Ben Harper News

“‘Fallin’ was a song I wrote about telling my girl how I felt about her in the car at the airport right before I moved to Hawaii,” reveals DENM. 'It was like, man this timing is crazy, but this is how I feel and I hope you feel it too, anyways have a good summer, bye!'

'I was feeling particularly mellow one day last summer. I decided to write this very chill song for everyone who wants to put something on that will really help them zone out and relax. Enjoy!' Elfman explains.

Many of the album’s songs were directly informed by the 2018 North American tour where Hey, King! opened for Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals.

From LA to NYC and back again, this award winning songwriter stresses the importance of embracing the up's as well as the down's of a career in the arts, and sheds light on the 'permission' a Broadway success with Karate Kid would hopefully give him.

Mavis Staples has shared a new remix of “One More Change” from her acclaimed 2019 album We Get By today. “If we reached for the future as desperately as we cling to the past, change would be at hand,“ said Ben Harper, who wrote and produced the original song.

Ballet BC has introduced a filmmaker in residence, Kevin John Fitzgerald.

Until The Ribbon Breaks has released a remix and accompanying video for legendary Jamaican musical pioneers Toots and The Maytals' hit single 'Got To Be Tough' (the title track of the album released in August via Trojan Jamaica / BMG).

Brazilian born, London based alt rock artist Marcelo Deiss has released a new single, 'Gridlock'.  'Gridlock' focuses on themes such as greed and social alienation. Deiss shares, “I would say that it's mainly about bringing attention to the injustice of the system we are living in.

What does it take for Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence, Ed Helms, Zooey Deschanel, SIA, Dave Matthews, Nick Kroll, Comedy Central’s Drunk History, Property Brothers’ Jonathan Scott, George Lopez, Jake Johnson, Kenny G, Ben Harper, and former United States Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge to get on one big Zoom call?

Compound, a new cultural non-profit dedicated to the intersection of contemporary art, wellness, and community opening October 2020 in Long Beach, has announced the appointment of Airrion Copeland as its Executive Director, effective immediately.

This year's Newport Folk Festival - one of the oldest and longest running music festivals in the world, will not happen in person. Since fans can't be together at the Fort, Newport Folk is bringing the music to you with radio broadcasts from over 60 years of archived sets, webcast concerts, and a very special film to close the weekend.

Today Ringo Starr announced 'Ringo's Big Birthday Show,' a broadcast to benefit 4 charities: Black Lives Matter Global Network, the David Lynch Foundation, Musicares and WaterAid.

Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage's SummerStage Anywhere digital series is excited to present a very special performance for SummerStage Anywhere this week withGrammy Award-winning Beninese singer-songwriter and SummerStage alumna, Angélique Kidjo.

“ 'Don't Let Me Disappear' is about the fine line between loneliness, isolation and invisibility, to where you can't seem to find a way not to be hiding in plain sight,” Multi-GRAMMY award winning artist Ben Harper said of his new single.

The red-eyed, twenty-foot paper mache shark that lives above the bar at Solana Beach's famous Belly Up nightclub has been witness to countless jaw-dropping live shows in this intimate, 600 capacity live music venue—and the shark misses concerts just as much as the rest of us who are now sheltering-in-place.

Today Billboard revealed that multi Grammy Award winning musician Ben Harper is launching a new label, Mad Bunny Records, which will have offices in Silverlake, California and Brooklyn, New York.

Today soul legend Mavis Staples has released the hopeful new song 'All In It Together'. Produced by Jeff Tweedy and featuring Tweedy on backing vocals and guitar, listen to it below!

The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association announced the line-up for the 2020 KCRW's World Festival at the Hollywood Bowl. The successful collaboration between KCRW and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, now in its 21st year, launches Sunday, June 28, at 7PM.

MerleFest, presented by Window World, is proud to announce the next round of artist additions for MerleFest 2020, which will be held April 23-26. Greensky Bluegrass, Mavis Staples, Paul Thorn, Cane Mill Road, Sweet Potato Pie, The Barefoot Movement, Nefesh Mountain, and Smitty and the Jumpstarters will be joining the annual homecoming of musicians and music fans on the campus of Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.