On a balmy autumn night in 2021 at Lincoln Center, Lido Pimienta made history as the first woman of color to compose for the New York City Ballet. The classical piece she created for the occasion, Lux Aeterna, scored a collaboration between the Colombian-Canadian singer and choreographer Andrea Miller called sky to hold. A year […]
Most people would probably die of embarrassment if their family photos leaked out into the world. But not the Schaldas. When Bill and his three sons Will, Paul, and Carmine—AKA the Sha La Das—finish recording one of their soulful doo-wop singles or albums, they purposely choose a glossy relic from the family albums for the […]
In the world of emo and punk, fans and musicians are often separated by six degrees of Denny’s bacon. If it’s not popping up together in a corner booth at 3:00 a.m. to nosh after a show, then it’s bands bringing the concert to America’s favorite diner. So it should’ve come as no surprise that […]
Lucinda Williams has known strange times before these. When she thinks back to her days as a teenage antiwar activist in late-1960s New Orleans, she remembers the first songs that helped her feel connected and sane during another period of societal unrest: the old spiritual “We Shall Overcome” and Bob Dylan’s “Masters of War.” Now […]