Music: Still Needing, Still Feeding the Muse at 64
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With a new album on a new label (yes, Starbucks is involved) Paul McCartney meets the age of iTunes on his own terms.
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Erasure has remained in the  spotlight for more than two decades, beginning with the British  duo&#39;s single &quot;Who Needs Love (Like That)&quot; in 1985.
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Very few artists thrive in a vacuum. They tend to gather in bands of like-minded individuals, many of whom are also artists.
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Good old 'terrestrial radio' still reaches more than 90 percent of Americans age 12 and older, year after year.
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By DAVID SINCLAIR  Roger Daltrey joined the Ageing Rockers' Hall of Infamy last week when - like Sir Cliff Richard and Status Quo before him - he ranted about the state of modern pop radio. "It's very hard for bands in our position to get airplay these days," the singer of The Who moaned.
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MONTEREY, California  - Nearly 40 years after helping pioneer jazz fusion with Miles Davis, guitar maestro John McLaughlin still faces harsh critics who dismiss such technically demanding, electronically charged music as "steroidal" or even a "pestilence."
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A quarter of a century into their career, most rock bands are content to wheel out a greatest hits album every now and then. Not Ireland's U2, who, according to their manager, are still getting better.
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Famed neurologist riffs about music and how the brain experiences it. It's all here in a longer version of the interview from the October issue of Wired magazine.
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There is a rough science to choosing performance-enhancing music.
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When his "Modern Times"  debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 last week, 65-year-old  Bob Dylan became the oldest artist to top the album chart.
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John Lennon would have been 64 on Saturday, so Yoko Ono is celebrating with "When I'm Sixty-Four," an exhibition of drawings, caricatures and sketches by Lennon.
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Older amateur rockers are creating original albums as a viable sideline gig.
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Living in a city without a full-time jazz station, I have to rely on CDs and downloads to hear my fill of Miles Davis and John Coltrane. But to discover new jazz from singer Madeleine Peyroux or pianist Bruce Barth, it's necessary to reach past broadcast radio to online music services, music blogs...
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John Mellencamp never figured Farm Aid would still be needed now, 21 years after its debut as one of many moments of musicians trying to do good in the 1980s.
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Interesting music does not tell us to be good or bad. It asks only to be admired. Getting great music and simple faith together happens, but with difficulty.
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Writing a song that touches the hearts of millions is hard enough.
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Jazz musicians still jam till dawn at the Mutual Musicians Foundation, the old union hall that's one of the few remaining reminders of the days when Count Basie was a household name and the place to be here was 18th and Vine.