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As the weeks led up to the release of "Sam & Cat" star Ariana Grande's debut album, "Yours Truly," buzz was floating around that it would turn out to be one of the strongest records of the year, not just one of the best debuts. It's hard to live up to that hype when records like Justin Timberlake's long-awaited "The 20/20 Experience" or the beautiful Civil Wars' self-titled goodbye to music were released. However, upon a single listen to "Yours Truly," it becomes clear that Grande has created something special with her first studio effort. Read More »
1960's soul group, "The Rascals," will reunite on the Broadway stage this spring in a show called "Once Upon a Dream," thanks to one of the band's biggest fans, Steven Van Zandt. The Associated Press reports that the original members of the soul quartet - singer Eddie Brigati, keyboardist Felix Cavaliere, guitarist Gene Cornish and drummer Dino Danelli - will reunite for what producers call "a hybrid of a rock 'n' roll concert and a Broadway show." The recently reunited band who brought us hits like "It's a Beautiful Morning," "Good Lovin," and "People Got to be Free" is set to play 15 performances at the Richard Rodgers Theatre beginning next month on April 15th. "Once Upon a Dream" is show combining live performance, video reenactments, archival concert and news footage, op-art backdrops and psychedelic lighting, notes AP. The Broadway show features nearly 30 Rascals songs and also explores the group's influence on more than just music. The band was known to fight discrimination by demanding that a black act appear on the bill at each of their concerts. Steven Van Zandt, the guitarist of Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, came up with the idea to bring one of his favorite bands back together on the Broadway stage in order to repay the formerly "Young Rascals" for all that they have given the musician. Read More »
