Elvis Costello News

ELVIS Costello is in Boston being a dad. His twin two-year-old sons Dexter and Frank are in the next room, "dismantling the furniture", while their father takes time out to discuss, among many topics, his new country-roots album, his emergence as a chat-show host and his imminent arrival in Australia for a solo tour.

Posted on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 04:16 PM In May, digital television network ichannel presents a series of documentaries, analyzing various facets of Canadian military and diplomatic culture.

At her summer house, Mother deals with her three adult children and their problems in the best, old-fashioned WASP manner, by considering herself first and foremost.

Nikki Yanofsky plans to spend part of the summer working on her next studio album.

It's charming to meet a star who's starstruck. She may have sold 14 million albums but an intimate evening to honour Stevie Wonder at the White House hosted by the First Couple was almost too much for Diana Krall.

A subdued Diana Krall held forth on Tuesday at Carnegie Hall , where she gave the first of two concerts on consecutive nights with a 41-piece orchestra, augmented by a jazz trio .

Elvis Costello has been taking a this-year's-genre approach to album making in recent years, darting from the art songs of "North" to the Southern soul of "The Delivery Man" to this folk-and-bluegrass tinged, all-acoustic affair.

What The Hell Happened To... 06.22.09: Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Blood & Chocolate Posted by C.A. Bell on 06.22.2009 Who would ever be brave enough to try and fill Marsicano's shoes? I'll be your Huckleberry.... So, you thought you could just get rid of it, didn't you? After two years of loyal reading, you thought you could just wash your ...

True aim, even sans glasses. Quick: What do Loretta Lynn, The Velvet Underground, The Grateful Dead and the Anthology of American Folk Music have in common? Sunday night in Cary, Elvis Costello gave them all the cover treatment during a 30-song tour de force with his new all-star bluegrass string band, the Sugarcanes.

I grew up watching "The Porter Wagoner Show" on TV during dinner, and I would take the soundtrack of "O Brother Where Are Thou?" over the entire library of music that has come out of Nashville in the last 20 years.

On a roof terrace overlooking Manhattan, an awning flaps lazily in the breeze. The man sitting underneath it is wearing sunglasses, as well he might given that a) the afternoon sun is unforgiving, even in the shade, and b) he is a rock star.

One of the singer's earliest comic cameos came in the mid-1980s, when he played a deaf A&R man in the Adrian Edmondson/Jennifer Saunders/Dawn French sketch show The Comic Strip Presents .

In his thirty-odd years of making music, Elvis Costello has tried on many sonic hats.

Loyal Cream readers already know that Elvis Costello will play The Ryman on Tuesday, June 16 .

I walked on lower Church Street, past the stage-door entrance to the Flynn Center, on my way into the office this afternoon and wondered as I passed two tractor-trailers and a tour bus why a vocalist/pianist like Diana Krall needed that much of a posse for her and her three band members.

Elvis Costello offers his answer to Dylan's " Nashville Skyline" on his latest CD.

Our review of Diana Krall: Live In Rio , published June 6th, 2009, is also available.

Iggy Pop Preliminaires Astralwerks/EMI Recorded over just three days in a Nashville, Tenn.

New York City, May 2009: Jann Klose's album REVERIE is continuing to build momentum.

In this CD cover image released by Hear Music, the latest by Elvis Costello, "Secret, Profane & Sugarcane," is shown.