A cappella group highlights FLC opening
Musical offerings are varied and spirited
DATE: Oct 28, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music
Lou Reed, iconic punk poet, dead at 71
NEW YORK - Lou Reed was a pioneer for countless bands who didn’t worry about their next hit single.
Reed, who died Sunday at age 71, radically challenged rock’s founding promise o...
DATE: Oct 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music
Breuer’s comedy is grown up, not adult
Longtime “Saturday Night Live” fans may recall former cast member Jim Breuer best as the character Goat Boy.
The New York-born comedian, whose tenure on the long-running NBC late-...
DATE: Oct 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown
Top music on iTunes, Spotify
iTunes’ Official Music Charts for the week ending Oct. 21, 2013:
Top Songs
1. “Rap God”, Eminem
2. “Royals”, Lorde
3. “Wake Me Up”, Avicii ...
DATE: Oct 22, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music
Lang among the best of young bluesmen
Since the release of his 1997 major label debut, “Lie To Me,” the then-16-year-old Jonny Lang has built a reputation as one of the best live performers and guitarists of his generation. A bl...
DATE: Oct 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music
Singer Cee Lo Green pleads not guilty in felony drug case
LOS ANGELES – Cee Lo Green pleaded not guilty on Monday to giving a woman ecstasy at a Los Angeles restaurant during a 2012 dinner, and prosecutors declined to file a rape count against the ...
DATE: Oct 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music
Willie’s new duets uneven
Willie Nelson’s “To All The Girls ... ,” an album of duets with female partners, is custom-made for the download age. Few fans will connect with all 16 songs – the set is too eclectic and to...
DATE: Oct 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music
Todd Snider hits notes and nerves in live show
“Good things happen to bad people,” Todd Snider sings in “New York Banker,” a cut from his 2012 album “Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables.”
It is a typically honest, if sardonic, se...
DATE: Oct 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music
A teacher who remembers that music is fun
Toby Tenenbaum is a teacher whose ideals of music education not only involve the standard lessons of practice, history, theory and composition, but also fun. And that may be the most importa...
DATE: Oct 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown
SXSW Festival releases initial music lineup
AUSTIN, Texas – The South by Southwest Music Festival released its first list of artists for 2014 on Wednesday, featuring acts ranging from New Orleans rapper Vockah Redu to Texas country si...
DATE: Oct 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music
Satchmo house marks 10 years as museum
NEW YORK – To mark the 10th anniversary of the Louis Armstrong museum in the modest brick house where he lived for 28 years, curators are unveiling one of the jazz trumpeter’s most unusual a...
DATE: Oct 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music
Sullivan invites his friends for Stillwater benefit
You don’t need to be a household-name musician to be a hit-maker.
There are thousands of songwriters in big music cities worldwide who pen the hits for the big-time vocalists. Tal...
DATE: Oct 10, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown
