New York Post — The Christians drummer Lionel Duke suffered a medical emergency on stage at a Liverpool music festival. more info

Stereogum — Yesterday (June 22), Sting returned to Liverpool for the first time since 1979 with a headlining performance at On The Waterfront. However, the former Police frontman had to begin his set at Pier Head by acknowledging a horrific incident: A member... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — This week: A smattering of holiday offerings, some cabaret, and the Taper has the West Coast premiere of a new drama set at a mega-church. Cabrillo's 2015 Holiday Family Celebration! Cabrillo Music Theatre's annual holiday variety show. Scherr Forum,... more info

The Late Greats — Every Good Friday for the last ten years, I have been cooking for the “Pagan Open” golf outing. Far from the biker gang nor heathens, mostly they are a bunch accountants blowing off some tax-time steam. The golf outing is an excuse to dru... more info

A Deeper Shade of Soul — It goes without saying that gospel music is a fundamental building block of soul. Some of soul’s most iconic artists – Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin and Al Green – sang gospel, were raised in it, or left secular music to go back to... more info

Altsounds — Roger Hodgson - The Voice & Composer of Supertramp. The Acoustic Festival of Britain will be Rogers' only UK appearance in 2009 During the time that Roger led the band Supertramp, they sold well over 60 million albums and became a worldwide rock phen... more info