Category: music

“He began to busk at the Place de Clichy metro station, making what money he could from music. At first, he sang unaccompanied, learning to project his voice down the corridors and carriages. Within six months, he had scraped enough cash together to move into a hostel. There, he taught himself guitar, piano and drums, slowly finding his calling as a musician.”

June Millington: “‘We were good, and we got better and better,’ she said. ‘So essentially [our message was] f*** you. But f*** you with a smile on our face because we want you to buy our records!'”

“With debate continuing to rage over the acceptance of Syrian refugees, the gender wage gap, police brutality, and the U.S. response to ISIS, there may be only one person who can bring generations of family members together: Adele.”

“Adele’s highly-anticipated third album, 25, has a shot at breaking the all-time single-week sales record. Just to be clear: An album from 2015, a year where album sales are in the toilet and the industry is still freaking out about how to make streaming work as a viable business model, could be the fastest-selling record ever.”

Tod Machover’s original musical composition, which he created with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, is a blend of melodies played by traditional orchestral instruments combined with everyday Detroit sounds collected, digitized and translated into music via software developed by Machover and his team at MIT’s Media Lab.

“The intrinsic power of music to facilitate reflection and reinterpretation of life experiences makes creating Landscape Music a compelling approach to improving and deepening our connection to nature—a goal which is more important now than ever.”

“Almost half the 2,500-strong audience at [London’s] Royal Festival Hall had walked out by the time [the singer], 59, was finally coaxed into taking the stage by fellow band members on Sunday.

“When she finally came on stage, she looked unsteady on her feet, her face half hidden by her right arm. She delivered a somewhat perfunctory version of ‘Don’t Explain,’ before berating some members of the audience for using their cellphones. And she didn’t explain.”

Currently the deputy artistic director of Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Sebastian Schwarz will take up his role in May 2016, becoming the the seventh general director in the opera company’s 81-year history.