Sir Elton John, Kinks star Ray Davies and Elvis Costello will top the bill at a new outdoor summer festival in London's Hyde Park. They will be part of a celebration of British songwriters which also includes Nick Lowe, Del Amitri's Justin Currie and Thea Gilmore on Friday July 12.
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The multi-million selling, incomparable Elton John is to lead star-studded line-up celebrating the best of British songwriting at the final Friday of Barclaycard's British Summer Time concerts at London's Hyde Park.
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Los Angeles quartet La Santa Cecilia this week release their major label debut Treinta Días , a record that finds the former buskers teaming up with none other than Elvis Costello.
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Although their tumultuous marriage didn't last, when they were singing it was duet magic.
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"To make true political music," the great American critic Greil Marcus wrote nearly 25 years ago, "you have to say what decent people don't want to hear; that's something that people fit for satellite benefit concerts will never understand, and that Elvis Costello understood before anyone heard his name."
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In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.
Read MoreThe chance to see ten bands in a day is always to be given due consideration, especially if The School and Allo Darlin are in the mix.
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Elvis Costello has on more than one occasion worked Shakespeare into his music, in fact, he did a whole album in 1993, named the Juliet Letters, whose concept revolved around sending letters to Juliet (of R& J fame) to the sounds of the Brodsky Quartet.
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Elvis Costello will scale back his shows this summer, dropping the Spectacular Spinning Songbook, which saw his sets each night chosen by the spin of a fair wheel, to a straight forward show with his band the Imposters (keyboardist Steve Nieve, drummer Pete Thomas and bassist Davey Faragher).
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The Joy Formidable are getting into the act on Record Store Day (April 20th) with a treat for both their fans and Bruce Springsteen admirers.
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Elvis Costello and The Imposters have announced an East Anglian concert for the summer.
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"I made my first trip to Belfast in 1978 and saw mere boys walking around in battle dress with automatic weapons. They were no longer just on the evening news. These snapshot experiences exploded into visions of mercenaries and imperial armies around the world. The song was based on the premise 'they always get a working class boy to do the killing'."
Read MoreHere's another post from the archives of my work at WNEW.com. If you're one of those people offended by the very sight what we have euphemized as "the n-word," you should probably stop reading right now.
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Elvis Costello, The Waterboys and Bettye LaVette performed the music of Prince this week in New York but there was no Prince to be seen.
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If Thursday night's all-star tribute to Prince – including appearances by D'Angelo , Elvis Costello , the Blind Boys of Alabama and ex- SNL star Maya Rudolph – had a theme, it was that the Minneapolis pop genius' best work could withstand just about any kind of treatment and stand up tall.
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Last night, a motley crew of stage and screen stars paid tribute to newly resurgent pop legend Prince at NYC's Carnegie Hall. D'Angelo, the Waterboys, Elvis Costello, Chris Rock, Maya Rudolph, Talib Kweli, Sandra Bernhard, Nina Persson (the Cardigans), the Blind Boys Of Alabama, Betty Lavette, and Fred Armisen, who has played the Purple One on SNL for almost a decade.
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It donned on me while listening to "Don't Blame The Times", the fifth track on We Found A Lovebird 's new six-song EP, Let's Start The War , that this band may in fact be influenced – at least in part – by early Elvis Costello.
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The collaboration album between singer/songwriter Elvis Costello and The Roots may land in time for Record Store Day, which takes place on April 20.
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Roots drummer Questlove recently talked with NYU Local about jamming with Costello in the Roots' dressing room studio at Fallon and the album they made together.
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Elvis Costello and D'Angelo will participate in the benefit Prince tribute show set for March 7 at Carnegie Hall. The Roots will serve as the house band for the night.
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As mentioned , City Winery founder Michael Dorf is presenting a tribute to Prince at Carnegie Hall on March 7 , his next in a long line of tribute shows he's done at the historic Manhattan venue.
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On March 7, the Roots will be the house band for a Prince tribute concert at Carnegie Hall. "The Music of Prince" will feature performances from Elvis Costello, Booker T. Jones, Talib Kweli, DeVotchka, Booker T. Jones, Princess (a Prince cover band featuring actress Maya Rudolph)... and D'Angelo.
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Elvis Costello and The Imposters kicked off their Australian tour in Melbourne last night, spinning the wheel to create the setlist.
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The Roots have announced the upcoming release of new collaborative album with Elvis Costello.
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As the house band for Late Night With Jimmy Fallon , the Roots have proven their prowess for performing across genres, from accompanying Carly Rae Jepsen and Mariah Carey with toy instruments to acting as the backup for a legion of the show's musical guests.
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Along with getting the industry all hot and bothered by further teasing the release of D'Angelo's first album in over 13 years, Roots mastermind Questlove hinted last night at an equally-salivating collaborative album with Elvis Costello.
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Elvis Costello has made his way into the southern hemisphere and stopped over in New Zealand on the weekend to play a 29 song set for Auckland.
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Fans of rock n roll icon, Paul McCartney, have been speculating all week about a teaser trailer for a new animated track that found its way onto YouTube, finally in a statement issued today the McCartney Family confirmed what it is all about.
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Elvis Costello says he would happily quit music to go into radio comedy.
Read MoreWhen he's not busy handicapping his own chances of replacing Jim DeMint as one of South Carolina's U.S. Senators, Stephen Colbert is celebrating the season with a slate of guests singing Christmas songs with him this week on The Colbert Report.
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Let's say you were stuck on that mythical isle, but only with cover songs.
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Stephen King, John Mellencamp, and producer T Bone Burnett's southern gothic supernatural musical, Ghost Brothers of Darkland County , will arrive as a star-studded CD/DVD on March 19th via Hear Music/Concord Music Group.
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It's time again for Friday on My Mind the weekly collaborative effort between KEXP and King 5 news where we take a look at videos centered around one common theme.
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Love This Giant , the highly-anticipated collaboration between David Byrne and St. Vincent, comes out today, and not surprisingly the duo stopped by Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last night to play a couple of selections.
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UK tour, Elvis Costello has announced a sixteen date UK tour.
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Elvis Costello has announced an extensive UK tour for next summer.
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"Yet Again", the new single, was released instantly on all the usual digital avenues and can be streamed at ind.pn/NllXRr.
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Following the success of his recent Revolver UK tour, Elvis Costello has decided to revolve again next year, wheeling his gigantic vaudevillian contraption up and down the country for 16 highly anticipated shows.
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