Musicians

The Current13:00Turning deep space data into musicMusic can often transport you to another time and place. But now a Montreal composer is bringing listeners far out into the cosmos with a piece of music created from NASA's data on the Milky…

Tamara Lindeman, the Canadian singer-songwriter behind alternative band The Weather Station, has plans to revisit her musical eras this year: she and her bandmates will hold a three-night residency at Toronto's The Great Hall in December,…

On 9 September 2023, the performance will take place at the venerable Theatre of Struggle, the Market Theatre in Newtown Johannesburg.…

I’ve always dreamed of seeing a genuine honest-to-God UFO. Like Fox Mulder of The X-Files, I really want to believe there’s something Out There in the maybe two trillion galaxies in the observable universe. My grandparents lived just…

With the debut of Coke Studio Bharat & Coke Studio Tamil in India this year, Coke Studio, a music platform with diverse musical genres in numerous languages, continues to celebrate brilliant & up-and-coming musicians. Coke Studio…

The death of Sinéad O'Connor has left her admirers — including many fellow artists — mourning the sudden loss of a musical icon. News of the Irish singer's death spread on Wednesday, after her family released a statement. O'Connor was 56…

Few musicians have the extraordinary talents to touch our hearts and stir our souls in the magical realm of music, where every note tells stories of feelings and moments. Hariharan, is illustriously someone who has crossed bounds and…

In a small room in the back of a bar in Brooklyn, Jack Grace leads his band through a group of songs about love and hangovers. Lyrics include the line, "What I drink and who I meet at the track is my business."The room is mostly red,…

It's showcase season in Toronto, when up-and-coming musicians gather in the city for a chance to take their careers to the next level.Canadian Music Week (CMW) wraps up today, welcoming hundreds of home-grown artists. And starting Tuesday,…

A labor union representing musicians is challenging David Byrne’s next Broadway show, “Here Lies Love,” saying it opposes plans to stage the production with recorded instrumental tracks instead of a live band.The musical — an immersive,…