Hear Two Songs From Duncan Sheik's Next Album
Legerdemain, out next April, will be the first album of original songs from the pop songwriter and Broadway composer since 2009, and you can download two songs from it here.
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The Royal Shakespeare Company Releases Music From Its Archive
For more than a century, the Royal Shakespeare Company has commissioned music for plays. Its archive tracks the way music changes over time and across many productions.
The Dream Of Ridiculous Men
For four decades, U2 has delivered huge rock songs and taken shots for being too serious. The band's new album, Songs of Innocence, provides a key to its long search for universal significance.
Homeless In Nashville, Huge In Sweden
After decades in obscurity, country singer Doug Seegers went from down-and-out to up-and-coming in an instant.
Singer Morrissey Says He Has Had Cancer Treatment
"I have had four cancer-scrapings, but so what. If I die, I die," the English musician and former leader of The Smiths wrote in an email interview with a Spanish-language newspaper.
On Fania Records And The Music That Made It Matter
Fifty years ago, a New York musician and his lawyer friend started a small record label that would become a global brand, taking salsa music from New York clubs to the rest of the world.
A Ferguson Protest Brings New Meaning To Brahms' Requiem In St. Louis
To protest the shooting death of Ferguson, Mo., teenager Mike Brown, audience members at a St. Louis Symphony concert unfurled banners and stood to sing an old union song.
'Follow The Music': Alice Gerrard's Life In Folk
The title of the singer's new album neatly summarizes the thrust of her career, from her influential collaborations with Hazel Dickens in the '60s to her work as a folk music documentarian.
Tsapiky: Dance Music Fit For A Funeral
In the West, we're used to hearing dance music at weddings. In southern Madagascar, guests might hear tsapiky, a regional guitar-band music, at funerals, as well as any other number of ceremonies.
Julian Casablancas: New Band, New Album, No Compromises
The Strokes frontman — now with a new band, The Voidz — returns with his most challenging release yet: a strange, dark album influenced by '80s hardcore and underground world music.