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 […]

Mali Obomsawin: Sweet Tooth review – proud, vital marriage of folk and far-out jazz improv | Music

The artwork for Mali Obomsawin: Sweet Tooth

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. […]

Colin Irwin obituary | Folk music

Colin Irwin, left, interviewing the US blues musician Seasick Steve at the Cambridge folk festival, 2010

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. […]

Lavender Country’s Patrick Haggerty was embraced as gay country music’s radical elder : NPR

Lavender Country's Patrick Haggerty was embraced as gay country music's radical elder : NPR

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 […]

Find a Redefined Taste of Indie Music With Malachi Eastling’s Single ‘Daydreaming’

Find a Redefined Taste of Indie Music With Malachi Eastling's Single 'Daydreaming'

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. […]

How Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels made ‘Omar’ at LA Opera

A portrait of Rhiannon Giddens with a banjo hanging in the background.

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 […]