For more than 45 years Ladysmith Black Mambazo have been taking South Africans on a musical journey.
"The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" That's what copper traders must be thinking today, as prices plunged more than 7% amid mounting fears that the global economic slowdown may turn into an outright recession.
The singer performs at the ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of 9/11
Whether evoking loss or hope, music performed Sunday at Manhattan's ground zero served as soothing support for family members still grieving 10 years after the 9/11 attacks.
New Wave rockers The Cars are on the road again, the first time in nearly 25 years. Their mission? To bring their brand of quirky, syncopated pop music to a new generation.
Whoever was working the smoke machine last night at the Music Box in Los Angeles waited until Paul Simon's second encore to turn the thing on.
This has been the first rock & roll decade without revolution, or true revolutionaries, to call its own. The Fifties witnessed nothing less than the birth of the music. The Sixties were rocked by Beatlemania, Motown, Phil Spector, psychedelia and Bob Dylan. The Seventies gave rise to David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, heavy metal, punk and New Wave.
On "The Afterlife," an African-pop-flavored standout from his 12th solo album, Paul Simon describes the wait at the Pearly Gates like it's a trip to traffic court, all long lines, mumbled excuses and jokey asides. (The narrator even tries to pick up a woman while killing time.) But underneath the mischief are serious concerns.
After the BP oil spill left tar balls on the beach and rental properties sitting empty, Gulf Shores, Alabama, is cleaned up and ready for company.
"Just slip out the back, Jack. Make a new plan, Stan. Don't need to be coy, Roy. Just listen to me."
G. Love remakes "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" on his new Avett Brothers-produced album.
Don't look now. But oil prices are getting close to $90 again.
The talk show icon's farewell season premieres with shockers for the audience - and for Ms. O
When writer-actor John Leguizamo shows up to do a show in New York, fans outside the theater are surprised to see him ride up on a bicycle. "People go, 'Hey, John, I thought you'd be in a limo.'
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel are getting their group back together this spring for a reunion tour of Asia and Australia, according to a source close to the group.
At a White House celebration, the First Couple credit the musician for bringing them together
Will.i.am and Martina McBride will be among performers at the White House salute
The most prolific vocalist to come out of South Africa has died.
Legendary South African singer Miriam Makeba, an outspoken critic of apartheid, died late Sunday in southern Italy, a hospital spokesman has told CNN. She was 76.
Overlooked again by the Nobel committee? Fear not: FieldReport.com has a literary contest for you
Josh Rouse is a chameleon. And a busy one, too.
How long have you and I known each other? Well, by my calculations, we go back quite some time. This can mean only one thing: It's time for the monkey story.
Want to get a sense of democracy in action? Just pack your parka and head to Iowa before the caucuses
The shooting death of a member of Edie Brickell & New Bohemians appears to fall under state law permitting deadly force in self-defense, police said Tuesday.
"Rehab," the autobiographical top 10 single by Amy Winehouse, won best contemporary song Thursday at Britain's prestigious Ivor Novello songwriting awards.
The famed Woolworth building was snapped up by developers in 1998 for $150 million. Floors 28 to 59 are slated to go condo.
"This quatrain was a Christmas present from Paul Simon. Gratias. L.B." That note is on a boisterous, booming little trope in Leonard Bernstein's "Mass."
Several recording artists have been added to the list of performers for Friday's cross-network Hurricane Katrina benefit concert, and many more celebrities are adding their money and energy to the cause.
Well, you can say one thing about Rosie O'Donnell: She puts her money where her mouth is. She footed the entire $10 million bill for her recently opened Broadway musical Taboo and voiced her intent...
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What rights do you, as an employee, have to make a totally private phone call or to type a completely confidential message into the computer? Virtually none. The Fourth Amendment bars the governmen...
A constitutional amendment to balance the federal budget was little more than a gleam in the eye of fiscal conservatives a few months ago. Now it's moving through Congress like chicken pox in a kin...
It's time for an addition to the welcome that the Statue of Liberty extends to the world's tired, poor, and huddled masses. The U.S. will now proffer an official special hand to foreign millionaire...
Claiborne Pell? The Senator from Outer Space? He's the most liberal guy in the senior chamber? Surely Dr. Keeping Up jests in averring, in the box on the next page, that Pell's liberalism scores ex...
And now for a bit of brain exercise. Several weeks ago, we were flipping the pages of The Sciences, a high-class magazine published by the New York Academy of Sciences, and came across the followin...
THE ECONOMIC AGENDA of the Democratic Party's presidential nominee is becoming clear. Quick, you say, forget the agenda, what's his name? Sorry, that's still a mystery after 18 primaries. But a clo...
For various technical reasons, this Keeping Up column had to be locked up early, so the fellow currently slumped over the keyboard is somewhat disadvantaged when it comes to interpreting the big vo...
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-- CAROL COX, 45, head of Citizens for a Responsible Federal Budget, on presidential candidate Paul Simon's proposal to cut the deficit through lower unemployment and interest rates: ''I am tempted...
IT'S 8 O'CLOCK on a Wednesday evening and 45 guests have gathered at Geraldine Robertson's waterfront home on St. Simon's Island off Georgia. Dessert is done, and Robertson, who recently gave up th...
Your correspondent claims to have at least tied the record for masochism on September 14. That was the night he sat glumly glued to the TV set, alternating between the Giants getting clobbered by t...
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