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Sade Adu has unveiled a new music video for “Young Lion,” her recently-released single from the compilation album, TRAИƧA.

Marking her first new song in six years, “Young Lion” is a heartfelt tribute to Sade’s trans son, Izaak, celebrating who he is with loving lyrics like, “Run down the hills of your dreams/ Arms open wide, feel the light/ Shine like a sun.” Accordingly, the new music video features footage of Sade and Izaak during Izaak’s youth, eventually cutting to modern-day footage of the two together. Watch it below.

The single first arrived in September, and was included on the sample EP of TRAИƧA tracks, TRAИƧA: Selects. The full project was put together by the label Red Hot, and features contributions from many artists, including André 3000, Sam Smith, Jeff Tweedy, Faye Webster, Moses Sumney, Adrianne Lenker, Allison Russell, Fleet Foxes, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Green-House, Clairo, Bartees Strange,...

TRAИƧA: Selects, a collection of five tracks from the forthcoming compilation concept album, TRAИƧA, has arrived, featuring new songs from Sade Adu (her first in six years), L’Rain, André 3000, and more.

Released via the activist and music production non-profit Red Hot, TRAИƧA will be a musical celebration of trans and non-binary people, featuring over 100 artists. Sade’s contribution, a track titled “Young Lion,” arrives as a loving composition for her son, Izaak, a trans man. Stream it below.

Other new songs include L’Rain’s tribute to Anohni featuring the NYC Trans Oral History Project, “People Are Small / Rapture,” and a new ambient composition from André 3000 titled “Something Is Happening and I May Not Fully Understand But I’m Happy to Stand for the Understanding.”

Also featured on TRAИƧA: Selects are two previously-released singles: “Ever New” by Sam Smith and Beverly Glenn-Copeland and a version of “I Would Die...

On “Young Lion,” Sade’s first song in six years and her contribution to the upcoming Transa compilation, the artist apologizes to her son, Izaak, for not understanding him better when he began transitioning genders. “Young man, I feel so heavy for you, you must have felt so alone,” she sings over a slow piano line and cinematic strings. “The anguish and pain, I should have known.” By the chorus, she recognizes his journey: “Young gun, see how far you’ve come.”

Izaak Adu, Sade’s son, recently told Rolling Stone...

Exclusive: Production companies Level Ground and Visitor Media are underway on verité doc See You Tomorrow, about musician and octogenarian Beverly Glenn-Copeland, who last week announced his dementia diagnosis as he set off for his final, multi-show tour.

Helmed by Chase Joynt (No Ordinary Man) and produced by Samantha Curley (Framing Agnes) and Sean O’Neill (Swan Song), the production is currently traveling with Glenn and his wife and creative partner Elizabeth Glenn-Copeland as they perform a series of final concerts in Canada and the US. Production is set to wrap in early summer 2025.

See You Tomorrow will follow Glenn-Copeland and his wife as they navigate the implications of the former’s dementia diagnosis, contemplating high stakes, complex decisions about care and wellbeing while they embark on a mission to preserve his artistic legacy. They co-write a memoir, to be published by Penguin Random House, they collaborate on a children’s television show,...

It’s a sunny day in July, and the scene inside Gary’s Electric, a Brooklyn recording studio, is just as bright. Half a dozen musicians who all contributed to the upcoming compilation album Transa — an expansive celebration of trans people put together by the longtime music and healthcare nonprofit Red Hot Organization — are meeting each other here for the first time and immediately finding common ground. Some of the artists in the big room are trans; others are allies. The overall vibe is one of community.

After the hellos, everyone...

New age and folk jazz pioneer Beverly Glenn-Copeland has revealed that he has been diagnosed with dementia.

The 80-year-old Canadian artist shared the news on Monday (September 23rd) in an Instagram video with his wife and longtime collaborator Elizabeth Paddon. On a positive note, they still have several projects in the works, but Glenn-Copeland’s upcoming tour dates will be his last.

“For a while now, we have been managing privately a diagnosis of a cognitive disorder known as dementia,” Glenn-Copeland said in the opening of the video. “But so far it does not impact my ability to be fully in the moment with those I love.”

According to Paddon, her partner’s illness particularly impacts his memory and spatial abilities. Paddon added that while it’s been a difficult experience, she still sees “his essential light shining brighter than ever. So, as is often the case in life, amid this sadness,...

The activist and music production non-profit Red Hot have announced TRAИƧA, a new 46-song compilation of both originals and covers serving as a celebration of trans and non-binary people. The full project is out November 22nd, but Red Hot has already released TRAИƧA’s first single: Prince’s “I Would Die 4 U,” reimagined by Wendy & Lisa of Prince’s band The Revolution alongside London-based singer Lauren Auder.

The three-and-a-half hour tracklist is broken up eight chapters, and the project as a whole features over 100 contributing artists. In addition to a new song from Sade Adu titled “Young Lion” — serving as her first new song in six years — the compilation features contributions from André 3000, Jeff Tweedy, Faye Webster, Clairo Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Perfume Genius, Alan Sparhawk, Bartees Strange, Adrianne Lenker, Fleet Foxes, Julien Baker, Sam Smith, Laura Jane Grace, Moses Sumney, Kelela, Kara Jackson, L’Rain, Julie Byrne, Teddy Geiger, Frankie Cosmos,...

An ambitious new compilation, Transa, will collect music from Sade, Sam Smith, Jeff Tweedy, Laura Jane Grace, and more than 100 other artists to celebrate trans and nonbinary people. The album, which features nearly 50 tracks and runs nearly three-and-a-half hours, will come out Nov. 22 via the Red Hot Organization.

The first single is Lauren Auder’s interpretation of Prince’s “I Would Die 4 U,” a recording that features two artists who recorded the original song with Prince, the Revolution’s Wendy and Lisa. Where the original was more synth-pop focused, the...

Romy has officially branched out from The xx with Mid Air, her first-ever solo album. The project is out now via Young.

Like much of The xx members’ solo releases, Mid Air is a dance album. Romy worked with producers Fred again.., Stuart Price, and xx bandmate Jamie xx for the record, which a press release describes as a “love letter” to queer clubs. Still, its 11 songs also deal with heavy subject matter including grief and identity. According to Romy, the record is full of “emotional music to dance to.”

Mid Air begins with lead single “Loveher,” the first song written for the project. The cheerful queer love song comes with an equally wholesome background story: After Romy and Fred again.. were paired up to write songs for other artists, “Fred asked me, who could this be for?” the singer recalled. “And I tentatively said… Maybe me?’” From there, work...

It’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday — especially when it’s New Music Friday! We’re breaking down this week’s best new tracks to keep on your radar.

New Music Friday – September 8th, 2023

Olivia Rodrigo – “all-american b***h (live from rehearsal)”, plus Guts (Album)

Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion – “Bongos”

The Rolling Stones – “Angry”

Carly Pearce – “We Don’t Fight Anymore” (featuring Chris Stapleton)

Citizen Queen – “Whatchu Want”

Leigh-Anne and Ayra Starr – “My Love”

Marshmello and Dove Cameron – “Other Boys”

The Chainsmokers – “Summertime Friends”

The Chemical Brothers – “For That Beautiful Feeling”

Tyler Childers – “Rustin’ in the Rain”

LP – “Long Goodbye”

Other noteworthy releases include Katelyn Tarver – “Ignorance Is Bliss”, Romy – “Mid Air” (featuring Beverly Glenn-Copeland), Laufey – “Lovesick”, James Blake – “Tell Me”, Courtney Barnett – “Get On With It”.

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Following a pair of new singles earlier this year, the xx’s Romy has announced her first solo album Mid Air.

Ahead of the much-anticipated debut LP’s arrival on Sept. 8, Romy has shared Mid Air’s opening track and third single “Loveher,” produced by rising artist Fred Again…

“‘Loveher’ is the first song I wrote that made me feel like I was ready to make a solo project, so it feels like a good place to start the album and to share now,” Romy said of the single in...

Romy of The xx has shared a new single called “Enjoy Your Life,” a sentimental ode to living optimistically. Listen to the track below.

“Enjoy Your Life” samples Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s song “La Vita.” One evening, when Romy attended a concert by the artist, she was moved by the line “My mother says to me, ‘enjoy your life,’” particularly because her mother passed away when she was 11. With that piece of advice as its centerpiece, Romy’s latest single soundtracks a concerted effort to let go of fear and appreciate all the world has to offer.

Produced by Fred again.., Stuart Price, and Jamie xx, “Enjoy Your Life” comes with a music video directed by Romy’s wife, Vic Lentaigne, that splices old images of the singer’s mother with clips of the artist driving with the windows down, swimming in the ocean, and dancing in the club — living her best life,...

Courtney Barnett will play with some of her favorite artists during her touring festival, “Here and There,” set to launch later this summer. The singer-songwriter will be joined by acts such as Japanese Breakfast, Wet Leg, Chicano Batman, and Sleater-Kinney on different stops of the trek.

Other artists featured on the lineup include Bartees Strange, Caroline Rose, Arooj Aftab, Fred Armisen, Lucy Dacus, Snail Mail, Waxahatchee, Faye Webster, Indigo De Souza, Lido Pimienta, Men I Trust, and The Beths. Tickets for all shows will go on sale next Friday, April...

This follows the rediscovery of Beverly Glenn-Copeland in his 70s – an electronic musician who radiates life and happiness

Here’s a spirit-lifting documentary about black transgender electronic music pioneer Glenn Copeland. It begins with the story of how he was “discovered” a few years ago, aged 72. At home in Canada, Copeland reads the email he got in 2015 from a record shop owner in Japan: the guy offered to buy any spare copies of Keyboard Fantasies, an album Copeland self-released in 1986 on cassette. At the time he was known as Beverly Glenn-Copeland, and the album is a trippy mix of electronica, folk and new age, overlaid with Copeland’s sumptuous contralto tenor; it’s now seen as his masterpiece. He had pressed 200 tapes and sold around 50.

I could watch Copeland talking for hours. With his smiling eyes he radiates life and happiness, basking in autumnal success – the world has finally caught up with him.

"This film, this artist, this music, this story: all rare gems." Greenwich Ent. has released an official trailer for Keyboard Fantasies, a compelling documentary about a musician not many people have heard of. As a sci-fi obsessed woman living in isolation, Beverly Glenn-Copeland self-released "Keyboard Fantasies" in 1986. Recorded in an Atari-powered home studio, the cassette had 7 tracks of a "folk-electronica hybrid." Three decades later the musician - now Glenn Copeland - began to receive messages from around the world, thanking him for the music they'd just discovered. Courtesy of a rare-record collector in Japan, a reissue of Keyboard Fantasies and subsequent plays by Four Tet, Caribou and more, the music had finally found its audience two generations down the line. The film "sees the protagonist commit his life and music to screen for the first time - an intimate coming of age story spinning pain and the suffering of prejudice into rhythm,...

The 14th Annual QFest St. Louis — presented by Cinema St. Louis (Csl) — will take place from April 16-25. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, Csl will offer all programs virtually, protecting the health of patrons. Programs can be streamed at any time during the festival’s dates. Recorded introductions and Q&As will be available for most film programs.

The St. Louis-based LGBTQ film festival, QFest will present an eclectic array of 24 films. The participating filmmakers represent a wide variety of voices in contemporary queer world cinema. The mission of the film festival is to use the art of contemporary gay cinema to spotlight the lives of LGBTQ people and to celebrate queer culture.

The fest is especially pleased to host the St. Louis premiere of new works by internationally acclaimed filmmakers Agnieszka Holland (“Charlatan”) and François Ozon (“Summer of 85”). Another QFest highlight is this year’s Q Classic, the 50th anniversary of the trippy,...