According to festival organizers, Noise Pop filled 11 days with 170+ bands, at more than 20 venues and small businesses participating across the Bay Area. This 33rd installation had organizers ...

Premieres Friday, Feb. 20, 2026 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream with KPBS+. Discover the extraordinary life of poet, ...

Sun Ra's metaphysical sound was kicked off by a life-changing incident when he was taken by aliens from Saturn ...

For decades, American jazz saxophonist Knoel Scott has been honoring Herman "Sonny" Blount, aka Sun Ra, the composer, keyboardist and founder of the ethereal Sun Ra Arkestra. "Either the spirit is ...

The enduring legacy of jazz visionary Sun Ra is celebrated by this ensemble made up of Arkestra veterans and a younger generation of exploratory musicians under the direction of saxophonist Knoel ...

Words for a better world Sun Ra has a way with words – a strange celestial way. Like the rest of us, he uses them to communicate. But what he communicates ...

Union Pool closed out their annual Summer Thunder free show series on Sunday (8/24), as usual, with Sun Ra Arkestra. The weather couldn’t have been nicer and there was a line around the block to get ...

The post Sun Ra Arkestra’s Marshall Allen Releases Debut Solo Album Recorded Just Days After He Turned 100: Stream appeared first on Consequence. Sun Ra Arkestra leader Marshall Allen has released his ...

Sun Ra’s concept of “alter destiny” was his way of changing humanity Sun Ra wanted to change humanity with his concept of the “alter destiny.” How Sun Ra created his own record label, Saturn Records ...

The Richmond Folk Festival has presented artists and cultural traditions from across planet Earth – from Tuva, Newfoundland, Colombia, Nigeria, Jamaica, Ireland, Iraq, Honduras, Kenya, and Armenia, ...

“At the base root, Sun Ra’s concept comes out of Chicago, and basically, we’re just a Chicago jump band with a few frills.” Throughout the night, the Arkestra followed Scott's expressive cues rather ...

Heliocentric Worlds 1 & 2 Revisited presents in their entirety, newly and luminously remastered, the two albums which on release by ESP Disk in 1965 led, if not to actual commercial breakthrough for ...