Michael Giltz: 'War And Peace' Sings! Colin Quinn Gets Scholarly! 'Family' Flops!
Turn the sprawling masterpiece War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy into a musical?
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Beyonce has reportedly added to her pregnancy rumours by having dancers push two prams out onstage during her live show in Zurich, Switzerland last night (May 17).
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Last time around the pairing of Beth Hart with Joe Bonamassa got the Bonamassa fans drooling but now we have had some time to absorb the experience we begin to realise that Beth Hart is a truly wonderful singer in her own right and Bonamassa�s contribution is NOT the only thing to listen for.
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When this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony airs on HBO Saturday night, Rush, Heart, Public Enemy, Donna Summer and Randy Newman , among others, will be seen joining those already enshrined in the Cleveland museum.
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Drowned in Sound is very pleased to announce that we've taken over from The Guardian , as England's representative in a global network of bloggers who champion their country's local music scene known as the Music Alliance Pact (or MAP for short - see what they did there?).
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Sure, the Man Who Would Be Babyface — Kenneth Edmonds — was born in 1959, but the singer, songwriter, producer, and all-around hit maker extraordinaire began taking baby steps up the Billboard charts the year Michael Jackson's Thriller dominated every chart.
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R&B crooner Mario has been relatively quiet on the music front for some time but fans are in for a treat.
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While you weren't paying attention, Jared Leto was touring the world and playing rock and roll for hundreds of thousands of rabid fans.
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Third day at Sound City 2013 , and I was flagging.
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We first heard about Lady Lamb the Beekeeper from fellow Brooklyn darlings Pearl and the Beard.
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Growing up in Ethiopia, the musical path was not one the young Mulatu Astatke was expected to go down.
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Kree Harrison took finishing second to Candice Glover on 'American Idol' as graciously as possible on Thursday night (May 16).
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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.
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'When people meet me, I'm sure they think I'm going to be a six-foot tall girl with big hair and shoulder pads, because they go, 'Oh you're only little!' " cackles Bonnie Tyler, half outraged, half delighted.
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John Cohen, a photographer who took a series of pre-fame pictures of Bob Dylan, says he knew from the first that there would be more to Bob Dylan than the legacy sounds of folk and old blues.
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Remarkably, Primal Scream have been in existence since 1982 and 'More Light' becomes their 10th studio album some 5 years after its rather unheralded predecessor, 'Beautiful Future'.
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Scottish dance pop superstar Calvin Harris was named songwriter of the year at last night's Ivor Novello Awards.
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Michael J. Fox and future wife Tracy Pollan slow dancing to "At This Moment" on the TV sitcom Family Ties.
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With the stars of tomorrow, the wannabe stars of tomorrow and the ones just doing it for the love of music irrespective of stardom or what happens tomorrow strumming, bashing, plucking and pressing their musical wares in every pub, club and gig venue down by the sea in Brighton over the course of three days it can only mean one thing.
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Audio Atlas is our monthly series exploring different music from around the world.
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Harris, the Scottish dance music producer, took the top prize at the event which traditionally honours hit writers from the world of rock and pop.
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LSXX , the 20th anniversary reissue of The Breeders ' Last Splash , has fans of the '90s alt rock scene stoked.
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Fans of Latin funk and lush Afro-Cuban grooves remember the Seventies with glee, when the New York salsa explosion made Latin music appear as edgy and unpredictable as rock & roll.
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"Whatever you want to ask me, I'm an open book of honesty right now," Laura Stevenson tells me, laughing.
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Last month we got a taste of UK acid jazzers The Brand New Heavies' first release since 2006′s Get Used To It , and the advance single "Sunlight" signaled a pretty decent return.
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The sky above is a fierce, brilliant blue, and the air lip-chappingly dry at Eden Park in Auckland on a Tuesday in late March – the fifth day of the final test between England and New Zealand. 10,000 or so cricket fans have skived off work to watch what was supposed to be a relatively early victory for the home side.
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Growing up as a teenager in the 1980's I'd say my progression through rock and roll was fairly standard.
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The Dillinger Escape Plan has never been a band to exercise much restraint when it comes to their unique brand of spazzy mathcore, but with their last couple of albums, we have begun to see a much more deliberate and refined side to the group's madness.
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Toronto's Program (formerly known as Volcano Playground) have been diligently working away on their LP for three years now, after having trashed an EP that they say they "were never happy with".
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Electro-pop duo MS MR are children of the '10s (is that the right terminology?), soaked in Tumblr, the Internet and sounds so vogue you'll be zapped onto the cover of Nylon just by listening to them.
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Chris Brown has revealed that his next single will feature never-before-heard vocals from Aaliyah.
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"I never understood guitar music until 'Girls & Boys' by Blur – and that led into a love for Oasis – though I did not get bands at all when I was growing up (my first record was Glenn Miller's Greatest Hits). I was into electro music, so I was cool at one point. And that was the point. And then my sister bought me Adam & the Ants' 'Prince Charming' but I have never listened to it. I could not understand it. It all changed with Oasis."
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The way this remix adds atmospherics to an otherwise straight ahead dance/pop song is tasteful and doesn't overwhelm the essence of what Matisyahu intended.
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