Sentence examples for benefit album from inspiring English sources
Robyn, Hot Chip, Scissor Sisters and Devendra Banhart will cover songs by Arthur Russell for a forthcoming benefit album.
Other high-charting new albums this week include the iTunes-only Japan benefit album (No. 6), Panic at the Disco (No. 7) and Bobby V. (No. 9).
CHIMES OF FREEDOM For Amnesty International's 50th birthday, 50 performers have contributed their versions of Bob Dylan songs to this benefit album.
The band's Dessner brothers produced last year's Dark Was the Night Aids benefit album, which featured virtually every notable indie musician in America.
Mr. Kweli also appears on the long-delayed "Red Hot + Riot!," an AIDS-research benefit album of songs by Fela Anikulapo Kuti, an AIDS casualty.
Since the 1980's, when the fight against AIDS led to projects like the highly successful "Red Hot" benefit album series, no central issue has emerged.
"Benefit albums on their own are blunt objects," she wrote in an e-mail.
Two of Mr. Vedder's most impassioned recent performances, for example, have graced benefit albums.
How all this will affect sales remains to be seen, but it suggests the future of benefit albums mirrors that of all albums: adapt or die.
But a larger question looms: As streaming services, piracy, iTunes and other innovations change the way music is consumed, are benefit albums still effective ways to raise money and awareness?
Erin Potts, executive director for Air Traffic Control, a nonprofit organization that consults on music-related philanthropy and activism, maintains that benefit albums can still work but only as part of larger fund-raising or communications plans.
