@RollingStone - #June22 :: Nile Rodgers & CHIC team with Vic Mensa on their new single ''Till The World Falls', the latest preview off "It's About Time", the legendary funk band's first album in 26 years :: Read the full article HERE
NILE RODGERS & CHIC RELEASE NEW SINGLE 'TILL THE WORLD FALLS' FEATURING MURA
MASA, COSHA AND VIC MENSA – OUT NOW!
"Working with Nile at Abbey Road was so enjoyable. It's breathtaking to see a man who has been working and striving towards greatness for so long approaching the writing and recording process with the same joy and passion that he always has. Truly an amazing learning experience and a wild fever dream come true," Mura Masa said.
More than 1,000 graduates from 72 countries and 38 U.S. states received degrees today at Berklee’s 2018 commencement ceremony. Berklee President Roger H. Brown presented honorary doctor of music degrees to music legends Rosanne Cash, Nile Rodgers, and Esperanza Spalding. Spalding, a 2005 graduate of the college, delivered the commencement address to the graduating class and an estimated audience of nearly 7,000 guests at the Agganis Arena.
Jane Hall Wallace meets Nile Rodgers, the grandaddy of funk and multiple award-winning producer, guitarist, arranger and composer who recently landed the role of chief creative advisor to Abbey Road studios
In the lobby of the upscale-gunslinger Driskill hotel last month, guitarist and producer Nile Rodgers was recounting everything from his great friendship with David Bowie to lost New York bohemia, suburban racism and dropping acid with Timothy Leary when a middle-aged British woman walked up to his table.
Speaking to Another Man, the music icon lifts the lid on Chic’s long-awaited new album and his upcoming collaborations.
Nile Rodgers should be exhausted. Yesterday, fresh off the plane from from London where he’d packed in a BRIT Awards appearance and countless hours in the booth, the music icon immediately threw himself into all-night session with a group of friends. As he picks up the phone to Another Man, the sexagenarian Chic legend has got barely three hours’ sleep inside him, and yet it sounds like he’s bouncing off the walls.
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Symbolic of a new era at London’s historic Abbey Road Studios, multiple Grammy Award winning producer, guitarist, arranger and composer Nile Rodgers (of The CHIC Organization) has been appointed to the specially created role of Chief Creative Advisor at the Studios.
Tune in to @BBCOne TONIGHT at 23:20 GMT for a special, around-the-world broadcast of New Years Eve with Nile Rodgers & CHIC, LIVE FROM #LONDON!
And make sure to follow Nile Rodgers & CHIC too for some surprises!
Nile Rodgers:
Twitter: @NileRodgers
Facebook: /NileRodgersOfficial
Instagram: @NileRodgers
CHIC:
Twitter: @CHICorg
Facebook: /TheCHICorganization
Instagram: @TheCHICorganization
OFFICIAL BBC ONE LIVE STREAM: http://j.mp/2q0V04t