via Paste Magazine The best singers can fashion a different voice for each song—adjusting attack, attitude and texture to inhabit a tune from start to finish. Cécile McLorin Salvant goes beyond that; she often creates a different voice for each…
Tune in Friday, April 21 to hear Lizz Wright on NPR’s Mountain Stage. Mountain Stage Lizz Wright on TKA
via Variety Joining Macdonald in the cast is singer-songwriter Pokey LaFarge, who most recently starred opposite Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson and Bill Skarsgard in the Netflix original “The Devil All the Time” from director Antonio Campos. LaFarge, who counts eight full…
Meshell Ndegeocello on TKA
via JamBase Bobby Rush shared a new single, “One Monkey Can Stop A Show.” The song is an update of the blues legend’s 1995 song, “One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show.” “One Monkey Can Stop A Show” follows Rush’s 2022…
Via NPR WRTI A few years ago, in a catalog essay for a major exhibition of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, critic Greg Tate cast a sidelong glance at the voguish recent turn for Afrofuturism, a creative mode that took shape on the margins before…
Red Baraat on Good Morning America in celebration of Holi. Red Baraat is currently on the road for their 11th Annual Festival of Colors Tour!
via NYT An Unlikely Fiddler’s Dream Michael Cleveland was born blind and mostly deaf. That was only the beginning of his journey to become one of modern bluegrass’s most compelling musicians. Michael Cleveland had been 13 for five days the…
Ranky Tanky wins Grammy Award for Best Regional Roots Album for ‘Live at the 2022 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival’. This is the band’s second trophy. In 2020, the group won a Grammy Award for Best American Roots Music…
via WRTI Catherine Russell has long had a gift for breathing new life into old songs, with no special trick beyond the clarity of her singing and the purity of her intention. Her latest single perfectly illustrates why those two elements…