Thursday, October 31, 2013
For the first time in his career, Billy Joel will play Brooklyn. On New Year’s Eve, the piano man will perform at the Barclays Center, marking his inaugural appearance at the venue.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:08PMThursday, July 11, 2013
A deep sense of symmetry hovered over Cyndi Lauper's concert at the Beacon Theater in New York City on Wednesday. The star is precisely double the age she was when first shot to fame.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:14AMWednesday, April 17, 2013
It’s hard to know what to call the new Broadway show about the classic ’60s band The Rascals, opening under the name “Once Upon a Dream.”
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AMTuesday, March 19, 2013
Get ready for Broadway to look a lot more like the Bonnaroo music festival.
In the coming weeks, a rash of hipsters stands ready to storm a world more commonly associated with elder…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMThursday, November 22, 2012
Thursday, October 18, 2012
It sounds like a no-brainer. Every night for the last seven years, an actor impersonating Frankie Valli has been packing a Broadway theater in the smash show “Jersey Boys.” Shouldn’t t…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMFriday, October 12, 2012
“Who says you can't go home again?” asked Barbra Streisand at the start of her Barclays Center show Thursday.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:32AMSaturday, July 7, 2012
Scale matters in the world of “The Wall.” Designed as a withering morality play about the borders that limit and divide us, Pink Floyd’s classic 1979 album “The Wall” demands a vis…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:13AMSunday, April 22, 2012
1. Amadou & Mariam, “Folila.” The self-described “blind couple from Mali” reach out to the world on their third American CD of pan-genre music that perfectly captures an urbanized, f…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMTuesday, April 10, 2012
Brittany Howard sings a musical phrase like a track and field star throws a shot put. She’ll lean far back in a note, pausing to amass lung power and heft. Then, in a burst, she’ll hurl …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00AMFriday, January 6, 2012
Great albums demand serious attention. But what if the disk we’re talking about earns much of its brilliance from pure whimsy?
That’s how recording engineer Rob Christiansen vie…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMFriday, November 25, 2011
Lots of singers play characters in their songs. Leave it to Kate Bush to play an element.
In the first cut off her new CD, the eccentric singer incarnates water — or, more specifically, i…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:56AMRock ’n’ roll thrives on the push and pull. It’s all about the tussle between the guitars, as prodded by the bass and kicked by the drums. That’s what gives this music its sex and mo…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 10:08AMWednesday, November 23, 2011
Yes, he’s experienced. Jimi Hendrix has been proclaimed the “Greatest Guitarist of All Time” by a panel of musicians wrangled by Rolling Stone Magazine.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:44PMTuesday, November 22, 2011
The new Roots CD works in reverse.
It’s a concept album, moved along by a coherent story, but it starts at its close. Like “Sunset Boulevard” and “American Beauty,” it’s…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:24PMIf young audiences feel entitled to steal (er, file share) as many contemporary albums as they like, it seems that attitude hasn’t proven retroactive.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:51AMMonday, November 21, 2011
Can you be everywhere and nowhere at once?
Adele managed just that counterintuitive feat this year.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 04:07PMFriday, November 18, 2011
Another fall, another Rihanna album. For the third year in a row, the Barbadian hottie has delivered a complete CD by year’s end, proving both her productivity and her devotion to her reco…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 05:22PMThe Stones started a scavenger hunt through their old tapes a few years back, and they can’t seem to stop.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:21PMAdmit it: You want Mary J. Blige to suffer. While fans may have always found themselves stirred by the singer’s bull-horn of a voice - and by her unique mix of hip hop and soul - they’ve…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:55PMWednesday, November 16, 2011
Pop “retirements” prove to be about as reliable as political promises.
Witness the “just kidding, folks” resurrections of briefly absent stars Barbra Streisand, David Bowie …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:34PMJohn Fogerty knows a perfect song when he hears one.
“It has its own doctrine,” he says. “It’s very compact. It’s not spontaneous. And you better be damn sure it can be l…
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