Celebrity cemeteries and haunted libraries: how musician Lael Neale channels Hollywood’s dark side | Music

Lael Neale

In the video for Lael Neale’s recent single, In Verona, she takes us on a woozy walk through the streets of Hollywood. Alongside grainy footage of the Walk of Fame, we find her drifting through […]

The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering honors the land, environment

Kirsten Gleissner, left, and Andrew Church dance together during a rodeo swing workshop.

ELKO, Nev. —  In a high school gymnasium, three hours from Salt Lake and seven from Las Vegas, the throaty warble of a fiddle competed with the sound of cowboy boots squeaking on wood. Men triple-stepped […]

Naxos China Aims To Embrace a Wider Audience

Naxos China Aims To Embrace a Wider Audience

Photo Credit: Naxos Naxos Records has recently been awarded Label of the Year by the 2023 International Classical Music Awards (ICMA). The following comes from Naxos China, a company DMN is proud to be partnering […]

‘Songs should be alive’: Slovenian trio Širom on their ‘imaginary folk’ music | Folk music

‘The music has to be responsive.’

What is folk music? Is it music specific to a region and embodying particular cultural traditions, or could there be a more open-ended definition? Perhaps it’s a product of the imagination that can be rooted […]

K-Pop isn’t the only hot ticket in Koreatown — how ‘trot’ is captivating immigrants

Eunice Kim, a 57-year-old homemaker in Mission Viejo, has spent $800 buying Lim Young Woong’s albums. With other members of a fan club, she has spent six straight hours discussing her favorite singer — his […]

Van Morrison has a ‘mountain of material’ he wants to release – Music News

Van Morrison has a 'mountain of material' he wants to release - Music News

Van Morrison has had to research “alternative outlets” to release his albums. The 77-year-old music legend admits he’s going to need to stop himself from writing more tunes because he has so much piled up […]

Prodigious fiddler Mark O’Connor celebrates 50 years of music with memoir : NPR

Prodigious fiddler Mark O'Connor celebrates 50 years of music with memoir : NPR

Mark O’Connor plays the five instruments he was studying at age 12 – fiddle, guitar, mandolin, banjo and dobro. Marty O’Connor/Mark O’Connor hide caption toggle caption Marty O’Connor/Mark O’Connor Mark O’Connor plays the five instruments […]

Nataly Merezhuk’s Jazz on Bones honors underground efforts to keep jazz alive : NPR

Nataly Merezhuk's Jazz on Bones honors underground efforts to keep jazz alive : NPR

Russian-born violinist Nataly Merezhuk’s new album ‘Jazz on Bones’ explores the history of jazz in the former Soviet Union. ‘Courtesy of Nataly Merezhuk hide caption toggle caption ‘Courtesy of Nataly Merezhuk Russian-born violinist Nataly Merezhuk’s […]

MOTÖRHEAD Shares Previously Unreleased Song ‘Greedy Bastards’ From ‘Bad Magic’ Sessions

MOTÖRHEAD Shares Previously Unreleased Song 'Bullet In Your Brain' From 'Bad Magic' Sessions

MOTÖRHEAD, the iconic Godfathers of heavy metal, have unleashed a brand new video for the previously unreleased track “Greedy Bastards”, taken from the upcoming release “Bad Magic: Seriously Bad Magic”. “Greedy Bastards” is the second […]

Joni Mitchell, Gershwin Prize Winner, to Be Honored With Tribute Concert

Joni Mitchell at Newport Folk Festival 2022

The Library of Congress has awarded Joni Mitchell the 2023 Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, as The New York Times notes. A tribute concert on March 1 will honor the Canadian singer-songwriter in Washington, D.C., […]

Joni Mitchell Wins Gershwin Prize from Library of Congress

Joni Mitchell wins Gershwin Prize from Library of Congress : NPR

Photo Credit: Library of Congress Life / CC by 1.0 Joni Mitchell is this year’s winner of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from the Library of Congress. Joni Mitchell has been announced as this year’s winner […]

Joni Mitchell wins Gershwin Prize from Library of Congress : NPR

Joni Mitchell wins Gershwin Prize from Library of Congress : NPR

Joni Mitchell attends the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 3, 2022, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for The Recording Academy hide caption toggle caption Frazer Harrison/Getty Images […]

MOTÖRHEAD Shares Previously Unreleased Song ‘Bullet In Your Brain’ From ‘Bad Magic’ Sessions

MOTÖRHEAD Shares Previously Unreleased Song 'Bullet In Your Brain' From 'Bad Magic' Sessions

MOTÖRHEAD released its 23rd (and final) studio album, “Bad Magic”, in 2015. Due on February 24, 2023, “Bad Magic: Seriously Bad Magic” represents a bonus-packed refresh, adding two previously unreleased tracks from those furious sessions […]