Lesley Abravanel scopes the South Beach scene
Brazil’s top contemporary music and art come together in singer Marisa Monte’s cutting-edge show
Jay-Z is teaming up with Samsung to release his new album, unveiling a three-minute commercial during the NBA Finals on Sunday and announcing a deal that will give the music to 1 million users of Galaxy mobile phones.
No, they’re not the Beatles. But One Direction, the British tween/teen heartthrobs who’ve re-ignited the boy-band phenomenon, do have a few similarities to the Fab Four. They’re goofy, charming and effortlessly confident. And as they showed in the opening show of their U.S. tour Thursday night before a screaming, sold-out crowd at Fort Lauderdale’s BB&T Center, the Fab Five wreak havoc on American girls with their British accents, cheeky innocence and bouncy, sweetly harmonizing pop songs.
Which goes further or has more impact – documents leaked online or a song? Famed Calle 13 frontman Residente will give Wikileaks founder Julian Assange a taste of a new kind of subversive communication tonight – music. The outspoken rapper and songwriter will meet with Assange at 10 p.m. London time Thursday to write a song with him. The two men will compose in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where Assange has taken refuge for the past year after being charged by the U.S. government over Wikileaks’ massive release of government documents.
Members of Fusik call their style “soul funk,” which includes elements of hip-hop, soul, jazz and funk.
La Santa Cecelia and Jesse & Joy, two captivating Mexican-rooted bands with innovative though very differen...
Vocalist Catherine Russell grew up with jazz as a second language. Her dad, Panamanian-born bandleader and ...
Fleetwood Mac has canceled Saturday’s concert at the BB&T Center in Sunrise.
Trying to define jazz singing is asking for trouble. Go one way and you box yourself into an essentialist v...
Coral Reef High choral director battles ALS but gets by with a little help from his friends — his aw...
The seemingly unlikely pairing of Japanese-born keyboardist, composer and producer Keiko Matsui with guitar...
"Miss Saigon," the musical that brought a real helicopter onto the West End stage, is descending on London ...
Former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar is joining a star-studded country music concert planned to benefit vi...
Tony Bennett never forgot the first time he performed with Dave Brubeck more than half a century ago. But t...
LOS ANGELES - On a Tuesday afternoon in the basement studios of Capitol Records, She & Him were recordi...
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is acknowledged as one of the top big bands in the world. Its leader i...
Country singer Slim Whitman, the high-pitched yodeler who sold millions of records through ever-present TV ...
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