Out of nowhere, a saxophonist appeared and started playing, instantly changing the atmosphere. The sound of the saxophone echoed through the space and caught the attention of people passing by. What ...
A guy asked if I could play Careless Whisper, and I didn’t expect what would happen next. As the familiar melody started on the piano, he joined in with a saxophone and the moment quickly turned into ...
A few weeks ago, my husband and I watched “Come See Me in the Good Light,” the impossibly tender, emotionally raw and, at ...
Revisiting comments from David Gilmour about the Pink Floyd song that he'd never have written and exploring his feud with former bandmate Roger Waters ...
This week's Notable Releases include Shabaka, Johnny Blue Skies (aka Sturgill Simpson), Denzel Curry's new group The Scythe, Bosse-de-Nage, and more.
For the first time ever, the DC Everest Senior Highschool band will be heading overseas to participate in a very special parade.
The North Leeds Food Festival has officially confirmed a massive live music line-up and a brand-new interactive arena to ...
The only version of pop music you’ll ever hear me listening to is the kind that twists, bends, and breaks all traditional pop barriers. These 7 new albums pull from jazz, R&B, indie, psych, and ...
Disc One of the new edition features a remaster of the original LP, plus alternate mixes of several of its tracks. The second CD, meanwhile, preserves a late-night, live-in-the-studio session that ...
In groups big and small, AACM reedist Ed Wilkerson has combined the joyous immediacy of early jazz with the daring collisions of the avant-garde.
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I was YouTube surfing one afternoon when a scene from the 2003 film, “The School of Rock,” popped up on the screen. In the clip, guitarist Dewey Finn (played by Jack Black, co-founder of the rock band ...
The Love Rocks NYC concert, with Paul Simon, Mary J. Blige, Hozier, Elvis Costello and more, raised $6 million for charity, and $65 million total.