Mo Farah blitzed to a new world record in the rarely-run one-hour event on his return to the track on Friday at an empty Brussels stadium that also saw Sifan Hassan set a new best in the women’s equivalent race.Three years after having opted for road running, Farah showed no sign of cobwebs as he…
Bob Garcia, former director of artist relations at A&M Records and West Coast president of the Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, died of natural causes at his home in Tujunga, Calif. on April 26. It was a week before his 82nd birthday. After serving in the U.S. Army in the mid-1960s, Garcia moved to…
Nashville fiddler-singer Lillie Mae released a new single “You’ve Got Other Girls for That” accompanied by a striking video. The musician also detailed her new solo LP, out August 16th via Third Man Records. “Well I ain’t your baby,” Mae sings at the beginning of the track, transfixed in a deadpan, defiant stare. “Even though…
Musicians young and old drop a lot of heavy-duty jazz wisdom throughout Beyond the Notes, a new documentary about Blue Note Records that features commentary from the label’s Sixties stars such as Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter and new-school trailblazers like Robert Glasper and Ambrose Akinmusire. But the film’s single most eloquent statement might come…
