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Archdeacon against Sir Elton John's visit
Controversy is emerging over the sexual orientation of British entertainer Sir Elton John with one local religious leader opposed to bringing the singer to Trinidad's sister island of Tobago for next month's Plymouth Jazz festival. (16/03) Read
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Chicago Sun-Times | 30/06/08 iMuzique
Saturday afternoon Stevie Wonder returned to Taste of Chicago with a concert that was generous, adventurous, populist, humorous and amorous. "A lot ... More

Jay-Z Quiets Critics With Indie Cred

ABC News | 30/06/08 iMuzique
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Fez music festival builds bridges

BBC | 30/06/08 iMuzique
Artists from all over the world converged on its ancient city of Fez, to the east of the capital Rabat. While the Saudi gathering was made up of only ... More

Death of the folk song

Nationmedia.com | 16/06/08 iMuzique
THE TURKANA CULTURAL FESTIval, organised by the German Embassy, debuted recently to showcase the promise of a region that lacks the advantage of numbers ... More

Obamaroo: Days of love, peace, music

The Baltimore Sun | 16/06/08 iMuzique
Comes word on this sunny Father's Day, from a child on the road, that the annual music and arts festival which has convened in a 700-acre pasture at Manchester, ... More

Festival of Microtonal Music Breaks Musical Barriers

The Arcadia Weekly | 04/05/07
The Festival of Microtonal Music will allow local audiences to hear cutting edge contemporary music when its three month, six performance program, the ... Read

Historic buildings at risk from rock concerts

The Guardian | 14/09/07
Rock concerts at some of the UK's most important historic buildings have put them at risk of damage from powerful bass note vibrations, according to research ... Read

Jagger gets rocks off at Indian music festival

Reuters | 03/11/07
Mick Jagger was a surprise visitor to the inaugural Rajasthan International Folk Festival, held October 25-29 in the Indian city of Jodhpur. "I wouldn't ... Read

PopKOMM Forecasts A Bright Future For The Music Industry

Undercover | 06/04/07
Between September 19th and 21st, Berlin, Germany will become the centerpiece worldwide for the music industry with the 19th annual popKOMM music conference ... Read

If it's Bihu, let the music play

Telegraph India | 06/04/07
Bihu is synonymous with music, dance and festivities. So, when a group of experienced and young artistes got together for a music album, they decided to ... Read

Marianne Faithfull shines as grandmother-turned-sex worker

ABC News | 13/02/07
Singer and actress Marianne Faithfull plays a grandmother in dire straights who becomes a sex worker in London's seedy Soho, in a touching yet hilarious ... Read

Ghana Music Awards festival takes off

The Statesman | 08/05/07
Interspersed with exciting live stage performances by old time greats such as George Darko and Nana Kwame Ampadu I, as well as young and not so young artistes ... Read

Glastonbury 2007 review

The Sun | 25/06/07
AFTER Glastonbury was cancelled last year, the rush to get tickets for this summer's festival was on. The muddiest annual music bash attracts everyone ... Read

Batman Samini Is King Of Reggae Music In Ghana

Ghana Music.com | 15/05/07
Ghana's most famous hip life artiste, Emmanuel Samini (Batman) was astonished when his name was mentioned as the best Reggae Artiste of the year at the ... Read

Dubai Original Music Festival Attracts A Surprise Sponsor

World Music Central | 08/05/07
Lime Green Entertainment, an entertainments company in the UAE which runs the Dubailime.com website today announced that it would be sponsoring the Dubai ... Read

After an anemic start, Rage Against the Machine delivers at Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.

Los Angeles Times | 01/05/07
Zack de la Rocha crouched in front of Brad Wilk's drum kit and surveyed the nearly 60,000 people at his feet. All around him crested a noise that had ... Read

Singing Waitress To Play Music Festival

Sky News | 29/05/07
Teenager Victoria Hart will play on the John Peel stage for up-and-coming artists. She became an overnight sensation when she landed the gig of a lifetime ... Read

Music on the border

Nepal Times | 20/04/07
Live music and mild summer evenings are a superb combination. But The Last Resort has found a way to make it even better. On the weekend of 28-29 April, ... Read

All That Jazz doing fine despite doom in music industry

Steamboat Pilot & Today | 30/06/08 iMuzique
For the past 10 years, music magazines have been flooded with articles about the death of the record store. Joe Kboudi — who opened Wednesday with twice ... More

Swedish jazzman Svensson dies in scuba accident

Reuters | 16/06/08 iMuzique
Swedish jazz pianist and composer Esbjorn Svensson, who helped break genre boundaries and attracted a young audience outside the traditional jazz scene, ... More

Chaser of Beer, Rock or Bebop With Your Bach?

The New York Times | 16/06/08 iMuzique
YOU might not expect to find a polished young ensemble like the Parker String Quartet playing music by Beethoven, Bartok and Ligeti — or collaborating ... More

Bands are getting into bed with consumer brands

Timesonline | 04/05/08 iMuzique
Gabriel Hubert, horn player with Damon Albarn's favourite street-jazz collective, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, speaks with the unashamed zeal of a convert: ... More

Cheadle Takes on 'Miles'

Tmz | 05/12/06
TMZ has learned that Oscar-nominated actor Don Cheadle ("Hotel Rwanda") plans to direct and star in "Miles Davis," a biopic of the legendary jazz innovator. ... Read

Blue Note label to offer downloads'n'social on web

The Register | 16/08/07
Jazz and blues record label Blue Note plans to revamp its website from later this month, transforming it from a regular corporate front window to a combined ... Read

A downbeat year, but it had some bests

The Seattle Times | 29/12/06
This wasn't the greatest year for jazz. Locally and at large, the music appears to be in a holding pattern, trying to find new meaning — or at least a ... Read

Jazz and Jihad: the discourse of solidarity

Middle East Online | 17/04/07
For many years I considered America as my promised land. As a young Jazz musician I was pretty convinced that sooner or later I would end up living in ... Read

Marsalis's music swings past politics

Boston.com | 06/03/07
In advance of ‘‘From the Plantation to the Penitentiary,'' his suite of jazz and criticism out today, Wynton Marsalis has said he likes to put out a ... Read

Hollywood embraces Miles Davis

BBC | 29/09/06
Instead of the usual handprint in cement, a bronze bust of the trumpet player has been put on display outside the Guitar Center on Sunset Boulevard. For ... Read

Jazz saxophonist won 11 Grammys, backed pop stars

Dispatch.com | 16/01/07
Michael Brecker, the versatile tenor saxophonist who died Saturday of leukemia at age 57, was regarded by many musicians and critics as a virtuoso of technique ... Read

Coltrane at 80 -- a talent supreme

San Francisco Chronicle | 22/09/06
In an art form more celebrated for its sinners, John Coltrane, who somewhere over the rainbow will turn 80 on Saturday, held the honor of being the music's ... Read

How jazz survived the Soviets

The Telegraph | 14/11/06
'For you English, football is more important than life or death," says a young jazz fan in Moscow's Dom club, quoting Bill Shankly's famous comment. ... Read