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  Adele, Kendrick Lamar to perform at Grammys

  January 20, 2016 at 8:41 am / Music News

  By Mesfin Fekadu Associated Press NEW YORK — Hello, it’s Adele, and she’s performing at next month’s Grammy Awards. The Recording Academy told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the British singer, leading nominee Kendrick Lamar, the Weeknd and Little Big Town will perform at the Feb. 15 show. Adele returned to music in top form with 25, her third album that has sold about 8 million units in the U.S. since its November release. The lead single, “Hello,” spent […]

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  Eagles’ Glenn Frey spun sun-baked SoCal ballads that will endure

  January 19, 2016 at 9:51 am / Music News

  By Randall Roberts Los Angeles Times (TNS) Few bands were better at distilling the vibe of Los Angeles in the 1970s than the Eagles, and as its singer and guitarist, Glenn Frey served as a sort of mellow ambassador of the city. Just as Liverpool is forever associated with the Beatles, Seattle claims Nirvana and Bruce Springsteen owns New Jersey, the Eagles embodied the bell-bottomed, feather-haired flair of Southern California. Frey, who died Monday at age 67, co-wrote and sang […]

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  Acclaimed rock photographer documents 35 years of ‘hippie chicks’ in music

  January 15, 2016 at 6:29 am / Music News

  By Quentin Young Jam band musicians enjoy an intensity of loyalty that’s unique among music genres. Many of their biggest fans follow them not just song to song on record but city to city on tour, and the associated subculture penetrates deeper into fans’ lives than it does with fans of punk, hip hop or indie music. The Grateful Dead probably played more shows where engagements were proposed than any other band in history. This special quality is at the […]

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  Remembering David Bowie’s influence

  January 14, 2016 at 3:46 pm / Music News

  By Steve Johnson Chicago Tribune (TNS) As we mourn the loss of David Bowie, who died Sunday after battling cancer for 18 months, what keeps coming to mind is the huge impact he had on our times, anticipating and, often, helping to shape its twists and turns through the past few decades. “He always got to the unknown first,” the theater critic Hilton Als wrote in the New Yorker on Monday. Here are eight ways Bowie, who was 69, influenced […]

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  Legendary musician David Bowie dies of cancer at 69

  January 11, 2016 at 5:58 am / Music News

  By Mesfin Fekadu Associated Press NEW YORK — David Bowie, the other-worldly musician who broke pop and rock boundaries with his creative musicianship, nonconformity, striking visuals and a genre-spanning persona he christened Ziggy Stardust, died of cancer Sunday. He was 69 and had just released a new album. Bowie, whose hits included “Fame,” ”Heroes” and “Let’s Dance,” died “peacefully” and was surrounded by family, representative Steve Martin said early Monday. The singer had fought cancer for 18 months. Long before […]

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  Coachella allowing girls to invade the boys club

  January 7, 2016 at 10:17 am / Music News

  By Randall Roberts Los Angeles Times Given Coachella’s history, the news that its three 2016 headliners — Calvin Harris, Guns N’ Roses and LCD Soundsystem — consist of mostly male artists isn’t surprising. With apologies to LCD Soundsystem’s Nancy Whang, that’s often the case in the American musical patriarchy. But a rundown of the dozens of acts that will appear in the desert this April reveals a roster that, unlike last year, is rich with big-ticket female creators. The lineup, […]

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