{"id":2062898,"date":"2025-10-01T20:43:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T20:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2062898"},"modified":"2025-10-01T20:43:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T20:43:32","slug":"alan-sparhawk-and-benjamin-booker-share-songs-from-new-refugee-benefit-compilation-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/alan-sparhawk-and-benjamin-booker-share-songs-from-new-refugee-benefit-compilation-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Sparhawk and Benjamin Booker Share Songs From New Refugee Benefit Compilation: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A new benefit compilation for charities supporting immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers has corralled new songs from Dirty Projectors, Oneohtrix Point Never\u2019s Daniel Lopatin, Tim Heidecker, Bonnie \u201cPrince\u201d Billy, William Tyler, Lambchop, Lonnie Holley, and many others. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.passagesrecord.org\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.passagesrecord.org\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.passagesrecord.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Passages: Artists in Solidarity with Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers<\/em><\/a> arrives December 5 via <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/westernvinyl.com\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/westernvinyl.com\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/westernvinyl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Western Vinyl<\/a>. New songs from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/4879-alan-sparhawk\/\">Alan Sparhawk<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/34477-benjamin-booker\/\">Benjamin Booker<\/a> lead the record\u2014listen to their contributions, \u201cNo More Darkness\u201d\u00a0and \u201cA Place for Us,\u201d\u00a0below.<\/p>\n<p>The compilation beneficiaries are two Texas-based organizations: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.americangateways.org\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.americangateways.org\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.americangateways.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American Gateways<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.casamarianella.org\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.casamarianella.org\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casamarianella.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Casa Marianella<\/a>. Each provides free or low-cost legal services, food, shelter, access to health care, and other essential services to immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. As well as contributing a track, Tim Heidecker will host a \u201clive variety show and raffle\/auction\u201d on his call-in show <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/officialofficehours.com\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/officialofficehours.com\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/officialofficehours.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Office Hours<\/a> on December 4 to support the cause.<\/p>\n<p>The producers and organizers of <em>Passages<\/em>, Emilie Rex and Rick Alverson, prompted the contributors to write and record their songs in a place that feels like home. \u201cHome, as we know it, is under threat,\u201d they said in a press release. \u201cWhen immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers exercise their human right to safe passage, they defend our ability to do so\u2014and our right to be and feel at home.\u201d Rex and Alverson invite us \u201cto join a local organization defending our neighbors, to call our representatives, to have those hard talks with our family members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The album will come out on vinyl, as well as digitally, and a limited-edition version comes with liner notes by Jason De Le\u00f3n and poetry from Ross Gay. Both editions feature photography by Greg Constantine and Reena Saini Kallat\u2019s cover art, which you can see below. All labor costs involved in making the album were donated or separately fundraised, according to the press release. You can pre-order the LP via <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/westernvinyl.bandcamp.com\/album\/passages-artists-in-solidarity-with-immigrants-refugees-and-asylum-seekers\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/westernvinyl.bandcamp.com\/album\/passages-artists-in-solidarity-with-immigrants-refugees-and-asylum-seekers&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/westernvinyl.bandcamp.com\/album\/passages-artists-in-solidarity-with-immigrants-refugees-and-asylum-seekers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bandcamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pitchfork.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new benefit compilation for charities supporting immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers has corralled new songs from Dirty Projectors, Oneohtrix Point Never\u2019s Daniel Lopatin, Tim Heidecker, Bonnie \u201cPrince\u201d Billy, William Tyler, Lambchop, Lonnie Holley, and many others. Passages: Artists in Solidarity with Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers arrives December 5 via Western Vinyl. 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