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07/07/2008

One huge effort
LOS ANGELES OK, so cut Peter Gabriel some slack for taking too long to finish an album: Big Blue Ball, a long-simmering world music project he launched back in 1991, that finally surfaced last week.

07/06/2008

SoundSession takes it from the top today
Providence’s annual SoundSession Festival kicks off today, treating Rhode Island music fans to a week of performances in many different kinds of music, from hip-hop and jazz to Brazilian and funk — and more. Much of the festival is held outdoors, and much of it is free — including most of the biggest names.

Gadar Thor Cortes breaks the ice: European singing sensation to make his American debut at the 2008 Newport music festival
You’d think Mark Malkovich could go out for dinner and not think about the Newport Music Festival, the annual chamber music marathon he has presided over for the past 33 years. But there he was last fall at the home of friends, when he heard a stunning CD in the background

Now you can attend last year’s festival on DVD
If you missed last year’s Newport Music Festival, not to worry. Acorn Media has just released a set of 10 DVDs featuring many of the best concerts from the 2007 season, along with commentary from festival director Mark Malkovich.

SoundSession takes it from the top today
Providence’s annual SoundSession Festival kicks off today, treating Rhode Island music fans to a week of performances in many different kinds of music, from hip-hop and jazz to Brazilian and funk — and more. Much of the festival is held outdoors, and much of it is free — including most of the biggest names.

07/03/2008

Rocker Elton John’s Red Piano to visit R.I.
You can hear Elton John sing and play piano in Middletown this month. But you won’t see him.

Cancer changed everything for Etheridge
Melissa Etheridge has been laying it on the line for decades now. Her no-nonsense, rock-inspired musical approach and full-throated vocal delivery have always been grounded in a direct, personal songwriting focus, and she’s only intensified that in recent years.

07/01/2008

Concert review: Al Green and Gladys Knight do right by the classics of ‘70s soul
LEDYARD, Conn. — The eternal dichotomy of soul music — red clay vs. sequins — was on display Sunday nightat the MGM Grand Theatre at the Foxwoods Casino as Al Green and Gladys Knight put some of the classics of ‘70s soul on stage.

06/28/2008

Audience will be key to enforcing Truth in Music
The Truth in Music Advertising Act, a bill that seeks to ensure that musical groups using a famous name are connected to the people who contributed to that legend, passed the General Assembly last week as part of the last-minute crush of bills that typifies the end of the legislative year.

06/30/2008

Coldplay not cool, but hot
LOS ANGELES Chris Martin was on the floor working out the knots. As his handlers hovered, the usually affable Coldplay singer stretched out on the carpet in a dim and airless room backstage at the Jimmy Kimmel show. It was hours before show time and the singer’s muscles were tight and his expression sour. Finally, he looked up with pleading eyes. “Can we escape? Let’s go somewhere else. Maybe some place with trees? I have a car and a driver … ”

06/29/2008

Live, on-stage, it’s the ’80s again!
They have been examined in minute detail on VH1 Classic, spoofed in pop culture, and hailed as influences on a wide swath of the current generation of music-makers. Some even made it all the way to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And, like the ghouls from Poltergeist II, they’re back.

Al Green lays down his Al Green-est album ever
NEW ORLEANS — Al Green is 62 now, but it’s easy to envision what the good reverend looked like as a child. When he smiles that familiar high-wattage grin, his remarkably unlined face lights up like a kid who has just heard the ice cream truck jingle from around the corner.

06/26/2008

The wandering life suits Murali Coryell’s fresh musical style
Murali Coryell knows that the lot of today’s blues and R&B player is to tour constantly, building a live audience and selling CDs from the stage in between sets. He also knows that that’s harder than ever in the days of higher air fares and ridiculous gas prices.

New Kids to hit Dunk Nov. 6
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Woonsocket baritone to perform in Lincoln Sunday
For a guy who grew up listening to Jethro Tull and AC/DC, Nick Laroche has undergone a radical change in his musical tastes. The 23-year-old baritone spent his college years singing Baroque music and is now working on a graduate degree in opera at McGill University, in Montreal.

06/25/2008

Learning to like The Dave Matthews Band
MANSFIELD, Mass. — Either I’ve learned how to listen to The Dave Matthews Band, or they had a really good night last night at the Comcast Center. Probably both.

New Kids will hit the Dunk on Nov. 6
www.ticketmaster.com.

06/24/2008

Teen hoping to find her voice in Ireland
Cranston’s Hannah Devine is off to Ireland in a search of musical inspiration and, perhaps, stardom.

Bonoff remembers Carlin as ‘amazing human being’
George Carlin performed in Rhode Island roughly a dozen times, both at the old Warwick Musical Theatre and at the Providence Performing Arts Center, starting in the early 1970s and running through 2007. Larry Bonoff and his father, Buster, booked those performances, and yesterday Larry Bonoff remembered Carlin as “an amazing human being.”

06/23/2008

It’s no wonder he’s a star
MANSFIELD, Mass. — Stevie Wonder may have sold too many records the first time around to have the kind of rags-to-riches comeback that has come to soul stars such as Al Green and Bettye LaVette, but last night’s show at the Comcast Center proved that while two decades of sporadic and middling albums may have dimmed Wonder’s pop star, he’s still got the goods to make his case for the pantheon.

06/22/2008

Guitarist Tim Reynolds is back on tour with Dave Matthews Band
Relaxing on a plush couch backstage after a concert with Dave Matthews Band, guitarist Tim Reynolds was tired. A half-hour before, he was playing a fiery cover of Neil Young’s “Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)” and DMB’s own “Tripping Billies” as the band’s lead guitarist during a spirited encore in front of over 20,000 fans at the Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden, N.J. Now, the seats were empty and DMB’s crew was packing up equipment for the night.

06/19/2008

Free concerts are in season
Free outdoor concerts bring musicians and listeners together in unusual ways. Musicians who spend a lot of time in dark bars play in the sunshine for people too young to get into nightclubs or too old to bother with them; audiences are willing to take a chance on a band they’ve never heard of because the price is right.

Tab Benoit returns to Chan’s tonight
Since 1992, Tab Benoit has put out 15 albums of blues and roots-rock music with the sound of his native Louisiana. Not the silky, urban sounds of piano players such as Professor Longhair or Dr. John; more like the gutbucket rural sound of the outlying areas. And people have noticed: He’s been named Contemporary Blues Male Performer of the Year by The Blues Foundation two years in a row and been nominated for a Grammy Award.

Poet, composer, refugee at URI
As a little girl living in Romania, Niña Cassian played Bach on the piano. But her teacher told her that her hands were too small for a concert career. Instead, she found her voice in poetry and composing music.

Westerly puts on the pops for free
For an event that wasn’t supposed to be anything more than a one-shot deal, Westerly’s annual summer pops has turned out to be a sure-fire tradition.

06/14/2008

Veteran rockers R.E.M. mixed old with new in lively set list
MANSFIELD, Mass. — Bands who haven’t been around as long as R.E.M. are getting judged on whether they’ve “still got” what they had all those years ago, whereas it seems an inept question in R.E.M.’s case — particularly after they tore through the speedy “Living Well Is the Best Revenge,” from this year’s Accelerate album, to open their show last night at the Comcast Center.

06/16/2008

A new album helped Alanis Morissette ease her heartbreak
Alanis Morissette has felt heartbreak before, as anyone who’s listened to her ripped-from-life songs knows. But last year’s split with her fiance, actor Ryan Reynolds, turned out to be the big one.

06/15/2008

Music: Critics’ darling Jackie Greene is rocking on the edge of fame, with a new album and a gig with the Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh
There’s a song on Jackie Greene’s new album, Giving Up the Ghost, that sounds like an outright dismissal of the first commandment of rock ’n’ roll — that music can change the world.