Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

Music Review: Mozart, Puccini, Handel and Copland at Glimmerglass

This year’s Glimmerglass Opera season in Cooperstown mixes the rare and familiar: “Tosca,” “Le Nozze di Figaro,” Handel’s “Tolomeo” and “The Tender Land” by Copland. Go to Source
August 10th, 2010 | Music | Read More

Lady Gaga’s Told-You-So Moment at Lollapalooza

Lady Gaga was a nobody assigned to a small stage at Lollapalooza three years ago. And now that she’s, well, Lady Gaga, she made a triumphant, if somewhat bitter, return. Go to Source
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Ask the indie professor: Will Kings of Leon’s Sex On Fire ever go away?

Bad news, readers. According to the prof we’re all doomed to listen to Caleb Followill’s godawful sex whine forever … Dear indie professor, will Peter Bjorn & John’s Young Folks and Kings of Leon’s Sex On Fire ever disappear from radio playlists and B&Q/DFS/Asda adverts?...
August 10th, 2010 | Music | Read More

New music: Perfume Genius – Your Drum

Like all his best songs, there’s barely anything to this new Perfume Genius track – yet its emotional impact is huge Mike Hadreas – aka Perfume Genius – is unflinchingly candid. His publicity images show him bare-chested and bruised, the embodiment of a tortured artist. Futhermore, Hadreas’s...
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Proms 30 & 31: BBC Symphony Chorus; BBCSO/Davis

Royal Albert Hall, London Large amateur choirs form the backbone of so many Proms but rarely get top billing, so it was good to find the BBC Symphony Chorus thrust firmly into the spotlight on Sunday afternoon. Their concert was bookended by hugely accomplished performances of two a cappella warhorses....
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Van Halen recording new album with David Lee Roth

Twenty-six years after they last recorded together, the 80s hard rockers are back in the studio with their original singer Van Halen are working on their first album in more than a decade, and they’re runnin’ with David Lee Roth. Twenty-six years after they last recorded together, the hard-rock...
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Big Chill festival

Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire “I am flying by the seat of my pants”, declares a cheerful Thom Yorke, bending over to show the audience his bottom. Yorke doesn’t play solo sets very often, and it showed. There were bum notes and false starts in the Radiohead frontman’s Friday...
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Philip Townsend: the swinging 60s | In pictures

Photographer Philip Townsend captured some of the 1960s most iconic stars, including the first ever Rolling Stones shoot guardian.co.uk/music Go to Source
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Stick to what you know best, Wyclef Jean | Garry Pierre-Pierre

Wyclef Jean is a savvy entertainer, but he lacks the political nous to give Haiti the leadership it desperately needs and deserves When Jean Claude Duvalier and his fashionable wife, Michelle, were whisked away into a comfortable French exile in February 1986, their departure brought about a democratic...
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Prom 33: Ilham Al Madfai and Khyam Allami | World music

Royal Albert Hall, London Iraq’s best-known exiled popular musician, Ilham Al Madfai, has become a hero in his homeland for his mix of stirring, sad-edged traditional and self-penned songs backed with Middle Eastern instrumentation and a Western-influenced rhythm section. His shows often develop...
August 10th, 2010 | Music | Read More