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World Famous Jazz Musician Honored in Philadelphia
Mr. Christian McBride, a five-time Grammy Award-winning jazz bassist, named 2016 Philadelphia Jazz Appreciation Month Honoree.—One of the world’s most recorded jazz musicians today walked into Room...
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Bruce Springsteen Won’t Sing In North Carolina. Who’s Next?
Embed from Getty ImagesJesse Kornbluth on who will join the protest against North Carolina’s anti-transgender laws.___Where I live — that is, in my head, heart and soul — music matters. A lot. I’m...
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What Losing Prince Means to Music
Embed from Getty ImagesA musical legend is gone, but the music industry may just be letting out a sigh of relief.—The news that legendary singer/songwriter Prince died Thursday April 21st in his home,...
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Meatloaf for the Soul
Embed from Getty ImagesWe don’t age alone. This can be both a comfort and a wake up call.—My 35 year old son surprised me with the tickets for himself, his 33 year old brother, his mother, and I (his...
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Who Will Be the Face of Rock — in 300 Years?
Embed from Getty Images“As the timeline moves forward, tangential artists in any field fade from the collective radar, until only one person remains; the significance of that individual is then...
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The Best of Music in My Life
Embed from Getty Images—I remember it like it was almost yesterday. Back in 6th-grade, one’s coolness and social status were almost exclusively tied to their athletic ability— at least in the world of...
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What’s a Worse Career Choice: Dancer, Musician, or Comedian?
Louis CK has a way of hitting a nerve that is funny, poignant, and—even if you’re on the defense—one you might agree with.Are you in a career that you love?And although comedians, musicians, and...
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A Call for the Open Reclamation of Transcendental and Ordinary Music
Embed from Getty Images—Steve Martin produced one of the first hymns for the atheist crowd in, well, probably ever, which he termed the “the entire atheist hymnal” (Martin, 2017; V1de0Lovr, 2011).And...
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Leonard Cohen Died A Year Ago. A year? Impossible.
Embed from Getty ImagesBuy it from Amazon.November 7, 2016. Leonard Cohen fell in the night and died. This week I mentioned the anniversary. Friends said the same thing: “It can’t be a year.” I...
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My Other Life
My life as a full-time musician was so long ago, and so much life has passed under the bridge, it’s hard for me to believe it even happened. Most of the friends, acquaintances, and coworkers I’ve met...
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Letting Go and Adding Value
— Old red was the first instrument I ever owned. My music lessons as a kid to that point was through piano training. Fourth grade and I wanted to just grow my hair long and play loud music. A classmate...
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Learn About a Living Legend in ‘David Crosby: Remember My Name’
Hear a pretty amazing story in ‘Remember My Name’ I can’t say I am a huge fan of Crosby, Stills and Nash. Yet I am familiar with many of their songs. David Crosby has played in many bands over the...
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In Vietnam, an Accidental Classical Pianist Aims to Break Barriers
While walking casually in the downtown of Ho Chi Minh City, Cao Son Nguyen (20), hopes to break the ceiling of Vietnamese music one day. But for young artists like Nguyen, the journey was not so easy....
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The Makings of an Ideal Man
— In the war of changing societal norms, much of what we understand about masculinity – the historical, the sociological, and the anecdotal – can seem like a battle line. Some fight for the right to...
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Scratch Music
— This is music for a scratch orchestra – this is Scratch Music! On Tuesday 9 July we are holding an event exploring some of the musical scores created for and by The Scratch Orchestra. We are very...
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Gay Musician Leaves Home After Being Attacked
00:02 or I’ll take one second sticks 00:07 I’m from Russian Moscow in 2016 I was 00:12 attacked on the street for being gay so 00:16 I moved here 00:20 Los Angeles 00:23 these attacks happen all the...
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Lenny Kravitz on Race, God & Spreading Love Through Music
Thirty one years after releasing his debut album, Lenny Kravitz is still letting love rule, but with an eye towards societal strife that continues to go unchecked. The multi-Grammy award winning...
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Let Vinnie Explain: Eddie Van Halen’s Guitar Sound
by The CS Team Editor’s Note: Eddie Van Halen changed the way guitar is played. With EVH’s passing, we thought Vinnie DeMasi’s loving appreciation, from earlier this year, of Eddie’s unique...
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Cat Stevens’ Re-Do of ‘Tea for the Tillerman’
by Michael Sarno In a West Sussex Hospital room in 1969 lay a 21-year-old growing weaker by the day. The diagnosis was tuberculosis. Months had started to pass and the outlook was questionable. After...
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Black Sabbath. 50 Years of Paranoid.
It was only months after Black Sabbath’s debut scared some people into panic. Others turned it up loud, and drew themselves in to a music revolution. When the music world woke up to a heavier sound....
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