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Our Time in Rhinecliff: A Winter’s Day in Upstate New York with Natalie Merchant

“It’s 14 degrees!” she says...  read more

Ten April 2010 Albums Worth Checking Out

Remember the other day when everyone was fooling each other with reckless abandon?  read more

Natalie Merchant: Leave Your Sleep

A self-surpassing milestone Natalie Merchant is just talented enough to escape her own trap. On her new album, she’s taken poems by everyone from Jack Prelutsky to Robert Louis Stevenson and crammed them into 26 tracks of museum-piece jazz, Starbucks bluegrass and PBS reggae. It’s an effortlessly elegant and pleasant ride that even the obvious hip-yuppie trappings of it all can’t obscure....  read more

David Byrne, Fatboy Slim, Santigold, More Commemorate Imelda Marcos

Imelda Marcos, former First Lady of the Philippines, is perhaps best known now for collecting 2,700 pairs of shoes during her 20-year tenure, if not fleeing the country with crates of gold and pesos. But former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne has realized, there is more to Marcos than her material wealth....  read more

Bon Jovi, Bonnie Raitt, Springsteen, Natalie Merchant, more appear on benefit CD

A plaque on the Statue of Liberty contains a poem with the line, "Give me your tired, your poor..." Well, Ms. Liberty, we've given and you must be getting an arm cramp from being immobile about it for over a hundred years. Luckily, Give US Your Poor (the benefit CD) is devoted to fighting the nation's homelessness. Out Sept. 25, it features new songs by Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Madeleine Peyroux, Michelle Shocked and Natalie Merchant. Give US Your Poor (the non-profit homeless public education campaign) solicited original songs from U.S. homeless shelters for the compilation. After rifling through...  read more

Natalie Merchant -

With her first completely independent release since the fledgling days of her former band, 10,000 Maniacs, Natalie Merchant has (at least temporarily) put down the pen, not to mention the pop...  read more