Ezra Collective the British jazz quintet who took home the 2023 Mercury Prize, have announced a new album. Dance, No One’s Watching is out September 27 via Partisan. The band has shared its lead single, […]
Thurston Moore has announced a new album titled Flow Critical Lucidity, which will arrive on September 20th via The Daydream Library Series. Today, along with the announcement, Moore released the single “Sans Limites,” featuring Stereolab’s […]
Jazz musician Jon Batiste will be part of Major League Baseball events Thursday night honoring former Negro League players in Birmingham, Ala. Share This Article
Willow Smith loves music. The artist and musician, who recently released her latest album “Empathogen,” recently met Seun Kuti, a beloved Nigerian musician who’s worked with incredible artists over the course of his career. An onlooker […]
Karina Rykman has outlined a new run of fall headlining tour dates. The singer-songwriter-bassist will commence the tour with an already-announced appearance at the acoustically superior Bearsville Theater in Woodstock, N.Y., before picking up the […]
Courtney Pine performing in London. Image by Tim Sandle. Courtney Pine is an English multi-instrumentalist jazz musician (primarily for his saxophone playing), who broke into the UK Top 40 with his debut album (on Island […]
“The liberation I feel being able to wear regular bottoms freely has allowed my confidence to soar,” the 23-year-old trans activist wrote. Jazz Jennings is feeling good in her own skin! On Friday, the transgender […]
R&B singer Angela Bofill has died at the age of 70, her agent has said. The musician, best known for her tracks I Try and Angel of the Night, died in Vallejo, California, on June […]
In May, Metal Department released the debut album from AMERIKAN KAOS, “Armageddon Boogie”. AMERIKAN KAOS is described in a press release as “the secret love child” of guitar virtuoso Jeff Waters, best known as the […]
For Nation Beat, their globe-trotting groove has crossed not only countries, but continents. And the band’s Brazil-to-New Orleans flight of beats and brass will stop at NYC’s Joe’s Pub on Saturday for an album release […]
Photo Credit: Dino Perrucci On Tuesday, June 11, Wynton Marsalis stopped in at New York’s Blue Note Jazz Club to deliver his first performance of the 2024 Blue Note Jazz Festival. Alongside an all-star lineup […]
Nubya Garcia has announced a new album. Odyssey, the follow-up to her 2020 debut, Source, arrives September 20 on Concord Jazz, with contributors including Esperanza Spalding, Richie Seivwright, and Georgia Anne Muldrow. Listen to a […]
Jazz Jennings is a transgender reality star and actress. She and her family star in the TLC reality series, I Am Jazz. Jennings has been open about her weight loss journey on Instagram. In a […]
“In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon,” Alex Gibney’s 3½-hour documentary about singer-songwriter Paul Simon — streaming in two parts on MGM+ — takes its title from a line in “The Sound of Silence,” […]
The mystery subject behind one of the most iconic album covers of the ’80s has finally been revealed. For decades, fans have speculated about the identity of the inspiration for illustrator Patrick Nagel’s artwork for Duran […]
Inside Out 2 Early Reviews: Pixar’s Much-Awaited Sequel Including Maya Hawke Gets Praised By The Critics. (Photo Credit – Instagram) Pixar’s Inside Out 2 is still a week away from hitting the screen. The critics […]
MANILA, Philippines – Audiophiles, rejoice! Music, arts, and culture festival Fête de la Musique Philippines is returning more massive than ever with its “multi-stage, multi-genre, and multi-day celebration.” An annual and free event, Fête de […]
Marian Anderson arrives in London in 1952. On June 8, the Philadelphia Orchestra named its main performance hall in her honor. Douglas Miller/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Douglas Miller/Getty Images History, we know, is […]
When a 9-year-old Leslie Uggams made her debut at Harlem’s historic Apollo Theater in 1952, she instantly won over the notoriously tough crowd as the “extra added attraction” on a bill with jazz great Louis […]
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN returned to the stage for the first time since 2017 on Saturday (June 8) for a reunion show celebrating the 25th anniversary of their 1999 debut, “Calculating Infinity”, at the No […]