An Italian-American standard turns out to have a convoluted history that belies the simplistic label “folk song.”
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The Italian designer clothing company turns to social networking to market its products on the web. It might be hard to find the perfect fitting pair of Diesel jeans, but their music campaign makes it easy to find great new music, by largely unknown bands. -
A talk with the musicians from the Neapolitan Music Society and with Matilda Cuomo during a wonderful concert in New York City.
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A preliminary night of the Neapolitan Music Society Sunday's concert at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò with Professor Robert Gjerdingen.
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Enrico Rava, Italy's most renowned jazz musician, comes to New York this month for a four-day engagement at Manhattan's Birdland (February 20-23).
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Italy's top female singer-songwriter Carmen Consoli to play concert halls in New York, DC and Boston
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Sardinia, San Francisco, the traditional, the avant-garde: everything finds a home in Luciano Chessa's music.
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A new CD is out there for all those who like Italian music, Zucchero’s All the Best, a 15-song anthology that features old favorites and new tracks. The album achieved platinum sales in Italy within the first two weeks of its release, and is ready to capture the US market as well.
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Mythology was in the air at Vinicio Capossela’s concert a few nights ago. That doesn’t really happen at Webster Hall, location of the fifth edition of Global Fest. Sure many international artists grace its stages but none is like Capossela. Not to belittle anyone, but that’s the way it is
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Alessandro Carrera (born in Lodi, Italy) is a major authority on Bob Dylan. He has translated Dylan’s songs and autobiography into Italian and in 2001 he published a passionate essay called La voce di Bob Dylan (Bob Dylan’s Voice).Some of his more recent Dylan essays are collected in a book that accompanies the Italian DVD release of “I’m Not There,” Todd Haynes’ cinematic analysis of the Bob Dylan phenomenon...
