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SPELLLING, the moniker of the Bay Area experimental pop mastermind Chrystia Cabral, has emerged as a visionary artist, pushing the boundaries of genre and captivating audiences with her richly envisioned albums and enchanting live performances.

SPELLLING gained widespread recognition with the release of her critically acclaimed debut album, Pantheon of Me, in 2017. The album showcased her prodigious talent as a songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. In 2019, she signed to Sacred Bones and released her highly anticipated sophomore album, Mazy Fly, further elevating her artistic vision and expanding her sonic palette. In 2021 she released her breakthrough project, The Turning Wheel, which saw her orchestrating and self-producing an album that features an ensemble of 31 collaborating musicians. The Turning Wheel has become a career-defining opus for the artist. The album received widespread unanimous praise, earning itself The Needle Drops #1 album of the year in 2021.

As SPELLLING continues to evolve and explore new musical territories, she further solidifies herself as a once in a lifetime artist. Her ability to create beautiful soundscapes that transport listeners to other realms along with her transcendent live performances have earned her legions of dedicated fans. With each release, SPELLLING invites us on a mesmerizing journey into her world, leaving an indelible mark on the hearts and minds of her listeners.

Interview With SPELLLING

Synth history january 4, 2024.

The incredible Tia Cabral, aka SPELLLING, answers some questions about gear, inspirations, Iggy Pop and more!

Artists You Should Know: SPELLING Returns with an Enchanting New Album “SPELLING & the Mystery School”

Grimy goods november 6, 2023.

The new record arrives overflowing with resplendent emotion, draped in enthralling instrumentals. If this is your first introduction to Cabral’s spellbinding music — prepare to be whisked away into a realm of enchanting melodic possibilities.

SPELLLING played Elsewhere with Rahill (pics, video)

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SPELLLING  released a new album,  SPELLLING & The Mystery School , in August, a collection of reworked songs from throughout her discography, and she’s on a brief tour supporting it. She stopped in Brooklyn on Tuesday night (10/17) for a show at Elsewhere with Habibi leader  Rahill , where she and her band delivered theatrical renditions of fan favorites, including “Little Deer,” “Always,” and otherwordly opus “Boys At School.” She ended the night with a couple of new songs. See attendee-taken video clips from her set, and pictures from the whole night below.

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The Mystery School  takes listeners into a rich musical experience. This new album from Chrystia Cabral takes a nontraditional route by reimagining songs from Spelling’s discography.

Interview: SPELLLING Unravels the Mystery

Range august 30, 2023.

Inspired by childhood fairy tales, early Christian fables, and Buffy Sainte-Marie, Tia Cabral is one of the most captivating artists working in music today.

New Music Friday: This week’s essential new albums

Fader august 30, 2023.

Chrystia Cabral a.k.a. SPELLLING has already proven herself a one-of-one singer-songwriter in modern music — a soul diva beamed from planet Kate Bush — with three excellent albums released since 2017.

SPELLLING Walks Us Through Her New LP of Reinterpretations SPELLLING & the Mystery School

Flood magazine august 30, 2023.

With the LP out now via Sacred Bones, Chrystia Cabral shares the origins of both the original tracks from her first three records and their re-recordings.

SPELLLING Leans Into Fantasy to Find Her Sound — and Herself

Kqed august 30, 2023.

With algorithms constantly quantifying our tastes and habits, it’s freeing to remember that little is truly known about some dimensions of the human experience.  SPELLLING  turns to her most trusted divination tools to tap into the spiritual realm: her synthesizer, her tarot cards and her intuition.

SPELLLING & the Mystery School is a Glamorous Recasting of a Rising Star’s Career

Paste magazine august 30, 2023.

Chrystia Cabral’s latest project reimagines the greatest hits off her three critically acclaimed LPs.

Album Review: SPELLLING & the Mystery School

Pitchfork august 24, 2023.

As  SPELLLING , Chrystia Cabral dances the line between straightforward dream pop and aquatic, experimental electronic folk, creating music that both roils the soul and inspires whimsical daydreams. She expanded upon her tactile sound on 2021’s audacious  The Turning Wheel , using rich instrumentation to animate her folkloric stories. Working with her touring band on new album  SPELLLING & the Mystery School , Cabral reshapes previous album cuts with fresh arrangements, giving them the rhythmic, freeform feel of live versions. Her voice has never sounded better, even as some of the album makes you want to turn back to the delights of her charmingly shambling earlier work.

Spellling Spellling & the Mystery School Review: Unraveling Life’s Mysteries

Slant magazine august 23, 2023.

With a vibrant kaleidoscope of sounds and ethereal ambiance, the singer brings both her fantasy world and reality to life.

Chrystia Cabral’s Spellling & the Mystery School  is a collection of songs from throughout her career as Spellling, but with a twist, as each track has undergone a complete reimagination. The already eerie “Under the Sun,” from 2019’s  Mazy Fly , has been masterfully reworked into an even eerier sci-fi ballad with an ominous string arrangement and an interlude punctuated by synth flashes, while “Phantom Farewell,” from 2017’s  Pantheon of Me , beefs up some of the song’s original sonic distortions for a bigger, grander sound.

ALBUM OF THE DAY: SPELLLING, “SPELLLING & the Mystery School”

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Since the release of her 2017 debut  Pantheon of Me , Tia Cabral, aka  SPELLLING , has proven she can handily create expansive, fantastical worlds from the safety of her studio. But with each new record—including 2019’s synth-driven  Mazy Fly  and 2021’s orchestrally ambitious  The Turning Wheel —Cabral has found new possibilities of expression on the stage. On her latest voyage,  SPELLLING & The Mystery School , she looks back on her songbook and redraws the lines around some of her biggest crowd-pleasers.

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Paste magazine august 3, 2023.

Oakland singer/songwriter and experimentalist SPELLLING is following up her 2021 masterpiece  The Turning Wheel  this August with  SPELLLING & The Mystery School , a collection of tracks that surf between minimalism, glitchy percussive rhythm and hypnotic pianistic patterns. Full of mysticism and drama and haunting, evocative exploration, The gravity of SPELLLING’s songwriting is immense and, in turn, she makes left-field pop music that is both alien and ambitious.  SPELLING & The Mystery School  is on our radar because, after teaser singles “Cherry” and  “Under the Sun,”  it’s shaping up to be one of the best things she’s made—which says a great deal, given that The Turning Wheel was one of the very best records of 2021

SPELLLING shares new song, reveals Through The Looking Glass lineup

The fader august 3, 2023.

Chrystia Cabral ( SPELLLING ) has shared the third single from her next album,  SPELLLING & the Mystery School , due out August 25 via Sacred Bones. The record reintroduces the backing ensemble that joined Cabral for her most recent full-length, 2021’s  The Turning Wheel , and comprises full-band re-recordings of tracks from across Cabral’s career: The  original version  of today’s track, “Hard To Please (Reprise),” comes from her 2019 breakout LP,  Mazy Fly . And it follows the forthcoming record’s joint lead singles, “Cherry” (a rework of “Choke Cherry Horse” from 2017’s  Pantheon of Me ) and “Under The Sun,” another flipped  Mazy Fly  cut.

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Eerie artist Spellling — real name Chrystia Cabral — received recognition for her idiosyncratic 2021 masterwork  The Turning Wheel , and these new songs “Cherry” and “Under The Sun” prove she hasn’t lost her haunted appeal. “Cherry” twinkles and broods and builds with unsettling whispers, growing into an evil anthem, sounding like a scene from a horror movie.

Spellling Announces New Album, Shares Songs: Listen

Pitchfork july 21, 2023.

Spellling  (aka Chrystia Cabral) has announced a new album:  Spellling & the Mystery School  is a collection of new versions of songs from across her discography that she recorded with her touring band. The full-length arrives August 25 via  Sacred Bones . Listen to tracks from the LP, “Cherry” and “Under the Sun,” below.

SPELLLING announces new album SPELLLING & the Mystery School

The fader july 21, 2023.

“For the tour behind her excellent 2021 album  The Turning Wheel ,  SPELLLING  performed alongside a full band called the Mystery School, giving new dimensions to the experimental pop artist’s work. If you didn’t get a chance to see those shows, SPELLLING will soon bring the experience to a new studio album called  SPELLLING & the Mystery School . Out August 25 via Sacred Bones, the album will feature re-recordings of songs from across Chrystia Cabral’s discography as SPELLLING.”

Spellling Magick

East bay express march 23, 2023.

“Ominously distorted minimal synth chords bang underneath a whooshing chant cranked on my best speakers while I think about how best to describe this music. The artist’s name is Spellling because that is what she does, cast spells.”

Creating A World Just for Her: The Charismatic Spellling comes to Songbyrd

District fray october 11, 2022.

“So often, there will be an article out in the world that touts an artist as being groundbreaking or revolutionizing the music world around them. And while that acclaim is great and gives merit to a plethora of new and experimental artists, what really struck me about Oakland artist Spellling is how she doesn’t try to revolutionize this existing world. If anything, she works double time to invent her own.”

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The washington post october 5, 2022.

Spellling — real name: Chrystia “Tia” Cabral — knows how to sing in delicate whispers, but her elocution can contradict that daintiness. She likes to lean into the drama of her songs, elongating words by overemphasizing certain syllables — a playful antithesis to the articulation-isn’t-important attitude that prevails across so much of today’s pop music.

SPELLLING Announces North American Tour, Shares Video for “Queen of Wands”

Under the radar june 6, 2022.

‘The Turning Wheel came out last year via Sacred Bones, and was one of our Top 100 Albums of 2021. Listen to our podcast interview with Cabral, where she discusses the album.’

Spellling Announces North American Tour, Shares New “Queen of Wands”

Pitchfork june 6, 2022.

‘Spellling has announced a North American tour in support of her 2021 LP The Turning Wheel with a new video for “Queen of Wands.” After a handful of summer festival dates—including Pitchfork Music Festival on July 15—Chrystia Cabral heads out on her first headlining tour in August and October.’

NPR Music’s 50 Best Albums of 2021 – The Turning Wheel

Npr december 1, 2021.

‘On her third album as Spellling, the Bay Area-based wizardess Chrystia Cabral employs the language of myth, magic and fancy to illuminate her reality as an empathic artist negotiating the realities of a world that’s multifariously on fire.’

SASHA GEFFEN’S BEST MUSIC OF 2021 – The Turning Wheel

Art forum december 1, 2021.

‘Chrystia Cabral’s music encircles scenes of love and harmony with the threat of what lurks beyond their light: wolves at the edge of town, snapping at the gates. ‘

The 8 Best Music Videos of June 2021

Pitchfork july 1, 2021.

‘The orchestral title track from Tia Cabral’s third album as SPELLLING is plenty dreamy on its own, but the woodsy, self-directed video neatly rounds off her fairytale vision. ‘

SPELLLING is a Conduit of the Divine on Orchestral Pop Concept LP The Turning Wheel

Audio femme june 29, 2021.

‘The elegant collection of twelve songs builds on the bewitching synth-based sound she’s consistently refined since 2017’s Pantheon of Me, evolving in terms of lyrical complexity, sonic richness and conceptual depth. Born largely of the past year spent in isolation, these shifts all serve to signal the exponential potential of Cabral’s creative capabilities.’

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Pitchfork june 28, 2021.

‘The myth-skewing, Oakland-based artist is a chameleonic pop singer on her third album. Whimsical and urgent, these are fairy tales meant to wake us up.

How Dracula, Tarot Cards, and Drinking in the Shower Inspired SPELLLING’s New Album

Pitchfork june 25, 2021.

‘Tia Cabral is a shapeshifter, with an eye and ear tilting toward the fantastical. In the visuals for her experimental pop project SPELLLING, she has appeared as an entity dipped in glittery goo, a rodeo princess, and a silver-faced harlequin. In her new short film for “Turning Wheel”—the title track of her enchanting new album—Cabral leads a gaggle of circus-chic misfits up a grassy knoll, a butterfly perched on her lavender cheek.’

Album of the Day: SPELLLING, “The Turning Wheel”

Bandcamp june 25, 2021.

‘The Turning Wheel is inspired by a multitude of genres, “from soul to psych to pop to noise” according to the record’s liner notes, which she knits together to gradually transport listeners from an airy high to a heavy low. It’s all done in a theatrical fashion, each scene connected by raw emotion.’

The 11 projects you should stream now – SPELLLING

The fader june 25, 2021.

‘We loved “Little Deer,” the immutable lead single from Oakland avant-pop artist Spellling. Her new project is entirely self-produced and enlists the talents of 31 different musicians.’

9 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Tyler, the Creator, Faye Webster, Lucy Dacus, SPELLLING, and More

‘Chrystia Cabral’s new album as SPELLLING was led by the single “Little Deer”—a song she called a “thesis track” of the LP because “it accomplishes this strong impression of theater that I was striving for with the album as a whole.” Learn more in the new feature “How Dracula, Tarot Cards, and Drinking in the Shower Inspired SPELLLING’s New Album.”’

Analogue Music June 21, 2021

‘The Turning Wheel, SPELLLING’s latest work, is exactly that—a mesmerizing, inventive, and infectious work sprawling in beautiful new directions from past acclaimed albums like Mazy Fly. The Sacred Bones release drops June 25 and deserves to be heard by the masses…’

Album of the Week: SPELLLING – THE TURNING WHEEL

Treble zine june 20, 2021.

‘Little Deer,” the first single from Cabral’s third album The Turning Wheel, proves what she’s capable of with a lot more room to stretch out and build upon the already captivating foundation she’s established. Dramatic piano chords ring out against a cinematic array of strings, with twinkly synths climbing toward starlight. It’s a stunner from the outset, but by the chorus it becomes truly breathtaking…’

THE 33 BEST ALBUMS OF 2021 SO FAR: SPELLLING – THE TURNING WHEEL

‘An album of contrasts and juxtaposition, The Turning Wheel is an exploration of cycles and coefficients, its two halves comprising a set of bright orchestral pop against an underbelly of big-production gothic dirges.’

The 51 Most Anticipated Albums of Summer 2021

Pitchfork june 9, 2021.

‘The Turning Wheel is Chrystia Cabral’s third album as SPELLLING, and it marks a turn toward lush orchestration (featuring no fewer than 31 collaborative musicians) and fanciful storytelling.’

The 50 Best Albums Of 2021 So Far

Stereogum june 8, 2021.

‘As SPELLLING, Chrystia Cabral has been making darkly alluring experimental pop for years. The Turning Wheel maintains the darkness, the allure, and Cabral’s experimental touch, yet she has turned up the pop quotient significantly here.’

SPELLLING – “Turning Wheel”

Stereogum june 2, 2021.

‘SPELLLING is releasing her new album, The Turning Wheel, in a couple weeks. We’ve heard two tracks from it so far, “Little Dear” and “Boys At School,” and today we’re getting the title track, which sounds like an elaborate ’60s pop fantasia with an appropriately theatrical video to match.’

SPELLLING Shares New Song “Boys At School” The Turning Wheel Due Out June 25 on Sacred Bones

Under the radar may 11, 2021.

‘In a press release Cabral explains that the new song “steps back into my younger self, my teenage self to voice my angst, desires and disillusionments. I knew when I created the main motif on the piano that it was striking something really raw and both delicate and fierce. The notes just immediately transported me to the era of my youth, of this time when you are really beginning to confront the mirror of yourself to the outside world.”

SPELLLING announces her third album, The Turning Wheel

Resident advisor may 11, 2021.

‘The Bay Area artist will share her third full-length via the Brooklyn-based label on June 25th. The Turning Wheel draws on synth pop, R&B and soul and sees Cabral co-producing and orchestrating an ensemble of 31 musicians, including banjo, harp, bassoon and trombone. Originally meant to be released last September, the twelve-track LP was delayed due to the pandemic and resulted in instrumentalists recording in socially-distanced and remote studio sessions.’

SPELLLING – “Boys At School”

Stereogum may 11, 2021.

‘The Bay Area’s Chrystia Cabral is back with a new SPELLLING single, “Boys At School,” from her forthcoming album The Turning Wheel. This follows the lead single, “Little Dear,” which previewed a more upbeat, poppy direction. This new track starts as an eccentric piano ballad with haunting vocals and atmospheric synths, and gradually transforms into an intense indie rock anthem.’

‘Little Deer’ by SPELLLING Review

Pitchfork april 16, 2021.

‘From her home-recorded first album, 2017’s Pantheon of Me, up through 2019’s Sacred Bones debut Mazy Fly, the Bay Area artist Chrystia Cabral—aka SPELLLING—has entertained a fascination with the otherworldly. “SPELLLING is about showing people that there’s magic in every moment,” Cabral told Pitchfork at the time. With “Little Deer,” the sweeping first single from her forthcoming third album, The Turning Wheel, Cabral vividly melds the mythical with the familiar.’

10 Best Songs of the Week: SPELLLING, Lucy Dacus, Ora the Molecule, Twin Shadow, and More

Under the radar april 16, 2021.

‘On Wednesday, SPELLLING (aka Chrystia Cabral) announced the release of her third studio album, The Turning Wheel, due for release on June 25 via Sacred Bones after nearly a year of delays. Cabral also shared the album’s first track and lead single “Little Deer.” Check out the album’s tracklist and cover art here.’

SPELLLING Returns with New Album ‘The Turning Wheel’

Exclaim april 14, 2021.

Chrystia Cabral has shared details of a new album as SPELLLING. The Bay Area-based artist will release The Turning Wheel on June 25 through Sacred Bones Records.

The 12-song The Turning Wheel follows SPELLLING’s acclaimed 2019 LP Mazy Fly, which Exclaim! gave a 9/10 score.

Fader Features New SPELLLING Track, “Little Deer”

Fader april 14, 2021.

“”Little Deer,” the first single from The Turning Wheel, drops today, and continues Spellling’s eclectic, genre-defying streak wrapped in a warm and funky atmosphere…”

Pitchfork Features SPELLLING’s New Single ‘Little Deer’

Pitchfork april 14, 2021.

“…Bay Area artist Chrystia Cabral has announced a new SPELLLING album: The Turning Wheel, which follows 2019’s Mazy Fly, is out June 25 via Sacred Bones. Listen to its lead single, “Little Deer”—a song inspired by Frida Kahlo’s iconic “Wounded Deer” painting—below…”

Our Take: SPELLLING’S ‘Mazy Fly’ Will Make You Believe In Magic

Atwood magazine march 4, 2019.

Having been quoted as drawing inspirations “from messages in her dreams,” Chrystia Cabral, who goes by SPELLLING, conjures forth a very cerebral soundscape; one filled with flashes of light shining out from the shadowy scene, every inch of which she has carefully crafted.

SPELLLING Mazy Fly Review

Pitchfork february 22, 2019.

There’s a song on SPELLLING’s debut, 2017’s Pantheon of Me, where the vocalist and musician Tia Cabral moans over a high-pitched, murderous guitar refrain, one that sounds like tiny gremlins fiending for blood: “I’m not going back to him.” She repeats herself, slightly changing the plea, as layers of ghostly vocals spill over each other. “I’m not going back to the grave.” Again, more desperate than before, she wails, “I’m not going back to the grave.”

Album Of The Week: SPELLLING Mazy Fly

Stereogum february 19, 2019.

As SPELLLING, Cabral makes music that’s basically impossible to categorize. She plays around with all sorts of dark and vaporous sounds: gothed-out horror-movie synth textures, new-wave bloop-riffs, queasy ambient sputters, bluesy squelches, creeped-out smooth-jazz saxophones, pillowy ’80s-R&B bass-riffs, spindly indie-rock guitar-murmurs. As a singer, Cabral is rooted in soul, and she’s capable of bending notes with astonishing force and conviction.

SPELLLING Is Making Haunted Electronic Pop for the Witch (or Wizard) in All of Us

Pitchfork february 15, 2019.

The Bay Area artist talks about dressing up like magical characters, obsessing over creepy carnivals, and embracing her uniqueness in this Rising interview.

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SPELLLING announces new album SPELLLING & the Mystery School

Out august 25, the project reimagines songs from chrystia cabral’s experimental pop alias..

For the tour behind her excellent 2021 album The Turning Wheel , SPELLLING performed alongside a full band called the Mystery School, giving new dimensions to the experimental pop artist’s work. If you didn’t get a chance to see those shows, SPELLLING will soon bring the experience to a new studio album called SPELLLING & the Mystery School . Out August 25 via Sacred Bones, the album will feature re-recordings of songs from across Chrystia Cabral’s discography as SPELLLING.

“With this album,” Cabral says in a press statement, “I wanted to capture the ways that these songs have morphed. They’re like my children all grown up in a different stage of their lives, and I want to celebrate that. I’m proud to say it’s my favorite thing I have created so far, and working on it has really opened up new exciting visions for the future of the SPELLLING sound.”

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Below, you can hear two tracks from the upcoming project. “Cherry” transforms “Choke Cherry Horse” from 2017’s Pantheon of Me into a more polished and spacious place, and “Under The Sun” (originally heard on 2019’s Mazy Fly ) moves its disco from the bedroom into the parlor, thanks to a lavish string section.

SPELLLING & the Mystery School cover art and tracklist

1. Walk Up To Your House 2. Under the Sun 3. They start the Dance 4. Cherry 5. Haunted Water 6. Hard to Please (Reprise) 7. Phantom Farewell 8. Boys at School 9. Always 10. Revolution 11. Sweet Talk

SPELLLING tour dates

Sep. 16 - Oakland, CA - Children’s Fairyland (Through The Looking Glass Festival) Oct 15 - Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts Oct 17 - Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere Hall Oct 18 - Baltimore, MD - OttoBar

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Spellling has announced new tour dates. Starting this month, Tia Cabral will be taking her new album The Turning Wheel —released in June via Sacred Bones —on the road and will be playing a handful of dates around the country in support of the record, including shows in San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles and an appearance later this year at Desert Daze in Lake Perris, California. Take a look at her upcoming tour dates below and listen to her recent single, “Boys At School.”

Spellling tour dates:

8/21 San Francisco, CA – The Lab 10/23 New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge 11/13 Los Angeles, CA – Pico Union Project 11/12-14 Lake Perris, CA – Desert Daze

Read our recent interview feature, Spellling seizes the moment . The Turning Wheel is also featured on our list of the Best Albums of 2021 So Far .

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It’s been a minute since Peter Wolf hit the road, but that’s about to change. The former J. Geils Band singer has announced a string of New England dates that’ll give longtime fans a chance to see the Hard Drivin’ Man do what he does better than most: Perform live onstage.

Wolf, who celebrated his 78th birthday last month, is doing a series of unplugged shows he’s calling the “Waiting On The Moon Tour: An Acoustic Evening of Stories and Songs.” He’ll be joined on the July dates by two frequent collaborators — guitarists Duke Levine and Kevin Barry.

Though best known as the electrifying frontman of the J. Geils Band, Wolf has released eight well-reviewed albums under his own name, including 2002′s “ Sleepless ,” which Rolling Stone ranked No. 427 on a list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Lately, Wolf, who grew up in the Bronx but has lived in Boston for several decades, has been keeping a low profile while he writes a memoir. Anyone familiar with the singer’s backstory knows the book could be fascinating. In his late teens, Wolf lived in an apartment around the corner from Club 47, the Harvard Square coffeehouse that became Club Passim, and hung out with the likes of Mose Allison, Bill Monroe, Otis Spann, Howlin’ Wolf, and Muddy Waters.

The first of the seven shows are July 5 and 6 at Stone Mountain Arts Center in Brownfield, Maine. Wolf will also perform in Fall River July 12, Westerly, R.I., July 13, Natick July 18, Norfolk, Conn., July 19, and Rockport July 25. Ticket info can be found at peterwolf.com .

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No one rocks like The Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger, band thrill on Hackney Diamonds Tour

HOUSTON − It’s not only stunning, but somewhat miraculous that more than 60 years after their first tour, the Rolling Stones are still filling stadiums.

It’s even more head-spinning to realize that along with their treasured hits, the Rolling Stones are enhancing their setlist with a trio of songs from last year’s well-received “Hackney Diamonds” – their first album of original material in 18 years and the impetus for this 16-city tour.

We’d call it a victory lap, but frontman Mick Jagger is better suited for marathons.

At the kickoff April 28 at NRG Stadium in Houston, the core triumvirate of Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood – along with their supporting cast of exceptional musicians and singers – hit the massive stage to the sounds of Richards’ slashing out the riff of, fittingly, “Start Me Up.”

Jagger, the nimble CEO of Stones Inc., peacocked in a silver shimmering jacket, his elastic legs a mere pedestal for his rotating torso.

Richards, still owning his disheveled pirate look with a knit cap and multicolored scarf dangling from his hip, and Wood, grinning continuously and occasionally scampering down the lengthy catwalk, retained their roles as faithful consiglieres.

There isn’t a patch of smooth facial skin among them (Jagger and Richards are 80 and Wood is 76). But with the energy to plow through an 18-song, two-hour set – yes, shorter than previous Stones shows, but still fulfilling – no one is looking to crown them as pageant winners.

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While the band needed a couple of songs to fully find their groove – the striding cadence of a reworked “Get Off Of My Cloud” and a ramshackle “Rocks Off” felt curious rather than robust – Jagger compensated with his riveting presence and still-supple vocals.

Along with the “Hackney Diamonds” songs plucked for their major live debuts (the band played a few of the new tracks at an intimate New York club gig in October ), including the feisty “ Angry ” and encore of gospelized “ Sweet Sounds of Heaven ,” the 1966 tune “ Out of Time ” also received its U.S. debut. The band revived it last year during some performances for the overseas Sixty tour.

“I don’t think you really knew it, but you got to know it,” Jagger said with a smile after leading the nearly full stadium through the arm-waving chorus.

As typical for a Rolling Stones production, the stage ran the width of the stadium, blanketed with screens beaming images of the band with magnificent clarity. Closeups of drummer Steve Jordan, who assumed rhythm duties after the 2021 death of original drummer Charlie Watts , joyfully thundering through the gem “ Paint It, Black ” and birthday boy Chuck Leavell ripping out a fleet-fingered solo on his Yamaha keyboard on “Honky Tonk Women” offered fans a peek at the magic happening a few feet behind Jagger and Co.

During the always-visceral “ Sympathy for the Devil ,” as serpents and fire crawled across the screens, Jagger prowled through the sinister groove, augmented by percussion provided by background vocalist Bernard Fowler and chunky bass lines from Darryl Jones.

Keyboardist Matt Clifford added French horn to “ You Can’t Always Get What You Want ” while Jagger, playing an acoustic guitar, strolled through the message of acquiescence that escalated into a gospel throwdown.

The horn duo of Karl Denson and Tim Ries coated many familiar anthems – “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” and “Miss You” among them – with their rich brass sounds. But, as fans have realized over the decades, the ominous “Gimme Shelter” remains a centerpiece of any Rolling Stones concert, and Jagger has a new onstage playmate in powerhouse background vocalist Chanel Haynes.

The woman who starred as Tina Turner in the West End musical of Turner’s life and officially became part of the band last year, steamrolled through “Gimme Shelter” with a voice blaring attitude and vigor. As she and Jagger strolled the catwalk, sharing vocals and chemistry, Jagger wisely backed off a couple of times, allowing Haynes to unleash her theatrical verve.

But this is still Jagger’s circus, and whether he’s bobbing like a jittery prizefighter or wiggling his shoulders like the world’s most slender Chippendales dancer, he is an octogenarian who captivates.

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The band has enlisted various openers throughout the tour. In Houston, blues-rock guitar ace – and Texas native – Gary Clark Jr. landed the opening night slot and for 45 minutes, enchanted the mostly full stadium.

With a large band – five musicians, three background vocalists – behind him, Clark was the epitome of cool in dark shades and a bandana as he took the stage with “Maktub” from his recently released fourth album, “JPEG Raw.”

Clark is a big name for an opener (then again, it is the Rolling Stones) and he utilized his time well with massive licks on the crunch rockers “Bright Lights” and “This is Who We Are,” with singer Naala joining him.

The soul-inflected “Feed the Babies” seared as a set highlight, as the singer-guitarist displayed sizzling playing and a breezy vibe for the receptive crowd.  

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The concert began with an epic, 15-minute version of ‘Cortez The Killer’ that featured extra lyrics recently unearthed by Young. Guitarist-singer Micah Nelson, Willie’s son, very ably assumed the role in Crazy Horse of Nils Lofgren, now on tour with Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band.

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When Neil Young sang “rock and roll will never die” near the conclusion of his tour-opening LOVE EARTH concert with Crazy Horse Wednesday in San Diego, you believed him.

Those words, from his 1978 song, “Hey Hey My My (Into the Black),” sounded like a defiant vow in the face of possible obsolescence 46 years ago. Now, they are a statement of fact from a proud maverick who sounds more committed than ever, even — or, rather, especially — at a time when rock is increasingly becoming a niche genre pushed aside by formulaic pop, hip-hop and dance-music.

At 78, Young remains a staunch keeper of the flame whose passion for music burns as bright as ever. If anyone thinks this veteran singer, songwriter and guitarist is ready to kick back in his old age, he and his band immediately and convincingly refuted such notions with their powerful, nearly two-hour performance at SDSU’s Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre. (They are set to perform a second sold-out show at the same venue Thursday night.)

Young and his three-man band opened with “Cortez the Killer,” an epic number from their 1975 album, “Zuma.” But this was no sentimental journey down nostalgia lane, nor was it a tentative, shake-off-the-dust run through.

Their carefully calibrated version of “Cortez” built to a series of powerful climaxes Monday and lasted 15 minutes — nearly twice as long as the original on “Zuma.” The song began with an opening guitar jam that lasted 7 minutes before Young’s reedy vocals commenced. For good measure, near the conclusion of “Cortez,” he sang — for the first time anywhere in concert — a missing verse he recently came upon that had been cut from the 1975 recording.

The unearthed lyrics provided additional depth and a palpable sense of despair to Young’s tour de force song about Hernán Cortez, the bloody Spanish conqueror of Mexico’s Aztec Empire: I floated on the water / I ate that ocean wave / Two weeks after the slaughter / I was living in a cave / They came too late to get me / But there’s no one here to set me free / From this rocky grave / To that snowed-out ocean wave.

The next selection was the buoyant “Cinnamon Girl,” a choice cut from 1969’s “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere,” the first album Young and Crazy Horse made together. It clocked in at a crisp three minutes.

The rest of the concert included several other extended jams, with “Down by the River” and “Love and Only Love” both clocking in at a glorious 16 minutes (but not lasting one second too long). Conversely, Young’s tender solo acoustic versions of “Comes a Time,” “Heart of Gold” and “Human Highway” were each delivered with admirable concision.

The manner in which he alternated between longer and shorter selections served as a master class on how to pace a concert to build momentum and achieve maximum dynamic tension and release.

The final encore was an eight-minute rendition of “My My Hey Hey (Into the Black),” whose line There’s more to the picture than meets the eye could be a synopsis of Young’s career and his dogged determination to do things his way, every time, no matter what the trends of the day may be.

At SDSU, Young and his longtime Crazy Horse compadres — bassist/singer Billy Talbot and drummer Ralph Molina, both 80 — were focused and in sync from start to finish. They were joined by guitarist/singer Micah Nelson, 33, who on Monday had played a key role accompanying his father, Willie Nelson, at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park.

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The American music-master and his band warmed up a damp, cool evening at The Shell. David Sanger, the drummer in opening act Asleep At The Wheel, took the ferry back to his family’s home in Coronado after the show.

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Micah Nelson was performing in place of Crazy Horse charter member Nils Lofgren, who is now on tour in The E Street Band with his other longtime employer, Bruce Springsteen. Those are big shoes to fill, but Nelson was so in sync with Young you’d think they had been musical partners for decades.

The stage was bedecked with the giant, faux Fender guitar amplifiers, speaker cabinets and road cases Young and Crazy Horse used on their 1978 Rust Never Sleeps tour. There were no video screens on the stage, the better for the audience — which included basketball great Bill Walton and Las Vegas Raiders NFL team owner Mark Davis — to focus completely on the music at hand.

The SDSU concert — the start of Young and Crazy Horse’s first major tour together in a decade — came a year after Young’s mesmerizing solo concert here at The Shell. Wednesday’s performance was even more mesmerizing, in large part because of the musical empathy between the four musicians.

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When they locked into a groove, which was often, they seemed to be of one mind. And it’s difficult to think of any other rock band of any vintage that can gain as much traction from so many slow-paced songs.

With few exceptions, Young’s biting guitar solos contained a minimum of notes, but he made each one count, repeatedly going into a zone where feeling and intensity trump quantity. Or, to invoke the title of Young’s 1988 album: “This Note’s For You.”

Apart from a heartfelt spoken tribute to the late David Briggs — the producer of many of Young’s albums with (and without) Crazy Horse — Young’s comments to the audience were along the lines of: “Thank you” and “How ya doin’?”

Otherwise, he let his music speak for him, and it spoke volumes.

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Performing again for their Pinoy fanssixyears after their last concert in 2018, the band consisting of Brandon Boyd, Mike Einziger, Jose Pasillas,DJ Kilmore, and their new bassist Nicole Row made the night memorable for all the millennial titos and titas of Manila.

A night filled with high energy and rocked-out vibes, as Incubus returned to the Philippine stage with a sold-out concert in Araneta Coliseum on April 25, presented by Willbros Live. 

Performing again for their Pinoy fans six years after their last concert in 2018, the band consisting of Brandon Boyd, Mike Einziger, Jose Pasillas, DJ Kilmore, and their new bassist Nicole Row made the night memorable for all the millennial titos and titas of Manila. 

The full-house arena was filled with the loudest cheers, while the fans waited for the band to perform. At exactly, 8:45 pm, the lights went dim, Brandon and his band took the center stage and opened the concert with their song "Quicksand."

The crowd went wild when they followed their first song with absolute Incubus classics, "Nice To Know You," "Anna Molly," "Stellar," "Sick Sad Little World."  

Before heading to another song, Brandon gave a short message to all the Pinoy fans who attended their concert.

"So, how are you guys doing? It's been a while," Brandon said. 

The night went on as the band performed the songs, "Circles," "The Warmth," and "Pardon Me." To which the fans sang along with the lyrics. 

"Loud and beautiful. Thank you so much," Brandon said. 

Amid the electrifying atmosphere of the concert in the Philippines, Brandon's performance of 'Karma, Come Back' reached a new level when he bravely took off his shirt, adding to the already intense heat.

Showing off his amazing physique and unique tattoos, it was clear that the ladies went crazy when Brandon was shirtless throughout the whole concert. 

Aside from their classic hits, Incubus also did a special tribute for The Beatles as they performed the song "Come Together." 

As the crowd sang along and gave their loudest cheers, the band continued their set with "Are You In?," "Vitamin," "Glory Box" and "Warning."

Brandon also took the time to introduce their new bassist Nicole Row, who replaced Ben Kenney after he went through brain surgery. 

"We have here our new bass, good job Nicole!" Brandon said. 

He then continued the show with another cover song " Let's Dance" from David Bowie. 

Without showing any signs of tiredness, the energy of the crowd continued as he sang another fan favorite "Megalomaniac", to which the fans sang along with him on the lyrics "Step down, step down!"

As a testament to their love for all the Pinoy fans, the band ended the concert with the ultimate banger songs, "Drive" and "Wish You Were Here."