Having Jackson Browne talk to you about making music: Can you imagine what that must be like? Unreal, right? But that’s exactly what some students at Artists for Peace and Justice’s Audio Institute in Haiti got to experience not too long ago when the legendary songwriter stopped by.
Following the massive success of his second record, “Voodoo,” released in 2000, D’Angelo stayed mostly out of sight until the past year.
The first recording contract ever signed by The Beatles — during their early days in Hamburg, Germany — is expected to fetch about $150,000 when it goes up for auction in New York next month, the company handing the sale said on Tuesday.
The reason I prefer New Orleans rap to West Coast and East Coast rap is, New Orleans musicians grow up hearing tubas and trombones in street jazz, so they make music that’s got bassier, big-booty fat bomp to it. It’s funkier.
From bands like Metalachi to Ryan Adams giving Taylor Swift songs a Smiths makeover, the inventiveness of an idle musical mind just never ceases to astound.
Here are five cheap music shows to check out around town this weekend.
A compilation of never-before-heard audio recordings by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain now has a release date: November 6, the director of his film biography said.
Since winning “American Idol” nearly 15 years ago, Kelly Clarkson has proved to be the show’s flagship act.
When it comes to live music, there are few things as thrilling as being able to catch a band you love performing one of its albums in its entirety, especially when that offering also happens to be a classic.
At a listening session in New York seen in the opening moments of “I’m Just Being Honest,” a short documentary focusing on the ascent of Nayvadius Wilburn — known better as Future, his stage name — LA Reid can be heard singing the rapper’s praises to a selection of scribes.
