Hit singer-songwriter Jewel is going full-circle on the tour for her most recent album, “Picking up the Pieces,” which was conceived as a bookend to her wildly successful 1995 debut album “Pieces of You.” For the latest album, Jewel returned to her folk and country roots.
Matmos is taking its new music for a spin, literally.
The electronic music and conceptual art duo, which consists of gay couple M.C. (Martin) Schmidt and Drew Daniel, recently released “Ultimate Care II,” which was made using and manipulating the sounds generated by the Whirlpool washing machine in the basement of their home.
It’s no secret that David Bowie loved Philadelphia.
He saw some of his earliest live-performance successes as the androgynous, gender-bending, bisexual, glam-rock hero Ziggy Stardust at Upper Darby’s Tower Theater in 1972 and ‘73; he made himself a fixture at other local clubs such as Artemis. A year later, as a Diamond Dog, he would return to Upper Darby shorn (mostly) of the glitter for the rough-edged concert recording of “David Live.” Several months after his time in Darby, he would return again, only this time for sessions at North 12th Street’s Sigma Sound Studio for the plastic soul of “Young Americans.”
Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus is ready for its close-up when it performs “Lights, Camera, Sing!,” a series of performances featuring songs from famous and cult-favorite Hollywood classics, March 17-19 at Prince Theater.
After achieving commercial success and aesthetic respect as one of jazz’s towering figures, Duke Ellington often spoke about never speaking about “jazz” again: After 1947, he refused to use that musical-genre tag because, he said, it segregated him and anyone else who made America’s classical music from pure expression.
