Blues Rock Review: Keb’ Mo’ returns after heart surgery with “The Breakdown” →
Keb’ Mo’ has announced the release of his new album, The Breakdown, arriving August 21 via Concord Records.
Read MoreWorld Music Central: Angelique Kidjo’s Hope!! Brings Star Power and Heart →
Angélique Kidjo’s Hope!!, her joyful 16-track Afropop set spiced with neosoul, Afrobeats and other popular music influences features a wide range of collaborators, including Pharrell Williams, Quavo, Ayra Starr, Davido, Nile Rodgers, Charlie Wilson, IZA, and PJ Morton.
Read MoreMedium: Joan Baez: She Sang While The World Was Burning
She Sang So Human Suffering Would Not Die Unheard
Read MoreFar Out Magazine: “A charming sound”: The only voice Donald Fagen never got tired of hearing →
While his voice would eventually become a staple and an integral part of Steely Dan’s sound, Donald Fagen began his career with the band as perhaps one of the most reluctant vocalists of all time.
Read MoreLive Music Junkiez: Esperanza Spalding: Inside My Conversation with a Jazz Visionary →
Esperanza Spalding Has Never Followed the Rules — And That’s Exactly the Point
Read MoreThe Guardian: ‘We’re catalysts of the new plague’ – from the archive, Patti Smith interviewed in 1976 →
15 May 1976: Robin Denselow meets New York’s latest sensation as she prepares for her first British concert
Read MoreNME: Watch U2 film video for upcoming single ‘Street Of Dreams’ on bus in Mexico City →
The song will reportedly be the lead single from their new album, due out later this year
Read MoreNashville Scene: Neko Case and Rosanne Cash Talk Writing, Resistance and More
Notes from the songwriters’ conversation with journalist Ann Powers at The Porch’s annual Rhythm & Rhapsody fundraiser
Read MoreWritten In Music: In conversation with Glen Hansard: no time for hanging about (EN) →
With the compilation album Don’t Settle (vol.1 Transmissions East) fresh off the press and a major European tour on the horizon, it’s high time we finally had a chat with Glen Hansard.
Read MoreAwards Radar: Bruce Springsteen to Receive Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award as Part of 2026 Tribeca Festival
Here is the press release from Tribeca with the lineup of their Talks, Reunions, and Retrospectives series. Highlighting that lineup will be Bruce Springsteen getting the Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award, followed by a conversation with Bono.
Read MoreJambase: Warren Haynes Previews ‘Dreams & Songs’ Symphonic Album With ‘Banks Of The Deep End’ & New Orleans Concert →
Warren Haynes is gearing up to release a new symphonic album titled Dreams & Songs.
Read MoreJambase: Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’ Outline Room On The Porch Tour 2026 →
TajMo will hit the West Coast and Southwest in September.
Read MoreBillboard: Patti Smith, Morrissey, Interpol, Violet Grohl and Sex Pistols to Play 2026 CBGB Festival →
Bikini Kill, Buzzcocks, Mannequin Pussy and others are also lined up for the September event at Under the K Bridge Park in Brooklyn.
Read MoreIrish Independant: ‘We love you’ – Bono pays tribute to Clannad singer-songwriter and harpist Moya Brennan after death at 73 →
Bono paid tribute to Brennan on behalf of U2 and said she had an “otherworldly voice”.
Read MoreNugget News: Keb' Mo' heads back to Sisters to support schools →
Legendary blues and folk artist Keb' Mo' is looking forward to his weekend in Sisters, headlining a Sisters Starry Nights Concert on April 11.
Read MoreLocal News Matters: Esperanza Spalding, Alonzo King team for Lines Ballet premiere in San Francisco →
Bassist, vocalist and composer Esperanza Spalding first met choreographer Alonzo King during San Francisco Symphony’s 2021-22 season when she performed Wayne Shorter’s “Gaia” and his troupe Alonzo King Lines Ballet danced Alberto Ginastera’s “Estancia Suite.”
Read MoreStereogum: Donald Fagen Still Committed To The Bit In Episode 3 Of This Year’s Best Vertical Video Series →
Amy Helm is the daughter of two fellow folk singer-songwriters: Levon Helm, who died in 2012, and Libby Titus, who died in 2024.
Read MoreMOJO: Mike Finnigan Review: Hammond maestro’s swinging swan song →
Mike Finnigan: if you know you know, and if you don’t, you probably know Electric Ladyland.
Read MoreRock And Blues Muse: Mike Finnigan ‘Mike Finnigan’ →
Most musicians supporting major headliners remain barely noticed in the shadows.
Read MoreAmerican Song Writer: “What Happened?”: Joan Baez Once Called out a Record Label for Two Glaring Absences in Her Album Artwork →
The beautification and hypersexualization of women in the music industry is nothing new and all-encompassing, affecting all genres, from the more obvious ones, like pop and rock ‘n’ roll, to the ones that would seemingly exist outside of these patriarchal conventions, like folk music.
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