A Chat With Reality Star Eddie Money
Add Eddie Money to the long list of rockers, from Ozzy Osbourne to Bret Michaels and Joe Jonas, to open their homes to reality TV crews. His new series "Real…
Jason Isbell Headlines Folk Benefit
As the prevailing king and queen of Americana, it’s more likely you’ll see Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires amphitheaters or headlining big summer festivals. It’s rare to see them together…
I’m With Her at the 9:30 Club
They blushed and smiled as if they couldn’t believe it. Their debut had come out less than a month before, yet here they were playing all these new songs before…
Survey of American Music in Drag
The Kennedy Center kicked off its multidisciplinary contemporary cultural assault with something thought to embody the approach, Taylor Mac's “A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (1776-2016).” Had the cabaret history…
Noel Gallagher’s Birds ‘n’ Beatles
Much as he wants to get away from it, the Beatles thing continues to dog Noel Gallagher, long after his band Oasis has broken up. Of course, that group got…
When Sir Tim Rice Wrote for Elvis
I had Sir Tim Rice on the line the other day, to discuss the restaging of "Chess," which he created with two members of Abba. It premieres at the Kennedy…
First Aid Kit Come Fighting
The strongest anthem for the #MeToo movement was written and released by a couple of Swedish sisters in their mid-20s, months before Harvey Weinstein revelations in the New York Times…
Two of The Posies at The Hamilton
For a band celebrating its 30th anniversary of making music, The Posies initial tour of 2018 is pretty austere, features only founding singer songwriters Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow on…
American Ballet Theatre’s ‘Whipped Cream’
It must be galling for many ballet companies that their very operation is dependent on extended holiday performances of “The Nutcracker” year after year. Why can’t there be some other…
Nas Takes ‘Illmatic’ to the Kennedy Center
Putting an orchestral score to hip hop tracks is the kind of gimmick you’d see as a one shot thing at the Grammys — staged more for the visual impact…