LIFT EVERY VOICE How anyone—and we mean anyone—can learn to sing more sweetly Artists as stylistically and generationally diverse as Billie Holiday, Sam Cooke, Roger Daltrey and Lady Gaga have proven again and again that the right vocal performance can touch the listener’s deepest emotions—while the wrong one can abuse the eardrums of innocent bystanders. Learning to channel your own inner songbird can be a challenge, but there are steps... 

VocalizeU Release Party Hosted by: Natasha Bedingfield Presented by Dave Stroud & Michele Rundgren Photography by Jeff Fasano Natasha Bedingfield and Jessie Collins Ben Folds Bren and Rebop Rundgren Bren Chloe Leighton and guests Crystal Knighton and Aisha Francis Daniel Bedingfield and Natasha Bedingfield Daniel Bedingfield, Natasha Bedingfield and Jessie Collins Daniel Bedingfield Dave Stroud and Ben Folds David Matalon, Sonnet Simmons, Dani... 

BEN FOLDS/NICK HORNBY Lonely Avenue [Nonesuch] Fittingly, Lonely Avenue, a joint project from singer-songwriter Ben Folds and British novelist Nick Hornby, is bookended by modern-day artist’s laments. In the first, “A Working Day,” a writer battles expectations and internet criticism; in the last, “Belinda,” a musician relives the pain of a lost love affair again and again via his only hit. Here and elsewhere, Hornby’s lyrics paint darkly...