The Beatles Expand ‘Red Album’ And ‘Blue Album’ Compilations

The Beatles - Now And Then

Shortly after The Beatles shared “Now And Then,” the group has shared new compilation albums entitled the Red Album and Blue Album. “Now and Then” was written and sung by John Lennon, developed and worked on by Paul […]

Gustave Dudamel and L.A. Phil score 2024 Grammy nominations

Gustave Dudamel and L.A. Phil score 2024 Grammy nominations

The Los Angeles Philharmonic led by conductor Gustavo Dudamel earned major nods Friday in the 2024 Grammy Award nominations, led by their performance of the fantastical “Adès: Dante.” Dudamel — who announced in February that […]

Jazz rulebreaker Hiromi: ‘The piano is a plane that can take me anywhere’ | Jazz

‘I have always loved the challenge of changing minds’ … Hiromi.

There aren’t many jazz performers like Japanese pianist Hiromi Uehara. With her hair artfully piled almost a foot above her head, the 44-year-old launches into muscular assaults that traverse everything from fast-paced bebop to contemporary […]

The Beatles Announce Release Of Final Song ‘Now And Then,’ Expand ‘Red’ And ‘Blue’ Compilations

The Beatles - Now And Then

The Beatles – Photo: Bruce McBroom / © Apple Corps Ltd. As one of the biggest surprise releases in recent memory, The Beatles have announced a forthcoming single, “Now And Then,” the last official song […]

Billy Joel confirms final MSG concert date–Get tickets now

Billy Joel confirms final MSG concert date--Get tickets now

Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. On Thursday, July 25, 2024, Billy Joel is […]

The Beatles’ (new) last song deals in adult regret, gratitude 

‘Now and Then’ review: The Beatles’ (new) last song deals in adult regret, gratitude 

John Lennon’s murder in 1980 and George Harrison’s succumbing to cancer in 2001 were – and please pardon the mixed (and clumsily redundant) metaphors – the very last nails in the coffin that is The […]

Kate Bush Confirms 2023 Rock Hall Induction Ceremony Absence in New Statement

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction 2023

In a newly released statement, Kate Bush has confirmed that she will not attend the 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony tonight in Brooklyn, New York. “I’m afraid I won’t be able […]

Ron Carter, jazz’s most prolific bassist: ‘Our band was a laboratory – and Miles Davis was head chemist’ | Music

Ron Carter performing in 1981.

‘There are three pieces of advice I give all my students: first, be on time. Time is money so don’t waste it. Second, check your ego. Pay attention and play well. Third, keep your ears […]

Paul Dunmall: Bright Light a Joyous Celebration review – infused with the spirit of Coltrane | Music

Paul Dunmall: Bright Light a Joyous Celebration album artwork

Plenty of saxophonists learning the game in the 1950s made John Coltrane their lodestar for his famous ferment of spiritual gravitas and storming improv intensity – but his best disciples took that sound as a […]

Giles Martin On The Beatles’ Final Song ‘Now And Then’

The Beatles - Now And Then

When The Beatles’ Anthology albums were released in the mid-1990s, there was a palpable sense of surprise and excitement that two songs featuring the entire group had been completed for inclusion. Twenty-eight years on, “Now […]

The Beatles’ final song, ‘Now and Then,’ is a wistful curiosity : NPR

The Beatles' final song, 'Now and Then,' is a wistful curiosity : NPR

The Beatles, pictured here in 1969, just released what’s been billed as the band’s final song. Bruce McBroom/© Apple Corps Ltd. hide caption toggle caption Bruce McBroom/© Apple Corps Ltd. The Beatles, pictured here in […]

The Beatles: Now and Then review – ‘final’ song is a poignant act of closure | The Beatles

Artwork for Now and Then by Ed Ruscha.

Last night, BBC One shifted its schedules to broadcast a film about the making of the “final” Beatles single, Now and Then. It was brief and rather moving, but it offered a tactfully bowdlerised version […]

Exclusive: CIX on their Latest EP “OK” Episode 2: I’m OK and the Story Depicted in the Tracks

Exclusive: CIX on their Latest EP "OK" Episode 2: I'm OK and the Story Depicted in the Tracks

On the 29th May CIX made their comeback with their brand new EP, “OK” Episode 2: I’m OK. It is a EP that takes the listener on a journey surrounding the painful feeling of love. […]

‘We put his face back together again’: the groundbreaking show bringing Ryuichi Sakamoto back to life | Ryuichi Sakamoto

Optically transparent devices … the audience watches Kagami.

Todd Eckert is explaining, in circuitous yet joyous fashion, how he first fell in love with the work of the Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. It’s a conversation that meanders through Eckert’s teenage visit to Preston, […]

Beatles’ ‘Now and Then’: The story behind their last song

Beatles' 'Now and Then': The story behind their last song

Paul McCartney may be the only person on Earth who believes the Beatles have any unfinished business in 2023. For years, McCartney fixated upon “Now and Then,” a song John Lennon sketched in the late […]

From mini Mars bars to matters of life or death: Errollyn Wallen on becoming a composer | Classical music

Errollyn Wallen

As a student at Goldsmiths I was out practically every night attending concerts and was at nearly every important premiere – Ferneyhough, Maxwell Davies, Birtwistle, Boulez, Reich, LeFanu – mostly male composers, it is true. […]