music

“Begin Again” features music industry and people

July 17, 2014

Starring Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, and several products of Apple, Inc. It's about producing and distributing music without the overhead costs or help of the traditional industry.

“Pleasures of Being Out of Step”: Nat Hentoff, music, politics

July 16, 2014 By Ed Rampell

Even if its subject is unconventional, "Step" is conventionally crafted, including archival footage and photos, as well as original interviews .

“We Are the Best!”: Little anarchists start a band

July 16, 2014

Clearly, "We Are the Best!" is a remembrance of someone's 1982 life on the cusp of womanhood.

Cirque Du Soleil’s The Beatles LOVE Show

July 15, 2014 By Ed Rampell

Once the show begins, "somebody calls you... A girl with kaleidoscope eyes," into a production that's more an evocation of the Beatles, their music and philosophy, than a chronological narrative.

Today in labor history: Blues legend Big Bill Broonzy born

June 26, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Lee Conley Bradley, who became known as Big Bill Broonzy, was born on June 26 in 1893, as he later said, or possibly in 1905 as family records suggest.