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David Byrne Curates Bonnaroo Stage
David Byrne is happy to be “the guinea pig" at this year's Bonnaroo Music and Art Festival. Byrne is helming the first artist-curated stage in Bonnaroo's eight-year history, presenting a Friday night (June 12) lineup that will include his own “Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno" show along with Santigold, the Dirty Projectors, Ani DiFranco, ...
Apollo Theater Turns 75 with Gala Concert, Ceremony
The Apollo Theater will celebrate its 75th anniversary with a benefit tribute concert and an awards ceremony, among other festivities, on Monday, June 8h beginning at 6:30 p.m., to be held at the historic venue. Hosted by comedian, actor and radio personality Steve Harvey, the gala will feature the induction of Quincy Jones and Patti LaBelle ...
Virgin Music Fest Expands to Five Canadian Cities
The Virgin Music Festival will hit five Canadian cities this summer, including Montreal, the event’s organizers announced today. The festival, which launched in 2006, is sponsored by Virgin Mobile Canada, which was fully acquired by Canadian telecommunications giant Bell Canada today. Event organizers didn’t disclose which cities the festival would be hitting, naming only Ontario, British ...
Freddie Hubbard 'Jazz Wave' Performances Unearthed
For his first posthumous release, famed jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard will resurface on June 2 with “Without a Song: Live In Europe 1969." Hubbard, who died last December at age 70, will join the ranks of Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane, and Horace Silver in a recent series of live releases from Blue Note. ...
Maceo Parker, Zappa, STS9 Anchor Jam Cruise Lineup
Now in its eighth year, the popular Jam Cruise will embark January 3, 2010 with a host of funk, techno, and roots-rock related acts on board. STS9, Maceo Parker, Zappa Plays Zappa, and the John Medeski/Robert Randolph/North Mississippi Allstars vehicle The Word are some of the top acts scheduled to play. The five night concert voyage ...
Wilco Returns with Eclectic New Album
Wilco revisits the unpredictable leanings of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born on its latest project, Wilco (The Album), due June 30 from Nonesuch. The 11-track set was produced by the band with Jim Scott, who mixed 2007's Sky Blue Sky. Whereas that album reveled in a cohesive, laidback vibe and toned down the ...
Eric Clapton Joins Joe Bonamassa Onstage in London
Joe Bonamassa, the American DIY guitar whiz who has been voted “Best Blues Guitarist" by Guitar Player magazine three years in a row, was still buzzing the day after playing with Eric Clapton at London's Royal Albert Hall. “It was the thrill of a lifetime for me," Bonamassa told Billboard.com from the studio where he was ...
Steve Howe Doing Double-Duty with Yes, Asia
Steve Howe expects to be making some new music with both Yes and Asia after the two bands complete a joint U.S. tour this summer. Though the guitarist insists specific plans are “hypothetical" at the moment, he tells Billboard.com that Asia is “hot on the trail of another record" after a “pleasant" experience making “Phoenix" -- ...
Levon Helm Band, Jefferson Starship to Headline Woodstock Anniversary Show
Some performers from the 1969 Woodstock concert will get back to the garden for a 40th anniversary show this summer. On the bill for August 15 are The Levon Helm Band, Jefferson Starship, Big Brother and the Holding Co., Ten Years After, Canned Heat, Mountain, and Country Joe McDonald. They'll perform at the Bethel Woods Center ...
New Orleans Jazz Fest 40th Year Riffs on Old, New
Music fans old enough to have attended the first New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 40 years ago boogied alongside those who weren't yet born when the celebration of music, food and the culture of Louisiana began. Sunday's Jazz Fest finale paid heavy homage to music's elder statesmen. Neil Young, 63, was on stage for two ...
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