Josephine Baker Reborn

Opening tomorrow at the Alexander Kasser Theatre in Montclair is "Looking for Josephine." The Jazz performance is based on an African-American  artist who fled the U.S. for Europe during the decades of Jim...

Rav Itzchak Marmorstein performing Rav Kook’s Mystical Poetry

This is a wonderful interview with my dear friend Itzchak Marmorstein. Canadian/Israeli that has devoted his life to exploring the mystical writing and poetry of Rabbi Avraam Izchak HaCohen Kook. The music is just...

Yo-Yo Ma and Perlman pre-recorded music on Inauguration Day

Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Gabriella Montero and Anthony McGill played a lovely original song for new President Barack Obama on his Inauguration Day, however it has now been revealed that what most of the people...

Celebrating Women

He was taught by his mother from an early age to always ask: "What is the right thing to do, and what is the smart thing to do?" when facing a difficult situation. A senior man today, he has all the reason to celebrate women of the world. On another end is a mother, a woman...

Instrumental: the musicians behind Lake Ontario Waterkeeper

In our first show of the new year, Mark and Krystyn look at the artists that have helped Lake Ontario Waterkeeper speak to the people on environmental issues.  From artists who have lent their music to our...

Berlin, two Men hit Golf car to make music, composer Christian von Richthofen

Musician, christian von RichthofenListen to the Golf car music video smashing doors create the rythm " Two German musicians and a secondhand car have become the must-see performance in Berlin. The men were...

Four People Killed In Jet Crash

I just found this story about the Blink 182 drummer and another musician getting injured in that recent airplane accident.  I was unaware that 4 people were killed.  There was a loud noise.  I wonder if it was terrorists?"Four people were recently killed in a...

Canadian Voters unite behind 'Anyone But Harper' campaign

Stephen Harper is not so popular with the new media crowd.  In fact the fear of his party becoming the majority has spawned the development of movement online.    Those behind the Anyone but...

Pink Floyd Receives Polar Prize from King of Sweden

Not to be confused with Canada's Polaris Music Prize, seminal laser-light rock band Pink Floyd have received the prestigious and well-paying Polar Music Prize in Stockholm, Sweden "for their 'monumental...

Sheryl Crow, Dave Matthews Perform at DNC

The DNC got off to a rock & roll'y start on Sunday night as rockers Sheryl Crow, Dave Matthews, and Jennifer Nettles performed at Red Rocks Amphitheater outside Denver. Follow NowPublic's coverage of the...

'Hustle & Flow' Director Creates New Web Series

Craig Brewer, the director of Hustle & Flow, is set to take on the internet with a new pseudo-doc, web-only music series that will focus on the lives of "real-life local musicians" in Memphis, Tennessee. $5...

I Am Become Death: Atomic Bomb Dropped 8/6/1945

"Am Become Death: Atomic Bomb Dropped 8/6/1945 Posted on 06 August 2008 by Kevin Today in history, on this day August 6, 1945, U.S. bomber, the Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima...

The Roots, Broken Social Scene Play Whistler Music Festival

There's more to alpine mecca Whistler than just year-round outdoor sports and packed ski slopes, there are increasing opportunities to see incredible live music. This weekend the inaugural Whistler Music Festival...

One Thousand Hear Change of Note in World's Longest Concert

At least it wouldn't be hard to learn to play this composition--unlike the boogie woogie and classical that I love to play!" More than 1,000 music-lovers showed up on Saturday, July 5, in a German town to hear a change of note in the longest-running and slowest piece of music...

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