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Regina Spektor Announces Eighth Studio Album, Unveils ‘Becoming All Alone’
Regina Spektor is set to release her eighth studio album, Home, before and after, and she released its first single “Becoming All Alone,” today. This is Spektor’s first new album since 2016. Recorded in upstate New York, Spektor’s newest work is out June 24 via Warner Records and says that it is the “most quintessentially ‘New York’” record she has made in years. Home, before and after was produced by John Congleton and co-produced by Spektor. “Becoming All Alone” is an all-too-fitting ode to the inevitable loneliness a massive city can render. “And I just wanna ride / But this whole world / It makes me car sick,” Spektor seers over the accompanying strings and sharp drums. But when the song closes, leaving only Spektor’s voice and piano keys, she warmly pleads for time to ...
Regina Spektor Revisits ‘Prisoners’ on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
When Regina Spektor was invited to bring some live music to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, she brought one of her classic songs to the show — “Prisoners” off her 2002 album, Songs. “When I did my solo piano tour, I revisited some of the older songs. While dreaming up fun things for the Broadway shows I invited Caleb [Teicher], who is brilliant at using tap as percussion, to check out ‘Prisoners,’” Spektor said in a statement. The performance was filmed after Spektor’s Broadway run at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater last summer. She continued, “After the shows, we filmed the song at Roulette in Brooklyn, just to have a memory of that wonderful moment. Little did we know that being alone in a theater and on opposite sides of the stage would be where the world was heading. I await the day we c...
Pearl Jam, R.E.M. and More Demand Clearance for Campaign Songs
Pearl Jam, R.E.M. Sia, Lorde and more have joined forces with the Artists Rights Alliance to demand that the political parties “establish clear policies requiring campaigns to seek the consent of featured recording artists, songwriters, and copyright owners before publicly using their music in a political or campaign setting,” the Artist Rights Alliance announce in a statement. The letter also points out “the fundamental right of music creators to decide who can use their music and on what terms.” And if they do not comply, the political parties risk legal action. The ARA furthered their point in the following statement: “We’ve seen so many artists and estates dragged into politics against their will and forced to take aggressive action to prohibit the use of their music – usually songs th...
