The first Tiny Desk Concert came about in 2008 after Boilen and NPR Music editor Stephen Thompson left a gig at the bar in frustration because they couldn't hear the music over the crowd noise. Thompson joked that the musician, folk singer Laura Gibson, should perform at Boilen's desk. A[…]
Al Jarreau talks about the healing power of laughter. He explains how, despite his poor health, he battles and sometimes overcomes his illness with the positive energy of laughter and music.
Pink Floyd is a symphonic rock band from England that released a classic in late 1979 with "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)." Pink Floyd is primarily an "album band." No fewer than ten albums reached the top 10. The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) is one of the best-selling albums[…]
American R&B and jazz singer Al Jarreau died Sunday at the age of 76. The news was announced on the artist's website. Jarreau won seven Grammys during his fifty-year career and was best known in the Netherlands for the song "Roof Garden." The singer was hospitalized last week in Los Angeles[…]
Listen to the 'Back to Black' album On a blustery December evening in 2006, Amy Winehouse flew to a remote corner of southwest Ireland to perform for Other Voices, an acclaimed Irish television music series filmed each winter in Dingle. Amy took to the stage at St. James's Church (capacity[…]
Today it was cold, very cold. Lies and I were in town to do some shopping. Lies also wanted to buy a book; she loves books. Yes, that's where you have to turn the page yourself, analog. What she has for books, I have for vinyl. While waiting in the bookstore[…]
