Nine Inch Nails Meets Austin City Limits

Austin City Limits (ACL) presents an epic hour with NINE INCH NAILS, premiering on April 5th, 2014. The special broadcast airs as a preview of the iconic PBS music series upcoming milestone 40th Anniversary Season. NIN’s arena-worthy ACL debut showcases ten songs, and will encore during the program’s Season 40, launching in the fall of 2014. ACL celebrates its outstanding legacy this year with highly anticipated debuts and the return of beloved ACL artists. The program airs weekly on PBS stations nationwide (check local listings for times) and full episodes are made available online for a limited time at http://acltv.com/watch/ immediately following the initial broadcast. Viewers can visit acltv.com for news regarding future tapings, episode schedules and 40th Anniversary updates.

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Conversations With Brian Culbertson and Loreena McKennitt, Plus Michael Penn and The Whistles & The Bells Exclusives

A Conversation With Brian Culbertson Mike Ragogna: You’ve been pretty musically active lately, Mr. Culbertson! Do you want to give us a little summary of what you’ve been up to? Brian Culbertson: Well, I’m releasing a new record independently. It’s been a great experience, it’s my first time doing this, so there are a lot […]

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Loreena McKennitt – HuffPost 4.4.14

Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists? Loreena McKennitt: My advice is that music is an incredibly rich, power, unique medium that I encourage everyone at any age to become involved in, and they don’t need to do it professionally. In fact, right now I would not encourage many people to do […]

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Brian Culbertson – HuffPost 4.4.14

Mike Ragogna: For what’s probably the tenth time, what is your advice for new artists? Brian Culbertson: Ah, yes. It’s obviously a changing landscape daily in the music business. There’s a lot of young saxophone players out there that are trying to get somewhere and I try to tell people, “Hey, you’ve got to have […]

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A Conversation with Brian Culbertson – HuffPost 4.4.14

Mike Ragogna: You’ve been pretty musically active lately, Mr. Culbertson! Do you want to give us a little summary of what you’ve been up to? Brian Culbertson: Well, I’m releasing a new record independently. It’s been a great experience, it’s my first time doing this, so there are a lot of learning curves here, but […]

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A Conversation With Loreena McKennitt – HuffPost 4.4.14

Mike Ragogna: Loreena, your new release is The Journey So Far: The Best Of Loreena McKennitt. Assembling this project must have been both a joy and a headscratcher, coming up with a good representation of your career up to this point. How did it feel looking at your career? Loreena McKennitt: I guess it goes with […]

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David Lynch’s “The Air Is On Fire” Launches On Sacred Bones

DAVID LYNCH’S
THE AIR IS ON FIRE

TO BE RELEASED AS LIMITED EDITION LP
VIA SACRED BONES FOR RECORD STORE DAY

HEAR AN INTERVIEW WITH COLLABORATOR
DEAN HURLEY REGARDING THE ALBUM

In early 2007, David Lynch was the subject of a retrospective art exhibition at Paris’ Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain. Evocatively titled The Air is on Fire, it was notable for being the first major comprehensive exhibition of the avant-garde director’s paintings, photographs and drawings. It wasn’t strictly a visual affair; throughout the entire gallery’s two floors and four rooms, a pervasive, interactive soundscape escorted viewers through the work. That soundscape, which shares the name of the exhibition, was composed by Lynch and his collaborator, Dean Hurley, and it’s being issued for the first time on vinyl by Sacred Bones Records as a special Record Store Day release.

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Janelle Monae And Pepsi Recreate David Bowie’s “Heroes”

Grammy-nominated artist, Janelle Monae, and Pepsi have partnered to celebrate music and football by recreating David Bowie’s iconic “Heroes.

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