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Jeff Tweedy drops his latest masterpiece this week, securing Wilco's standing at the forefront of 21st-century rock and roll.

Rob Thomas was inspired by Paul Simon's The Rhythm of the Saints for this record and infused his own pop rock styling into the project.

Well, it's official. They finally took Paul Simon's Kodachrome away. And everybody else's, too.

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Brooklyn-based indie breakouts Grizzly Bear were last in Austin for South by Southwest, when they played a showcase at the Central Presbyterian Church.

THERE are few more dramatic moments in pop music than the climax to Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water.

Albert Mazibuko still can't quite believe his luck. It was 40 years ago that Joseph Shabalala, his cousin, turned up unannounced at Mazibuko's house one day in the South African township of Ladysmith and explained that he'd had a dream, that together they could take the tribal isicathamiya sounds they had grown up listening to, and singing, to the ...

Back from a busy weekend in Auckland. Simon & Garfunkel played. Twice. And I went to both shows.

STILL MAGIC: Simon and Garfunkel, pictured in a 2004 performance, opened their Australasian tour in Auckland with a spine-tingling show.

One Monday afternoon in early March, MSNBC cut to a live shot inside the Capitol, where House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stood before a row of media cameras and introduced "a real hero for the people of New Orleans and a real model for the country." It was Brad Pitt, who was there to pitch, promote and lobby for efforts to rebuild the Lower Ninth Ward of ...

Jay Ashby is one of the city's best musical resources. The trombonist and percussionist is busy and creative in many ways.

Since there's been so much talk in the news lately about the Tonight Show, I wanted to share a few pictures from my experience at the Tonight Show in January of 2006.

1968 - The Beatles began work on their White Album . 1972 - Roxy Music played their first big prominent gig at England's Great Western Express Festival.

It was interesting watching who came along to the Johnny Clegg show in Melbourne last night.

Irwin Redlener, center, stands with Paul Simon, who co-founded the Children's Health Fund with him, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to talk about kids' health insurance March 11.

The morning we drove to O'Hare to meet Vasco after his 30-plus-hour journey from Malawi to Chicago, my husband and I turned on the car stereo and hit play on the CD in the six-disc changer.

More than 7 million people under age 18 have no health insurance, says the National Center for Health Statistics.

The show begins at 10:00 p.m., with a $10 cover charge. Hailing from Cape Town, South Africa, Tony Cedras is a sought after session player who has toured the world as part of the Graceland show band, and before that as a member of the Amandla cultural ensemble.

Pianist, writer, producer and arranger Allen Toussaint can justifiably be called a living legend.

In May of 2007 the Library of Congress gathered an unprecedented group of musicians together in Washington, D.C., to honor Paul Simon as the first recipient of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.