AvatarJeanThe coolest movie soundtracks of all time revealedBy ShortListGreat movies, better soundtracks.
AvatarJeanentertainment news Andrew Bird on productivity in a pandemic, protest art, and These 13 The A.V. Club - Danette ChavezFor the last 25 years, prolific multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird has followed his muse in many, sometimes unpredictable, directions. From fusing folk, indie rock, and jazz music, to fiddling for a Renaissance...
AvatarJeanLatin America Primus' Les Claypool and Metallica's Robert Trujillo duel in new western-inspired short film NME - Tom Skinner Primus‘ Les Claypool has shared a western movie-inspired short film in which he appears alongside Metallica‘s Robert Trujillo – you can watch it …
AvatarJeanMusic What is Wagner's Ring Cycle? BBC Music Magazine It’s a question that has taxed musicians, philosophers, politicians and audiences ever since its sensational premiere in 1876 in a specially built …
AvatarJeanPeanuts The Peanuts Gang Performs 'Roundabout' by Yes laughingsquid.com - Lori Dorn Digital filmmaker Garren Lazar (previously) has created a rather amusing seamless mashup of the Peanuts Gang singing the classic Yes song …
AvatarJeanAnimation Animation Pioneer Lotte Reiniger Adapts Mozart’s The Magic Flute into an All-Silhouette Short Film (1935) openculture.com - by Colin Marshall When Lotte Reiniger began making animation in the late 1910s, her work looked like nothing that had ever been shot on film. In fact, it also …
AvatarJeanJapan Ball Rolling Down a Giant Wooden Xylophone in a Japanese Forest Plays a Classical Bach Symphony verified_publisherMy Modern Met - Emma TaggartImagine walking through the woods and then suddenly hearing the calming melodies of Bach playing in the distance. That’s exactly the type of magical scenario that creative director Morihiro Harano and...
AvatarJean Music And Mayhem: A Diary Of Classical Albums For A Troubled 2020 verified_publisherNPR - Tom HuizengaThe year 2020 was, in so many ways, divided. In terms of live performances, musicians were forced to reinvent, reflect and respond from a distance and in turn I watched their concerts from the remove my...
AvatarJean Best Classical Music For Halloween: Top 20 Most Terrifying Pieces | udiscovermusic.com - Alice Benton Celebrate Halloween with the scariest classical music ever written – explore the top 20 most terrifying pieces from the classical canon. On a cold, …
AvatarJean Watch Gorillaz and Beck perform inside 'Animal Crossing' NME - Will Richards Gorillaz and Beck performed inside the in-game Animal Crossing talk show last night (October 23) – watch the performance below. The virtual band and …
AvatarJean 11 Albums That Are Lowkey Super Spooky verified_publisherNylon - Claire Valentine11 Albums That Are Lowkey Super Spooky Put these records on when you're tired of "Monster Mash." So much of celebrating a holiday comes down to ambiance, and when it comes to Halloween, music can add much...
AvatarJean The Met’s Stream of Wagner’s ‘Ring’ Offers a Chance to Consider the Meaning of Life observer.com - James Jorden This week, the Metropolitan Opera invites you to get your Ring on. The company is streaming videos of its legendary 1990 presentation of Richard …
AvatarJean Composers as kids: a photo album of great composers as children BBC Music Magazine Save 40% when you subscribe to BBC Music Magazine today!
AvatarJean Geddy Lee: The Soundtrack Of My Life loudersound.com - Paul Elliott After the best part of 50 years as the multi-tasking bassist, lead vocalist and keyboard player in the world’s biggest cult band, Geddy Lee finds it …
AvatarJean 'A vertical connection to God': the euphoria of Gaelic psalm singing verified_publisherThe Guardian - Jude RogersThe Gaelic language may be in steep decline, but a collaboration between the composer Craig Armstrong and traditional Hebridean singers hopes to keep a centuries-old style alive On the north-western edges...
AvatarJean Best band T-shirts: the 25 coolest band T-shirts ever shortlist.com - Marc Chacksfield 1. Led Zeppelin From £17.00 The eleventh and final concert tour of North America by the legendary rock 'n' rollers, this was the crazy high point of …
AvatarJean The soundtrack to Keith Richards’ life, a 280-track playlist faroutmagazine.co.uk - Jack Whatley When The Rolling Stones’ guitarist Keith Richards announced he would be releasing his memoir, chronicling the highs and lows of one of the preeminent …
AvatarJean Listen to Prince’s 1993 cover of The Rolling Stones’ ‘Honky Tonk Women’ faroutmagazine.co.uk - Jack Whatley We’re dipping into the Far Out Magazine vault to look back at two of our favourite artists coming together back in 1993, as Prince takes on a Rolling …
AvatarJeanLive Music Josh Homme Performs Them Crooked Vultures Deep Cut For Lolla2020 Livestream iheart.com - By Katrina Nattress Josh Homme was one of many artists to perform at Lollapalooza's livestream event over the weekend, and the Queens of the Stone Age frontman surprised …
AvatarJean Nick Cave's 'Idiot Prayer' Is a Lonely Testament to His Greatness Rolling Stone Australia If there’s one thing that Nick Cave has become adept at in his more than 40 years in the music industry, it’s how to make a listener truly feel …
AvatarJean Here are 10 bands from the '90s you never heard and it's a damned shame altpress.com - Jason Pettigrew These are the bands that stayed underground to blow both minds and amplifiers. AltPress was started 35 years ago because there was more great music …
AvatarJean Seiji Ozawa Celebrates His 85th Birthday With Beethoven Recording | udiscovermusic.com - Sharon Kelly Seiji Ozawa will release new recordings of Beethoven’s ‘Symphony No.7’ and ‘Leonore Overture No. 3’ to mark his 85th birthday in September.
AvatarJean Spaghetti Western movie composer Ennio Morricone dead at 91 Associated Press - By FRANCES D'EMILIOROME (AP) — Ennio Morricone, the Oscar-winning Italian composer who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and often haunting soundtracks for such...
AvatarJean How LSD and a Hookup Inspired Tom Petty's 'Even the Losers' ultimateclassicrock.com - Dave Lifton The night Tom Petty dropped acid for the first time and finally connected with an old crush proved to be an inspiration for his classic "Even the …
AvatarJean Tom Petty’s 1993 ‘You Don’t Know How It Feels’ Demo is an Acoustic Heartbreaker Rolling Stone Australia The world might suck right now, but thankfully the Tom Petty estate recently released an unearthed 1993 demo of “You Don’t Know How it Feels,” the …
AvatarJean Listen to Unearthed Tom Petty Demo 'You Don't Know How It Feels' Rolling Stone - David Browne As she sorted through the music her father Tom Petty left behind, Adria Petty was struck by one recording in particular — a homemade demo of “You …
AvatarJean I Believe In A Thing Called Love by The Darkness voted greatest song of the 21st century loudersound.com - Fraser Lewry I Believe In A Thing Called Love, a hit for The Darkness in 2002, has topped a poll to discover the 100 Greatest Songs of the Century (so far). The …
AvatarJean Yusuf revisits the songs of Cat Stevens verified_publisherCBS News By any name, Yusuf Islam is a legend. Fifty years ago, the man who came to fame as Cat Stevens released his masterpiece album, "Tea For the …
