It's not often that I can say I saw a famous singer before they hit it big, but I can say that about Dua Lipa. In 2016 my daughter and I...

Toshi Reagon, mighty singer of folk-blues-rock-funk-and-everything-else, has performed this song in a variety of different ways. When she...

Those of you who watch The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will recognize this blast of joy as its theme song. It's also an excellent...

Let's just get away from it all today. Here's Lianne La Havas, her warm voice equally at home crooning and passionately belting, inviting...

My family and I recently went down a YouTube rabbit hole clicking on songs from musicals we'd seen in the past few years. This video -- a...

I've been jamming out to this song by the band Harper Blynn, whom I had the pleasure of seeing years ago when they played a spectacular...

He had just graduated and was spinning his wheels. He could have tried his luck elsewhere -- maybe there was a desperate need for...

Paramore's "Last Hope" helped me cope with the death of an old friend several years ago, and it's helping me cope today. The band is a...

One of the great delights of having a music-loving daughter with eclectic tastes of her own is getting to discover a whole world of...

Here's a recent video of one of my favorite artists, Chilean singer Mon Laferte, apparently making very good use of her time in...

For years after 9/11, at least once a year on the anniversary of the attacks, I'd put on Bruce's album The Rising for musical comfort and...

It's Friday, it's been a long week, and dammit, I just want some Prince. Am I the only one who's startled by how differently that little...

I discovered the music of Mercedes Sosa in college in the early 90s, as I was digging through the CD bins of my dorm's library and...

Breathe. As I write this post a day in advance, the headlines continue to deliver awful news -- not just about the continuing horrific...

The Public Theater has just announced the cancellation of the free Shakespeare in the Park festival this summer due to coronavirus...

Happy Monday, and happy one-month anniversary to this project! Here's a song I've been thinking about a lot; please bear with me, and as...

I hope you've been enjoying these posts at least a fraction as much as I'm enjoying writing them. This coming Monday will be the...

Oh, Seal, no. What are you singing about? Don't wash your face (or your faith) in dirty water! Don't dance with a total stranger and hold...

I was introduced to David Sylvian's sublime 1987 album Secrets of the Beehive by an older cousin with cooler musical taste, and the music...

Here's another timelapse video to rest your eyes and mind. The music is "Nuvole Bianche" ("White Clouds") by Italian pianist and composer...