Oct 29th, 2009 · A former stage actress, Speace broke onto the scene with her critically acclaimed album Songs for Bright Street. She wrote the darker, more personal songs on her latest record, The Killer in Me, at a cabin in the mountains of New York.
Sep 23rd, 2009 · The Oklahoma-raised Crain writes with evocative imagery and sings with an impassioned, hushed delivery. With her backing band the Midnight Shivers, she performs songs from her debut full-length release, Songs in the Night.
Jun 24th, 2009 · With three acclaimed recordings and a recent U.S. debut, the fresh-voiced British choral group has clearly arrived on the early music scene. Stile Antico's latest CD, Song of Songs, explores some of the 16th-century's most sensuous settings of Biblical texts.
Jun 24th, 2009 · Hear the members of the young choral group Stile Antico make their U.S. debut at the Boston Early Music Festival. They sing music from their new CD, Song of Songs, featuring surprisingly passionate poetry from the Bible.
Jun 13th, 2009 · Eighteen-year-old Sarah Jarosz emerged on the bluegrass scene as a prodigal mandolinist, banjo player and guitarist — and recently, a singer-songwriter. In between math classes, she's managed to cut her debut album, Song Up In Her Head.
Apr 15th, 2009 · Iranian filmmakers are among world cinema's finest, yet only one has ever been in the running for an Oscar — Majid Majidi, whose new movie Song of Sparrows is now in cinemas.
Feb 25th, 2009 · Edna St. Vincent Millay, an American lyrical poet and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, is the inspiration for Caroline Weeks' debut solo album, Songs For Edna. Struck by the beautiful imagery in Millay's poems, Weeks found that the music flowed freely when she picked up a guitar.
Dec 18th, 2008 · Composer and multi-instrumentalist Erran Baron Cohen (brother of comic actor Sacha Baron Cohen) has a new collection: Songs In The Key Of Hanukkah. He remixes, updates and expands the music associated with the "Festival of Lights."