MSN Music — Burt Bacharach postpones performances as he recovers from New Year's Eve back surgery more info

Live Daily — On the heels of a recent Grammy nomination, Harry Connick, Jr. [ tickets ] has assembled a run of the East and West Coasts early next year as the crooner continues supporting the recently released "Your Songs." The jazz singer/pianist will spend t... more info

Guardian Music — Bates Mill, HuddersfieldLouis Andriessen claims to have been the first person in the Netherlands ever to own a pair of blue jeans, brought back from America by his brother in the early 1950s. He was certainly the first Dutch composer to combine influ... more info

Guardian Music — He wrote dozens of hits in the 50s and 60sThe American songwriter and producer Luther Dixon, who has died aged 78, was responsible for dozens of pop classics in the 1950s and 60s and helped shape the classic "girl group" sound with the Shirelles. His... more info

NME - The Daily Download — Firaz at NME Radio introduced me to this band, and if this first track he sent over is anything to go by they could be destined for pretty big things. It takes the twisted melodies of Gyratory System and affixes them onto a Bloc Party kind of song st... more info

Live Daily — Wynonna [ tickets ] will continue supporting "Sing: Chapter 1," her first new studio set in six years, with an extended North American tour. The Kentucky-based songstress, who is celebrating her 25th year in country music, has unveiled a slate of ... more info

All About Jazz — Eight LPs to be reissued on four individual CDs with rare bonus tracks. Including such hits as “Hooked on a Feeling,” “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” and “Rock ’n’ Roll Lullaby,” which featur... more info

All About Jazz — Jazz Celebration Big Band returns to the Temperance House in Newtown, PA on Thursday, October 22, from 8-10 p.m. Jazz Celebration is a 17 piece Jazz Orchestra performing the classic repertorie of Count Basie, Buddy Rich, Stan Kenton, Woody Herman,... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Journalists often talk about key years in music; 1967 and the psychedelic 'Summer of Love' springs to mind, or 1977 and the dawn of bile-fuelled Punk.However, my year zero for music was undoubtedly 1994 - and my band, my only band, was Oasis. Up unti... more info

All About Jazz — Spencer Day's appearance on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson is now online. Spencer performed his new single, "Til You Come To Me" from his new album and Concord Jazz debut, (Vagabond). Out now, the new album draws from the 'Great American S... more info