In recent years, Kate Royal has been hailed as one of the emerging opera singers in the classical music world. The British lyric soprano is the winner of the 2004 Kathleen Ferrier Award, 2004 John...
The waiting is the worst. The knowledge that something truly awful is coming, and there’s nothing you can do but stand by and watch. You see, my blue pen is running out of ink, and there’s...
“In my own circle of writers and rock fans...populism had another meaning: it derived from pop.” -Ellen Willis, Introduction to Beginning to See the Light To be a leftist in America in the days...
Prior to the revelation of a will, Kathryn and Joe Jackson filed for custody of Michael Jacksons three children. When the will was filed, it was discovered that Michael Jackson directed his mother...
Yesterday, people began gathering in front of UCLA Ronald Reagan medical center to pay homage to a man who gave new meaning to the word "iconoclast. " Michael Jackson first came onto the world stage...
Back when the Soviet Union was crashing around our ears, Michael Jackson was cool. I distinctly remember when, as a pre-schooler, I enraged my parents by refusing to get out of the car mid-song. It...
Originally from Tehran, Hypernova have a sound reminiscent of Interpol, except less clinical and more organic. Having made the transition to the American music scene, they have come to symbolize...
From reading this week’s headlines, you might assume that Susan Boyle is at the center of a terrible scandal. U.K. and U.S. reporters alike seem to fear that the enormously popular Britain’s Got...
One of the most endearing moments of Alexander Rybak's record-setting Eurovision win for Norway tonight came when the performer of the charming "Fairytale" alternatively gushed in both Norwegian and...
Few young female pianists can compete with French legend Helene Grimaud, yet Yuja Wang is most likely on her way to become one of the exceptions. Her Sonatas & Etudes: Chopin, Scriabin, Liszt and...
