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Like some upper-level graduate course, this show came with some prereqiusites: You needed to know the music of Leonard Cohen, and the more intimately the better. You also needed to appreciate his singing voice, which, these days, comes from somewhere between Barry Whites' and a lighter shade of Darth Vader's.
CBS - Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry told the Las Vegas Sun on Friday that singer Steven Tyler left the band after their Abu Dhabi concert.
The mellow music of Barclay Martin never sounded so righteous. Martin, the music director and featured musician for the forthcoming documentary “Zamboanga: Poverty, War, Music,” led a large cast in a powerfully poignant benefit concert Sunday afternoon at Yardley Hall.
The revue that brought rappers Snoop Dogg, Method Man and Redman to the Voodoo Lounge on Friday was called the "Wonderland High School Tour." The promoters should have inserted the word "reunion."
I won't be the first theatergoer to describe Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore as sheer foolishness, but it sums up the 1878 operetta rather well. Director/choreographer William Theisen has ratcheted up the absurd humor of the piece in his crowd-pleasing production for the Lyric Opera, eliciting broad comic performances from a very strong cast.
Listening to songs without understanding their lyrics is like eating in the dark. If you can't see your food, you focus more on other traits, like its aromas and textures.
Musica Nova, the UMKC Conservatory contemporary music ensemble, showed us Saturday night that not only historic composers deserve anniversary celebrations.
Reigning Wagnerian soprano Deborah Voigt presented an impressive array of musical jewels from the repertoire of both opera and art song in her Friday night recital at the Folly Theatre.
Dame Emma Kirkby, an English soprano legendary in early music circles, and Swedish lutenist Jakob Lindberg demonstrated that music can be a gentle and subtle art in a program called “English Orpheus,” performed Friday night in the intimate confines of the Polsky Theatre at the Carlsen Center.
Vanilla, its proponents often insist, is the most popular flavor of ice cream. It may not be exciting, but it's reliably satisfying. Rob Thomas, one of the world's foremost practitioners of pop music, operates under the same principle. Photo by Bill Brownlee/Special to the Star As a solo artist and as the bandleader of Matchbox Twenty, Thomas has been racking up astounding numbers on radio and sales charts since 1996. He treated a capacity audience of about 2,400 to a pleasant performance Thursday at the Midland Theater. Thomas falls squarely in the earnest tradition of American singer-songwriters like Bob Seger,...
LAWRENCE -- With only a rented piano, a microphone and a drum stool (which he sat on only about half the time), Ben FOlds told stories and played songs at Liberty Hall on Monday night as if he were performing for 1,100 of his close friends. Folds typically alternates between full band tours and more intimate solo treks that allow him the freedom to divert from the set list at a moment’s notice —something he took full advantage of as he spontaneously added six more tunes to a career-spanning two-hour and 15-minute set. The opener was “Dog,” a song that...
In “This Is It,” the man who turned the music video into an art form and propelled it into the mainstream stratosphere uses the same medium to eulogize himself. Michael Jackson is the star of the high-gloss documentary, which emphatically answers the question: “What would Jackson’s comeback tour have looked and sounded like?” The answer: something close to a mind-blowing spectacle. The film documents the orchestration of the series of concerts planned for the summer at the O2 Arena in London. It never made it to the live stage because Jackson died in Los Angeles on June 25, weeks before...
Even by the strictest of measures, the Pogues’ concert Sunday at the Midland was a lively and entertaining — though imperfect — show. It also was a once-in-a-lifetime performance, if only because it's highly unlikely the Pogues will come this way again, no matter how long Shane MacGowan remains standing.
The Bottle Rockets are a no-nonsense Midwestern bar band, and they don't pretend to be anything else. Whether they're singing about cars or girls or politics or war or life on the road as a bar band, they take the same basic approach: three chords and an exhaust cloud of country, blues and rock of the Southern/Midwestern vein.
There’s no doubt that Anonymous 4 are the reigning superstars of the medieval sacred music world. That may be a limited market, but they pack a punch. Their concert, presented Saturday night at Visitation Church by the Friends of Chamber Music, was an extraordinary musical event.
It was something of a family affair at Friday night’s concert by the Kansas City Symphony at the Lyric Theatre. Concertmistress Kanako Ito took center stage as soloist in an exciting performance of Mendelssohn’s “Violin Concerto in E Minor.”
Kansas City’s alternative-music and free-speech communities are mourning the death of Anne Winter, longtime music promoter and proprietor of Recycled Sounds, a midtown record shop that closed in 2006.
Bon Jovi will circle back to the Sprint Center, this time on the "Circle World Tour."
If you believe most of what he writes, then when the fire alarm went off in his hotel one day, David Sedaris was really hoping for an actual fire and the chance to rescue a fellow guest because the incident would give him some fresh, interesting memoirs. When you write for a living the way Sedaris does, the brain is always on-call for new material.
