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Through his work, Hal Willner showed us a sometimes hidden, but always-needs-to-be-revealed fact, that we contain multitudes. People of all stripes dig music of all stripes.

Featuring nearly 400 works, including costumes, photographs, films, personal objects, paintings and sculptures, the exhibition explores Sarah Bernhardt's illustrious life and career.

Ecstatic Peace Library shares a chapter from Ignacio Juliàs new compendium on the US art-rock group, in which Lou Reed discusses his 2003 album The Raven

St. Ann's Warehouse, responding to extraordinary demand for tickets, has announced a three-week extension of Monsoon Wedding, the Musical, Mira Nair's live theatrical adaptation of her landmark film. The new production, featuring actors and theater-makers from India and the global Indian diaspora, welcomes audiences inside the lavish wedding plans and frenzied leadup to an arranged marriage beset by modern tensions. Preview performances begin at the Brooklyn waterfront theater on May 6.

GRAMMY® Award-Winner and 6x-GRAMMY® Nominated Jazz Guitarist & Composer BILL FRISELL is a 12x-Downbeat Magazine Critics Poll "Guitarist of the Year" as well...

Musician and writer John Kruth met with Allen Ginsberg two months before the great poet’s death. He was there ostensibly to talk about Rahsaan Roland Kirk while researching a book on the jazz musician. But in going through old files, Kruth found the never-published interview transcript and realized it contained some real gems of wisdom and honesty. Facing imminent death, Ginsberg did not hold anything back. Kruth shares the transcript for the first time with PKM.

Lou Reed New York Reissue Announced, news, music news, Ireland

The actor turned novelist on creating authentic working-class characters, swapping Dublin for New York aged 16, and why sewing is like writing

The singer-songwriter transformed his later life practising the martial art, as this compilation of writing, edited by his widow Laurie Anderson, shows

Jazz quartet Sexmob and producer Scotty Hard announced a new collaborative album The Hard Way and shared the single "Banacek" featuring John Medeski.