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South Arts, a nonprofit regional arts organization, awarded $2 million in grants in October to support jazz musicians through its Jazz Road…

Tim Butler of the Psychedelic Furs talks to PopMatters about the band's first new album in nearly 30 years, COVID-19 delaying their tour, and a hopeful future.

Exit Plan June 21, 2021 Exit Plan (left to right): Brian Sandstrom, Tyler Damon, Steve Marquette, Mars Williams. Saxophonist Mars Williams has toured or recorded with a dizzying array of modern jazz and rock artists, along with leading many ensembles of his own (including the Grammy-nominated Liquid Soul). Exit Plan is a recently formed quartet with an improvisatory focus including Williams and other players from the Chicago free jazz world — drummer Tyler Damon, guitarist Steve Marquette and bassist/multi-instrumentalist Brian Sandstrom. Hear what they are up to at this BlueStem Jazz co...

Multicom will release Linda G. Mills' narrative feature film THE REST OF US nationwide on May 6 to coincide with Mental Health Awareness Month. Directed by Dr. Linda G. Mills, artist, author, scholar and Executive Director of NYU's Center on Violence and Recovery, THE REST OF US chronicles student resilience in the face of a mental health crisis on the campus of Blair University. Set in the Fall of 2001, a diverse group of college students spring into action when confronted by the reality of a suicide. The film follows Amy (Amanda Debraux), an introverted engineering student whose resistance,...

Tim Daisy; Matt Piet at the Hungry Brain pre-COVID Photos by Marek Lazarski and Morgan Ciesielski The COVID-19 pandemic has put tens of millions of Americans out of work, but even considering that bleak landscape, musicians have been hit especially hard—most of their jobs only barely exist now, and the infrastructure that might allow them to return someday is in danger of collapsing. Festivals have been canceled, larger concert halls closed, and smaller clubs...