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5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Ivy's First LP In 14 Years Has Adam Schlesinger On Every Song
Beloved New York-reared indie trio Ivy were inactive for the better part of eight years before group member Adam Schlesinger died of COVID-19 during the early phase of the pandemic in 2020. Since then, surviving husband-and-wife duo Dominque Durand and Andy Chase have paid tribute to Schlesinger in a moving video retrospective and overseen several back catalog reissues, but there was no new Ivy album on the horizon — until now. Durand, Chase and longtime multi-instrumentalist Bruce Driscoll have combed through their demo archives to surface the previously unreleased material on Traces of You, which will emerge Sept. 5 through Bar/None Records. Each of the 10 tracks offers contributions from Schlesinger, including lead single 'Say You Will,' which was built from a 2009 demo where he played bass and keyboard. R.E.M./Atoms for Peace drummer Joey Waronker plays on the finished version. More from Spin: Island Time: From Dance Floors to Yacht Rock, the Ting Tings Ride A New Wave The Head & The Heart Turn The Corner On 'Aperture' Tour Foo Fighters, Chappell Roan Head South For Corona Capital With occasional flashes of mainstream success but enduring fan appeal, Ivy are perhaps best known for their 1997 sophomore album Apartment Life, from which 'This Is the Day' popped up in the classic '90s comedy There's Something About Mary and the vibrant, moody 'The Best Thing' garnered modern rock airplay. The trio, who formed in 1994 but slowed down in the 2000s while Schlesinger devoted more time to Fountains of Wayne, last released an album in 2011 with After Hours. 'The songs here were all unused and abandoned ideas from the various albums and film scores we worked on,' the band members tell SPIN of the Traces of You material. 'We'd never released any parts of them.' The resulting music is amongst the most diverse Ivy have ever released, from the bass- and keyboard-driven 'Fragile People' and the wistful, undulating title track to 'The Great Unknown,' which has an almost Garbage-y, electro feel and the tender, acoustic guitar-led 'Hate That It's True.' Band members say album opener 'The Midnight Hour' was the most complete of the fragments, as 'the first verse and chorus were sung back when they were originally demoed. Adam's bass was there and Andy had played all the guitar and keys. The second verse, the bridge and the 'feel the rush' vocal hook were all new additions when we got together with Bruce. What's amazing is that Dominique's vocals between verse one and two are seamless, as if no time had passed.' Schlesinger's Fountains of Wayne cohorts Brian Young (drums) and Jody Porter (guitar) later added parts to the recording. Ivy found themselves slipping back into some old work habits during the process, but thankfully, with ear-pleasing results. 'Dominique disliked the existing idea for 'Heartbreak,' which was Andy on guitar and keys and Adam on bass with the main part of the song you hear at the introduction,' they say. 'By the time we added the horn parts, the chorus chords and found depressing lyrics to offset the happy sound of the song, she came around.' Asked what fans will enjoy most about hearing Schlesinger's work on Traces of You, Ivy's members answer, 'on one song, you'll hear Adam on bass, the next on acoustic, the next on keys, the next he supplied a part of the melody with mumbled lyrics (which we deciphered and completed). His contributions were always gems and we never had to make them work with what we were doing. They were always essential to the idea, or we wouldn't work on the track.' The Midnight HourFragile PeopleMystery GirlTraces of YouThe Great UnknownSay You WillHeartbreakLose It AllWasting TimeHate That It's True To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, click here.
Yahoo
14-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Renowned sitar virtuoso Anoushka Shankar coming to Alabama March 22
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Anoushka Shankar, a sitar player carrying on the legacy of her iconic Indian musician of a father, will be performing in east Alabama later this month for a special performance. Shankar, daughter of sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, will perform at the Gogue Performing Arts Center at Auburn University on March 22 as part of its 2024-25 celebrity series. Born in London, Shankar first took up the sitar when she was 8 years old and made music her life ever since, often performing and touring with her father up until his death in 2012. In her own right, Shankar has released eight albums and received 11 Grammy Award nominations. Shankar has also crossed over from Indian classical music to more popular music, recording music with her half-sister, pianist Norah Jones, as heard on tracks such as 'Easy' and 'Traces of You.' The performance will start at 7 p.m. Tickets range from $35 to $90. For more information, click here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
08-03-2025
- Yahoo
Hawks, butterflies and a song for her murdered son help Georgia mom reclaim joy after killings
ROSWELL, Ga. (AP) — A hawk swooped in and landed on a tree, then watched as Michele and Jeremy Davis mourned their murdered son at a vigil outside his high school. It was one day after their teenager, Carter, was gunned down in a random attack that sent fear through the suburbs north of Atlanta in the summer of 2016. The hawk stayed as the father spoke. When he finished, it began soaring silently over the crowd, flying just over the heads of Carter's classmates at the tearful vigil, Michele Davis recalled in an interview this week. See for yourself — The Yodel is the go-to source for daily news, entertainment and feel-good stories. By signing up, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy. Hawks and butterflies would show up later for the Davis family in surprising and unexpected ways. They've been part of a series of events that helped her regain her joy, she said. Michele Davis is an English teacher at the Lovett School in Atlanta, and one of the latest signs that her son is OK came through a former student, Slater Nalley. He wrote a song about Carter and later made it onto the TV show 'American Idol.' Nalley's performance of "Traces of You" will be aired on the season premiere Sunday night, ABC representatives said. Searching for signs that Carter is OK Michele Davis spent one of the last days with her son in her home state of South Dakota, beneath the towering granite peaks in the Black Hills. She and Carter noticed two granite spires touching each other across a ravine, a rock formation known as the Praying Hands. Three days later, Carter and his friend Natalie Henderson, both 17, were gunned down. It was the night before he was supposed to start his senior year at River Ridge High School in Woodstock, Georgia. Hours after the killings, Carter's parents gathered with their daughter, 8-year-old Greta, to find a path forward. They'd just heard devastating details of the murders from police detectives. When the police left, they went to their porch and decided to look for messages that signaled Carter was OK, Michele Davis said. To help Greta better comprehend the loss of her big brother, Jeremy Davis explained to his daughter that Carter may send messages that he's fine in unique ways, such as with feathers or dragonflies. They talked it over a bit before Jeremy Davis told the family: 'I see him as a hawk or an eagle, soaring high above." The next evening at the vigil, the hawk appeared. The butterfly visits As Michele Davis spoke with her parents a couple of days after the killings, a yellow and black butterfly landed near them. It reminded them of Carter's love for butterflies. Carter was also passionate about sports, and hoped to play lacrosse in college. Weeks after the killings, friends and family organized a pick-up lacrosse game in Georgia. Carter's best friend from South Dakota flew to Atlanta for the game and wore Carter's helmet and jersey. Midway through, players came to a halt. They began pointing at Carter's helmet, where a yellow butterfly had landed. Gunman pleads guilty but mentally ill Days after the killing, Roswell police arrested Jeffrey Hazelwood on two murder counts. Police said he stalked Carter and Henderson as they spent time in a parked car outside a Publix grocery store. Hazelwood, who was 20 at the time, had climbed onto the roof of the grocery store during the predawn hours on Aug. 1, 2016, to watch them, prosecutors said. He later confronted the teens in the parking lot, shooting both of them in the head, the medical examiner determined. There was no evidence that he even knew them. After the killings, Hazelwood wore a 'Guy Fawkes' mask — which gained popularity after the 2006 film 'V for Vendetta' — as he filled his car with gas at a nearby convenience store, surveillance video shows. There's no evidence he was wearing the mask during the killings, as there's no surveillance video that captured the teens being shot, police said. Detectives later found writings by Hazelwood that expressed his desire to become an assassin. Hazelwood pleaded guilty but mentally ill to two counts of murder, and is serving a life sentence in a Georgia prison, according to the state Department of Corrections. Hazelwood has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, his defense lawyers said in court. A priest who prayed with her and the Henderson family, and the Roswell police detectives who interviewed Michele and Jeremy Davis also gave them comfort in their darkest days, Michele Davis said. She's also grateful that detectives secured a confession from Hazelwood. He shook uncontrollably as he recounted the crime to a detective, as seen in the interrogation video. The police department's forensic science laboratory now has a plaque on the wall: 'In Memory of Natalie Henderson & Carter Davis. When the innocent cannot cry out for justice, it is our duty to do so for them.' 'The most magical thing' Last year, Michele Davis shared a poem she had written with Nalley, her former student. Nalley then created a song about Carter and wanted to bring his guitar to school and play it for the class. 'It was the most magical thing I had ever heard," Michele Davis said. Students in other classrooms heard the music. So "we went on this classroom tour of him singing this song and me sitting there listening to it and crying,' she said. The song's opening lyric is 'Your laugh was like a river running home.' Later, the song evokes the hawks that bring comfort to her: 'Somewhere past the sky I can feel you dancing in the air. Every single time I see a bird fly by, I'm reminded you're answering my prayers.' Living in the 'and' Through a friend, Michele Davis was able to find a small group of women in the Atlanta area known as the Warrior Moms, all of whom have suffered tremendous loss. 'As Americans we shy away from talking about it,' she said. 'It's just underneath the surface — this sadness — that any one second, I can just sit still long enough and break down crying.' The Warrior Moms plan to share their experiences in a book, 'Grieve Like a Mother, Survive Like a Warrior,' set to be released later this year. 'We wanted to be able to tell our stories that help people find joy again,' Michele Davis said. 'It's very intentional with finding joy.' Another thing she's learned is what she calls 'living in the 'and,'" as in 'dark and light, sorrow and happiness, grief and joy," she said. She also plans to keep looking for those unexpected moments, when the memory of her son comes flooding back. 'You look for the hawks and butterflies," she said.
The Independent
08-03-2025
- The Independent
Hawks, butterflies and a song for her murdered son help Georgia mom reclaim joy after killings
A hawk swooped in and landed on a tree, then watched as Michele and Jeremy Davis mourned their murdered son at a vigil outside his high school. It was one day after their teenager, Carter, was gunned down in a random attack that sent fear through the suburbs north of Atlanta in the summer of 2016. The hawk stayed as the father spoke. When he finished, it began soaring silently over the crowd, flying just over the heads of Carter's classmates at the tearful vigil, Michele Davis recalled in an interview this week. Hawks and butterflies would show up later for the Davis family in surprising and unexpected ways. They've been part of a series of events that helped her regain her joy, she said. Michele Davis is an English teacher at the Lovett School in Atlanta, and one of the latest signs that her son is OK came through a former student, Slater Nalley. He wrote a song about Carter and later made it onto the TV show 'American Idol.' Nalley's performance of "Traces of You" will be aired on the season premiere Sunday night, ABC representatives said. Searching for signs that Carter is OK Michele Davis spent one of the last days with her son in her home state of South Dakota, beneath the towering granite peaks in the Black Hills. She and Carter noticed two granite spires touching each other across a ravine, a rock formation known as the Praying Hands. Three days later, Carter and his friend Natalie Henderson, both 17, were gunned down. It was the night before he was supposed to start his senior year at River Ridge High School in Woodstock, Georgia. Hours after the killings, Carter's parents gathered with their daughter, 8-year-old Greta, to find a path forward. They'd just heard devastating details of the murders from police detectives. When the police left, they went to their porch and decided to look for messages that signaled Carter was OK, Michele Davis said. To help Greta better comprehend the loss of her big brother, Jeremy Davis explained to his daughter that Carter may send messages that he's fine in unique ways, such as with feathers or dragonflies. They talked it over a bit before Jeremy Davis told the family: 'I see him as a hawk or an eagle, soaring high above." The next evening at the vigil, the hawk appeared. The butterfly visits As Michele Davis spoke with her parents a couple of days after the killings, a yellow and black butterfly landed near them. It reminded them of Carter's love for butterflies. Carter was also passionate about sports, and hoped to play lacrosse in college. Weeks after the killings, friends and family organized a pick-up lacrosse game in Georgia. Carter's best friend from South Dakota flew to Atlanta for the game and wore Carter's helmet and jersey. Midway through, players came to a halt. They began pointing at Carter's helmet, where a yellow butterfly had landed. Gunman pleads guilty but mentally ill Days after the killing, Roswell police arrested Jeffrey Hazelwood on two murder counts. Police said he stalked Carter and Henderson as they spent time in a parked car outside a Publix grocery store. Hazelwood, who was 20 at the time, had climbed onto the roof of the grocery store during the predawn hours on Aug. 1, 2016, to watch them, prosecutors said. He later confronted the teens in the parking lot, shooting both of them in the head, the medical examiner determined. There was no evidence that he even knew them. After the killings, Hazelwood wore a 'Guy Fawkes' mask — which gained popularity after the 2006 film 'V for Vendetta' — as he filled his car with gas at a nearby convenience store, surveillance video shows. There's no evidence he was wearing the mask during the killings, as there's no surveillance video that captured the teens being shot, police said. Detectives later found writings by Hazelwood that expressed his desire to become an assassin. Hazelwood pleaded guilty but mentally ill to two counts of murder, and is serving a life sentence in a Georgia prison, according to the state Department of Corrections. Hazelwood has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, his defense lawyers said in court. A priest who prayed with her and the Henderson family, and the Roswell police detectives who interviewed Michele and Jeremy Davis also gave them comfort in their darkest days, Michele Davis said. She's also grateful that detectives secured a confession from Hazelwood. He shook uncontrollably as he recounted the crime to a detective, as seen in the interrogation video. The police department's forensic science laboratory now has a plaque on the wall: 'In Memory of Natalie Henderson & Carter Davis. When the innocent cannot cry out for justice, it is our duty to do so for them.' 'The most magical thing' Last year, Michele Davis shared a poem she had written with Nalley, her former student. Nalley then created a song about Carter and wanted to bring his guitar to school and play it for the class. 'It was the most magical thing I had ever heard," Michele Davis said. Students in other classrooms heard the music. So "we went on this classroom tour of him singing this song and me sitting there listening to it and crying,' she said. The song's opening lyric is 'Your laugh was like a river running home.' Later, the song evokes the hawks that bring comfort to her: 'Somewhere past the sky I can feel you dancing in the air. Every single time I see a bird fly by, I'm reminded you're answering my prayers.' Living in the 'and' Through a friend, Michele Davis was able to find a small group of women in the Atlanta area known as the Warrior Moms, all of whom have suffered tremendous loss. 'As Americans we shy away from talking about it,' she said. 'It's just underneath the surface — this sadness — that any one second, I can just sit still long enough and break down crying.' The Warrior Moms plan to share their experiences in a book, 'Grieve Like a Mother, Survive Like a Warrior,' set to be released later this year. 'We wanted to be able to tell our stories that help people find joy again,' Michele Davis said. 'It's very intentional with finding joy.' Another thing she's learned is what she calls 'living in the 'and,'" as in 'dark and light, sorrow and happiness, grief and joy," she said. She also plans to keep looking for those unexpected moments, when the memory of her son comes flooding back. 'You look for the hawks and butterflies," she said.
Associated Press
08-03-2025
- Associated Press
Hawks, butterflies and a song for her murdered son help Georgia mom reclaim joy after killings
ROSWELL, Ga. (AP) — A hawk swooped in and landed on a tree, then watched as Michele and Jeremy Davis mourned their murdered son at a vigil outside his high school. It was one day after their teenager, Carter, was gunned down in a random attack that sent fear through the suburbs north of Atlanta in the summer of 2016. The hawk stayed as the father spoke. When he finished, it began soaring silently over the crowd, flying just over the heads of Carter's classmates at the tearful vigil, Michele Davis recalled in an interview this week. Hawks and butterflies would show up later for the Davis family in surprising and unexpected ways. They've been part of a series of events that helped her regain her joy, she said. Michele Davis is an English teacher at the Lovett School in Atlanta, and one of the latest signs that her son is OK came through a former student, Slater Nalley. He wrote a song about Carter and later made it onto the TV show 'American Idol.' Nalley's performance of 'Traces of You' will be aired on the season premiere Sunday night, ABC representatives said. Searching for signs that Carter is OK Michele Davis spent one of the last days with her son in her home state of South Dakota, beneath the towering granite peaks in the Black Hills. She and Carter noticed two granite spires touching each other across a ravine, a rock formation known as the Praying Hands. Three days later, Carter and his friend Natalie Henderson, both 17, were gunned down. It was the night before he was supposed to start his senior year at River Ridge High School in Woodstock, Georgia. Hours after the killings, Carter's parents gathered with their daughter, 8-year-old Greta, to find a path forward. They'd just heard devastating details of the murders from police detectives. When the police left, they went to their porch and decided to look for messages that signaled Carter was OK, Michele Davis said. To help Greta better comprehend the loss of her big brother, Jeremy Davis explained to his daughter that Carter may send messages that he's fine in unique ways, such as with feathers or dragonflies. They talked it over a bit before Jeremy Davis told the family: 'I see him as a hawk or an eagle, soaring high above.' The next evening at the vigil, the hawk appeared. The butterfly visits As Michele Davis spoke with her parents a couple of days after the killings, a yellow and black butterfly landed near them. It reminded them of Carter's love for butterflies. Carter was also passionate about sports, and hoped to play lacrosse in college. Weeks after the killings, friends and family organized a pick-up lacrosse game in Georgia. Carter's best friend from South Dakota flew to Atlanta for the game and wore Carter's helmet and jersey. Midway through, players came to a halt. They began pointing at Carter's helmet, where a yellow butterfly had landed. Gunman pleads guilty but mentally ill Days after the killing, Roswell police arrested Jeffrey Hazelwood on two murder counts. Police said he stalked Carter and Henderson as they spent time in a parked car outside a Publix grocery store. Hazelwood, who was 20 at the time, had climbed onto the roof of the grocery store during the predawn hours on Aug. 1, 2016, to watch them, prosecutors said. He later confronted the teens in the parking lot, shooting both of them in the head, the medical examiner determined. There was no evidence that he even knew them. After the killings, Hazelwood wore a 'Guy Fawkes' mask — which gained popularity after the 2006 film 'V for Vendetta' — as he filled his car with gas at a nearby convenience store, surveillance video shows. There's no evidence he was wearing the mask during the killings, as there's no surveillance video that captured the teens being shot, police said. Detectives later found writings by Hazelwood that expressed his desire to become an assassin. Hazelwood pleaded guilty but mentally ill to two counts of murder, and is serving a life sentence in a Georgia prison, according to the state Department of Corrections. Hazelwood has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, his defense lawyers said in court. A priest who prayed with her and the Henderson family, and the Roswell police detectives who interviewed Michele and Jeremy Davis also gave them comfort in their darkest days, Michele Davis said. She's also grateful that detectives secured a confession from Hazelwood. He shook uncontrollably as he recounted the crime to a detective, as seen in the interrogation video. The police department's forensic science laboratory now has a plaque on the wall: 'In Memory of Natalie Henderson & Carter Davis. When the innocent cannot cry out for justice, it is our duty to do so for them.' 'The most magical thing' Last year, Michele Davis shared a poem she had written with Nalley, her former student. Nalley then created a song about Carter and wanted to bring his guitar to school and play it for the class. 'It was the most magical thing I had ever heard,' Michele Davis said. Students in other classrooms heard the music. So 'we went on this classroom tour of him singing this song and me sitting there listening to it and crying,' she said. The song's opening lyric is 'Your laugh was like a river running home.' Later, the song evokes the hawks that bring comfort to her: 'Somewhere past the sky I can feel you dancing in the air. Every single time I see a bird fly by, I'm reminded you're answering my prayers.' Living in the 'and' Through a friend, Michele Davis was able to find a small group of women in the Atlanta area known as the Warrior Moms, all of whom have suffered tremendous loss. 'As Americans we shy away from talking about it,' she said. 'It's just underneath the surface — this sadness — that any one second, I can just sit still long enough and break down crying.' The Warrior Moms plan to share their experiences in a book, 'Grieve Like a Mother, Survive Like a Warrior,' set to be released later this year. 'We wanted to be able to tell our stories that help people find joy again,' Michele Davis said. 'It's very intentional with finding joy.' Another thing she's learned is what she calls 'living in the 'and,'' as in 'dark and light, sorrow and happiness, grief and joy,' she said. She also plans to keep looking for those unexpected moments, when the memory of her son comes flooding back.
