As music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Heyward is the youngest to lead a major American orchestra and the first Black music director in the organization’s 107-year history.
The beloved Australian rock band makes a rare appearance at Atlanta's Chastain Park Amphitheater on Aug.30, featuring singer Neil Finn, his musician sons Liam and Elroy, bassist Nick Seymour and keyboardist Mitchell Froom. The group released a new album, Gravity Stairs, earlier this year. GPB's Kristi York Wooten spoke with the band ahead of its long-awaited return to Georgia.
"If I have to define my music in any way," Nick Cave says, "it's religious music." His new album is a gallery of encounters with spiritual, possibly divine figures, not all of whom are benevolent.
The quartet known for its country and Southern gospel recordings — and its 1982 hit "Elvira" — headlines at the Anderson Music Hall in Hiawassee, Ga., on Aug. 23. Oak Ridge Boys bass singer Richard Sterban talked with GPB about his career with the group and singing background vocals with Elvis Presley, Paul Simon and others.
As a kid, the former Alabama Shakes singer/guitarist was told repeatedly she didn't look like a lead singer. "It made me sing ... louder and perform just as hard as I could," Howard says.
The principal conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra radiates an empathetic, Yoda-like wisdom when it comes to conjuring beautiful sounds from both pros and students.
Saxophonist Joey Berkley lost his ability to play due to the muscular disorder focal dystonia, but experimental treatment has given him enough flexibility to record a comeback album titled A Suite Life.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers will be joined by the legendary Steve Miller Band on their summer stadium July 13 at the home of the Atlanta Braves. Journey guitarist Neal Schon and Def Leppard guitarist Phill Collen talked with GPB's Kristi York Wooten about their bands' history and which songs they hope will be the biggest singalongs.
The versatile singer, who emphasizes self-acceptance, says his mission is to be a bridge from the classical community to pop, jazz and R & B. And if you’re not a fan, that’s okay.
In a new interview, Questlove reveals why Drake vs. Kendrick was so triggering, how he regained his passion for hip-hop and what to expect from the new Roots album.
Amid the members' many high-profile pursuits, including collaborations with Nick Cave and Cat Power, the Australian trio returns to the ecstatic and deafening music of Dirty Three.
Jack Antonoff has seemingly cracked the code for producing hit albums, winning Grammys for his work with artists like Lana Del Rey and Taylor Swift. But for his own writing, he leans into the unknown.
