A documentary covering the life and work of Alabama's most singular musician will have a national debut next year.

Yo La Tengo opened their annual Hanukkah run at New York’s Bowery Ballroom last night. A beloved tradition dating back to the ...

Hanukkah began Sunday night, therefore so did one of the world’s greatest holiday traditions, Yo La Tengo’s annual ...

For the all-covers encore, Yo La Tengo took on Richard Hell’s “The Kid With the Replaceable Head,” Blue Oyster Cult’s “This ...

Sun Ra ArkestraMimi Ohio Theatre Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland, OH June 27, 2025 When is a band not a ghost band? It is a question posed by a Cleveland jazz media figure after a performance by the Sun Ra ...

The Sun Ra Arkestra, the musical collective founded in Chicago in the mid-fifties, moved out of the Lower East Side in 1968, and wound up in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, on a very ...

Danny Ray Thompson, longtime baritone saxophone player and flutist of cosmic jazz ensemble Sun Ra Arkestra, has died. According to The New York Times and a post on the band’s website, Thompson died on ...

Sun Ra Arkestra, the pioneering jazz collective founded by the late Sun Ra, have announced their first studio album in over 20 years — since 1999’s Song for the Sun. The LP, whose title has yet to be ...

Sun Ra was a big-band innovator, a pioneer of recording and playing with electronics, a poet, a cosmic philosopher, a bandleader and a keyboard innovator who claimed to be from Saturn. Herman Poole ...

He came from Saturn, on a mission to spread peace through the power of music — or so Sun Ra claimed. "I'm really not a man, you see. I'm an angel," the legendary bandleader said in an interview in the ...

The outlandish persona Sun Ra created and maintained for himself over the years may sometimes distract from the adventurous intent of the music he made. Yet it is testament to his vigorous loyalty to ...