Some links from around the music world after the jump:
- Courtney Marie Andrews’ fifth full-length is out next week, but you can listen to it now on NPR’s first listen. Andrews, a native of Phoenix, broke through with Honest Life in 2016, and will release May Your Kindness Remain on March 23.
- In a statement yesterday, New Jersey band Pinegrove said that their new album, Skylight, is finished, but there are currently no plans to release it due to sexual misconduct allegations against lead singer Evan Stephens Hall. This news comes on the heels of Nandi Plunkett, a former Pinegrove member who has her own album coming out in April, said she would continue to play with the band.
- There’s at least four new songs that have been added to the Frozen Broadway musical. This newest one is called “True Love.”
- I feel like there’s been Neil Young news everyday this week, and somehow almost none of it involves a new Neil Young album. He plays the lead in a film that just premiered at SXSW; he’s soon to be releasing the soundtrack from that film, which he produced; he clapped back at NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch; and now he’s writing a novel. In an interview that ran yesterday, he told Rolling Stone that it’s called Canary and “is kind of a sci-fi thing about a guy who gets busted for a crime.”
- We’re a few days from the national walk-outs on Wednesday and a week from the national March For Our Lives next Saturday, and NPR has this round-up of protest music, with songs for multiple occasions and videos from different schools around the country.
Header image courtesy of American Songwriter.