via The New York Times A good musician’s relationship with the past is tricky. You want to move forward without entirely forsaking what you’ve already done. You don’t want it defining you when so much future defining lies ahead. It’s…
via The Kennedy Center The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has selected the 47th Honorees for lifetime artistic achievements: acclaimed director and filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola; legendary American rock band the Grateful Dead (Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh,…
via The Wall Street Journal Meshell Ndegeocello is a modern master of electric bass. Her playing never calls undue attention to itself, yet her songs would fall apart without it. Bouncing between just two notes, she exudes authority while propelling…
via IBMA The nominees for the 35th Annual IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards have been announced. Béla Fleck is nominated for Banjo Player of the Year and Instrumental Recording of the Year with “Rhapsody in Blue(grass).” Michael Cleveland is nominated for…
via BMI The Council of State Restaurant Associations wrapped up it’s 2024 conference at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland where BMI songwriter and Rock Hall inductee John Sebastian of The Lovin’ Spoonful regaled the audiences with…
via Downbeat The results of the DownBeat 72nd Annual Critics Poll have been announced, with Charles Lloyd achieving an impressive sweep by winning four categories: Hall of Fame, Artist of the Year, Jazz Album of the Year (The Sky Will…
via Americana Music Association NASHVILLE, Tenn. (June 24, 2024) — Today, the Americana Music Association announced this year’s Lifetime Achievement Honorees for its 23rd Annual Americana Honors & Awards show on Wednesday, September 18. This group of top-honor recipients includes Dave Alvin, The…
via NPR Tiny Desk Concerts This Black Music Month, Tiny Desk is giving the ladies their flowers. We’re releasing nine Tiny Desk concerts from Black women artists, from veterans who’ve paved the way for what we hear today in Black…
via NPR In today’s session, we have a very special guest: one of jazz’s great ambassadors and, perhaps, the finest jazz pianist to hail from South Africa. Abdullah Ibrahim, who was born in Cape Town in 1934, played with Hugh Masekela in The…
via Variety Magazine Stop-motion maestro Claude Barras will back “Ogresse,” a tragicomic musical directed by three-time Grammy winner Cecile McLorin Salvant and Belgian animator Lia Bertels. Variety can share this first look. Led by Miyu Productions – the studio behind last year’s Annecy Animation Festival top-winner “Chicken…