The Austin City Limits Music Festival is an annual music festival that takes place at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas. The festival features more than 130 bands on eight stages for three days.
COLDPLAY Founder members, Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland started the band under the name Pectorals whilst studying together in London during the mid 1990s. Now one of the biggest bands in the world, and with a string of hit singles under their belt In 2014 Coldplay released their sixth album titled Ghost Stories. Journalist reveal the rise to fame of Coldplay.
Southern Rock was a marriage of historical, cultural, and musical forces. It was a reflection of the values and culture of the American South. It was mix of Rock and Roll, with Blues, Country, Boogie-woogie, fast-paced guitars. Lyrics really talk about a celebration of maybe a slower way of living, and family values, but also, the excesses of young adults in the Southern States. All of these bands were really good musicians, Boogie Rock and Roll, versed in the Blues, versed in Rock and Roll, but expressing the reality of their lives.Stories about the South, about the hopes and dreams of average working-class men and women. The first Rock and Rollers, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Bo Diddley they were almost all Southerners, and they came from the Black Southern tradition of Gospel, of Blues, and that mutated into the original Rock and Roll.
Country Music's roots are found in the mountains of Appalachia. The people who lived in the mountains had come from Western Europe they had brought their Celtic music with them they had brought their English ballads with them too. But when they migrated from the mountains, when they went down into Tennessee, then they took their music with them. In the Great Depression of the 1930s, there were huge communities of displaced people. A lot of people travelling to places like Nashville, to Georgia, to the cities, and of course, across to California. And they were facing grinding poverty, facing being uprooted from their homeland, and from family members. So the radio very often became the connection to the old world. Radio programmers realised that there was an audience for these genres of music, which reminded people of home. They started putting on these barn dance shows, where musicians would come and play live. People would tune in and listen to that music that reminded them of where they had come from.
American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actor and arranger, whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock, blues, soul, R&B, funk, jazz, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, pop, folk and ballads. In addition to singing lead and backing vocals, Kravitz often plays all the guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, and percussion himself when recording. He won the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance four years in a row from 1999 to 2002, breaking the record for most wins in that category as well as setting the record for most consecutive wins in one category by a male.
Diana Ross & Supremes- America's most successful female vocal group of all time was formed by four Detroit schoolgirls in the late 50s. Diana Ross (26 March 1944, Detroit, Michigan, USA), Betty McGlown (b. 1943, Detroit, Michigan, USA), Florence Ballard (b. 30 June 1943, Rosetta, Mississippi, USA, d. 22 February 1976, Detroit, Michigan, USA) and Mary Wilson (b. 6 March 1944, Greenville, Mississippi, USA) named themselves the Primettes in tribute to the local male group, the Primes - who themselves found fame in the 60s as the Temptations.
Spector wrote, co-wrote, or produced records for a wide broad range of major artists. He often employed what would become known as "the Wrecking Crew" as his de facto house band while collaborating with arranger Jack Nitzsche, engineer Larry Levine, and various Brill Building songwriters. He is considered the first auteur for the unprecedented freedom and control he had over every phase of the recording process and helped engender the idea of the studio as an instrument, the integration of pop art aesthetics into music and the art rock genre. With The Righteous Brothers, The Ronettes and The Shirelles
A genre of rhythm and blues music originated in the 1940s by African American youth, in the large cities of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, and Washington, DC. It features vocal group harmony, with an engaging melodic line to a simple beat with little or no instrumentation. Lyrics are simple, usually about love, sung by a lead vocal over background vocals of repeated nonsense syllables. Gaining popularity in the 1950s, Doo-Wop enjoyed its peak successes in the early 1960s, but continued to influence performers in other genres. With The Drifters, The Cleftones & The Ink Spots
Known as the voice of soul music, Otis Redding died in a plane crash at 26 years old. His song "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay" hit No. 1 in 1968. Leading music critics cast fresh light on the career of Otis Redding.
Hailed as Britain's "best ever pop singer" by Rolling Stone, the English-born Dusty Springfield charted several 1960s hits, including "Son of a Preacher Man." Leading music critics cast fresh light on the career of Dusty Springfield.
Red Hot Chili Peppers after the return of John Frusciante, who has come to Japan for the first time in 16 years in 2023!
Lenny Kravitz has been consolidated as one of the stars that has been in force for a long time, this has led him to appear all over the world and be part of the most popular festivals in the world. This is how on September 26, 2014 he was invited to participate in one of the UK's most popular festivals, the iTunes Festival, giving his audience a great concert at the Roundhouse of London.
The Lumineers bring energetic American folk-rock to the picturesque Musilac Festival. You won't be able to resist clapping along and stomping your feet to the band's raw sound and enchanting music.
Caught in the Act is the second live album released by Canadian jazz crooner Michael Bublé. It was filmed and recorded at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles. The filmed concert was aired on PBS as an episode of Great Performances, and the show was subsequently released on DVD along with the audio CD to create the album package, although the audio disc only featured eight of the songs from the concert. The concert featured a few guest artists, including Laura Pausini, Chris Botti, and with an unexpected comedic banter with Bublé, Josh Groban.
Filmed at Roundhouse, London, this concert film will give all fans a spectacular Live experience from start to finish. Britney Spears performs her hits including "Baby One More Time", "Oops! I Did It Again", "Toxic" and many more.
Lenny Kravitz has been consolidated as one of the stars that has been in force for a long time, this has led him to appear all over the world and be part of the most popular festivals in the world. This is how on September 26, 2014 he was invited to participate in one of the UK's most popular festivals, the iTunes Festival, giving his audience a great concert at the Roundhouse of London.
ITunes Festival, is an annual music festival that takes place over a month in London. Sponsored by Apple Inc., it had its first edition in 2007
Lenny Kravitz has been consolidated as one of the stars that has been in force for a long time, this has led him to appear all over the world and be part of the most popular festivals in the world. This is how on September 26, 2014 he was invited to participate in one of the UK's most popular festivals, the iTunes Festival, giving his audience a great concert at the Roundhouse of London.
Featuring live concert footage from Hawaii in 1973, alongside the first hand reflections of those who knew and worked with The King personally, including musicians Bill Baiz, Larry Strickland and Ronnie Tutt from Elvis's band, Joe Guercio Elvis's musical director, Loanne Parker the Colonel's secretary, road manager Joe Esposito and Sam Thompson Elvis's bodyguard from 1972-1977.
Filmed at Roundhouse, London, this concert film will give all fans a spectacular Live experience from start to finish. Beck performs his hits including "Loser", "Wave", "Debra" and many more.