In 1980, Patti LuPone received her 1st Tony Award for best actress inside a musical on her behalf portrayal of Eva Peron, the ambitious, doomed wife of Argentine dictator Juan Peron, in Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Evita. In 2008, LuPone earned her second Tony as Mama Rose, the …

A rigorous brew of jazz, punk, and African components, Melt Yourself Straight down is a sextet featuring saxophonists Pete Wareham and Shabaka Hutchings, drummer Tom Skinner, bassist Ruth Goller, vocalist Kushal Gaya, and percussionist Silk Singh. The group’s sound demonstrates the people’ pedigrees: Wareham and Goller performed in the acclaimed …

Some listeners might think the thing that originates from Iowa is corn, but you can find musicians there aswell. So when they reach discussing their influences–the music artists, not really the corn –the name of Don Archer invariably arises. Archer is definitely a guitarist who produced a huge noise over …