Abel Selaocoe walks into a bar in King’s Cross, London, with a small suitcase and a large, curvaceous silver case. “I’m sorry, sir, but you’re going to have to put that in the cloakroom,” the […]
The singer-songwriter Johanna Warren has announced her new album. Lessons for Mutants is out October 7 (via Wax Nine/Carpark). She’s also announced a U.S. and European tour, which includes sets at Pitchfork Music Festivals London […]
Ronnie James Dio would have turned 80 years old on July 10. To celebrate this historic day, the legendary Rainbow Bar & Grill on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood hosted “At The Rainbow In The […]
For the last 50 years, David Harrington, the founder and artistic director of San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet, has been playing what he calls “pretty athletic music” on a violin made in 1721. I’ve heard him […]
Former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach joined COUNT’S 77 on stage this past Saturday, July 2 at Count’s Vamp’d in Las Vegas, Nevada to perform a cover of the KISS classic “Watchin’ You”. Video of […]
Sebastian Bach joined NIGHT RANGER on stage last night (Friday, June 24) at the Promenade Park in Toledo, Ohio to perform the DAMN YANKEES song “High Enough”. Fan-filmed video of Bach‘s appearance can be seen […]
A Stradivarius violin “of outstanding power and beauty” used to play Over the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz is expected to break records when it is put up for auction next week. The 308-year-old […]
Video of SCORPIONS members Rudolf Schenker and Matthias Jabs performing some of the band’s classic songs with several campers at this past April’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy Camp in Las Vegas, Nevada can be seen […]
Composer Ingram Marshall, photographed in 2021 by his son. Clem Marshall/Clem Marshall hide caption toggle caption Clem Marshall/Clem Marshall Composer Ingram Marshall, photographed in 2021 by his son. Clem Marshall/Clem Marshall Composer and performer Ingram […]
Jordan Rudess, virtuoso musician/composer and keyboardist for Grammy Award-winning prog rock band DREAM THEATER, will embark on a two-month solo tour dubbed “An Evening With Jordan Rudess” this summer from June to August. Audiences can […]
Fan-filmed video of FOZZY‘s May 7 performance at Goldfield in Roseville, California can be seen below. In an interview with Jave Patterson of Two Doods Reviews, FOZZY frontman Chris Jericho discussed his recent admission that […]
I remember, as everyone does, Emeli Sandé performing at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics. She sang Abide With Me so seriously, and yet so joyfully, she looked as though there were some kind […]
What would happen if the smart, sexy 30-ish woman at the center of “Anaïs in Love” stopped moving — rushing from place to place, temptation to temptation, responsibility to responsibility? From frame one of French […]
PJ Harvey is about to read a poem from her new book, Orlam – we are in her publisher’s offices which are strangely empty (are they all working from home?) and have the top floor […]
New SKID ROW singer Erik Grönwall was a guest on Swedish TV channel TV4‘s “Nyhetsmorgon” program earlier today (Thursday, April 21). During the chat, Erik discussed how he went from auditioning for the competition show […]
Video footage of Sebastian Bach performing a couple of SKID ROW classics with several campers at this month’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy Camp at Count’s Vamp’d in Las Vegas, Nevada can be seen below. Rock […]
Shutterstock Without looking at the figures I’d be willing to bet that drunk people account for a massive portion of McDonald’s overall revenue. I can’t tell you the last time I ate McDonald’s let alone […]
The prolific French composer Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983) showed her sense of rebellion early by changing her name from Taillefesse as a rebuff to her father, who objected to her musical ambitions. For too long, her […]
If you have picked up any intelligence about the Russian-German pianist Igor Levit, it is surely that he cannot resist a marathon. The demands of performing long works, alone on stage, do not need spelling […]
Lang Lang and Yuja Wang are surely our two most popular and trend-setting classical pianists. They gave almost back-to-back recitals at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Sunday and Wednesday nights, respectively, and drew expectably large, […]