The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Farm Aid 2008 We'd like to shine a light on this year's Farm Aid benefit, a 23-year-old nonprofit whose mission is to keep family farmers...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Haley Bonar Songwriter/singer Haley Bonar has a voice that can clear up the weather. The artful country sound of her leaves a profound impression....
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
El Chozas/Jose Antonio Munoz Flamenco artist Jose Antonio Munoz, a.k.a. El Chozas (a popular gypsy-flamenco nickname), was born in Seville, Spain, in 1949. His...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
Robert Wyatt Drummer and singer/songwriter Robert Wyatt was born Robert Wyatt-Ellidge on January 28, 1945, in Bristol, England. Wyatt is one of the founding...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Hafdis Huld Singer/songwriter, ukulelist, and actress Hafdis Huld is from Iceland. By the age of 15, she'd helped form indie-electronica band GusGus, which toured...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
Hiram Bullock was a talented and charismatic guitarist, a rock'n'roller with a jazz head who bridged the world of sophisticated pop and the avant-garde New York jazz scene. A super-session player, Bullock was mentored by the producer Phil Ramone, and his work can be heard on Steely Dan's Gaucho (1980), Paul Simon's One Trick Pony (1980), Sting's Nothing Like the Sun (1987), Billy Joel's The Stranger...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
This week's column features Captain Beefheart, Tommy Jordan, Syreeta, Josephine Foster, Reverend Gary Davis and Grizzly Bear.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
This week: Clara Rokmore, Akrobatik, Danielle Howle, Norman Greenbaum, Clarence Williams, and the Black Angels.
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Much of the success of Billy Joel’s fifth album, The Stranger, has been attributed to his pairing with producer Phil Ramone, who surely did help turn Joel’s tunes into stainless pop, but a heavy focus on Ramone tends to give the producer too much credit, attributing the record’s phenomenal success to his presence. This, of [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
This week's column features Jack Nitzsche , Fruit Bats, Misophone, Bread, Dorothy Love Coates, and Cachao.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
This week's column spotlights music from: Karlheinz Stockhausen, Can, Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Lykke Li, Paul Oakenfold and Dele Sosimi.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
Iggy Pop Music legend Iggy Pop was born in Muskegon, Michigan. He started out as lead singer of the Stooges in the late '60s....
Seriously? OMG! WTF? (Free subscription) | 30/04/2008
Billy Joel's 5 studio release, The Stranger is celebrating its 30th year and Legacy Recordings is giving the much deserved special treatment on July 8th! The limited deluxe edition of “The Stranger” includes a CD of the original album, in its entirety, remastered by producer Phil Ramone; a CD of a previously unreleased concert featuring Billy [...]
anonymous (Free subscription) | 13/04/2008
Rickie Lee Jones Singer-songwriter and two-time Grammy winner Rickie Lee Jones was born in Chicago, one of four children. Jones has described her family as "lower-middle-class-hillbilly-hipster." She is reported to have been a solitary child with a deep imagination, whose father taught her to sing. When you listen to her, you have to turn off your cell phone, your BlackBerry, your iPhone, the TV,...
anonymous (Free subscription) | 28/03/2008
Pop Levi Pop Levi was born in London, the son of a 'Jewish doctor and a Gentile nurse.' It is rumored that Pop is really his middle name and his real first name is somewhat of a mystery. Around 1997, Levi moved to Liverpool, formed his first band and supported himself with odd jobs. He possesses a smart and elegant sense of humor about himself. Pop is definitely too...
