Sharon Jones

Wilco‘s annual festival Solid Sound returns this year from June 26-28 at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA, and the 2015 lineup has been announced…

As discussed, Michael Dorf’s annual charity tribute concert at Carnegie Hall (3/23) honors Talking Heads / David Byrne this year, and since we last spoke, more artists have been ann…

Sharon Jones had an amazing 2014 that included being nominated for a Grammy at the age of 59 and beating cancer! She and the Dap Kings performed on Conan, Ellen, Jimmy Fallon, KCRW, Jay Leno, CBS This Morning, Jimmy Kimmel, and the Queen Latifah Show…

Brooklyn’s Daptone record label, the soul outfit whose ear for talent and eye for period-correct detail has put it in the forefront of a revivalist wave, had few choices when it came to recording its first live-in-concert label showcase…

This year, the 2015 Grammy nominations are being revealed gradually on CBS This Morning. A few categories have already been announced, with a lot more on the way, and we’ll have to wait for tonight’s A Very Grammy Christmas special to find out the Album of the Year nominees…

Rough Trade NYC on Record Store Day 2014 (more by Amanda Hatfield) As they usually are, Rough Trade Shops are one of the first this year to post their favorite albums of 2014 l…

The Daptone label is throwing a three-day holiday party called the Super Soul Revue at NYC’s The Apollo on December 4,5 & 6 with Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings and Charles Bradley playing all three nights…

After weeks of will-he-or-won’t-he speculation, enigmatic R&B recluse D’Angelo made good on his promise to headline the 2014 Afropunk festival in Brooklyn on Sunday night…

Jones waltzed through her catalog with tight vocal technique, annunciation and grit on her fast paced jams and sweet flow on her ballads. She covered Gladys Knight and humorously imitated Tina Turner…

Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings @ Beacon Theater in February (more by PSquared) The free Lowdown Hudson Blues Festival is back in 2014, happening July 16 & 17 at Waterfront Plaza at Brookfield Place in downtown NYC. Lineup…