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Pussy Riot will be honored with the 2023 Woody Guthrie Prize on May 6. The award presentation, set for Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, will take place as part of the Woody Guthrie Center’s 10th Anniversary Celebration, to be held May 5-7.

The Russian band will perform their Riot Days multimedia show following the ceremony, marking its U.S. debut. The group has previously performed the show in various countries around the world.

Band members Maria “Masha” Alyokhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova will accept the prize on behalf of Pussy Riot. Nora Guthrie,...

Over the past five decades, Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band have set the bar for live rock’n’roll shows. Their epic performances regularly steam past the three-hour mark, with their longest ever set, a 2012 gig in Helsinki, Finland, clocking in at a staggering four hours and six minutes. Earlier this month, Sir Paul McCartney was asked why his own solo shows have grown ever longer in recent years. “I blame Bruce Springsteen,” the former Beatle told the Fly on the Wall podcast. “I know him and I said to him, ‘It’s your fault, man’… the rest of us look measly if we do an hour.”

Springsteen’s stellar live reputation doesn’t just come from quantity, of course, but sheer crowd-pleasing quality. In a 2011 poll, Rolling Stone readers voted Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band the greatest live act of all time. To witness Springsteen...

If Woody Guthrie were still here, his daughter says, the folk legend would still be his old vigilant self. “I think Woody would be writing everything down, from the minutiae of the daily news to the bigger questions of why are we here and what’s happening right now,” says Nora Guthrie, the president of Woody Guthrie Publications. “I think Woody would be thinking along those lines, questions like that.”

It may be impossible to ascertain Guthrie’s mindset, but a new exhibit — “Woody Guthrie: People Are the Song” —sheds new light on the singer,...

Bruce Springsteen was presented with the Woody Guthrie Prize Thursday night, May 13th, and during a Q&a with Guthrie’s daughter Nora and Grammy Museum Executive Director Robert Santelli, Springsteen casually mentioned that he has a new album in the works. “California was an enormous influence on some of my most topical writing through my ‘90s, 2000s and even now,” he said. “We have a record coming out soon that’s set largely in the West.”

Nothing else is known about the album, but Springsteen has been unusually productive...

One of the highlights of Bruce Springsteen’s hit Broadway show was the singer talking about his love of his hometown of Freehold, New Jersey. While he spent his early years singing about wanting to leave home, “Now I live ten minutes away from where I grew up,” he said.

Now, Springsteen fans can get a deeper understanding why: New Jersey’s Monmouth County Historical Association, located in Freehold, has announced Springsteen: His Hometown, a historical exhibit that promises to be “a comprehensive look at how Monmouth County, NJ has...

One of the most comprehensive Pete Seeger collections will be released this May, on what would have been the singer and activist’s 100th birthday.

Titled Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection, the six-cd set, which includes 20 previously unreleased recordings, will be accompanied by a 200 page book. The album was co-produced by Jeff Place and Robert Santelli, who have already compiled similarly exhaustive collections for fellow American icons Lead Belly and Woody Guthrie.

Seeger, who died in 2014 at the age of 94, was one of the single-most foundational and influential American...

Phil Everly, who made up one half of the legendary group The Everly Brothers, has died. He was 74.

Phil's passing was reportedly due to complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

The late musician's wife Patti confirmed the news to the Los Angeles Times, saying, "We are absolutely heartbroken. He fought long and hard." Patti admitted that her husband's death came as a result of a lifetime of cigarette smoking.

Phil and his brother Don formed one of the most influential vocal duos of the 20th century with hits such as Wake Up Little Susie, Bye Bye Love, Cathy's Clown, When Will I Be Loved and All I Have to Do is Dream.

The Everly Brothers are a part of both the Rock & Roll and Country Music Hall of Fames, and their work is said to have influenced The Beatles, Elvis Presley, The Beach Boys and Simon & Garfunkel.

"When you talk about harmony singing in the popular music of...