LP Giobbi to Perform Dead House at NOLA’s The Howlin’ Wolf Following Dead & Company’s Jazz Fest Appearance

LP Giobbi to Perform Dead House at NOLA's The Howlin' Wolf Following Dead & Company's Jazz Fest Appearance

Photo by Jay Blakesberg Today, it was announced following Dead & Company’s headlining set at New Orleans Jazz Festival, producer, DJ, multi-instrumentalist, and Grateful Dead fan LP Giobbi will bring her Dead House project for […]

Bobby Caldwell, Singer of ‘What You Won’t Do For Love,’ Dies, 71

bobby caldwell passes away

Photo Credit: Tom Collins / CC by 2.0 Bobby Caldwell, singer-songwriter of the 1978 hit “What You Won’t Do For Love,” has passed away at age 71. The soulful Bobby Caldwell, singer and songwriter behind […]

Bobby Caldwell, ‘What You Won’t Do For Love’ singer, dies

Bobby Caldwell, 'What You Won't Do For Love' singer, dies

Bobby Caldwell, a blue-eyed soul singer whose smooth touch camouflaged his idiosyncrasies, died on Tuesday following a long illness. He was 71. His wife Mary Caldwell announced his death on Twitter. “What You Won’t Do […]

Comic James Acaster on his plunge into experimental music: ‘I don’t know what I’m doing – but I see that as a strength’ | Music

‘Every project I’ve ever done, I doubt myself’ … Acaster.

It started off, as many great creative undertakings do, as a joke. A few years ago, James Acaster’s parents gave him an ultimatum: collect your old dust-lagged drum kit from our house or we’ll throw […]

Chiiild Embraces the Weirdness of 2000s Production on His Latest Album

Omarion on Catfishing Scam Involving Fan Who Thought They Were Engaged

Chiiild is a product of his environment. When the pandemic kicked in, the Los Angeles-via-Montreal artist locked himself in his house and made his last album Hope For Sale as an act of introspection and […]

Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer and Shahzad Ismaily: Love in Exile review – a trio in striking harmony | Music

The artwork for Love in Exile.

Since her 2015 debut Bird Under Water, Pakistani American singer Arooj Aftab has honed the delicate cadence of her voice in increasingly minimal settings. On that album, she embellished yearning Urdu poetry with traditional instrumentation […]

‘She was no submissive puppet’: how I discovered the real Karen Carpenter’s determination and drive | Pop and rock

The Carpenters performing on the BBC’s In Concert series in 1971, with Karen on the drums.

With their rapturous harmonies and lush production, the Carpenters were one of the biggest acts in the 1970s, selling over 100 million records with global hits like Close to You, Only Yesterday and Please Mr […]

‘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 […]

Glen “SPOT” Lockett, Black Flag and Hüsker Dü Producer, Dead at 72

Glen "SPOT" Lockett, Black Flag and Hüsker Dü Producer, Dead at 72

Glen “SPOT” Lockett, the trailblazing punk producer behind SST Records and artistic statements by the likes of Hüsker Dü and Black Flag, has died at 72. The influential engineer had been battling fibrosis before he […]

Spirit Music Parent Lyric Capital Unveils $800MM Catalog Fund

Spirit Music Group Loses its CEO as Two Executives Successfully Complete Recapitalization

Spirit Music Group owner Lyric Capital has officially announced the close of its second music royalty fund, which higher-ups say is equipped with roughly $800 million to inject into catalogs. New York City-headquartered Lyric Capital, […]