In the mid-60s, a struggling vibraphone player named Charles Stepney and his wife, Rubie, visited their pastor looking for career advice. Stepney’s work as a jazz musician in Chicago was intermittent at best: when he […]
Photo Credit: Idagio IDAGIO keeps crashing, and you’re having trouble listening to your favorite classical music? Try these solutions first. Classical music streaming platform IDAGIO is one of the best ways to listen to your favorite classical […]
Maren Morris and Zedd join Zane Lowe on New Music Daily on Apple Music 1 to discuss their new song “Make You Say” with BEAUZ. The duo tells Apple Music about how they came back […]
Photo Credit: Concord (L-R) Matt Turner, Scott Safford, Brad Kennard, Justin Wilson, Courtney Allen, Ashley Nite, Jen Hubbard, and Garrett Stephenson Concord Music Publishing signs prolific singer-songwriter Justin Wilson, who has written hits for the […]
METALLICA guitarist and horror memorabilia collector Kirk Hammett moderated “The Original Monster Kids” panel at Midsummer Scream, the world’s largest Halloween and horror convention, which made its return to the Long Beach Convention Center in […]
Robert Glasper is doing it all these days. He’s just come off a European Tour in support of his latest album, Black Radio III, performed at the Montreal Jazz Festival earlier this month (where he […]
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 […]
(From left) Amy Grant, Gladys Knight, George Clooney and Tania León are four of the performing artists honored for a lifetime of achievement by the Kennedy Center this year. The Kennedy Center hide caption toggle […]
UC Berkeley Professor Richard Taruskin, whose 4000-page book The Oxford History of Western Music set a benchmark for writing about the history of classical music. San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst N/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty hide caption […]
‘Apocalyptic nightmares fuel my music’Mark-Anthony Turnage Tell us about your Proms piece … I wrote Time Flies three years ago, in what seems a more innocent era. It was a reaction to getting older. Having […]
Pascal Bideau is a French composer based in London who has written and arranged music for dozens of films and documentaries. He has studied Indonesian gamelan, and in his alter ego of Akusmi he explores […]
Photo Credit: TV10/TenAsia / CC by 3.0 The Korea Singers Association president has sent an open letter to BTS asking them to reconsider breaking up. President Lee Ja Yeon addressed the letter to both BTS […]
In a milestone for the nascent Pakistan dance music community, Boiler Room announced their first-ever show in Pakistan. Local dance music fans were swept off their feet when a striking poster popped up on Instagram […]
Nils Frahm has a new album on the way. Music for Animals, the German composer/producer’s 14th solo album, is due out September 23rd via his own label LEITER. Today, he’s shared a preview of the record […]
All actors change their look at least a little bit to play a role, whether it’s through wearing period costumes or changing their hairstyle. But, for some roles, stars have to transform themselves in a […]
Suede are set to release their new album on September 16. The rock band recorded ‘Autofiction’ – their ninth studio album – at Konk studios in North London with the help of long-time Suede collaborator […]
In the early noughties, Levon Helm began hosting live shows he called Midnight Rambles in a studio at his home in Woodstock, NY. It was a rare bright moment in the story of what happened […]
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 […]
Santoor legend Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma passed away last night from a cardiac arrest, leaving a big void in the classical music industry and the hearts of his admirers. The musical legend and Maestro of […]
As with any side-project or solo album by a member of a celebrated band, the first question prompted by the Smile’s debut is: why? There are plenty of reasonable stock answers: an opportunity to do […]