Paul Simon News

Just the other night, a tidbit in the New Yorker about Harper Simon 's self-titled debut caught my eye - mainly because the album was recorded with American Studios session alums Gene Chrisman and Mike Leech .

The Library of Congress is awarding Paul McCartney its third Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

TED Prize winner Karen Armstrong just released her Charter for Compassion. Here it is, read by a perfectly representative demographic cross-section of humanity.

Remember the 1975 smash hit 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover by Paul Simon from his album Still Crazy After All These Years? Written after Simon's divorce from first wife Peggy Harper, the song is a mistress' humorous advice to a husband on ways to end a relationship: "Just slip out the back, Jack/Make a new plan, Stan." Well, if there were 50 Ways to ...

Harper Simon will perform tonight at The Andy Warhol Museum. Coming of age in the Lollapalooza era of the late '80s and early '90s, Harper Simon wasn't inclined to make music in the vein of his famous father -- you know, the literate little guy who used to sing with Garfunkel.

The Woodlands , a wife and husband indie folk-pop duo, craft songs of lyrical poetry, lush melody and intelligent simplicity.

Let's start this with a disclaimer: Any person willing to potentially hang himself out to dry by running for political office deserves a measure of respect from the populace for doing so, no matter how good or bad a candidate that person might actually be.

The New York quartet Vampire Weekend went from obscurity to pop music’s hottest new thing in less than two years In the spring of 2007, four Columbia University graduates decided to self-produce an album full of Congolese and early Paul Simon influences, and a mere months later saw themselves receiving Radiohead levels of ubiquity in the ...

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Paul Simon, right, and Art Garfunkel perform during the 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert at Madison Square Garden in New York, Thursday.

Peter Gabriel's first album in seven years is a Bob Ezrin-produced orchestral covers collection called Scratch My Back .

Harper Simon may be his father's child, but he's no child. Simon, the oldest son of Paul Simon, was the subject of songs like "St. Judy's Comet" . He sang with his father on "Sesame Street," in 1976.

Having suffered more than 15 years of false starts, failures and musical disappointments, singer-songwriter Harper Simon admits he has hardly charted the ideal path to pop stardom like his father, Paul Simon.

A DRUNK yob broke into a tour bus belonging to Paul Simon's famous backing band - then drove off as crew slept inside.

Good morning. Today is the 286th day of the year. It is the birth anniversary of comedian Lenny Bruce, originally Leonard Alfred Schneider .

Albums 1968 The Graduate 1968 Wednesday Morning 3AM 1968 Bookends Compilations Solo Albums 1972 Paul Simon 1986 Graceland 2000 You're the One 2006 Surprise >> More Official Paul Simon Web site American singer-songwriter who brought a highbrow sensibility to rock music.

Singer-songwriter Paul Simon has worked most of his career as a solo artist and yet, despite his many individual accomplishments, may always be best remembered for his collaboration with Art Garfunkel.

There's no denying it: African music is trendy right now. But where most artists get their jangly Congolese guitars and Ghanaian polyrhythms by way of Paul Simon's "Graceland" , L.A.-based singer-bassist-lyricist Luke Top and guitarist Lewis Pesacov dig a little deeper, finding inspiration in artists like Ethiopian singer Mahmoud Ahmed and ...

If you're anything like me, you've probably come close to wearing out your copy of Vampire Weekend's 2008 self-titled debut.