Subject: Paul Simon

• Playbill: Matt "The Electrician" Sever

  March 10, 2007

• Get Lit: Making Records: The Scenes Behind the Music, by Phil Ramone

  October 10, 2007

• ACL: Sunny Sweeney Yes, Vampire Weekend No

  September 26, 2008

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Darrell Scott's Modern Hymns

  October 2, 2008

• Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008

  Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen Trapper's fantastic Furr smells more like the Kinks than Neil Young. [Editor's note: That's why we put it on our indie-rock list.] We likewise discarded Shearwater's near-masterpiece Rook, despite the fact that the album

  December 22, 2008

• The Whole Wide World: Ladysmith Black Mambazo's Live! DVD

  Ladysmith Black Mambazo Live! (Heads Up) http://www.mambazo.com Though international audiences did not discover this South African vocal group until it appeared on Paul Simon's landmark 1986 album Graceland, Ladysmith Black Mambazo has been active since the early '60s, when founder Joseph Shabalala started the a capella isicathamiya choir alongside friends and family back in his hometown of Ladysmith. Since hitting the spotlight more than two decades ago, the Grammy-winning group went o

  January 13, 2009

• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inducts Metallica, Run-DMC, Jeff Beck, Wanda Jackson

  Yesterday marked a tremendous day for rappers and thrashers across the world: Metallica and Run-DMC were announced as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's newest inductees, along with Jeff Beck, Wanda Jackson, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Bobby Womack, two members of Elvis Presley's backing band and pianist Spooner Oldham. This will be Beck's second induction into the Hall. The British blues guitarist was first inducted in 1992 with the Yardbirds, where he replaced the departing Eric Clapto

  January 15, 2009

• Ready for Home

  March 16, 1995

• Rotation

  April 13, 1995

• Critic's Choice

  December 7, 1995

• Regular Treat

  January 4, 1996

• Rosa's Photo Corner: "B" and Born Liars in Kodachrome

  Kodak Elite Chrome color slide film a/k/a Kodachrome was spotlighted on today's Engines of Our Ingenuity, and in fact, has been immortalized by Paul Simon in song. The modern professional version of this legendary film is the Kodak Ektachrome brand. Here I am teetering on a ladder, shooting "B" in the very low-light sound studio (pre-Ike anyways) Dead City Sound. Easily my favorite slide film, Ektrachrome 1600 has since been discontinued. Nikon FA, F3.8, pushed twice. I took

  January 26, 2009

• Eyeballin': Paul Simon - Live from Philadelphia

  The early '80s were an interesting time in the career of Paul Simon. The past glories of hits with Simon & Garfunkel - along with his sizable solo charting - were behind. And he had yet to reinvent himself as a world music maven with 1986's fine Graceland. His 1980 album One-Trick Pony had yielded a hit with "Late in the Evening," but the semi-autobiographical film of the same name, in which Simon showcased his acting chops, was widely panned. So this 1980 concert at Philadelphia's Tower Thea

  January 29, 2009

• Something Different

  October 17, 1996

• Lee Way

  January 16, 1997

• Hip to Be Square

  December 4, 1997

• Zydeco's Birthplace

  Hint: It's where you're standing

  September 2, 1999

• Afropop Arrives

  Motherland music hit a fever pitch with U.S. bands this year

  December 11, 2008

• Analyzing Bocephus's "McCain-Palin Tradition"

  Elephant Walk

  October 23, 2008

• Brett Dennen

  July 31, 2008

• Shawn Phillips Is Stranger Than Fiction

  Meet Navy rescuer and true rock and roll Zelig

  March 20, 2008

• Indie Rock Rediscovers the Motherland

  Kinky Afro

  March 6, 2008

• Ladysmith Black Mambazo: Ilembe: Honoring Shaka Zulu

  February 14, 2008

• Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend

  January 31, 2008

• The Girl Next Door, Ford at Fox, Saturday Night Live: The Complete Second Season, The Wire: The Complete Fourth Season

  December 6, 2007

• Lost in Rotation

  Rounding Up Recordings by HPMA Nominees

  July 26, 2007

• Rhymin' Simon

  July 20, 2006

• Sam Yahel Trio

  Truth and Beauty

  July 5, 2007

• porterdavis

  Q&A with Daniel Barrett

  March 29, 2007

• Not Like Monk

  Chris Botti on selling -- and not selling -- jazz

  January 4, 2007

• Lost in Translation

  Would-be Hispanic homeowners find out they don't own as much as they thought they did

  September 7, 2006

• Freestyle Fellowship

  Sometimes awesome live bands also make magic in the studio

  December 8, 2005

• Hidden Treasures

  Introducing some of the best discs you've never heard

  November 17, 2005

• Mellow, Chilled-Out Fellow

  The wonder that is Devin the Dude

  May 19, 2005

• Playbill

  May 27, 2004

• Torn Identity

  Get real art for a hundred bucks at "5x7/Houston"

  September 4, 2003

• A New Tune

  After September 11, some new songs just don't sound the same

  November 8, 2001

• Playbill

  California Guitar Trio with Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto

  August 30, 2001

• People Try to Put Us Down...

  Almost Famous talks about its g-g-generation -- of misguided rock and roll fans

  September 14, 2000

• Grand Pops

  Bob Dylan and Paul Simon tour together

  September 16, 1999

• Rotation

  December 11, 1997

• The Horn of Africa

  April 14, 1994

• Ximena Sariñana

  April 30, 2009

• Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest

  June 11, 2009

• MP3 of the Day: Benjamin Wesley

  Craig HlavatyWe always loved Tha Fucking Transmissions, especially seeing them upstairs at Boondocks, or pumping "Die Mother-Fucka Die" in the car on the way to or from work (depending on the day of the week). When the band's multi-instrumentalist Benjamin Wesley announced he was working on a solo project, though, who was to know just what we would be in store for? Wesley's EP, Geschichte, hit the streets in February, and our personal world has never been the same. Each track seemed to resonate

  July 22, 2009

• Jimmy Webb

  July 30, 2009

• Big Willie Style: The Red Headed Stranger at the Movies

  Honeysuckle Rose This weekend at the Woodlands comes one of the most prolific trios of artists to ever appear on the same bill. Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp converge on the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion for what looks to be one of those landmark shows people brag about catching, kind of like the Dylan/Paul Simon gig out there about a decade ago. Nelson is so ingrained into the state psyche that if we ever decided to make our own musical Mount Rushmore in West Texas, he would b

  July 29, 2009

• Rocks Off's Brother Once Stepped in Human Shit at a U2 Show... Got a Better Astrodome Story?

  Smash Mouth had just finished playing, and not coincidentally, Rocks Off's brother John had just returned from a trip to the bathroom. It was November 1997, and we were watching the stagehands putting the finishing touches on U2's ginormous set in the Astrodome. The Irish rockers were touring behind Pop, an album as underachieving - and also underrated - as No Line on the Horizon, the reason for their October 14 stop next door at Reliant Stadium with Muse. Suddenly Rocks Off caught a whiff of a

  August 7, 2009

• On Its 40th Birthday, the Top 10 Sesame Street Musical Guests

  Sing the blues, Kermit... or greens. We know how you feel. Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Bert and Ernie, Elmo and Grover have something to celebrate. Sesame Street, their fictional New York borough, and the television show probably responsible for everything you knew as a kid, turns 40 today. Created in 1969 from the psychedelic mind of puppeteer Jim Henson (back in the freewheelin' '60s, when puppeteering could actually be a career), Sesame Street is now the longest-running children's television

  November 10, 2009

• Darrell Scott

  November 12, 2009