Berliner Morgenpost : Bitte alle mal aufstehen für Glen Hansard! →

„Danke, dass ihr euch an uns erinnert“, sagt Glen Hansard, als er das Publikum in der Verti Music Hall begrüßt, mit seiner unnachahmlich sonoren Stimme. [...] Jetzt ist Hansard wieder unterwegs, um sein neues Studioalbum zu promoten, „All That Was East Is West Of Me Now“. Seine siebenköpfige Band brilliert zu Beginn des Sets vor allem dadurch, dass sie ganz viele Noten weglässt. Bei „Sure as the Rain“, mit einem zwischendurch ins Französische wechselnden Text, werden die Instrumente nur flüchtig hingetupft; Fender Rhodes E-Piano, Kontrabass, behutsam geklöppeltes Schlagzeug., ein bisschen Geige.

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BBC News : Music icon Angélique Kidjo is celebrating 40 years in music this year - marking the occasion with a concert at London's Royal Albert Hall →

Music icon Angélique Kidjo is celebrating 40 years in music this year - marking the occasion with a concert at London's Royal Albert Hall. [...] The singer takes every opportunity to use her voice and her platform to campaign for the betterment of humanity, as she sees it. She is a Unicef and Oxfam goodwill ambassador, and has her own charity, Batonga, dedicated to supporting the education of young girls in Africa. [...] Young African artists have an opportunity to bring about positive change for a continent facing many challenges, she says. So is she mentoring any of these younger artists? "We talk," she says. "Like at this concert. Apart from doing music I always tell them, 'You have a responsibility."

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Bustle : At 28, Joan Baez Was 6 Months Pregnant & Playing At Woodstock →

By the time Joan Baez turned 28 in 1969, she’d been on the cover of Time magazine as the face of the folk music movement and was providing protest songs for an anti-war generation. She’d already sung to a crowd of 250,000 at the March on Washington roughly six years before, alongside her friend Martin Luther King Jr. She was by then “addicted to activism,” she tells Bustle over Zoom. “[Fame] was a struggle. It gave me a lot more panic than I would’ve experienced [otherwise], but it also gave me an identity.” Joan Baez looks back on the activism of recent decades in an interview with Suzanne Zuckerman, to coincide with the release of the artist's documentary.

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Jamband : Listen: Warren Haynes Previews ‘The Benefit Concert Volume 20’ with Collaborative “Gold Dust Woman” Cover →

As a complete set, The Benefit Concert Volume 20 is an anthology of unforgettable live moments sourced from concerts past. The sonic journey through the evening’s most memorable performances summarizes the holistic spirit of giving steeped in community and a shared admiration for the power of music. The event’s long-standing charitable commitment to aid the local community is at the heart of the yearly coming together, having raised over $2.8 million for the Asheville Habitat for Humanity and stroked Warren Haynes’ three-decade-long commitment to delivering unforgettable live shows, which also uplifts and unites audiences.

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Far out magazine : When Patti Smith rallied against censorship: “Tell the kids not to buy it” →

When Smith first arrived on the scene, though, she was on the precipice of what would become punk rock. Shortly after she unleashed her debut album Horses, bands would be popping up left and right, laying waste to the original scene [...] With artists like John Lennon making songs with profanity, concerned authority figures were under the impression that this new approach to music was a lot more destructive than it was revolutionary, calling for many people to censor what they put into their music. When talking about her role against art being stifled, she thought that rock and roll wasn’t to be trifled with, explaining, “Rock and roll is my art. The government doesn’t know shit, whether it’s art or not. Rock and roll is warfare. All the time…still fighting.”

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American Songwriter : Producer and Songwriter John Leventhal Reveals Debut ‘Rumble Strip,’ Shares Two Singles, One Featuring Rosanne Cash →

Throughout his 45-year career, John Leventhal has worn many hats, as a producer and songwriter, musician, composer, and more. In all this time, Leventhal has never explored being a solo artist until Rumble Strip, the namesake of his and wife Rosanne Cash‘s newly formed label and his forthcoming debut album, out January 26. [...] Cash and Leventhal are also working on the music and lyrics for the upcoming Broadway musical Norma Rae.

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Pitchfork : MGMT Announce New Album Loss of Life (by Matthew Ismael Ruiz) →

Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser co-produced Loss of Life with Patrick Wimberly, and Dave Fridmann—who has had a hand in all of the band’s studio LPs—mixed the new album. Loss of Life spans 10 tracks and includes a collaboration with Christine and the Queens, marking the band’s first official feature on an MGMT album.

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SWR1 : Gitarrist Carl Carlton und Schauspielerin Melanie Wiegmann im Interview →

"Glory of Love" von Blueslegende Carl Carlton und Schauspielerin Melanie Wiegmann: Ein dringender Hörtipp der SWR1 Musikredaktion. Welchen glücklichen Umstand die Liebe und das Album der beiden befeuert hat – wie die Songauswahl zustande gekommen ist und warum die beiden überhaupt zusammen Musik machen – das alles erzählen Sie SWR1 Musikredakteurin Katharina Heinius im Interview.

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American Songwriter : Rosanne Cash Shares Remastered “The Truth About You” from 30th Anniversary Edition of ‘The Wheel’ →

The Wheel was an album Cash needed to make during that moment in time. Reinventing the pathways of her sound and of her career, The Wheel encompassed a rebirth in life and love. “It’s satisfying and sweet to reintroduce ‘The Wheel’ in this 30th anniversary year,” said Cash in a previous statement. “I can’t look back at that time and separate the music from love. What was true then has become more true and more alive every day since.”

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The West Australian : Telethon 2023: Jimmy Barnes all about WA’s sick children as he closes out Telethon 2023 with daughter Mahalia →

The legendary Jimmy Barnes shared a heartfelt message to WA’s sick children before he closed out this year’s Telethon extravaganza with his daughter Mahalia.Barnes, 67, performed songs Khe Sanh, Working Class Man and (Simply) The Best on the RAC Arena stage alongside his 41-year-old daughter to celebrate the end of another massive fundraising effort for the State’s sick children and their families.

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The Guardian : U2 change lyrics to Pride to honour ‘beautiful kids’ killed at Israeli music festival (by Janine Israel) →

U2 have paid tribute to the hundreds of “beautiful kids” killed at the Supernova music festival in Israel by altering the lyrics to one of their biggest hits at a concert in Las Vegas on Sunday. During their performance at Sphere, where the Irish rock band are in the midst of a 25-show residency, frontman Bono reworded the lyrics to U2’s 1984 breakthrough song Pride (In the Name of Love), referring to those killed by Hamas fighters as “stars of David”. Before launching into Pride (In the Name of Love), Bono said: “In the light of what’s happened in Israel and Gaza, a song about non-violence seems somewhat ridiculous, even laughable, but our prayers have always been for peace and for non-violence."

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The Guardian : Joan Baez: ‘I talk to trees to get answers. They give it to you cold turkey’ (as told to Rich Pelley) →

"“As a documentary of Joan Baez's life is released, the folk singer answers Rich Pelley's questions for The Guardian, on spirituality, competing with Joni Mitchell and running around naked at Burning Man.

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The Guardian : Bob Geldof gives nod of approval to the Old Vic’s Live Aid musical →

The production will tell the story of the concert at Wembley Stadium on 13 July 1985, at which 70 global artists performed. More than 1.5 billion people watched the live broadcast. The concert, along with a second gig in Philadelphia, raised $127m for famine relief. Live Aid was conceived by Geldof after he was moved and angered by images of people starving to death in Ethiopia.

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New York Times : Perelman Arts Center Opens in New York and Welcomes the World (by Jon Pareles)

Global performers including Angelique Kidjo, Laurie Anderson and José Feliciano will inaugurate the theater at ground zero. The series affirms the city’s diversity with an international lineup that includes Grammy-winning stars — Angélique Kidjo on Sept. 19, Common on Sept. 21, José Feliciano on Sept. 23 — along with lesser-known musicians dedicated to preserving and extending deep-rooted traditions. The program for Devotion: Faith As Refuge, on Sept. 20, includes klezmer music from the Klezmatics, electronic transformations of Afro-Cuban Yoruba incantations by Ìfé and Moroccan Sufi trance music from Innov Gnawa.

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Washington post : At the Anthem, Patti Smith’s power and passions still have potency (by Chris Kelly) →

For a few hours Saturday, Smith was the leader of a band of merry time travelers, reaching back through her years spent as the spiritual connection between the Beat Generation and the proto-punks, playing her own songs and those by like-minded sojourners. Smith, one of the baby boomers who never gave up the good fight, still has plenty to scream about. Along with remembering the departed, she encouraged the audience to keep in mind the people around the world in need: those affected by flooding in Libya and the earthquake in Morocco, women fighting for human rights in Iran, and workers striking for fairness in the United States. She dedicated “Peaceable Kingdom” to Palestinians, singing, “I wanted to tell you that your tears were not in vain.”

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Rolling Stone : Warren Haynes Started Gov’t Mule as an Allmans Side Project. 30 Years Later It’s Still Kicking (by Garret K. Woodward) →

Interview with Warren Hayes about the latest Mule offering, "Peace…Like a River", an undulating sonic landscape blending elements of rock, blues, soul, funk and folk — all signature ingredients at the heart of what has made the band, and Haynes himself, one of the torchbearers of eclectic rock music. Wrangling an array of A-list musical talent like Billy F. Gibbons, Ivan Neville, and guitar phenom Celisse, Haynes crafted an album that doubles as a meditative journey along the river of life.

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Süddeutsche Zeitung : Carl Carlton - Die Aussteiger →

Es gibt Alben, da ist die Geschichte dahinter fast so wichtig wie die Musik. Bei "Glory of Love" zum Beispiel, das der Gitarrist Carl Carlton mit der Schauspielerin Melanie Wiegmann aufgenommen hat. Und das zeigt, dass die Musik aus der Rebellen-Ära immer noch die Kraft hat, ein oder zwei Leben umzukrempeln. Bei Carlton hatte das als Teenager schon mal funktioniert, als er "Easy Rider" im Kino sah und The Band im Soundtrack ihre bibelschwere Nummer "The Weight" spielten. Er ging nach Amsterdam und New York, wurde Berufsmusiker und arbeitete sich bis in die erste Liga vor. Robert Palmer, Mink DeVille und Joe Cocker, wieder daheim dann Udo Lindenberg, Marius Müller-Westernhagen und Wolfgang Niedecken.

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Forbes : Eric Burdon, Still One Cool Animal (by Jim Clash) →

Eric Burdon, singer of The Animals, now 82, later pursued acting and wrote two highly entertaining books: I Used To Be An Animal, But I’m All Right Now; and Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood: A Memoir. He still tours occasionally. This interview was conducted between gigs just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, parts of which ran previously.

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The Newswire : The Memnosyne Institute, and Gua Africa for the Sudanese refugees →

When Emmanuel Jal, a former child soldier turned international hip-hop star and peace activist through his founding of Gua Africa, a London based non-profit which provides educational programs for those affected by war and displacement in East Africa offering education to refugees who have survived war and genocide learned about the urgent need to assist Sudanese refugees to flee to South Sudan and Kenya, he immediately began working to connect with others around the globe to help him. Emmanuel Jal, Mary Ann and Joshua had originally committed to intending to bring the first African location of The Memnosyne Institute’s “School Out of A Box” prototype, (the first is in the Yucatan) providing a space for students to pursue online high school and college education via online education, to be located next to where he had built a library for recovering child soldiers.

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Musix : MELANIE WIEGMANN & CARL CARLTON + THE GREAT BAND →

Two people have really sought and found each other. On "Glory Of Love", the musical global player Carl Carlton and singer Melanie Wiegmann do business together both privately and professionally. And their new interpretations of classics by Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and The Velvet Underground sparkle with wit, harmony and passion. How this dream pairing came about, the two tell in the musix interview.

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