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Watch Billy Strings Pick Up A Storm On ‘Austin City Limits’

(photo: Jackie Lee Young) Billy Strings will bring some high-voltage picking to Austin City Limits tomorrow (Sept. 19) on PBS, and beforehand, SPIN is premiering his performance of “Seven Weeks in County” from his Grammy-winning 2024 album Highway Prayers. Strings’ second ACL headlining appearance will also available via PBS.org, YouTube, the PBS App and the ACLTV YouTube channel. The hour captures Strings and his four-piece acoustic band — mandolin, upright bass, banjo and fiddle — in classic picking session formation, […]

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‘Barely Breathing’ Singer, ‘Spring Awakening’ Composer Duncan Sheik Dies

Duncan Sheik in 2002 (photo: Bryan Linden / WireImage). Duncan Sheik, the introspective singer/songwriter whose hit “Barely Breathing” became a defining mid-’90s pop song before he reinvented himself as a Tony-winning Broadway composer, died yesterday (Sept. 17) in Manhattan at the age of 56. His mother, Suzanne Sheik, confirmed his death to the New York Times, saying the cause was organ failure.Sheik’s career was marked by a persistent tension between mainstream recognition and his own resistance to the machinery of […]

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Jarvis Cocker, Garth Jennings On Capturing Pulp At Its Most Joyfully Theatrical

Pulp on stage during "What Do You Do for an Encore?" (courtesy photo) Pulp’s second distinct comeback has already produced a new album, a triumphant return to the stage and a fresh chapter in the band’s long, singular story. It’s now bound for the big screen in the form of Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore?, a feature-length documentary directed by Garth Jennings premiering on MUBI Sept. 25 and screening the day before in theaters worldwide.Part concert film, […]

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