Van Morrison’s Remembering Now launches at No. 1 on Billboard’s Blues Albums chart, marking his fourth consecutive leader and maintaining a flawless record in the genre. MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE - APRIL 29: ...

Like Ray Charles and an exceedingly small handful of others, Van Morrison could sing words straight from a phone book and still pack an irresistible emotional — not to mention musical — immediacy. But ...

Both Van Morrison and Bruce Springsteen undeniably fall into the folk-rock category. That being so, there are of course going to be some musical and lyrical similarities between the two. The masses ...

He’s the grumpy genius who gave the world Brown Eyed Girl, Moondance and the otherworldly masterpiece Astral Weeks. And on August 31, Van Morrison hit the big 8-0 - still touring, still recording, and ...

San Francisco's all-star event set to honor Blues legend Taj Mahal, is part of a nonprofit's annual benefit concert series, and follows up last year's event which celebrated Joan Baez.

“Reason doesn’t walk in,” Van Morrison sang eight years ago. “Passion’s everything, when you were born to sing.” That line is from the title track of Morrison’s Born to Sing: No Plan B, an album whose ...

RECORDING WEEK 2025: Every good function band knows one thing: play ABBA’s Dancing Queen, Come On Eileen by Dexys Midnight Runners or Van Morrison’s 1967 smash hit Brown Eyed Girl and the dancefloor ...

A daily chronicle of creativity in film, TV, music, arts, and entertainment, produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from November 2014 – March 2020. Host John Horn leads the ...

Van Morrison's former long-time band members reunite Senbla Concerts will present an evening of the Words and Music of Van Morrison as performed by The Van Morrison Alumni Band on December 6th at the ...

What's the right thing to do when an artist's politics, personal life or public actions become problematic: Do you separate the art from the artist and keep listening and supporting them? Do you hold ...

Through a catalog of classic albums, including Moondance, Astral Weeks, and Tupelo Honey, and a summer of love hit, “Brown Eyed Girl,” along with penetrating songs “Domino,” “Have I Told You Lately ...

His ‘No More Lockdown’ song re-energizes pop-music rebellion. Van Morrison knows what censorship means even if Internet mobs don’t. He has released three new songs, “No More Lockdown,” “As I Walked ...