In news that will shock and upset at least one member of the Listening Room staff, Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin announced Friday he has left the band. The news was first posted on the band’s website without any additional details as to the reasons for his abrupt departure.
Chamberlin’s departure leaves frontman Billy Corgan as [...]

Sure New York is a town full of insane rents, overpriced beer, and overrated delis but it’s also full of unparalleled opportunities for musical moments that just don’t exist anywhere else. One of those took place last night as Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit snuck in sorta secret acoustic set at The Living Room [...]

On Saturday the World Music Institute’s concert series brought famed South African vocal ensemble Ladysmith Black Mambazo to Times Square’s Town Hall.

Most famous for their collaboration with Paul Simon on his seminal 1986 album Graceland, world music’s answer to Rockapella has had an exceptional career performing its sublime Zulu a cappella for 48 years.

Mirroring the [...]

If 2008 had a musical storyline beyond the seemingly endless reunion of bygone bands, it was the ascendancy of My Morning Jacket.

So it was fitting that the year that began with a three-night New Years run at the 1,100-person Fillmore Theater in San Francisco ended with them headlining the world’s most famous arena — Madison [...]