In his home country of Pakistan, they call him “the Prince of Pop.’’ He models in commercials, stars in TV dramas and sitcoms, acts in feature films, and sings wildly popular tunes that have pushed genre boundaries and transfixed millions of listeners. ...
Before this month, Norwegian acoustic duo Kings of Convenience had released only two albums in eight years, spending much of their time apart pursuing electro-pop side projects and making babies. On the heels of their October 20 release, Declaration of ...
“I will do the best I can to sound clever.” The above sentence is a strange thing for a rock star to promise at the start of an interview, but then again, J.B. Dunckel’s group, the French pop duo Air, could never be accused of being particularly ...
Walking into Johnny D’s Uptown Restaurant & Music Club is like entering some lost relic of the past, with its creaky barstools, old-time diner food, and endearingly mish-mashed decor of scratched album covers and vintage beer posters. If the Davis ...
Forty local rockers wake up, bleary-eyed, at the decidedly nonrocking hour of 10 a.m. on a Saturday. Randomly thrown into eight separate bands with complete strangers, each group is ordered to write three original compositions and rehearse one cover ...
At 10 a.m. on Jan. 30, Live Nation opened its online box office for the highly anticipated summer tour of Phish, the four-piece Vermont-based rock outfit that reunited in March after a five-year hiatus. Within minutes, millions of requests flooded the ...
For years, a cappella has kept a low profile, hidden in ivy-encrusted college campus centers, dismissed as derivative mimicry, and relegated to the annals of history as novelty tunes sung by overgrown choirboys. Matters haven't been helped by Folgers ...
Incorporating elements of everything from "Deck the Halls" to Toto's "Africa," this 1998 video was the face that launched 7 million hits - its popularity online earned the attention of Atlantic Records chairman Craig Kallman, who promptly signed the ...
"University A Cappella," a compilation of college groups covering Ben Folds tunes, is not as arbitrary as it sounds. The soaring melodies and piano arpeggios of Folds compositions such as "Brick" and "The Luckiest" make the music ideal for a cappella. ...
When Booker T. Jones was 9 years old, he walked into the house of Elmertha Cole, his piano teacher when he was growing up in Memphis, and was instantly intrigued by a mysterious piece of furniture hidden between two china cabinets on the far end of the ...
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