Music

Album Review: The Sound of Arrows – ‘Voyage’

November 21, 2011, 5:40 pm

The band buck the trend of most recent “credible” Swedish pop by foregoing the use of songwriting hooks.

Album Review: Jean Wells – ‘Soul on Soul (Deluxe Edition)’

November 21, 2011, 5:20 pm

Jean Wells is a lesser known soul diva whose music has become largely unavailable and much sought-after.

White Light Festival Brings Early Western Music

November 20, 2011, 10:04 pm

For a contemporary listener, the medieval styles sound very unusual, even modern, since most of our classical concepts of both harmony and singing styles were actually [...]

Album Review: Atlas Sound – ‘Parallax’

November 20, 2011, 2:45 am

Another year, another release from Bradford Cox.

U2′s ‘Achtung Baby’ Twenty Years Later

November 19, 2011, 4:56 pm

“Achtung Baby”, a coveted album of the legendary pop/rock band U2, was re-released this week as a single disk and deluxe box set edition, to mark the original album’s 20th [...]

Multicultural collaboration creates YouTube sensation

November 14, 2011, 7:49 pm

Vancouver singer Kristie Yung never expected her musical tribute to an ailing Pakistani pop singer would attract such attention from Bollywood fans and become a hit on YouTube [...]

White Light Festival Celebrates Sacred Choral Music

November 11, 2011, 10:24 pm

NEW YORK—As part of its White Light Festival, Lincoln Center has brought one of the world’s most renowned vocal ensembles of early music, Belgium’s Huelgas Ensemble. On Nov. 10 in the first of two performances, the ensemble performed polyphonic 16th [...]