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As usual, Lucinda Williams digs deep

Tuesday, 18 November 2014, 16:25 Last update: about 10 years ago

"Have compassion for everyone you meet," goes the opening line on the new album from Lucinda Williams, who struggles to follow her own counsel on the rest of the two-CD set. More than once, Williams...

Tuneful tunes with touch of twang from Colerick

Monday, 17 November 2014, 16:13 Last update: about 10 years ago

Brad Colerick opens his fourth solo album with the title cut, which reminds us the road does not actually go on forever. Colerick goes on to examine his trip down that road in tuneful tunes with a...

Nabucco revisited

Monday, 17 November 2014, 14:32 Last update: about 10 years ago

Exactly 20 years after their first performance of Verdi's opera Nabucco the Teatru Astra in Gozo presented the opera as part of their annual culture festival Mediterranea. This time round...

Choral and orchestral concert of music by Gounod

Monday, 17 November 2014, 14:27 Last update: about 10 years ago

On Friday, 21 November, the St Paul Choral Society, one of Malta's leading polyphonic choirs, on the occasion of the feast of St Cecilia, patron saint of music, will present a choral and orchestral...

Taylor Swift's '1989' a mature reflection

Sunday, 16 November 2014, 16:11 Last update: about 10 years ago

Taylor Swift's all-out move into pop music on her fifth album, "1989," is the sound of a young artist who has gradually evolved from a teenager obsessed with boys and journal writing into a young...

Little Big Town top-notch on new album

Saturday, 15 November 2014, 16:08 Last update: about 10 years ago

How do the four vocalists of Little Big Town respond to the platinum success of the group's most rewarded album, 2012's "Tornado?" Certainly not by playing it safe. On their sixth album, "Pain...

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