Simon & Garfunkel News

THE "folkhouse." Any book written about the Baguio I grew up in would be remiss without a piece about this bastion of 70s Baguio culture, which - quite frankly - is not even a proper word, i.e., found in a decent dictionary of the English language.

ArtsQuest's Musikfest Cafe has added blues guitarist Popa Chubby, "Classic Albums Live - The Beatles," "The Music of Simon & Garfunkel performed by AJ Swearingen & Jonathan Beedle," "Big Shot - The Ultimate Billy Joel Experience" and Bethlehem-based rockers Billy Bauer Band to its summer lineup.

The Wrecking Crew was a famed Los Angeles collective of studio musicians who backed everyone from Simon & Garfunkel to the Beach Boys in the 1960s, and the Carpenters to the Captain & Tennille in the 1970s.

WHITE FANG, COLLEEN GREEN, HEAVY HAWAII, COMASERFS Shooting pleasure levels rocket-high, Colleen Green's new album Sock It to Me dips sparkly mall pop in thick layers of guitar crunch, resulting in something like deep-fried ice cream - crispy, sweet, messy, and both hot and totally cool.

Pune-based band Acoustrix will be performing at Olive Bistro today. Known for their regular tributes to The Beatles, the band will perform songs from the '60s and '70s. The band has, in the past,covered songs of bands such as Crdence Clearwater Revival, The Everly Bros, The Eagles, Elvis Presley, Cliff Richard and Simon and Garfunkel among others.

Having been compared to the likes of Nick Drake, Simon and Garfunkel and Elliott Smith, Iron and Wine's Sam Beam is one of today's greatest folk songwriters, crafting tales full of hopeless love and dreams of longing.

Whether you began on an electric or an acoustic guitar, there's no doubt the latter will eventually find its way into your hands at some point.

The Simon and Garfunkel Songbook introduces the acoustic guitar talents of Hugo Kleinhans, along with John Dickin on percussion, Devon van Rooyen on drums, Andre Strydom on bass and Khanya Matomela on keyboards.

The Swiss consume the most chocolate per capita then any other nation. In Switzerland, people eat an average of 22 pounds of chocolate per person per year.

As the twosome becomes the first duo to send its first two singles to No.1 on the Hot 100, a look back at the chart starts of other popular pairs.

Imagine Dragons grew up listening to alternative and classic rock, which definitely comes through in their pop-rock sound.

Jonathan Beedle, left, and A.J. Swearingen honored Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel when they performed a retrospective of their hits Saturday at Century II.

"Parsley, sage, rosemary , and thyme" figured into the song lyrics for the Simon and Garfunkel hit "Scarborough Fair." These herbs deserve a place in your garden, too, whether you have a plot of earth or a container in a sunny spot outside.

Cy Musiker and David Wiegand scout the Bay Area for things to do this coming weekend and turn up skateboards, bottlerock, and much more! May 3 - 5, 2013 SF Jazz Center Certain things just go together.

They played old guitars into specialty microphones, dressed like they were going to a funeral and teased each other mercilessly between Simon and Garfunkel-esque tunes this is the stage schtick of California duo The Milk Carton Kids .

Tickets also are available in person an hour before performances. Singer/songwriter's Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel's ballads propelled them to stardom in the 1960s.

Karen Pery doesn't consider herself a jazz fan. Yet for each of the past four years, she's spent $3,000 and flown nearly 4,000 miles round trip to attend the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, which runs through May 5 this year.

Indeed it's high time for everyone to remember famous author Ayn Rand quote "Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth". The height of hippie and flower-child culture in the United States, 1970 brought the death of Jimi Hendrix, the ... (more)

THE MILK CARTON KIDS This is not the sound of silence - it is the sound of Simon and Garfunkel swapping songs with Don and Phil Everly.

Karen Pery doesn't consider herself a jazz fan. Yet for each of the past four years, she's spent $3,000 and flown nearly 4,000 miles roundtrip to attend the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.