Music My Mom Played: Rappers Recall Household Favorites For Mother’s Day
Exclusive: We gathered emcees like Ab-Soul, Saigon, Ill Bill, crooked I and big Boi and others to speak about the music their moms played while they were growing up and how it’s helped shape them. As we approach Mothers Day, HipHopDX decided to dedicate special time to mothers who have helped shape us. We have [...]
Guns N’ Roses’ Soft-Rock Legacy
The new rock hall-of-famers had a bad-boy image—but did their most successful work on mushy ballads. Guns N’ Roses performs after being inducted into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame. / Reuters Writing about Guns N’ Roses isn’t like writing about most bands. It’s more like writing about Michael Jordan: It’s impossible to separate [...]
‘Play Me, I’m Yours’ public piano takes Monterey Park stage
Photo Gallery: Play me, I’m Yours piano in Monterey Park PASADENA – Piano players of all skills have been dusting off their sheet music and unleashing their inner Liberace in the region’s latest free foray into interactive public art. Monterey Park and Pasadena have both snagged some of the 30 lavishly decorated pianos installed as [...]
Gayapolis News – Gay Guide to Long Island City, New York
Located just over the Ed Koch (aka Queensboro or 59th Street) Bridge, Long Island City (LIC) is a thriving cultural center with the highest concentration of art galleries, art institutes and studio space of any New York City neighborhood. Pink Pavilions shares their take on the Far East Side! History LIC, with its close proximity [...]
Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes At Carnegie Hall
Leif Ove Andsnes is now on the north side of age 40, and 25 years into a busy concert career. But he’s not setting out to buy a Porsche or stage a midlife crisis yet. The Norwegian pianist, known for his thoughtful musicianship and unassuming manner, projects an image of personal balance and earnest curiosity. [...]
Tune It review
I should say up front that Tune it is nowhere as ambitious as the commercial Tunerific, which I reviewed back in 2011. rather than try and sample a guitar’s audio output and produce interactive animations to show the pitch, Tune it goes altogether more old school, simply producing reference tones that you then use to [...]
Little Admiral: Robinson growing into football star, Renaissance man
with excellent size (6-5, 190), speed (4.6 in 40) and athleticism, Corey Robinson is developing into a top-flight wide receiver.Courtesy of Trudy Gately/San Antonio Christian The emerging portrait of 16-year-old Corey Robinson — athlete, musician, scholar — combines the light and shadow of two eras. He is a mass of Renaissance brush strokes on a [...]
Sam Rivers obituary
The multi-instrumentalist Sam Rivers, who has died aged 88, was one of the last messengers from the 1940s bebop era and the classic decades of jazz. Accomplished on tenor and soprano saxophones, flute, piano and viola, he wanted only to remain at the sharp edge of music-making. Rivers included Miles Davis, BB King and Wilson [...]
SRJC piano hits sour note
Music instructor Leslie Dukes helped select the vintage piano from a Texas dealer after hours spent testing the piano and several similar to it on works by composers like Mozart, Schubert and Granados. “the piano we ultimately chose just worked on everything,” she said. But it has hit a sour note since arriving in Petaluma [...]
Westminster alum Ed Helms returns to Buckhead – Neighbor Newspapers
The last time Westminster alumnus Ed Helms played piano on the Kellett Theatre stage, he performed Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer” as part of the Buckhead school’s talent show. Tuesday, Helms regaled students with a performance of “The Tiger,” a song from the $467 million-grossing, 2009 box-office hit “The Hangover,” in which he starred as dentist [...]