Mary J Blige Stronger With Each Tear Matriarch/Geffen [Three and a half stars] Alicia Keys The Element of Freedom MBK/J [Three stars]
India’s biggest disco export to the West is back now, with an autobiography, a novel and a new live band
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NY-based Indian singer songwriter Sami Rahman, works with iconic production team on debut album
It’s a great time for live music in India. Clubs, pubs and other performance spaces are mushrooming like, well”¦ ’shrooms on a Kodaikanal hillside. There are more places to play these days than there’s ever ...
By Michael Lang With Holly George-Warren Ecco
He was, in the end, precisely what he claimed and struggled to be: the biggest star in the world. If there had been any doubt, it ended on the afternoon of June 25, 2009, when ...
Frail, deep in debt and addicted to drugs, he was consumed by a single dream: to blow people’s minds with the greatest concerts ever. Inside the comeback that almost was