With the influence of musically gifted parents and sisters, Smith showed a great love and knowledge of music from an early age. She started off pursuing a career in animation, but her love of performance eventually led her to the stage and the recording studio.
With the influence of musically gifted parents and sisters, Smith showed a great love and knowledge of music from an early age. She started off pursuing a career in animation, but her love of performance eventually led her to the stage and the recording studio.
The Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda formed in a basement in Baghdad under the Saddam Hussein regime — not exactly the easiest place to play thrash metal. The group, featured in the 2007 documentary Heavy Metal in Baghdad, just released its first EP, called Only the Dead See the End of the War.
Formed in the late '90s by guitarists and singer-songwriters Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley, the Drive-By Truckers hit a peak of critical success with its 2001 release Southern Rock Opera. Critic Ken Tucker says their latest album, The Big To-Do, is "head-clearingly refreshing."
Back in the mid-19th century, Provence, in southern France, was still a rather exotic locale, with its own language. That's where Gounod set his opera Mireille , the tragic tale a young woman who falls for a man far below her station.
kingarthur.com dreams about Breaking Benjamin playing an Aerosmith coversong “Dream On” [Video / .MP4]
Since they first came together more than 40 years ago, The Holmes Brothers' members have released 10 albums and worked with artists ranging from Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen to Odetta and Peter Gabriel. The band continues to fuse blues, gospel and soul on its newest album, Feed My Soul . Hear…
Since they first came together more than 40 years ago, The Holmes Brothers' members have released 10 albums and worked with artists ranging from Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen to Odetta and Peter Gabriel. The band continues to fuse blues, gospel and soul on its newest album, Feed My Soul . Hear…
The End will be performing: Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at 7:30pm Brownies 23 East Tuesday Night Music Club 23 E. Lancaster Avenue Ardmore, PA Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 8:30pm NoChe w/ Host Rob Malloy Club NoChe 19th and Chestnut Streets Philadelphia, PA
Lately I’ve been thinking about this a lot, I’ve started thinking a lot about Chaos Theory lately, thinking I’ll find answers there, I think I’ve been affected by the butterfly effect. My life, a knuckle ball, no way of determining where its gonna go. Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about…
will be performing in West Chester, PA at The Note: Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:00 PM Doors: 7:00 PM Bowling for Soup with The Dollyrots The Scenic
kingarthur.com meets The End outside of the Noche Nightclub on 19th and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, PA. [Video / .MP4]
Will be performing: Sun, June 13, 2010 Hersheypark Stadium & Star Pavilion On Sale Sat, 4/3, 10am
With the opening of the much-anticipated exhibition Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Remembering the Running Fence, Eye Level had a chance to speak with Christo about the making of the original outdoor installation, Running Fence, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California, 1972-76. Christo...
According to ufologists, there are a number of alien species. From the Greys, Reptilians, Pleiadians, human hybrids and the Anunnaki, extraterrestrials have been visiting us for a long time. Encounters with the third kind, whether they are friendly or too close for comfort, have inspired many a…
A SXSW 2010 wrap up from All Songs Considered: We posed the simple question, "Would you see them again or not?"
The roots group Yarn was nurtured in Brooklyn. Through miles and seasons of touring, the band developed a harmony-rich Americana sound that often elicits obvious comparisons to The Band.
The roots group Yarn was nurtured in Brooklyn. Through miles and seasons of touring, the band developed a harmony-rich Americana sound that often elicits obvious comparisons to The Band.
Michael Wolff says he approaches the piano like a saxophone, to combine his "physical impulsiveness [to put] a certain energy into the musical ideas." Highlighting this set at the KC Jazz Club in Washington, D.C., is "Joe's Strut," for Wolff's dear friend Joe Zawinul.
He's been assembling finely tuned pop-punk anthems for years, but songwriter Ted Leo still sings as if it's his first day on the job. Leo just released his sixth album with his longtime band The Pharmacists, The Brutalist Bricks , and "The Mighty Sparrow" christens it with some…
Rock critic Anthony DeCurtis sits down with World Cafe host David Dye to talk about Blues and Chaos , a new anthology of the late music critic Robert Palmer's work. According to DeCurtis, Palmer was one of the most influential rock journalists of his time, and deserves far more recognition than…
KingArthur.com gets on stage and watches the bands at the Rox Box and Coyle’s Cafe interview each other. Members of Phantasm, WynRise, The End and Shadow Play in Roxborough, Philadelphia, PA. [Video / .MP4]
Yesterday, while recording the Spring Preview show with my All Songs Considered cohorts, we began discussing what songs were at the top of the charts on our respective birth dates. I had never heard of my song. It's Andy Kim's "Rock Me Gently." Pleas...
About Four Dimensional Music and Chaos TheoryThese comments were made about the above discussion:Ed called… and left a message (he has experience with the dead, is a member of the Family and wrote songs that appear on Dead albums. Ed says):He has already attempted to reconnected with “the…
KingArthur.com joins the Tuesday Night Music Club musicians at Brownies 23 East in Ardmore, Pennsylvania for an all star jam band. [Video / .rm / RealPlayer]
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