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Below are some of the songs currently topping charts around the world. But first … Worldcrunch Pick To the great delight of neo-psychedelic rockers worldwide, the Texas-based band Black Angels confirmed this week the release of their new album Clear Lake Forest, on July 21. On Record Store Day (April 19), the authors of last […]
Below are some of the songs currently topping charts around the world. Worldcrunch Pick It’s music festival season and last weekend saw a heavy lineup at the Isle of Wight, including Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kings of Leon and Biffy Clyro. On Saturday, the Specials performed their classic “Ghost Town” as night was settling in: […]
A look at the rapidly evolving experimental electronic music scene in Cairo.
Below are some of the songs currently topping charts around the world; but before that: Worldcrunch Pick Jack White performed two tracks — “Temporary Ground” (watch below) and “Alone In My Home” — from his new LP Lazaretto on Conan Wednesday. Cover photo: Incase
In many countries, musicians were Latin America’s leading social critics and political activists of the late 20th century. Not anymore.
Below are some of the songs currently topping charts around the world. Worldcrunch Pick A never-before-released Led Zeppelin instrumental has surfaced online this week. The track, simply called “La La,” was recorded in 1969 and starts with an interesting mix of gospel organ, savage drumming, acoustic guitar, followed by the classic Jones-Bonham groove and Page’s […]
Below are some of the songs currently topping charts around the world. But first … Worldcrunch Pick The Rumours turned out to be true: Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac’s keyboardist and singer who quit the band in 1998, announced at the Ivor Novello songwriting awards that she has rejoined as a permanent member. Not second-hand news, […]
Below are some of the songs currently topping the charts around the world. Worldcrunch Pick Jack White broke a record last week when he recorded the title track from his forthcoming album Lazaretto just hours before selling it to eager fans who queued up outside his studio. Fans could buy a vinyl 45 of the […]
Below are some of the songs currently topping the charts around the world. Worldcrunch Pick Last month, the London-based band Gallon Drunk released their 8th studio album, The Soul Of The Hour, and it’s probably one of the best things you’ll hear this year, or ever. The Soul Of The Hour is as rock’n’roll as […]
Below are some of the songs currently topping the charts around the world. Worldcrunch Pick Union Jacks, parkas and tracksuits. This month marks the 20th anniversary of Britpop, that music genre symbolizing the new pride Britons had for their Kingdom in the 1990s. Now some might say Britpop was born long before April 1994, that […]
Below are some of the songs currently topping the charts around the world. But first, our Worldcrunch Pick A previously unheard song by cult singer-songwriter Nick Drake, entitled Reckless Jane, has appeared online, almost four decades after the English musician’s death. Drake began writing it with his friend Beverley Martyn two months before he died. […]
Below are some of the songs currently topping the charts around the world. Worldcrunch Pick “We’re making a single-sale collector’s item. This is like somebody having the scepter of an Egyptian king.” This is how Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA, in an interview with Forbes, described the hip-hop collective’s surprise new album, Once Upon A Time In […]
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Below are some of the songs currently topping the charts around the world. Worldcrunch Pick British singer Kate Bush announced Friday on her website that she will play her first series of shows since 1979 in August and September across the UK. The first woman to top the British charts with a song of her […]
Here are some of the songs topping the charts around the world. Worldcrunch Pick Former Blur frontman Damon Albarn has released a new video and track, “Lonely Press Play,” from his upcoming album Everyday Robots. Shot by Albarn himself using just a tablet, the clip shows brief images of his travels around the world, from […]
Here are some of the songs topping the charts from music hot spots around the world. Worldcrunch Pick: The American singer Beck is set to release his 12th studio album, Morning Phase, on Feb. 25, after more than five years since his last record, Modern Guilt. The Californian musician, specialized in blending folk and hip […]
Here are some of the songs topping the charts from music hot spots around the world. Worldcrunch Pick: On Feb. 21 and 22, rare recordings by British bands The Stone Roses and Oasis are set to be auctionned in Stockport, U.K. The auctions will include some of the two Manchester bands’ first-ever recorded demo tapes […]
Here are some musical tributes to Nelson Mandela, whose lifetime work for peace and equality inspired artists around the world and across musical genres.
Pleyel pianos, founded in 1809, built pianos for Chopin and other masters. In the end, it couldn’t find a new business strategy to survive against Asian competition.
A vast number of planet music’s cash cows – including a little act named Madonna – originated on the synthesizer keyboards of Swedish songwriters, but can the country hold its high note?
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Popular Zimbabwe Singer Dies At 37
THE HERALD, NEW ZIMBABWE (Zimbabwe) Worldcrunch CHITUNGWIZA – Chiwoniso Maraire, one of Zimbabwe’s most famous singers, died late Wednesday at the age of 37. Born in Olympia, U.S., in 1976, Chiwoniso shot to fame in the 1990s thanks to her distinctive voice and her playing the mbira — also known as sanza, kalimba or “thumb […]
A view from Italy, where the Protestant revival-style musical festival never had a chance…
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST (China), AFP Worldcrunch BEIJING – Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei has released a foul-mouthed heavy metal music video entitled Dumbass that parodies his months in police detention. In the video for the top single from his upcoming debut album The Divine Comedy, Weiwei tells the story of his 81 days […]
REUTERS, NME Worldcrunch Ray Manzarek, keyboard player and founder member of the 1960s rock band The Doors died late Monday aged 74, following a battle with cancer. Manzarek, who lived in Northern California’s Napa Valley wine country for the past decade, had been seeking treatment for bile duct cancer at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, […]
TEL AVIV – February 2013. Tel Aviv gets ready to celebrate Purim, a biblical celebration that along the centuries has become a sort of carnival where Israelis drink — as the tradition goes — “until they cannot remember their name.” There are long lines in front of costumes shops. Riff Cohen, will get as drunk […]
TURIN – Music and organized crime are a duo that have gone hand-in-hand since way back when. Outlaws often see songs as a way to glorify what they do, creating legends that inspire as well as frighten the regions they come to dominate. The Mexico we hear about today is said to be held hostage […]
LA STAMPA (Italy) Worldcrunch LOS ANGELES – On Jan. 9, Swedish superstar DJ and producer, Avicii put out a call that he wanted to record a crowd-sourced single. After seven weeks and more than 13,000 fan submissions later “X You” is finally complete and is the world’s largest music collaboration. Here is his call for […]
DAGENS NYHETER, ABBA THE MUSEUM (Sweden), COURRIER INTERNATIONAL (France) Worldcrunch STOCKHOLM – Thirty years after the broke up, iconic Swedish pop band ABBA is still making headlines, writes Courrier International. On May 7, a huge ABBA museum will open in on Djurgarden island, in Stockholm. Tickets have already gone on sale, says ABBA The Museum. […]
CANNES – “The MP3 is dead.” As the Midem yearly music industry event opened in France last week, Yves Riesel, president of music streaming service Qobuz, declared the end of the top online music format. “From Feb. 1, we won’t be selling MP3s anymore. All of our downloadable content will be in CD quality sound, […]
This musical and cultural project in Switzerland aims to redefine the very essence of the creative process.
SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG (Germany) Worldcrunch BERLIN – When Germany talks about social networks, it is usually talking about Facebook and Twitter, not about YouTube. And yet the video platform, with its 800 million daily users, is certainly in the Facebook league and is used by many more people than Twitter. The fact that YouTube has become […]
Local memories and a final salute from French-speaking Switzerland to the founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival, who died on January 10.
HAMBURG – When a Chinese customer with a lot of money buys a Ferrari, as soon as the salesperson hands over the keys, the fun can begin. When a Chinese with a lot of money buys a Steinway, the grand piano is delivered, placed in the living room – and then what? “Friends come over, […]
REUTERS INDIA, TIMES OF INDIA (India), BBC NEWS (UK) Worldcrunch SAN DIEGO – Indian sitar legend Ravi Shankar, who influenced everyone from the Beatles to Guns N” Roses guitarist Slash, has died at the age of 92 after he failed to recover from recent heart surgery in San Diego. Ravi Shankar in March 2009 – […]
CNN, LOS ANGELES TIMES (USA), BBC NEWS (UK) Worldcrunch MEXICO CITY – Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera died Sunday in a plane crash in northern Mexico, reports BBC News. Photo Jenni Rivera Jenni’s father, Pedro Rivera, confirmed the death of the Latin music and reality TV star as well as the deaths of every member on […]
PRAGUE – A few minutes before the concert starts, Riccardo Sahiti says he can’t believe all this is real, that it’s not a dream. He’s standing in the ornate conductor’s room of the Rudolfinum in Prague – one of Europe’s premier concert halls. All around him are photographs of his idols – conductors such as […]
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, BBC NEWS (UK) Worldcrunch MANCHESTER – A piece of music composed by Ludwig van Beethoven nearly 200 years ago has been unearthed by a University of Manchester scholar. Professor Barry Cooper, a leading Beethoven expert, spotted the work which the German composer wrote around 1820 alongside some original sketches of the famous […]
Do you want to see The Avengers? Or a French movie? Or a one man show? And you don’t have a penny in your pocket? There is a solution to your problem: YouTube.com. This isn’t a shady alleyway where you risk being mugged at nightfall. YouTube is a respectable company. Over 800 million users watch […]