• Maggie Rose Earns A Seat At The Table

    The Music Business is filled with the stories of artists who knocked around for years before finding the right sound, releasing the right album, giving the right performance that made their career. If you can believe their accounts, Bruce Springsteen was a total failure until the day he was a success. More recently, Nathaniel Rateliff was about to throw in the towel before recording his R&B record "S.O.B."Which brings me to Maggie Rose, a Nashville-based singer-songwriter who has been perfor...…

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  • Grammys 2021 Get Fresh

    This week's Grammy Awards Ceremony, the second during the pandemic, made the best of a bad situation bringing a much needed freshness to the awards show.In recent times, the Grammys show have found a successful formula and run it into the ground. The show had pared down the more than 100 awards given as part of the Grammys into around nine for the program and constructed the evening around what came to be called "Grammy moments"-these were the odd mashups…

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  • Concerts At Home

    Over the last five weeks I have had some great music experiences at home, music that has lifted my spirit and fed my soul, distracted me from the increasingly grim reality of the coronavirus death tolls, and been a companion during self-created "lunch hours" and late-night evening entertainment.Every day (or in my case, most nights) one has but to scroll through Instagram to see regular or occasional performances from home by James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Carole King, John Doe, Larkin…

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  • Love Rocks NYC 2020: A Pandemic Of Caring

    This is an article about caring in the time of Coronavirus.This is an article about a benefit concert that was supposed to happen on March 12, 2020: the 4th Annual Love Rocks NYC benefit produced by Fashion Designer John Varvatos, multi-hyphenate Greg Williamson (Real Estate, Concert Production and God's Love We Deliver trustee), and Event Producer Nicole Rechter that was to be held at the Beacon Theater in New York to raise funds for God's Love We Deliver, an organization…

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  • "Almost Famous: The Musical" Rocks On

    This Sunday October 27th, "Almost Famous," the Musical based on the 2000 Cameron Crowe movie will end its run at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego. Tickets for the run have been sold out for a while but I was lucky enough to attend a matinee recently, and am here to report that when "Almost Famous" turns up on Broadway or in your town (and I"d be shocked if it doesn"t), you and your family will very much enjoy…

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  • Behind The Scenes Of The Beyond Music Project

    "Same Sky: Beyond Music Volume 1," is a wonderful collection of inspiring new music, the product of a collaboration between artists from all over the world, all produced by the project's artistic director, Los Angeles native, Grammy-award-winning producer and legendary musician in his own right, Larry Klein.First things first: To explain how the Beyond Music Project came about, we have to begin with its patrons, Beati and Regula Curti, a Swiss couple who believe passionately that music can b... View…

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  • MØ Waves, MØ Better Sound

    Danish singer-songwriter MØ (Karen Marie Aagaard Ørsted Andersen ) was singing "I assure you I would dye my hair in crazy colors just to make you smile," from her song Nights With You, dancing and striking poses that were silhouetted on a giant scrim behind her as her band played and a sophisticated light show with visual effects enhanced her performance. In motions both sinuous and purposefully awkward, full of confidence and power, MØ stalked the stage of the Wiltern,…

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  • Springsteen On Netflix Showcases The Man Who Made The Music

    Last night I watched "Springsteen on Broadway" on Netflix. I had wanted to see the show during its run, but I couldn"t quite bring myself to pay the $800-$1000 a ticket cost on the open market.It's a good show. It's 2 ½ hours long and is compelling throughout. Springsteen performs his well-known songs in new ways with context supplied. He is humble at moments but boastful at other times, appropriately given his very real achievements. The Netflix show does not…

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  • Luciana Souza's New Recording, "The Book of Longing" Translates Poetry into Jazz

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomteicholz/2018/11/23/luciana-souzas-new-recording-the-book-of-longing-translates-poetry-into-jazz/#30ef91717901 On her new recording, “The Book of Longing,” Luciana Souza marries poetry and Jazz in an idiom all her own with spare accompaniment and her uniquely atmospheric vocals to haunting effect. Souza will be performing her lyrical new songs along with some of her more Brazilian-inflected tunes at UCLA’s Royce Hall on December 1 and at New York City’s Jazz Standard, December 14-16. Recently I sat down with Souza to talk about the new recording and the path she…

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  • Using the Blues to Bridge Across the Great Americana Divide

    One of the things I most enjoy about benefit concerts (beyond the whole save-the-world ethos), and music award shows (beyond the awards themselves) is seeing a wide spectrum of artists, each doing 3-5 songs. It's sort the musical equivalent of a smorgasbord – enough to hear a favorite artist or song and discover someone worth exploring more and short enough to move from those who hold no appeal .Which is why I so enjoyed "Across the Great Divide," a recent…

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  • Tsinandali: Zubin Mehta Leads the IPO in an Enchanted Evening of Music in Georgia's Kakheti Region

    To listen to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) conducted by Zubin Mehta playing Tchaikovsky in a newly constructed 1000-person open-air auditorium at a country estate on a summer’s night is heavenly and it is hard to imagine a classical music experience more intimate and emotional. Even more remarkable, this concert was taking place on the grounds of the Tsinandali Estate in the Republic of Georgia’s Kakheti region, some two and a half hours from Tbilisi, the capital, to launch a…

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  • Paul McCarthy's Summer Shock

    The new Paul McCarthy exhibit at Hauser & Wirth in downtown Los Angeles, “WS Spinoffs, Wood Statues, Brown Rothkos,” triggers a set of opposing emotions and reactions: McCarthy’s large scale wooden figurative creations and abstract wall hangings are as sensual and gorgeous as they are hideous and transgressive. They are deeply thought-out and yet strangely impulsive. Provocative and rule-breaking yet completely within McCarthy’s canon. © Paul McCarthy Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Photo: Fredrik Nilsen Installation view, ‘Paul…

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