Many years ago, Devendra Banhart slept nightly on a mattress in a dumpster in New York City. It was during a bedbug scare, when his neighbors had thrown their beds away, and Banhart was a homeless teenage busker, finding busboy jobs to finish customers’ uneaten food.
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Salif Keita, legendary ‘Golden Voice of Africa,’ set for rare San Diego concert
African music legend Salif Keita has collaborated with everyone from Weather Report co-founder Joe Zawinul to Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid. African music legend Salif Keita has collaborated with everyone from Weather Report co-founder Joe Zawinul to Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid.
Alex Turner stars in new studio video from Alexandra Savior
“We were desperate for an upbeat song and indulging in our single lives,” Savior told NME of their work together on the track ‘Shades ‘. “It was just us three, a wizard engineer by the name of Michael Harris, and occasionally bassist Zach Dawes.
Get Your Clicking Fingers Ready, Tickets Go on Sale Feb. 17 for Sturgill Simpson Show
The tour includes a stop at Verizon Theatre in September as well as dates in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Portland and Austin. In 2014 Simpson sold out two shows on the same night at Club Dada, then last May he packed out Bomb Factory, a venue which is 10 times bigger.
Get Your Clicking Fingers Ready, Tickets Go on Sale Feb. 17 for Sturgill Simpson Show
The tour includes a stop at Verizon Theatre in September as well as dates in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Portland and Austin. In 2014 Simpson sold out two shows on the same night at Club Dada, then last May he packed out Bomb Factory, a venue which is 10 times bigger.
Reactions to the death of superstar singer George Michael
In this Sept. 9, 2012 file photo, British singer George Michael performs at a concert to raise money for the AIDS charity Sidaction, during the Symphonica tour at Palais Garnier Opera house in Paris, France.
George Mitchel at the Commitent to Life Aids benefit concert on Jan….
George Michael, the English singer-songwriter who shot to stardom as a teen idol in the 1980s as half of the pop duo Wham! and went on to become one of the era’s biggest pop solo artists with hits such as “Faith” and “I Want Your Sex,” died over the Christmas holiday, The Associated Press has confirmed. He was 53. Michael, whose career was marred by a 1998 arrest for engaging in a lewd act in a Beverly Hills park restroom, died peacefully at home, his publicist said.
Caroline Kennedy leaves Japan after 3 years as US ambassador
In this Feb. 12, 2014, file photo, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy, left, shakes hands with Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima after she handed a copy of visa application form of her father President John F. Kennedy, which was issued when he visited Japan, at Okinawa Prefectural Government in Naha, Okinawa.