Meshell Ndegeocello on TKA
via JamBase Bobby Rush shared a new single, “One Monkey Can Stop A Show.” The song is an update of the blues legend’s 1995 song, “One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show.” “One Monkey Can Stop A Show” follows Rush’s 2022…
Via NPR WRTI A few years ago, in a catalog essay for a major exhibition of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, critic Greg Tate cast a sidelong glance at the voguish recent turn for Afrofuturism, a creative mode that took shape on the margins before…
Red Baraat on Good Morning America in celebration of Holi. Red Baraat is currently on the road for their 11th Annual Festival of Colors Tour!
via NYT An Unlikely Fiddler’s Dream Michael Cleveland was born blind and mostly deaf. That was only the beginning of his journey to become one of modern bluegrass’s most compelling musicians. Michael Cleveland had been 13 for five days the…
Ranky Tanky wins Grammy Award for Best Regional Roots Album for ‘Live at the 2022 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival’. This is the band’s second trophy. In 2020, the group won a Grammy Award for Best American Roots Music…
via WRTI Catherine Russell has long had a gift for breathing new life into old songs, with no special trick beyond the clarity of her singing and the purity of her intention. Her latest single perfectly illustrates why those two elements…
via NYT Other winners in the classical field on Sunday included Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” which had its Metropolitan Opera premiere in 2021, the first opera by a Black composer in the Met’s history. It won for best opera recording,…
via New York Times Cécile McLorin Salvant, ‘D’un Feu Secret’ Cécile McLorin Salvant, one of her generation’s finest jazz singers, throws a high-concept curveball on her coming album, “Mélusine.” It retells a European folk tale — about love, a curse,…
The Texas Songwriters Association has named Alligator Records artist Marcia Ball its 2023 “Texas Music Legend.” She will be presented with the coveted Darryl K. Royal (DKR) Texas Music Legends Award in a ceremony to be held on February 25,…