Thomas Dolby

A couple of afternoons ago, I was lunching at an Indian restautant in Brentwood with a talented Los Angeles rock singer-songwriter and discussing how he might get his hellaciously good band more gigs and a higher profile in San Francisco. Read More

Those lyrics from Charlie Slick's song "I Am Not a Robot" may not be as well known as some of the other words that have been produced by Ann Arbor musicians in the past but locally they are just as beloved. Read More

Aloof and ephemeral in their public presence over the last forty years, the footprint left by Kraftwerk on late twentieth century music is as mighty in its repercussions as names like Marley, Bowie and Hendrix. Read More

Composer and conductor Ray Conniff dies at an Escondido, Calif., hospital after injuring his head in a fall. Read More

With a big band vocalist for a mother and a trumpeter for a father, singer Amanda Carr - who launches her latest CD, "Common Thread," with two shows at Boston's Scullers Jazz Club on Oct. 15 - was surrounded by jazz music her whole life, but she says it took a personal tragedy when she was 29 for the sounds of her childhood to become the music of her life. Read More

"DEARLY BELOVED," DECLARES the heavily synthesized voice that opens Datarock's sophomore album, Red, "we are gathered here today..." Read More