Here’s your chance to own a piece of music history. Just be prepared to write a six-figure check. Memorabilia dealer Moments In Time is selling Bob Dylan’s handwritten lyrics to “Desolation Row,” a fan-favorite record that appeared […]
Mali Obomsawin is a musician from the First Abenaki Nation, growing up on ancestral land in Maine and Quebec, whose debut album asks vital questions about the reception and expression of indigenous and traditional music. […]
Though the music journalist Colin Irwin, who has died suddenly aged 71, specialised in folk music, his writing ranged across many genres, especially during the 1970s and 80s, when he worked on Melody Maker magazine. […]
Buffalo Nichols shares new double single / Announces 2023 headline tour Buffalo Nichols image via Sachyn Mital November 2, 2022 Buffalo Nichols releases his first new music since his acclaimed 2021 self-titled debut album on […]
Ireland’s Anna Mieke unveils new single and video for ‘Seraphim’ Anna Mieke image via Lluís Tudela November 2, 2022 Anna Mieke reaches towards the heavens in her latest single ‘Seraphim.’ Anna Mieke has released her […]
Lavender Country, led by singer and songwriter Patrick Haggerty, released what it widely considered the first openly gay country album in 1973. Haggerty died this week at age 78. Marie Tamanova/Courtesy of Don Giovanni Records […]
Author : Charles Edward October 22,2022 October 22,2022 October 22, 2022October 25, 2022 Versatile music artist Malachi Eastling offers an awesome indie-folk single for the listeners, titled ‘Daydreaming’. This romantic single is available on YouTube. […]
Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar from Senegal, wrote an autobiography in 1831 about how he was captured and sold into slavery for decades in the Carolinas. His memoir, written in Arabic, brims with quotations […]
She called them “dark little people,” adding “tan feos” (“they’re ugly”) and claimed she didn’t know where they came from. Former L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez’s recently leaked racist remarks about Oaxacans living in […]
Sarathy Korwar has a light touch behind the drum kit. Since debuting with 2016’s Day to Day, where he mixed the folk music of the Siddi community from rural Gujarat with west African rhythms and […]
‘I sang to it with a plastic guitar when I was three years old’Joe Elliott, Def Leppard I was three years and two months old when Love Me Do came out, but I had a […]
In 1975, an idiosyncratic musical odyssey called The Köln Concert became the unlikeliest of multimillion-sellers. On that album, Keith Jarrett revealed how an unplanned, unplugged and uncommercial private meditation between just him and a traditional […]
When Florida security guard George Zimmerman was acquitted over his shooting of unarmed Black teenager Trayvon Martin in 2013, 18-year-old Jake Blount turned to the past to cope with his despair. “I wanted to know […]
On Friends, Maggie Wheeler played one of the most iconically annoying women of all time: Chandler’s (Matthew Perry) on-again, off-again girlfriend and sometimes foe, Janice Litman. Janice’s braying laugh and catchphrase, “Oh…my…god,” are the hallmarks […]
When Steve Roud was young, he began collecting records. Hardly unusual for a child of the 1950s – but this boy from south London was different. Not content with just listening to LPs, Roud began […]
In early 1970s Lebanon, a young singer from a hill town north of Beirut was on the up. Before the civil war in 1975, the capital was the Arab world’s thriving artistic centre, where folk-dance […]
First-time nominees dominate the 30th anniversary of the Mercury prize, which celebrates the best British and Irish albums of the year, making up 11 of the 12 shortlisted albums. Little Simz is the only artist […]
Ukrainian Eurovision 2022 winner Kalush Orchestra are bringing their show to North America for a 13-city fall tour. Kicking off on October 20th in Seattle, the trek features additional stops in San Francisco, Los Angeles, […]
By Heather Beattie Trixie Mattel is at the airport — again. After wrapping up a five-week tour across Europe, the multi-talented drag icon is briefly headed home to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, before plunging back into a […]
Vocal coach Zebedee Zuñiga twists his hand in the air, and the melody of a tender, haunting lullaby, Ili Ili Tulog Anay, begins. “Little one, little one, sleep now/ Your mother is not here / […]