Signature Sound News

The Houston Symphony and Music Director Andres Orozco-Estrada announced today details of the 2017-18 season, which marks Orozco-Estrada's fourth year as music director. Highlights of the season include the appointment of Peruvian-born composer Jimmy Lopez as the Houston Symphony's new Composer-in-Residence and the introduction of Ars Electronica Futurelab's musical visualization of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, an immersive concert experience directed by acclaimed choreographer Klaus Obermaier

Over a four-decade career as a solo artist and with The Gatlin Brothers, Larry Gatlin has scored 33 Top 40 hits and won several awards including a Grammy. Gatlin is known for his rich falsetto singing style and for the unique pop-inflected songs he wrote and recorded in the 1970's and 80's.

Today, iconoclastic New Orleans-based jazz-funk sextet Naughty Professor release their politically charged song “Darker Daze.”

On April 27th the fourth edition of Oranjebloesem Festival will take place in Amsterdam during Kingsday. For three years in a row Oranjebloesem has been the perfect alternative on this national holiday, by distancing itself from Amsterdam's crowded city centre. This year the festival offers a great line-up of live acts alongside the customary underground electronic programme.

Real. Pure. Italian. MIMO is an electronic dance music DJ and producer who is thoroughly authentic. His passion for music is what drives him. MIMO's “Feel Good” (Powerkat) is out now.

Mannheim Steamroller will present the best the holiday has to offer this season. The group will perform live for one night only in Memphis at the Orpheum Theatre on December 23, 2016.

SPACE JESUS with SHLUMP & SPECIAL GUESTS will play the FOX THEATRE on February 3rd, 2017. 

On Today December 16, at 8:00pm, the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, under the musical direction of José-Luis Novo, performs our Holiday Pops concert, entitledChristmas Fiesta with Sultans of String, at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts

With Texas twin fiddles and boogie piano, great vocals and sizzling guitars, Ray Benson's Asleep at the Wheel is a 10-time Grammy winning band serving up the very best in western swing and distinctive Wheel favorites, plus a program full of tunes from their all new Christmas collection, Lone Star Christmas Night. Expect melodies like 'Christmas in Cowtown,' 'Baby It's Cold Outside,' 'Deck the Halls Boogie,' 'What Child Is This' and 'Merry Texas Christmas Y'all,' - all with group founder and lead Ray Bensen's inimitable talent and twinkling spirit and the enormous talents of his eight-member band, including the fresh styles of Katie Shore (fiddle, vocals), Dennis Ludiker (fiddle, mandolin) and Connor Forsyth (keyboard, vocals).

Real. Pure. Italian. MIMO is an electronic dance music DJ and producer who is thoroughly authentic. His passion for music is what drives him. MIMO's “Feel Good” (Powerkat) is out now.

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis bring their signature sound to the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall on Thursday, January 19 at 8PM.

 America's seventh top-selling musical group of all-time Earth, Wind & Fire is coming to DPAC on Saturday April 1, 2017. 

The spirit of the holiday season continues at The Granada Theatre on Thursday, December 29, 2016 with the signature sound of Mannheim Steamroller Christmas, produced by Chip Davis. This year marks the 32nd Anniversary of the Christmas Tour and release of Mannheim Steamroller Christmas, an album that revolutionized the Holiday Season music category.

Feinstein's/54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club, presents an evening of Broadway Bluegrass with The NYCity Slickers. 

Mannheim Steamroller Christmas by Chip Davis will be performed at the historic Capitol Center for the Arts in Downtown Concord today, December 7 at 7:30PM.

This morning, The Recording Academy and 2016 GRAMMY Best New Artist, Meghan Trainor, kicked off this year's GRAMMY Awards nominations by revealing nominees in the four General Field categories (Best New Artist, Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year, and Album Of The Year) live on 'CBS This Morning.

Matthew Koma today unveils two more “Kisses Back” remixes by LA's Golden Coast and Poland's Tom Swoon & Indigo, available now on RCA Records.

The Consulate General of Sweden in New York and Export Music Sweden present an exclusive Brooklyn showcase curated by Luger featuring some of the newest and brightest stars of Swedish pop, soul and hip-hop at Baby's All Right in Williamsburg on Thursday, December 15. The evening will feature live performances by Swedish artists Sabina Ddumba, Bladee, Nadia Tehran, WOE and ishi vu.

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Joe Lewis hails from Austin, TX - the collision center where Southern soul meets mid-western blues and vagabond punk. Unable to keep away from the infectious music scene Austin is infamous for, Joe Lewis soaked it all in and soon found himself purchasing his first guitar while working in a pawnshop. The rest is history.