A best song Oscar, handwritten music score, bicycle from 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure' & more donated to Motion Picture Academy's collection

Handwritten music score and sheet music for the Oscar-winning title song from Fred Zinnemann's best picture nominee High Noon ...
The Forward

The digitized ‘Yosl and Chana Mlotek Yiddish Song Collection’ is now live

The Workers Circle has unveiled a long anticipated website: the digitization of 400 Yiddish songs, based on the popular out-of-print songbook series, Pearls of Yiddish Song, compiled and written by ...
Springfield News-Leader

Life of Ozarks' folk song collector chronicled in book, 'Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter'

Sarah Jane Nelson had never been to the Ozarks when she first heard about Max Hunter, a traveling salesman who spent 20 years collecting folk songs and stories throughout the Ozarks. At the time, ...
Rolling Stone

Galaxie 500 Dig Unreleased Songs Out of Their Archives for New Collection

Beloved dream-pop trio Galaxie 500 have announced a new collection featuring unheard recordings from the band’s heyday. Uncollected Noise New York ’88-’90, the group’s first post-breakup release of ...
American Songwriter

Drew and Ellie Holcomb Return to Base on ‘Coming Home: A Collection of Songs’

Like many artists, 2020 was a time of reconfiguration. Off the road and back into life with their family, being creative was an afterthought. Eventually, Drew and Ellie Holcomb got back out on the ...