Sting

Sting announced that he’ll be hitting the road this fall as part of his Sting 3.0 tour with drummer Chris Maas (who previously collaborated with Mumford & Sons and Maggie Rogers) and guitarist Dominic Miller, his longtime collaborator. While the frontman won’t heading on a reunion tour with his former Police bandmates, Sting 3.0 promises to celebrate “a new dynamic era showcasing selections from his vast catalog through the urgent lens of a tight three-piece combo.” Members of Sting’s fan club will get…

American actor Charles Dierkop, best known for his appearances in `The Sting,` `Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,` and `Police Woman,` died on Sunday, Deadline reported. He was 87. Dierkop had a heart attack and contracted pneumonia. The Wisconsin-born character actor began his career in an uncredited appearance opposite Paul Newman in `The Hustler.` He appeared beside him as Flat Nose Curry in the 1969 film `Butch Cassidy` and as a bodyguard in the Best Picture Oscar-winning 1973 film `The Sting.` `Star Trek,`…

Singers also unite for "Big Man on Mulberry Street" at One Night Only show in Tampa Bay Billy Joel and Sting kicked off their One Night Only slate of co-headlining summer shows Saturday with a gig in Tampa Bay, with both artists popping up during the other’s set to help sing one of their classic songs. Joel introduced Sting’s set at Raymond James Stadium, telling the audience, “I saw this guy when he came with his band to the States, and I was blown away. This was the late-Seventies. I thought…

Photo: Carrier HVAC Heat pump installation has to become more affordable to make adoption more compelling in the US, but in the meantime, there are ways to mitigate that cost. Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) just published a paper in the journal Joule titled, “Heat pumps for all? Distributions of the costs and benefits of residential air-source heat pumps in the United States.” The study quantifies the costs and benefits of…

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As the tenth anniversary of Glen Campbell’s Ghost on the Canvas was approaching, Dave Kaplan —whose Surfdog Records released the haunting album in 2011 — was pondering ways to honor it. A late-period landmark for Campbell, who died in 2017 after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s disease, Ghost on the Canvas found the venerable pop-country singer and guitarist covering songs by a new generation of writers — alt-rock types like Paul Westerberg, Guided By Voice’s Bob Pollard, Jakob Dylan, and Teddy Thompson. The album…

Sting, Incubus, Devo, and My Morning Jacket will shake the sands of Redondo Beach, California’s waterfront, this spring at the fifth installment of the BeachLife Festival. Other performers include Seal, Dirty Heads, Local Natives, Santigold, Trey Anastasio, Fleet Foxes, ZZ Top, and Courtney Barnett. Tickets for the three-day fest, which kicks off May 3, are available now. The lineup spans a variety of genres, including reggae (Steel Pulse, Pepper), punk (performances by members of the Vandals, All, 7 Seconds), and…

Vision Pro looks like it’s going to be really, really cool — for almost everyone. I say almost everyone because there is a (quite large) contingent of users that are going to struggle with the device straight out of the box, and they account for nearly 64% of the US population.Glasses wearers.The CEO of Apple wears glasses, for goodness sake — so you would have thought that there would be an option for glasses wearers that doesn’t cost them an extra chunk of cash on top of the already massive price of the headset…

A man lies flat on his stomach on the floor of an apartment high above the La Brea Tar Pits.He isn’t moving. His hands are tied behind his back and his eyes are open and still. His face rests in a pool of blood spilling from his neck.A glass candle-holder is shattered on the ground nearby and a chair is knocked over, signs of a struggle in the otherwise neat apartment.On the wall is a corkboard dotted with cutouts of articles, court papers and photographs. Red string leads between related incidents along with…

‘Sting would not do that. The guitars are too loud, the voice too drowned.” Jan P Muchow, of Czech shoegaze band the Ecstasy of Saint Theresa, is remembering how sound engineers used to patronise them when they emerged at the dawn of the 1990s. But as Muchow says, “We didn’t want to be three universes close to anything like Sting”.The Ecstasy despised guitar solos, used English lyrics and hid behind reverb and distortion. Czech listeners, accustomed largely to folk music or schlager pop, were not ready for it. “Our early…