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In the late 1970s, Johnny Cash hosted a Christmas Special each year, featuring musical performances from him and his extended family as well as other country and pop luminaries. On Pitchfork.tv we have these four highlights for One Week Only. First up is the ancient folk song popularized by Ledbelly (and then Kurt Cobain) "In the Pines", perform...

After much drama, Morrissey has settled on a U.S. label. (But really, what in Morrissey's life doesn't involve drama?)Lost Highway, the primarily Americana label known for artists such as Ryan Adams, Lucinda Williams, Johnny Cash, and Willie Nelson, will release Morrissey's forthcoming album Years of Refusal in conjunction with Morrissey's own A...

Antony and the Johnsons, New Pornographers frontman A.C. Newman, No Age, Goblin Cock (featuring Pinback's Rob Crow), and Unicorns offshoot Clues lead the initial lineup charge for 2009's Noise Pop Festival, exploding all over San Francisco February 24-March 1.In addition to these early confirmations, Noise Pop will host a film festival featuring...

This "current artists collaborate with dead icons through the miracle of technology" thing just won't go away. Nat King Cole will follow in the posthumous footsteps of such departed icons as Biggie, Johnny Cash, Elvis, and, um, himself with the release of an album called Re:Generations.Re:Generations contains reimaginings of Cole songs by TV on ...