Music - The Durango Herald

Female rappers to be honored by VH1

NEW YORK – Queen Latifah remembers being on set in 1997 for the music video for “Ladies Night (Not Tonight),” the female rap anthem starring Lil Kim, Missy Elliott and others. It featured a ...

DATE: Jul 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Music

KSUT radio plans to restart service in Montezuma County

On-air service in Cortez, Dolores ended amid ‘appearance of conflict’

DATE: Jul 8, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Grab your ukulele and head downtown this weekend

Second annual UkeFest offers workshops, jams

DATE: Jul 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Music

Michael Martin Murphey: ‘There’s a lot more that I want to do’

Iconic Western singer-songwriter to play at Henry Strater Theatre

DATE: Jul 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Music

Smokey Robinson honored with national pop music prize

WASHINGTON – Whether he was singing his own compositions or writing for other artists, Smokey Robinson was instrumental in shaping the Motown sound that changed American popular music in the...

DATE: Jul 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Music

This isn’t the first time Kenny Chesney fans have trashed Pittsburgh

The army of tank tops and flip-flops arrived by bus, boat and truck. Their battle cry was the crunch of an empty beer can, the belch of a full belly. Some had tickets to the main event. Most...

DATE: Jul 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Music

Scotty Moore, ‘co-founder of rock ’n’ roll’ and Elvis Presley’s guitarist, dies at 84

One summer evening in 1996, Keith Richards and Scotty Moore sat across from each other in a studio in Woodstock, New York. Richards drank a vodka and orange soda, while Moore sipp...

DATE: Jun 29, 2016 | CATEGORY: Music

Politically charged BET Awards honor Prince, Muhammad Ali

A politically charged BET Awards delivered an exciting night of tributes for Prince and Muhammad Ali between calls for action over gun violence, civil rights and presidential politics. These...

DATE: Jun 28, 2016 | CATEGORY: Music

Bernie Worrell, masterful P-Funk keyboardist, dead at 72

NEW YORK – Bernie Worrell, the ingenious “Wizard of Woo” whose amazing array of keyboard sounds and textures helped define the Parliament-Funkadelic musical empire and influenced performers ...

DATE: Jun 24, 2016 | CATEGORY: Music

Bluegrass great Ralph Stanley was one of our last links to an old America

When Ralph Stanley died Thursday at age 89, we lost more than the last surviving founding father of bluegrass. We lost one of our last links to a pre-television America. He was a ...

DATE: Jun 24, 2016 | CATEGORY: Music

Jury: Led Zeppelin did not boost ‘Stairway to Heaven’

There will be no new names added to the writing credits of one of the most famous rock songs in history: On Thursday, a Los Angeles jury found that Led Zeppelin did not plagiarize the openin...

DATE: Jun 23, 2016 | CATEGORY: Music

Music in the Mountains kicks off July 8

The 30th annual Music in the Mountains season just around the corner. The festival will officially open its season with the Harpeth Rising at the Bayfield Performing Arts Center....

DATE: Jun 23, 2016 | CATEGORY: Music