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‘It’s dark in the US right now. But I turn on a light, you know?’: Mavis Staples on Prince, Martin Luther King and her 75-year singing career

As she releases a new album, the soul and gospel legend answers your questions on Stax Records, duetting with David Byrne, and the fight for civil rights

The Guardian - UK

Post your questions for Mavis Staples

As the 86-year-old music legend prepares to release a new album, she will take on your questions

The Guardian - UK

Marc Maron's 'WTF' podcast ends soon. Here's a look at 7 essential episodes

The final episode of comic and actor Marc Maron's influential podcast drops Monday

The Independent UK

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"Being in this band is like home. I enjoy being a Doobie Brother": 50 years down the tracks, the Doobie Brothers remain friends - even when they argue

With vocalist Michael McDonald on board again and a new album, the Doobie Brothers still have what it takes

Louder

PP Arnold on her star-studded life in music: ‘Peter Gabriel and I used to hang upside down in gravity boots’

After singing with everyone from Tina Turner to the Small Faces, she takes your questions on her Glastonbury plans, life as an Ikette and getting a leg up from Mick Jagger

The Guardian - UK

Mavis Staples' gospel of resistance

Protecting democracy requires many soldiers in "the army of love”

Salon

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now

Including Larkin Poe, Ricky Warwick, the Doobie Brothers and five other rockin' rebels, rampagers and rioters

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Kennedy Center Honors Celebrates Artistic Icons And Legends

Annual Kennedy Center Honors to celebrate Coppola, Grateful Dead, Sandoval, Raitt, and The Apollo with personalized tributes and surprise performances.

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Things to do in Chicago Sept. 21-27: The Mix

The Hyde Park Jazz Festival, the World Music Festival and Lyric Opera’s “The Flying Dutchman” are among the highlights in the week ahead.

Chicago Sun-Times

Hozier on solitude, relationships and his new album: ‘I think everyone goes through their version of hell’

The Irish artist is releasing his long-awaited third record ‘Unreal Unearth’, which was inspired by Dante’s Inferno. He speaks to Roisin O’Connor about being a hermit, ‘the drug’ of co-writing songs for the first time, and writing his way out of heartbreak

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5 Southern California artists making their Coachella debut this year

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers made her debut at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2022 and yes, she was wonderful both in the music she made and the excitement she displayed.

Evening Standard

Women who rock: as a new Sky documentary launches, we look at its pick of music’s female pioneers

Ahead of Sky’s new documentary about female artists, we take a look at those, from Nancy Wilson to Chaka Khan, who made waves on and off-stage

Chicago Sun-Times

Things to do in Chicago Feb. 2-8: The Mix

Lyric Opera’s world premiere of “The Factotum,” the return of Pilobolus, and Mavis Staples in concert are among the week’s entertainment highlights.

The Guardian - UK

Monsters of doc: Mark Kermode’s top 20 music documentaries

For our festival-averse film critic, movies about concerts and musicians are essential viewing – and he believes we are living through a golden age for the form

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Karla Peterson: From sly sitcoms to music-nerd podcasts, a big pop-culture thanks for a cornucopia of entertainment treats

In this season of eating, drinking and socializing, it is easy to give abundance a bad name. But when it comes to our entertainment, I am on Team Always Room for More.

Bangkok Post

House of the rising Son

Son House is regarded as one of the greats of early blues, along with early recording stars like Charley Patton and Robert Johnson. He made 78rpm records in the 1930s but a spell in penitentiary halted his career and by the 1940s he had abandoned recording. It wasn't until 1964…

Newcastle Herald

Bluesfest adds fresh blood in first line-up announce for 2023

Old favourites and new sounds are on the line-up in 2023, for the expected first real return to the international class fans have come to expect at Bluesfest. Among the 41 acts announced today are Bonnie Raitt, Buddy Guy, Beth Hart, Jackson Browne, Jason Isbell, Steve Earle, Robert Glasper, Elvis…

Chicago Sun-Times

Bonnie Raitt looks to the uplifting stories when writing songs in a trying time

Classic hits and new compositions will be part of the crossover artist’s Ravinia concert — as will old friend Mavis Staples.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chris Stapleton brings the thunder to Wrigley Field, even if Mother Nature doesn’t

After a storm threat moves up his set and wipes out two opening acts, country rebel deliver a wide-encompassing set of Southern rock songwriting swagger with a guitar-shredding rock sensibility.

Chicago Sun-Times

This week in history: Mavis Staples plays the Vic

The Chicago native, born July 10, 1939, found early success as a gospel singer in her family’s band. So what was a gospel singer doing playing the Vic?

The Independent UK

'I can’t be the only one': Docuseries on 'Women Who Rock'

A deep dive into rock ‘n’ roll’s female pioneers like Chaka Khan, Pat Benatar, Mavis Staples and Shania Twain forms the backbone of the fascinating, four-part docuseries “Women Who Rock.”

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