David Axelrod

Anne L. Kaplan, Joffrey Board Chair, and Greg Cameron, President and CEO of The Joffrey Ballet, are pleased to announce the appointment of Nichelle Hughley Mayberry and Sarah Wills to the Joffrey Board of Directors, effective immediately, for the 2022–2025 term; and the appointment of Zachary Lazar and Maureen Dwyer Smith as Joffrey Life Directors, effective immediately. 

The spare, cascading vocals accentuate the lush instrumental orchestrations composed, performed, arranged and produced by multi-instrumentalist Seth Applebaum, whose latest brainchild was conceived and conceptualized during The Great Pause of 2020, a time of tension, bewilderment and isolation.

This fall, the Chicago Humanities Festival is bringing some of the biggest names in film, politics, music, literature, and activism to stages across Chicago for entertaining, inspiring, and provocative conversations addressing the theme of “PUBLIC” and how we are all re-imagining our public lives.

This September, Chicago Humanities Festival kicks off fall with a month-long celebration of the arts through a series of experiential events featuring famed Chicago artists, acts, and locations.

Seattle Jazz collective High Pulp are sharing “Kamishinjo” today, a new track featuring Jacob Mann on keyboards. Later this week High Pulp will begin a run of West coast tour dates that will reach Portland, Seattle, Phoenix, Los Angeles in more. Then in April the band will hit the road with Jared Mattson of the Mattson 2 for over month of shows.

OBAMA: IN PURSUIT OF A MORE PERFECT UNION is directed by Emmy® winner Peter Kunhardt (HBO’s “True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight For Equality,” “John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls”, “King in the Wilderness”).

Today the Grammy-nominated Austin duo Black Pumas release their Spotify Holiday Single, a cover of the legendary R&B artist Lou Rawls’ 1967 track “Christmas Will Really Be Christmas.”

Jazz Dispensary, the branch of Craft Recordings that answers to a higher power, is thrilled to announce a partnership with Vinyl Me, Please

Craft Recordings announces its exciting line-up of exclusive titles for Record Store Day’s tenth annual Black Friday event, taking place at independent record stores across the country on Friday, November 27th.

Ali Shaheed Muhammad (A Tribe Called Quest) and Adrian Younge--the pair behind the unforgettable score for the Netflix series Marvel's Luke Cage--have announced an extensive North American fall tour for their acclaimed 10-piece ensemble, The Midnight Hour, featuring very special collaborative opening sets from the group's incredibly talented vocalists Loren Oden and Angela Muñoz, and guitarist Jack Waterson. The Midnight Hour is Black Excellence: an ode to the cultural sophistication that the Harlem Renaissance established for its people. Performing with their jazz rhythm section and an orchestral section reminiscent of maestros such as David Axelrod and Quincy Jones, The Midnight Hour is sophisticated hip hop.

Today, The Midnight Hour--thetight rhythm section and full orchestra lead by Ali Shaheed Muhammad (A Tribe Called Quest) and Adrian Younge--released a new live recording of their celebrated 2018 self-titled debut album. The Midnight Hour: Live at Linear Labs features 15-tracks recorded live in front of an intimate audience at Younge's Highland Park, CA studio, Linear Labs. They will kick off their European tour this Sunday, April 21 in the U.K. 

David Lynch is announced as the latest instructor for MasterClass in 2019. The Twin Peaks Director joins fellow Instructors Natalie Portman, Jodie Foster, Timbaland, and Neil Gaiman slated to launch classes in early 2019.

 MasterClass, the online education company that enables anyone to learn from the best in the world, announced today that Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mira Nair will offer her first ever online class exclusively through its platform. In her new class on independent filmmaking, Nair will share her methods for directing powerful performances, maximizing budgets, and bringing authentic stories to life. Nair's class is now available at www.masterclass.com/mn. Enrollment for the class is $90 for lifetime access, or $180 per year for the All-Access Pass, which grants unlimited access to all new and existing classes.

Fans of the legendary David Axelrod will have something to be thankful for on Record Store Day Black Friday! Now-Again will release Axelrod's Earth Rot album and Get On Down will be releasing Axelrod's Pride concept LP. Both albums saw David Axelrod finding a musical partnership with his son, Michael, and show the span of Axelrod's musicianship from jazz to psychedelic pop. His spectrum of sounds have been famously sampled by the likes of  Dr Dre, Snoop Dog, DJ Shadow, A Tribe Called Quest, Schoolboy Q, Wu-Tang Clan, Mac Miller, Lil Wayne, Eminem, Earl Sweatshirt, Common an many more. 

Actor and comedian Jim Carrey joins Bill and his guests – David Axelrod, Michelle Goldberg, and former Rep. Charlie Dent – on the Real Time panel.

Get all the scoop on Upcoming Guests on REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER, airing on HBO today, September 7, 2018!

The Honorable Eric H. Holder, the 82nd Attorney General of the United States, and musician and activist Common speak at the Auditorium Theatre in September as part of Roosevelt University's American Dream Reconsidered conference.

Podcast industry leader Midroll Media continues to grow its Stitcher podcast network and premium audio offerings, partnering with bold-faced names from the worlds of news, entertainment and popular culture to launch new shows and unveil exciting updates for its marquee podcasts.

The Honorable Eric H. Holder, the 82nd Attorney General of the United States, and musician and activist Common speak at the Auditorium Theatre in September as part of Roosevelt University's American Dream Reconsidered conference. 

Astronauts, etc. (the solo project of Toro y Moi keyboardist Anthony Ferraro) shared a third track from his forthcoming sophomore album Living In Symbol today; 'Shut My Mouth' is a meditative ode to silence that finds Ferraro singing, 'I want to be quiet / Wanna shut my mouth / Hear there's nothing like it / You can hear yourself.'