Why open a Steely Dan review talking about Traffic? Because while the Dan was its usual stellar self in this tour closer, the seldom-seen Winwood surprised the crowd of around 9,000 by generating some of the evening’s finest musical sparks.
Read MoreGRAMMY-Award winning vocalist-songwriter and revered guitarist Warren Haynes is touring the UK this month in support of his latest solo studio album Ashes and Dust. He visits Southampton with a trip to the 1865 on Tuesday July19.
Read MoreGlastonbury Festival often provides a breakthrough hit, a relative unknown that uses the weekend to catapult into mainstream consciousness. This year, that act was undoubtedly Christine And The Queens, the vehicle of French auteur Héloïse Letissier, whose debut album Chaleur Humaine has risen to its highest chart position so far in the wake of her captivating Other Stage set.
Read MoreEmmanuel Jal wants to start a revolution — and he's opened a cafe in Moss Park where it can begin.
Named Jal Gua, which means "walk in peace" in the Naath language of East Africa, the cafe is the latest project in the former child soldier's quest to create the life that was stolen from him as a boy.
Read MoreGentleman, bürgerlich Tilmann Otto, ist in Osnabrück geboren und in Köln aufgewachsen. Trotzdem singt er im jamaikanischen Patois – und wurde damit der erste heimische Reggae-Star in Deutschland.
Read MoreRosanne Cash, daughter of the late legend Johnny Cash, is a Grammy Award-winning artist with 11 No. 1 hits on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart. Her first chart-topper was “Seven Year Ache,” which was nominated for a Grammy in 1982. Cash has had No. 1 hits on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart, Americana/Folk Albums chart and World Albums chart.
Read MoreJIMMY Barnes says painful childhood memories are helping him be a better singer. But you will have to wait for the book to find out what happened. Until then, you can feel it in his music.
Read MoreThe 80th birthday of songwriter, actor and country-music icon Kris Kristofferson will be celebrated next month with the release of The Complete Monument & Columbia Album Collection, a 16-CD deluxe box set from Sony Music’s Legacy Recordings. Due June 10th, the collection will consist of 11 of Kristofferson’s studio albums spanning the entire decade of the Seventies. At the same time he was recording his own material, Kristofferson’s massive song catalog was mined for hits by artists ranging from Janis Joplin (“Me and Bobby McGee”) to Ray Price (“For the Good Times”) and beyond.
Read MoreThe singer of "House of the Rising Sun" and founder of the band The Animals is considered one of the greatest white blues performer ever. Following his 75th birthday, Eric Burdon will once again go on tour.
Read More"It's like being in your bedroom and the posters start to move in your direction."
That's how Heloise Letissier - AKA Christine and the Queens - describes the roll call of famous singers who she can call a fan.
Read MoreParis-based MK2 Films will launch sales in Cannes on an upcoming bio-doc about 1960s icon Marianne Faithfull [pictured] by French actress and director SandrineBonnaire.
Read MoreAmnesty International has given its top 2016 human rights award to Grammy award-winning musician Angélique Kidjo and to three African youth activist movements for their work standing up to injustice, the organisation announced on Wednesday.
Read MoreWenn Max Buskohl den Stargast ankündigt, recken sich die Hälse: Wer wird es sein? Martin Semmelrogge war schon da, Ina Paule Klink, Henning Wehland und viele andere. Am Montagabend steigt die nächste Show der Reihe „Max+?“. Zum Überraschungsgast gibt es nur wenige Hinweise...
Read MoreWith three Grammy Awards and 10 studio albums, Kevin Moore, better known as Keb’ Mo’, seems to lead a charmed life, especially for a bluesman.
Read MoreEvery spring, Sonny Landreth, master of the slide guitar and co-composer of the classic “Congo Square,” plays his annual marathon of South Louisiana festival and club gigs.
Read MoreMost people have not heard of the late existentialist Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad, who died tragically in a car accident in Tehran at the age of 32 in 1967. But Sussan Deyhim, herself a composer, vocalist, performance artist and activist born in Iran and living in exile for 30 years, the last eight in L.A., is intent upon changing that.
Read MoreOsnabrück. Einmal mehr ließ der in Ostfriesland geborene Musiker Carl Carlton seinen musikalischen Werdegang in Liedern und Geschichten Revue passieren. Im Rosenhof bat er den Osnabrücker Saxophonisten Tommy Schneller als Gast auf die Bühne.
Read MoreDas Konzert mit jenen vier Minuten, die für Freunde nun unter dem Titel "Damals, als du . . ." laufen, findet im Freiheiz statt, einer Konzerthalle nicht weit vom Münchner Hauptbahnhof gelegen. Sie ist nicht so groß, wie sie von der Bühne aus durch das Gleißen der Scheinwerferbatterien wirkt, wenn man nur die Menschen in den beiden vorderen Reihen sieht und dahinter eine rhythmisch wogende Menge.
Carly Simon could have gotten away with just the name-dropping. In her life, she’s crossed paths with an astonishing range of famous people, from Cat Stevens and Jimi Hendrix to Benny Goodman and Albert Einstein.
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