Sunday, January 3, 2016
Claremont — Balmy and damp, the day before Christmas Eve felt more like springtime than late December. But that afternoon, a band of wandering musicians brought some sounds of the season to Claremont. Walking through the downtown, instruments …
Sunday, January 3, 2016
As year-end top-10 lists continue to roll in, the one album you’ll find near the top of each is Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly. It’s an ambitious, audacious album, to say the least, one that strives to …
Thursday, December 31, 2015
A voice like shrapnel and a bass tone to match. A steady diet of rock ’n’ roll and rebellion, fueled by, until not so long ago, a bottle of Jack Daniels per day and sexual escapades too numerous to count. Plus: muttonchops. Lemmy Kilmister, singer and bass player …
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
The metal community shook late Monday with news that singer, bassist and songwriter Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister from the influential British metal band Motorhead had died. He was 70. Motorhead later released a statement about Lemmy on Facebook: “There is no easy way to say this ... our mighty, …
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
New York — The heirs to a New Hampshire teacher who wrote a poem about a “soft kitty” eight decades ago said in a lawsuit Monday that TV’s The Big Bang Theory is violating their copyrights. Edith Newlin’s daughters sued CBS and other media-related companies over the copyright …
Saturday, December 26, 2015
In times of tragedy, classical music is automatically summoned for comfort. Giving succor after a terrorist attack, as Barber’s Adagio for Strings did in a Paris memorial to victims of last month’s terrorist attack, is unquestionably noble employment. Providing essential time and space for reflection is music’s matchless …
Saturday, December 26, 2015
Los Angeles — In his just-published autobiography, Over the Top and Back , singer Tom Jones recounts with unbridled honesty and a wicked sense of humor many of the remarkable highlights of his 50-plus-year career. But sitting in …
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Washington — The saddest part of the mostly heartwarming story of singer Eva Cassidy is that she had to die to get the renown she deserved. Cassidy, an eclectic cover artist who grew up in Bowie, Md., has …
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Bruce Springsteen’s 1980 release, The River, was a double album twice as long as anything he’d released previously, and the recording sessions leading up to it were just as epic. The Ties That Bind: The River Collection (Columbia), …
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Berlin — Kurt Masur was a conductor who knew how to use his authority. He used it to tame orchestras — notably the unruly New York Philharmonic, which he led for 11 years — and to historic effect …
