One of the most ambitious pop music undertakings in recent memory may be An Appointment With Mr. Yeats, the latest album from lauded singer/songwriter Mike Scott and his long-lived band the Waterboys. Merged with a rich and creative musical backdrop penned by Scott, the album features lyrics entirely drawn from the written works of poet W.B. Yeats and is one the most exciting and natural-sounding pop collaborations in recent memory.

Scott, central figure of the Waterboys since founding the band in 1983, has had an illustrious career of which Mr. Yeats is only the latest example. The string of highly regarded albums he and the band recorded such as A Pagan Place and This Is The Sea may have reached its popular zenith with 1988’s Fisherman’s Blues—a stirring merge of the pop, rock and traditional folk mediums—but Scott & company have soldiered on with laudable consistency since then.

With longtime Waterboys fiddler Steve Wickham accompanying him, Scott paid a visit to Y! Music

One of the unexpected highlights of the recent South By Southwest conference in Austin was the reappearance of the UK’s Charlotte Church--the still-young vocalist who, at the age of 27, is a recording veteran now in the midst of a dramatic stylistic shift.

The Welsh-born, one-time child star, who began her career as a classical singer via her 1998 album Voice Of An Angel, is now returning with sophisticated, sometimes dark music with echoes of goth, prog and unexpected experimentalism, evidenced most recently by her new release One & Two. The independently-released album is a compilation of the first two of five planned EPs by Church--and it is wildly, unexpectedly good, featuring her unmistakable, soaring voice in a highly appealing thoroughly contemporary context likely to appeal to an entirely new audience.

Y! Music was fortunate enough to grab some moments with Church in Austin earlier this month, during which time she performed two songs from One & Two in a stripped-down but still

Five months ago, Spotify on Tour's Big Green Bus took off on an epic road trip across the country. We drove through 40 cities and logged a whopping 18,000 miles. Along the way, we linked up with artists, brought audiences together to hear from some of our favorites, hosted parties with BACARDí  that saw lines out the door, and got to meet some pretty incredible fans and friends along the way.

In the last leg of the journey, we drove through Florida, partied at Art Basel, had Tilly and the Wall and Rakim over to talk, and were joined by artists including Walk the Moon and Twenty One Pilots for Spotify sessions across the state.

After countless fun adventures with friends and bands across the country, we're pulling the Big Green Bus in for a pit stop this holiday season.

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