The 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.

The 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.

"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.

Paris-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.

Amnesty 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.

Wenn 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... 

With three Grammy Awards and 10 studio albums, Kevin Moore, better known as Keb’ Mo’, seems to lead a charmed life, especially for a bluesman. 

Every 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.

Most 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.

Osnabrück. 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.

Das 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.

Married roots-music aces Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams talk playing with legends, new duo debut

Her dad was Levon Helm, the renowned drummer for the Band. Mom is singer-songwriter Libby Titus, and her stepfather is Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen. Still, when it comes to making music, Amy Helm is very much her own person.

On Thursday night, Ai Weiwei’s son took the stage for the first time. Called up by Tate Modern director Chris Dercon, six-year-old Ai Lao, buttoned up in a blue blazer, jeans and Velcro sneakers, hopped up onstage at the Berliner Festspiele in his hometown, Berlin

Legendary folk singer Joan Baez and world-renowned artist Ai Weiwei – both committed activists – will be the joint recipients of Amnesty International’s Ambassador of Conscience Award for 2015, the human rights organization announced today.

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who survived an assassination attempt by a Taliban gunman last year, has been named as the recipient of Amnesty International's highest award.

Amnesty International says it has awarded its highest honor to the Pakistani education activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Malala Yousafzai.

Singer-actor-activist Harry Belafonte is one of two 2013 recipients of Amnesty International’s Ambassador of Conscience Awards to be handed out Tuesday in Dublin, Ireland, along with Pakistani teen human rights campaigner Malala Yousafzai.

(Dublin) — Pakistani schoolgirl and education rights campaigner Malala Yousafzai and American singer, human rights and social justice activist Harry Belafonte have been jointly announced as the recipients of Amnesty International’s Ambassador of Conscience Award for 2013.

On June 18, Aung San Suu Kyi, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, will be celebrated in Dublin at the Electric Burma concert. Organizer and promoter, Bill Shipley says, “Her courage and leadership have been a source of inspiration not only to people in Ireland but all those who value democracy, freedom of speech and an end to military rule.”

(Washington, D.C.) — Irish and international artists from the worlds of music, drama, cinema and dance, will perform and give readings at the 'Electric Burma' concert for Nobel Peace Prize recipient and leader of the National League for Democracy in Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi. The concert will take place at 4.45 p.m. on Monday, June 18, in the Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin 2.

Amnesty International today releases “Toast To Freedom,” a new and exclusive commemorative song dedicated to human rights activism around the world and performed by nearly 50 artists, including Levon Helm, Kris Kristofferson, Carly Simon, Angelique Kidjo, Ewan McGregor, Donald Fagen, Warren Haynes, Keb Mo, Eric Burdon, Taj Mahal, Florent Pagny, Marianne Faithfull, Jane Birkin, Jimmy Barnes, Rosanne Cash, Shawn Mullins, the Blind Boys of Alabama, among others.

(New York, NY) — Amnesty International today releases “Toast To Freedom,” a new and exclusive commemorative song dedicated to human rights activism around the world and performed by 50 high-profile artists, including the late Levon Helm, Kris Kristofferson, Carly Simon, Angelique Kidjo, Ewan McGregor, Donald Fagen, Warren Haynes, Keb Mo, Eric Burdon, Taj Mahal, Florent Pagny, Marianne Faithfull, Jane Birkin, Jimmy Barnes, Rosanne Cash, Shawn Mullins, the Blind Boys of Alabama, among others.