Phoebe Bridgers has released her annual holiday cover — this time with the help of her boygenius bandmates. This year’s choice is “The Parting Glass” — a Scottish and Irish traditional that Sinéad O’Connor recorded in 2002 — which also features the Irish folk duo Ye Vagabonds. Just like all …
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Austin City Limits has publicly apologized to Phoebe Bridgers after her set at the festival was cut short, which led to the musician tweeting, “lol fuck acl” on Saturday. On Sunday, the Austin music festival responded in a statement, “Unfortunately, due to a miscommunication on stage by ACL Festival personnel, …
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Phoebe Bridgers wrapped a week of televised and virtual performances Saturday with an appearance on CBS This Morning, where the singer showcased three tracks from her 2020 LP Punisher. For the morning show’s weekly “Saturday Sessions,” Bridgers, her skeleton getup and her backing band delivered “Kyoto,” “Garden Song” and the …
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Christian Lee Hutson’s “Northsiders” is about memories that haunt. Hutson, an L.A.-based singer-songwriter who’s currently touring with Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst’s Better Oblivion Community Center, spends most of the Bridgers-produced song recounting a naive adolescence with nostalgic remove and striking specificity: “We were so pretentious then, didn’t trust the …
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