Harper Simon, perhaps our favorite scion of songwriting royalty, will hit the road with The Polyphonic Spree to promote his latest album, Division Street. You can pick up tickets here. Watch the new video for Division Street‘s”99″ over yonder, and check out Simon’s tour dates below. Also, don’t miss our recent feature story, Haper Simon’s [...]

This article appears in our March/April issue. Subscribe here. While it may be en vogue to embrace your country roots, Harper Simon, for his second album Division Street, decided to ditch Americana and crank up the volume. Stream Division Street “I grew up in New York listening to more countercultural kinds of records,” says Simon, [...]

With Fat Tuedsay upon us, it only makes sense to look at one of pop music’s finest evocations of that celebration in New Orleans. Paul Simon’s “Take Me To The Mardi Gras,” found on his outstanding 1973 album There Goes Rhymin’ Simon, sounds like typical Simon for much of the song, all gentle acoustic guitars [...]

  An incredible treasure trove of Bob Dylan photos recently surfaced online. Here’s some of our favorite shots of Dylan with other famous musicians, taken over a period of 40 years.  

Comedian and banjo enthusiast Steve Martin has teamed with singer-songwriter Edie Brickell (“What I Am,” “Circle”) for Love Has Come For You, an album of co-written songs. The new disc, due April 23 on Rounder Records, was produced by Peter Asher (James Taylor, Elvis Costello). It features instrumental assistance from The Steep Canyon Rangers, who Martin [...]

In Judd Appatow’s new romantic comedy This Is 40, Paul Rudd’s character compares his relationship with his wife to Simon and Garfunkel, telling her, “You’ve made me Garfunkel!” “I don’t even know what that means!,” she replies. Tonight, Paul Simon posted the following message on his Facebook page: Art Garfunkel has yet to comment.

The Civil Wars’ Joy Williams announced in a Twitter interview with Alison Sudol of A Fine Frenzy that she was “in the studio right now, listening to new Civil Wars songs.”  This comes after the hard-touring, Grammy-winning Americana duo cancelled their remaining European tour dates over “internal discord and irreconcilable differences of ambition,” sparking speculation [...]

Following his critically acclaimed self-titled debut, Harper Simon, son of Paul Simon, is set to release his follow up record, Division Street, on March 26th of next year. Simon co-produced Division Streetwith Tom Rothrock, who has produced albums for the likes of Elliot Smith and Beck. Division Street is reportedly a departure for Simon. It [...]

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Paul Simon Live In New York City (Concord Music Group) Rating: 4 stars At the age of 70, Paul Simon can still hold an audience spellbound until late in the evening. With a multi-cultural, multi-talented and a multi-rhythmic band behind him, the songwriting legend does exactly that at this special club gig at New York [...]

Veteran singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega took a novel approach to her back catalog with her self-released Close Up album series, re-recording stripped-down versions of her songs and grouping them by theme (Love Songs, People and Places, States of Being). The latest, Songs Of Family, just hit stores. We asked Vega about her approach to her craft, [...]

July/August “On My Deathbed” winner Brian Blackman reveals his prize picks. From Matthew Ryan to Townes Van Zandt, read Brian’s blog post below on the picks that helped him win the 00-DB Jeff Tweedy Martin guitar. And enter the current “On My Deathbed” contest for your chance to win a HD-28E Retro Martin Guitar. Souvenirs [...]