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Musicians Protest Changes to Grammys

A coalition of musicians, including Paul Simon, Carlos Santana and Herbie Hancock, is protesting the recently announced changes to the Grammy Awards....  read more

New Norah Jones Album Features OutKast, M. Ward, Q-Tip, Gillian Welch, Many More

The aptly-titled record also features Ray Charles, Belle & Sebastian, Willie Nelson and Foo Fighters...  read more

Listen to New Albums From Herbie Hancock, Stars and the Chemical Brothers

NPR is streaming three new—and quite different—albums: The Five Ghosts, from indie-pop rockers Stars, jazz-funk pianist Herbie Hancock’s The Imagine Project and Further from the big beat electronic duo, The Chemical Brothers. Ain’t public radio great?...  read more

Watch Barack Obama, Paul McCartney, Jack White, Jerry Seinfeld, Many More Sing "Hey Jude" at the White House

The headline pretty much says it all, but when we say “many more,” we really do mean just that. Like, Faith Hill, Herbie Hancock, Emmylou Harris, Dave Grohl, Elvis Costello, etc. Watch the video (via Pitchfork) below:...  read more

Herbie Hancock to Score Miles Davis Biopic

Don Cheadle's biopic of jazz legend Miles Davis has been slow to develop, but big news came recently...  read more

The 40 Best Sesame Street Guest Spots So Far

The 40th season of Sesame Street premiered on Nov. 10, 2009, promising guest spots from notable figures such as...  read more

TEDGlobal Conference Brings Innovation to Oxford in July

Every year, 1,000 people from across the world gather in Long Beach, Calif. for a marathon of talks from some of today's most innovative thinkers. Started in 1984 to gather leaders and luminaries in the fields of technology, entertainment, and design, the TED Conference hosts presenters year after year whose ambitious resumes and eloquent 18-minute lectures demand admiration. ...  read more

Six Gateway Jazz Albums for Rock Elitists

Growing up on a strict musical diet of pop and rock, I once viewed jazz as this formless gunk that intellectuals would roll around in to make themselves feel superior to the unkempt masses. It was art for intimidation’s sake: indulgent, self-congratulating and worst of all, boring. ...  read more

Grammy roundup: Herbie Hancock, Amy Winehouse, more

This year’s Grammy Awards sustained a few surprises and managed to get by without a WGA throwdown. Here are the liner notes: Alicia Keys opened the show with a post-partum Ol' Blue Eyes. John Mayer managed to escape cruise mayhem in time to pair up with Keys for duet number two. Andrea Bocelli and Josh Groban performed a moving tribute to Pavarotti, which was preceded by a video montage highlighting the careers of the deceased tenor, Lucky Dube, Mstislav Rostropovich, Don Ho, Dan Fogelberg, Porter Wagoner, Beverly Sills, Carlos Valdez, Ike Turner, Oscar Peterson and Robert Goulet. Feist brought her...  read more

Herbie Hancock touring West in November

Herbie Hancock is poised for a short, West Coast tour to promote River: The Joni Letters, an album of improvisational Joni Mitchell covers that debuted at the top of the Billboard Contemporary Jazz chart in September. Hancock is enlisting the 18-year-old, coincidentally named Sonya Kitchell to handle vocal duties shared on the album itself by Norah Jones, Corinne Bailey Rae, Luciana Sousa and Mitchell herself. Maybe she'll even take a stab at the Leonard Cohen bits. Some percentage of the audience will recognize that, despite the rhyme, Kitchell isn't some kind of knockoff, black market Mitchell that Hancock booked at...  read more