a goldmine for the forthcoming album The Endless Coloured Ways, a collection of 32 of the musician’s most essential catalog entries reimagined by various artists. On the first release from the project, out July 7, Fontaines D.C. flips Drake’s 1969 classic “‘Cello Song.”
The post-punk band’s rendition is heavier, pushing loud guitars and thick bass lines to the surface where Drake originally coasted alongside softer instrumentals. It’s the exact recording approach Jeremy Lascelles, co-founder of Blue Raincoat Music and CEO of Chrysalis Records,...
The post-punk band’s rendition is heavier, pushing loud guitars and thick bass lines to the surface where Drake originally coasted alongside softer instrumentals. It’s the exact recording approach Jeremy Lascelles, co-founder of Blue Raincoat Music and CEO of Chrysalis Records,...
- 3/1/2023
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
“Is it still Ok to call you my disco pickle?” By the time that Florence Shaw, Dry Cleaning’s conversational poet-in-residence, asks that question on “Hot Penny Day,” a tune that marks the halfway mark for the group’s second album, Stumpwork, the answer will invariably be yes. Any reluctant cukes likely would’ve moved on to another record several tracks earlier since the group makes such a divisive racket. As on Dry Cleaning’s lauded debut, New Long Leg, the quartet specializes in the audio equivalent of a double...
- 10/19/2022
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Pj Harvey will complete her long-running archival project this fall with a box set, B-Sides, Demos and Rarities. As the title suggests, the three-cd or six-lp anthology collects 59 black sheep from the alt-rock firebrand’s career, including several previously unreleased tracks. The box will come out on Nov. 4.
Before the release date, though, Harvey has issued three tracks from the collection as an EP: previously unreleased demos of “Dry” and “Missed,” as well as the bluesy “Somebody’s Down, Somebody’s Name,” the latter of which came out on the...
Before the release date, though, Harvey has issued three tracks from the collection as an EP: previously unreleased demos of “Dry” and “Missed,” as well as the bluesy “Somebody’s Down, Somebody’s Name,” the latter of which came out on the...
- 9/8/2022
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Celebrated London post-punks Dry Cleaning are back with a new song, “Don’t Press Me,” which will appear on their upcoming second album, Stumpwork, out Oct. 21 via 4Ad.
“Don’t Press Me” is vintage Dry Cleaning, with vocalist Florence Shaw spinning a yarn that’s oddly specific, a little surreal, and taps into something deeply existential. In this instance, she’s mostly talking about gaming and enjoying life’s little pleasures without guilt, speaking — and even softly crooning a bit — over a punchy tangle of guitars and drums.
“The words...
“Don’t Press Me” is vintage Dry Cleaning, with vocalist Florence Shaw spinning a yarn that’s oddly specific, a little surreal, and taps into something deeply existential. In this instance, she’s mostly talking about gaming and enjoying life’s little pleasures without guilt, speaking — and even softly crooning a bit — over a punchy tangle of guitars and drums.
“The words...
- 6/14/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Indie rock outfit Parquet Courts have released a new song, “Walking at a Downtown Pace,” from their next album, Sympathy for Life, out October 22nd via Rough Trade Records.
“Walking at a Downtown Pace” finds Parquet Courts settling into a brisk, bustling groove and coming together for a big chorus of gang vocals: “I’ve found a reason to exist/Written on the tile of the platform wall/Begging not to go extinct to all those who saw.”
“Walking at a Downtown Place” also arrives with a music video, directed by street photographer Daniel Arnold,...
“Walking at a Downtown Pace” finds Parquet Courts settling into a brisk, bustling groove and coming together for a big chorus of gang vocals: “I’ve found a reason to exist/Written on the tile of the platform wall/Begging not to go extinct to all those who saw.”
“Walking at a Downtown Place” also arrives with a music video, directed by street photographer Daniel Arnold,...
- 8/18/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
East London band Dry Cleaning appeared on NPR’s Tiny Desk series, performing a Tiny Desk (Home) Concert from a cassette tape- and vinyl-filled space.
The group played several songs from their recent debut album, New Long Leg, including “Leafy,” “Her Hippo,” and “Unsmart Lady.” The intimate set also included a rendition of “Viking Hair,” off the band’s 2019 EP Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks.
New Long Leg dropped in April via 4Ad. The album was recorded with Pj Harvey producer John Parish. The band has shared several music videos for tracks off the album,...
The group played several songs from their recent debut album, New Long Leg, including “Leafy,” “Her Hippo,” and “Unsmart Lady.” The intimate set also included a rendition of “Viking Hair,” off the band’s 2019 EP Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks.
New Long Leg dropped in April via 4Ad. The album was recorded with Pj Harvey producer John Parish. The band has shared several music videos for tracks off the album,...
- 7/7/2021
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
The London-based art-rock quartet Dry Cleaning have announced their full-length debut, New Long Leg, out via 4Ad on April 2nd.
Last spring, Dry Cleaning capitalized on the buzz generated by their brilliantly offbeat 2019 EPs Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks and Sweet Princess with a tour of U.S. clubs that was cut short by the Covid-19 pandemic. Afterward, they went home to the U.K. and got to work on their first full album, with longtime Pj Harvey collaborator John Parish in the producer’s chair.
“It’s not just...
Last spring, Dry Cleaning capitalized on the buzz generated by their brilliantly offbeat 2019 EPs Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks and Sweet Princess with a tour of U.S. clubs that was cut short by the Covid-19 pandemic. Afterward, they went home to the U.K. and got to work on their first full album, with longtime Pj Harvey collaborator John Parish in the producer’s chair.
“It’s not just...
- 2/9/2021
- by Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
The Pj Harvey documentary, A Dog Called Money, will have a North American streaming premiere December 7th before arriving on video-on-demand platforms.
Independent distributor Abramorama will host the streaming premiere on Maestro, the same interactive platform Billie Eilish used for her Where Do We Go? livestream concert. The premiere will start at 8 p.m. Et/5 p.m. Pt and feature an introduction from director Seamus Murphy. Tickets are on sale for $12.
Following the premiere, A Dog Called Money will open at the Film Forum theater in New York City December 9th.
Independent distributor Abramorama will host the streaming premiere on Maestro, the same interactive platform Billie Eilish used for her Where Do We Go? livestream concert. The premiere will start at 8 p.m. Et/5 p.m. Pt and feature an introduction from director Seamus Murphy. Tickets are on sale for $12.
Following the premiere, A Dog Called Money will open at the Film Forum theater in New York City December 9th.
- 12/2/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
“I think of myself as a hardy banana, with a waxy surface and small, delicate flowers,” Florence Shaw observes coolly toward the midpoint of the London band Dry Cleaning’s new single. She follows this image with a more violent one, delivered in the same detached tone and repeated for good measure: “A woman in aviators firing a bazooka/A woman in aviators firing a bazooka.”
Shaw tosses out these shards of odd poetry while her three variously shaggy bandmates rock out around her, making “Scratchcard Lanyard” sound sort of...
Shaw tosses out these shards of odd poetry while her three variously shaggy bandmates rock out around her, making “Scratchcard Lanyard” sound sort of...
- 11/24/2020
- by Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
Gearing up to reissue of her entire catalogue, Pj Harvey shared a demo of “Down By the Water” from To Bring You My Love, which will be reissued on September 11th via Beggars Archive/Too Pure Records.
The demo sounds extremely similar to the album version, down to the ominous guitar and backing vocals, as Harvey sings, “That blue-eyed girl/She said “no more”/That blue-eyed girl/Became blue-eyed whore.” Toward the end of the track, she whispers the eerie lines: “Little fish, big fish, swimming in the water/Come back here,...
The demo sounds extremely similar to the album version, down to the ominous guitar and backing vocals, as Harvey sings, “That blue-eyed girl/She said “no more”/That blue-eyed girl/Became blue-eyed whore.” Toward the end of the track, she whispers the eerie lines: “Little fish, big fish, swimming in the water/Come back here,...
- 7/16/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
One week after teasing a photo of mixtapes, Pj Harvey announced reissues of her entire catalog, beginning with her 1992 debut, Dry, out July 24th via Beggars Archive/Too Pure Records.
Reissued for the first time in 20 years, Dry will be accompanied by a collection of demos from the record, available as a stand-alone LP for the first time. You can hear a demo of the single “Sheela-Na-Gig” above. It’s a stripped-down version of the track, as Harvey strums a guitar and sings, “Look at these, my child-bearing hips/Look at these,...
Reissued for the first time in 20 years, Dry will be accompanied by a collection of demos from the record, available as a stand-alone LP for the first time. You can hear a demo of the single “Sheela-Na-Gig” above. It’s a stripped-down version of the track, as Harvey strums a guitar and sings, “Look at these, my child-bearing hips/Look at these,...
- 5/28/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Aldous Harding uses oddness as both lure and armor. You can see it in her performances, which suggest a neurodiverse lexicon of emotions in her facial tics and physicality. And you can hear it in the language of Designer, her quizzically beautiful third LP, where she pivots artfully from folk eccentric to pop eccentric.
Harding’s from Christchurch, New Zealand — a far-flung spot that, before becoming yet another poster town for racist violence, was best-known for its thriving indie-rock community in the ‘80s and ‘90s, with bands like The Bats and Bailter Space,...
Harding’s from Christchurch, New Zealand — a far-flung spot that, before becoming yet another poster town for racist violence, was best-known for its thriving indie-rock community in the ‘80s and ‘90s, with bands like The Bats and Bailter Space,...
- 4/25/2019
- by Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
Jason Triche still remembers the moment the bullet tore into his back.
“It was another typical day, and we were out on patrol when we got the call,” recalls Triche, a sheriff’s deputy in St. John Parish, Louisiana, of the morning in August 2012 when he and several other officers showed up at a trailer park and were ambushed by a man with an assault rifle.
“It hit me like a truck,” Triche says.
The 35-year-old married father of a young son dragged himself to his patrol car and drove to the hospital, where doctors doubted he would survive. When...
“It was another typical day, and we were out on patrol when we got the call,” recalls Triche, a sheriff’s deputy in St. John Parish, Louisiana, of the morning in August 2012 when he and several other officers showed up at a trailer park and were ambushed by a man with an assault rifle.
“It hit me like a truck,” Triche says.
The 35-year-old married father of a young son dragged himself to his patrol car and drove to the hospital, where doctors doubted he would survive. When...
- 4/28/2017
- by Johnny Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
Vagrant Records
It’s hard to find a female who’s had as much of an influence on the musical world in the last 20 years as Pj Harvey. Sure you’ve had Madonna and Britney Spears in the pop world, Bjork in the alt-rock world and Lady Gaga from whatever world she came from, but in my mind none top the Goddess that is Polly Jean Harvey.
In her musical career, she’s released 10 studio albums, two of which are collaborations with John Parish, had four albums in the book 1001 Albums to Hear Before You Die, been nominated for the Mercury award four times (twice of which she’s won, making her the only artist to have), and been awarded an MBE. She is a legend in the rock world, so much so she was considered by the surviving members of Nirvana to fill Kurt Cobain’s shoes at a reunion concert.
It’s hard to find a female who’s had as much of an influence on the musical world in the last 20 years as Pj Harvey. Sure you’ve had Madonna and Britney Spears in the pop world, Bjork in the alt-rock world and Lady Gaga from whatever world she came from, but in my mind none top the Goddess that is Polly Jean Harvey.
In her musical career, she’s released 10 studio albums, two of which are collaborations with John Parish, had four albums in the book 1001 Albums to Hear Before You Die, been nominated for the Mercury award four times (twice of which she’s won, making her the only artist to have), and been awarded an MBE. She is a legend in the rock world, so much so she was considered by the surviving members of Nirvana to fill Kurt Cobain’s shoes at a reunion concert.
- 2/11/2014
- by Andrew Simon Noel
- Obsessed with Film
Filmic | London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival | Human Rights Watch Film Festival | Wales One World Film Festival
Filmic, Bristol
Less a festival than a drawn-out season exploring the overlap between cinema and music. Local hero John Parish starts things off this Saturday, talking about his film music and selecting films for this month's Sunday Brunch screenings. Next month it's Goldfrapp's Will Gregory's turn, and he performs with his Moog ensemble alongside Geoff Barrow's would-be Judge Dredd soundtrack Drokk. There's a special screening of Tron, and in May Philip Glass will be selecting movies and giving a talk.
Watershed & St George's Hall, Sat to 14 May
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Never afraid to shake things up, the long-running festival is even taking suggestions on a new name this year. Strictly, it should be the Llgbtqiaff (taking in bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex and asexual), but surely we can come up with something more succinct?...
Filmic, Bristol
Less a festival than a drawn-out season exploring the overlap between cinema and music. Local hero John Parish starts things off this Saturday, talking about his film music and selecting films for this month's Sunday Brunch screenings. Next month it's Goldfrapp's Will Gregory's turn, and he performs with his Moog ensemble alongside Geoff Barrow's would-be Judge Dredd soundtrack Drokk. There's a special screening of Tron, and in May Philip Glass will be selecting movies and giving a talk.
Watershed & St George's Hall, Sat to 14 May
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Never afraid to shake things up, the long-running festival is even taking suggestions on a new name this year. Strictly, it should be the Llgbtqiaff (taking in bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex and asexual), but surely we can come up with something more succinct?...
- 3/9/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Ursula Meier’s (Home) second feature, and the Swiss submission for the 85th Academy Awards, is a wonderfully low-key drama about a seemingly fractured family, denial, and the absence of childhood not unlike The Dardenne brothers’ immaculate The Kid with a Bike (which screened at the Lff last year).
12-year-old Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein) and his sister Louise (Léa Seydoux) live at the foot of a luxury Swiss ski resort. From the first time we meet him, there’s a gleeful roguishness to Simon; he hustles his wares – stolen from the resort’s wealthy patrons – to other kids at the resort, while it’s subtly suggested that that his sister is prostituting herself. As Louise leaves each day to apparently go to work, there’s a potent irony in Simon’s loneliness; a place of joy for holiday-making families is one of monotony for him. But...
Ursula Meier’s (Home) second feature, and the Swiss submission for the 85th Academy Awards, is a wonderfully low-key drama about a seemingly fractured family, denial, and the absence of childhood not unlike The Dardenne brothers’ immaculate The Kid with a Bike (which screened at the Lff last year).
12-year-old Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein) and his sister Louise (Léa Seydoux) live at the foot of a luxury Swiss ski resort. From the first time we meet him, there’s a gleeful roguishness to Simon; he hustles his wares – stolen from the resort’s wealthy patrons – to other kids at the resort, while it’s subtly suggested that that his sister is prostituting herself. As Louise leaves each day to apparently go to work, there’s a potent irony in Simon’s loneliness; a place of joy for holiday-making families is one of monotony for him. But...
- 10/11/2012
- by Shaun Munro
- Obsessed with Film
M. Ward's forthcoming album A Wasteland Companion has been on our radar. Today, the Him of She & Him has released the albums newest single, "Primitive Girl". The track can be heard on Spotify and purchased on iTunes now. "Primitive Girl" features John Parish on percussion, Susan Sanchez on backing vocals and Mike Mogis on organ. The 12 track album was recorded with the likes of 18 musicians, in 8 studios across the Us and one in the UK.
- 2/21/2012
- Pastemagazine.com
Pj Harvey has announced a one-off show at the Royal Albert Hall this autumn. The singer-songwriter plays the London venue on October 30. Her live band will feature Mick Harvey, John Parish and Jean-Marc Butty. The concert follows previously-announced shows in Manchester and Glasgow next month. Tickets go on sale this Friday, August 12. Harvey's eighth studio album Let England Shake has been nominated for the (more)...
- 8/8/2011
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
With Arcade Fire winning Album of the Year at the 53rd Grammy Awards and the Decemberists recently finding their way to the top of the Billboard album chart, could 2011 be the year that indie rock breaks through (again)? Polly Jean Harvey has spent the better part of two decades grinding out an ever-morphing hybrid of blues, folk and electronic music that has seen both highs (1993's breakthrough Rid of Me, 2000's intense and moody Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea) and lows (1998's sleepy Is This Desire? and 2007's even sleepier White Chalk). For her new album Let England Shake (which hits store shelves today), Harvey has left the soft piano tinkling of White Chalk behind in favor of her core guitar-driven sound. Is Harvey's return to form a welcome experiment or an exercise in treading water?
According to the reviews, everybody seems completely on board with Harvey's latest work.
According to the reviews, everybody seems completely on board with Harvey's latest work.
- 2/15/2011
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
Pj Harvey has said that she believes the time is right to release songs about "things that really matter". The singer-songwriter told The Quietus that she had spent two years writing lyrics for her upcoming record Let England Shake, the follow-up to 2007's White Chalk and last year's A Woman a Man Walked By collaboration with John Parish. Harvey said: "I do feel at this stage of my life, it feels very important (more)...
- 1/7/2011
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
British singer/songwriter Pj Harvey will release her eighth studio album, “Let England Shake,” Feb. 14 on Island Records. Harvey recorded the album in a 19th century church in Dorset, England with co-producer Flood, as well as longtime collaborators, John Parish and Mick Harvey, according to her website. Harvey had previously announced a largely-sold out European tour that kicks off Feb. 18 in Brussels. There is no word on U.S. dates yet, although Harvey is expected to add a number of festival dates to her schedule. In addition to Mick Harvey and Parish, her live band will include Jean-Marc Butty. “Let England...
- 11/24/2010
- Hitfix
Pj Harvey and John Parish are set to return to the U.S. for a limited tour in June that will see the two stopping at 14 cities to perform songs from their new album .A Woman A Man Walked By.. They are also expected to play songs from their 1996 album .Dance Hall at Louse Point.. The tour will kick off on June 2nd at Center Stage in Atlanta, and wrap up at Humphrey.s in San Diego on June 21st. Harvey and Parish are set to take the stage with a band comprising of Eric Drew Feldman, Jean-Marc Butty and Giovanni Ferrario . who played with them during a brief series of sold-out shows last month. .A Woman A Man...
- 4/30/2009
- by Patrick Luce
- Monsters and Critics
P.J. Harvey has become a master of crafting albums that find a single mood and dig deep inside it for 45 minutes. Her last, 2007’s White Chalk, was one of her best, filled with doomy folk laments and spectral textures. The second album-length partnership with frequent collaborator John Parish—he provided the music, Harvey the lyrics—A Woman A Man Walked By, heads in a direction opposite the cohesiveness of Harvey’s past albums. To put it better, it heads in several directions at once, all of them intriguing, few of them fully satisfying. On the other hand ...
- 4/7/2009
- avclub.com
Jake Chapman has said that he and his brother Dinos were "super clever" in their production of the new music video for 'Black Hearted Love' by Pj Harvey and John Parish. The younger sibling of the Chapman Brothers art duo told The Guardian that the pair were not "into" the idea of the music video without "a certain amount of condemnatory scrutiny". Jake said: "I think we've managed to created a visual language to match the music but we've had to deskill ourselves (more)...
- 4/2/2009
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Keep on Walking
The ninth track here is called “Passionless, Pointless,” and there’s a strong temptation to apply this title to the entire album, but that wouldn’t be fair—the record is slathered with passion, and the point seems to be an exercise in creative freedom, a chance for these collaborators to do whatever they want knowing that Harvey's pedigree will insulate them from commercial concern. Lucky them. Who else of this stature could (or would want to) fill an album with clangs, grunts and wails? On “16. 15. 14,” Harvey pronounces “Daniel” as “Donny-ell,” an unpleasant affectation. On “The Chair,” she sounds like she’s falling down a well. On A Woman as a whole, she sounds as though she’s far less inspired than she was on her previous disc, White Chalk, a work of bone-chilling intimacy. This new one is both harder to love and harder to fathom.
The ninth track here is called “Passionless, Pointless,” and there’s a strong temptation to apply this title to the entire album, but that wouldn’t be fair—the record is slathered with passion, and the point seems to be an exercise in creative freedom, a chance for these collaborators to do whatever they want knowing that Harvey's pedigree will insulate them from commercial concern. Lucky them. Who else of this stature could (or would want to) fill an album with clangs, grunts and wails? On “16. 15. 14,” Harvey pronounces “Daniel” as “Donny-ell,” an unpleasant affectation. On “The Chair,” she sounds like she’s falling down a well. On A Woman as a whole, she sounds as though she’s far less inspired than she was on her previous disc, White Chalk, a work of bone-chilling intimacy. This new one is both harder to love and harder to fathom.
- 3/30/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
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