Laurie Anderson brings the music of Homeland back home to New York City. Anderson performs a song from the album on the Late Show with David Letterman Wednesday night. The Washington Post picks her concert at The Birchmere this Friday as the must-attend concert this week. Interview says "Anderson proves that time has only sharpened her critical eye," calling Homeland "harrowing and hilarious ... a gift of perspective."
Laurie Anderson brings the music of Homeland, her recently released Nonesuch album, back home to New York City tonight, following two nights at Philadelphia's World Cafe Live. She is performing Another Day in America: Songs from the Album "Homeland" & Other Stories this week only. Anderson will also perform a song from the album on the Late Show with David Letterman Wednesday night. The show airs on CBS stations across the US starting at 11:35 PM ET and will also feature actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception) as a guest.
Interview magazine describes Homeland as "a poetic, satirical landscape that mirrors all the most ludicrous and disturbing elements of our national mindset ... From politics to consumerism to our global image, Anderson proves that time has only sharpened her critical eye."
Interview's Elliott David singles out "Another Day in America," the album track that lends its name to the title of this week's live shows, saying, "The song, like the album as a whole, is harrowing and hilarious. Homeland is a gift of perspective."
Read more at interviewmagazine.com.
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New York NPR station WNYC has chosen tonight's performance at (Le) Poisson Rouge in Greenwich Village as today's Gig Alert. WNYC's Alan Harper describes Anderson as a "high priestess of the experimental," and says of Homeland: "On the record Anderson melds her signature avant-garde style with scathing sociopolitical observations, resulting in a high art dressing-down of the powers that be." Harper singles on out the album track "Only an Expert," on which "a pulsing beat sets of Anderson's satirical, matter-of-fact musings on the place of experts in America." Read more and download that track today only at wnyc.org.
The concert is featured on Flavorpill, whose Judy Berman explains: "We love Laurie Anderson's new album, Homeland ... The album weighs in on American politics, and if there's anyone we trust to render that kind of opinion, it's Anderson." Read more at flavorpill.com.
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For fans in the Washington, DC, area, the Washington Post advises that "if you go to one concert this week, make it" Anderson's set at The Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia, this Friday. Read more at washingtonpost.com.
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To pick up a copy of Homeland, head to the Nonesuch Store.
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