Jason Isbell cleans up at Americana Awards

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Singer-songwriter Jason Isbell has swept the major awards at the Americana Honors & Awards. Isbell won artist, album and song of the year during the 13th annual...

DATE: Sep 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

Wealth of riches fuels rock band New Pornographers

NEW YORK – Soft-spoken A.C. Newman doesn’t seem like a braggart. Yet he feels so strongly that his rock band, the New Pornographers, has just made its best work that a simple good review won...

DATE: Sep 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

Review: alt-J returns with beautiful, baffling LP

alt-J, “This Is All Yours” (Atlantic) The new album from alt-J isn’t supposed to exist. Nobody, we’re told, wants to hear this kind of stuff anymore. The album – and especially th...

DATE: Sep 17, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

Experts: Chopin’s heart shows signs of tuberculosis

WARSAW, Poland – The preserved heart of composer Frederic Chopin contains signs of tuberculosis and possibly some other lung disease, medical experts said Wednesday. The findings ...

DATE: Sep 17, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

Forward-thinking U2 innovating while entertaining

Since U2 stunned the music world by delivering a surprise album at Apple’s iPhone 6 unveiling and making it available to a half-billion iTunes users for free, they’ve gotten an avalanche of ...

DATE: Sep 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

Robert Plant sets aside rambling ways on new LP

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Robert Plant has been a lifelong rambler with almost no interest in returning home to Great Britain. These days, though, he’s as snug as a hobbit in his hole in his native...

DATE: Sep 12, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

Music is healing

DATE: Sep 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

Country singer Merle Haggard: still on the road

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Even Merle Haggard gets nervous about stepping onto a stage when the audience is filled with songwriters, record label executives and fellow artists. “Well, it...

DATE: Sep 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

Review: No surprise, the surprise U2 album shines

U2, “Songs of Innocence” (Interscope) Everything about U2’s new album is unexpected. Like its very existence, for one, after the Irish rock band dropped it on iTunes users Tuesday...

DATE: Sep 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

St. Vincent leaps ahead, will tour with Black Keys

NEW YORK – After watching a video of St. Vincent’s performance at a British rock festival this summer, an anonymous music fan posted a succinct review. “It’s bonkers,” the viewer ...

DATE: Sep 9, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

Tragicomedies at Toronto find mixed results

TORONTO – The opening days of the Toronto International Film Festival saw a trio of tragicomedies combine humor with pain, often with mixed results. The balancing act can be prec...

DATE: Sep 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

Q&A: Richards on new book, Stones tour, solo music

NEW YORK – There’s one person who knew Keith Richards would become Keith Richards: his grandfather. The Rolling Stone member said Augustus Theodore Dupree introduced him to the gu...

DATE: Sep 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

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