Yusuf Islam

Bill Callahan & Bonnie "Prince" Billy cover Yusuf/Cat Stevens' "Blackness of the Night"

The cover of Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ 1967 protest song also features fellow Drag City artist AZITA.

NPR's Bob Boilen wrote book 'Your Song Changed My Life,' hosting release event in NYC with Sturgill Simpson

NPR’s All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk Concerts host and unflagging show-goer Bob Boilen has a new book coming out, titled Your Song Changed My Life, where he talks with 35 musicians about the music that inspired them. Artists interviewed for the book include Jimmy Page, St. Vincent, Jónsi of Sigur Rós, Justin Vernon, Cat Power, David Byrne, Dave Grohl, […]

Damien Rice, Syl Johnson, Angel Olsen, Bob Mould +more tix

Tickets to see Damien Rice at the Athenaeum Theatre go on sale today (9/19) at 10AM CST. Tickets to see The Atlas Moth at Beat Kitchen are on sale now…

Cat Stevens / Yusuf releasing new LP, playing Chicago Theatre on winter tour (dates, song stream)

Recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, has announced that he’ll be releasing his new album Tell ‘Em I’m Gone on October 27 via Legacy Recordings…

Cat Stevens/Yusuf announces new album & tour (dates)

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Cat Stevens (or Yusuf) is releasing a new album, Tell ‘Em I’m Gone, on October 27 which includes five originals and five covers including one of Edgar Winter’s “Dying to Live” which you can stream (via Rolling Stone) below…

Yusuf Islam (Cat Steven)'s invite-only May 3rd NYC show is cancelled or postponed due to visa/paperwork issues

As Reuters blogged…Yusuf Islam, the British folk singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, has largely shunned the pop-music grind since he converted to Islam in the 1977 and devoted his life to his family and his faith…