Producer Colin Bass worked with the Nigerien group Etran Finatawa to create The Sahara Sessions, an album recorded on location about the struggles... In A Desert Encampment, Songs Of A Vanishing Way ...

Billy Gibbons previewed his upcoming solo LP, Hardware, with an atmospheric new song, "Desert High." The ZZ Top frontman conjures a barren, unforgiving landscape throughout the track, intoning about ...

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When you write as many decade-defining songs as Paul McCartney has, you must prepare to answer the same question at least a thousand times: “What’s your favorite song you’ve ever written?” In a later ...

For a hot minute in early January, it seemed as if COVID-19 was going to once again put a hurt on the 10th annual Tucson Desert Song Festival. But on Thursday night, before an audience of about 100 in ...

As a history professor at Palomar College, Rose Darrough had an idea to mix history with live music, so her students might find the information more interesting. “They loved it,” she said. Darrough ...

Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys is one of the most prolific songwriters in American music history. Questlove of the hip-hop group The Roots called Wilson a modern-day Stravinsky, and Leonard Bernstein ...

Economical improv groups are CIMP's stock and trade. Rare are the sessions that employ ensembles larger than quartet size. For this reason critics often complain of a relative homogeneity amongst the ...

The remake of the 1992 animated original hit theaters in May to blockbuster success, pulling in over $1 billion worldwide Ale Russian is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

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