Banjoists Alison Brown and Steve Martin’s first collaborative album, Safe, Sensible and Sane, comes out today on Brown’s Compass Records, but the pair never intended to make a full-fledged album — let ...
When Paul Simon first came to Britain in the mid-1960s, he was still in the early stages of his music career as a songwriter and was in search of inspiration. That’s when he bumped into Martin Carthy, ...
The Grammy-winning banjoists welcome fellow artists including Vince Gill, Indigo Girls, Jackson Browne and more on the new project. By Jessica Nicholson Banjoists Alison Brown and Steve Martin’s first ...
Hayley Williams is taking it back to hard times, or rather, the good old days. The singer surprise-released new R&B-inflected song “Good Ol’ Days” just before taking the stage at Rolling Stone’s ...
You might know Steve Martin as a comedy legend, but he’s also a great musician. He played banjo on some of his early comedy albums, such as A Wild and Crazy Guy, but in recent years, he’s gotten more ...
Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter Apple has been criticised for her foray into music, after performing at a surprise gig. After videos of Friday's show hit social media, an influx of ...
A Song of Ice and Fire has been solidified as a defining work of fiction over the past 27 years. George R.R. Martin’s fantasy book saga ascended into the zeitgeist through an ongoing series of ...
Director Rebecca Miller looks back on spending time on Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York set, years before she profiled the filmmaker in her new documentary Mr. Scorsese "His attitude was not ...
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