Tag Archives: LP
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REVIEW: Celine Dion finds ‘Courage’ and all-star cast of collaborators on new LP
Since the ’80s, Canadian artist Celine Dion has sold more than 250 million albums worldwide, making her the best-selling female artist of all time. The five-time Grammy winner (and 20-time Juno Award winner) is still best known, however, for the melodramatic “Titanic” ballad “My Heart Will Go On.” But as…
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INTERVIEW: Yoke Lore seeks to slay his future, takes holistic musical outlook
Yoke Lore photographed at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 24, 2019. Photos: Norm deVeyra. One-time Walk the Moon drummer Adrian Galvin, who now performs and writes music as Yoke Lore, once spent a year living as Buddhist in a monastery in India. While there,…
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REVIEW: LP feeds her admirers ‘Heart to Mouth’ at the Fox
LP performs at the Fox Theater in Oakland on March 10, 2019. Photos: Karen Goldman. OAKLAND — Singer-songwriter LP wowed a packed Fox Theater Sunday with little more than the power and range of her voice. The show, a make-up of an appearance postponed due to illness, was in…
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INTERVIEW: LP swings the pendulum across extremes on new album, tour
LP. Courtesy photo. After concluding her tour for her 2016 album, Lost On You, singer-songwriter LP was almost immediately pulled into a songwriting session. She’d just spent five full months on the road and had been living out of suitcases for a year-and-a-half, thanks to the worldwide success of the…
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PLAYLIST: Behind the scenes with Roman Gokhman’s year in interviews
Messing around with COIN at BottleRock Napa Valley on May 25, 2018. Photo: Roman Gokhman. I think this column is morphing into more of a “my favorite Roman stories” list, but what still holds true is that memorable interviews still lead better stories. I tell the RIFF staff, which…
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Max Heilman’s Top 50 albums of 2018: 40-31
Lets Eat Grandma This is the continuation of my top 50 albums of 2018. If you’re just now joining me, start here. If part one didn’t make this clear enough: My musical interests are completely all over the place. This list is a product of me trying to expose…
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ALBUM REVIEW: LP epitomizes powerful pop-rock on ‘Heart to Mouth’
Whether it’s the self-cannibalization of acts like Greta Van Fleet or the advent of boneless pop-rockers like Imagine Dragons, 2010s rock has largely become over-polished, non-threatening and creatively bankrupt. It’s a state of affairs Angeleno LP (Laura Pergolizzi) combats on her fifth studio album. Having written songs for Rihanna…
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INTERVIEW: Noah Cyrus shares her sadness on ‘Good Cry,’ moves past hectic summer
Noah Cyrus The biggest, most heart-breaking break-up of Noah Cyrus’ life is not the one the internet has been talking about for the past month. While a three-month celebrity romance crashed and burned in a storm of very public accusations over social media, it was a previous two-year relationship…
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Q&A: LP on her forthcoming record, songwriting and wedding bells
LP photographed at Outside Lands Music Festival at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Aug. 12, 2018. Photo: Chloe Catajan. It took LP only six record label deals to find to find a label that believed in her musical vision wholeheartedly. She had her breakout hits “Lost On You”…
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Outside Lands: Janet Jackson and 16 other acts we loved on Sunday
Photos: Joaquin Cabello, Shawn Robbins and Mike DeWald SAN FRANCISCO — And then there was Janet. The final day of the 2018 edition of Outside Lands closed out with legendary pop icon Janet Jackson. Jackson proved to provide immediate heat to a crowd starting to feel one of the chillier…