Four decades after Carlos Santana turned “Oye Como Va” into one of the most successful Spanish-language hits inthe history of the Billboard charts, the guitarist is finally releasing a full-on Latin-pop album – Corazón, which...
Four decades after Carlos Santana turned “Oye Como Va” into one of the most successful Spanish-language hits inthe history of the Billboard charts, the guitarist is finally releasing a full-on Latin-pop album – Corazón, which...
A Latin-pop version of Santana's all-star 1999 supersession, Supernatural? A great idea that's fairly well-executed here. "Oye 2014" updates Santana's 1970 cover of Tito Puente's "Oye Como Va" for yet another generation, with bass drops and an overzealous...
On December 8th, the 36th Annual Kennedy Center Honors inducted Herbie Hancock, Martina Arroyo, Shirley MacLaine, Billy Joel and Carlos Santana at a special event attended by the President and First Lady along with other Hollywood and political elites....
No one expected the infamous pundit Bill O'Reilly to introduce a Herbie Hancock tribute in Washington D.C. on Sunday night, but before saying a word about the new honoree at the Kennedy Center's annual gala, he coyly broke the tension: "I know, I'm surprised...
It's a holiday miracle: A TV reporter in San Francisco has reunited rock legend Carlos Santana with former bandmate Marcus Malone, a homeless man who played in the original Santana lineup in the late Sixties. See Where 'Abraxas' Ranks on Our List of...
Santana unleashes some fierce riffs in the brand-new song "La Flaca," which features vocal work from Colombian musician Juanes. Available to stream now, you'll be able to download the cut on November 25th. The track will appear on Corazón, a new...
Carlos Santana is working on a still-untitled memoir that Little Brown is set to publish in English and Spanish in 2014, the Los Angeles Times reports. Santana hopes his story will "help readers discover the sanctity, grace and divinity in themselves,"...
A coalition of musicians including Paul Simon and Carlos Santana are voicing their opposition to the Recording Academy's elimination of more than 30 categories from the Grammy Awards. The artists claim that the Recording Academy unfairly targeted ethnic...
Guitar Heaven reprises the cameo-heavy formula Carlos Santana has used since 1999's Supernatural, only this time the celeb vocalists lay into an assortment of classic-rock covers. The performances are mostly faithful to the originals, and Chris Daughtry...
Halfway through his show Saturday night in Bethel, New York, Carlos Santana paused to reminisce in front of 15,000 fans. "Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Sly Stone," he said. "All of us who were here remember the magic. Only love can conquer hate. This is...
Phil Collins Tops UK Album Charts Phil Collins topped the UK album charts as his new Going Back beat out Manic Street Preachers' Postcards From a Young Man. It's Collins' first UK number one since his Hits took the top spot in 1998. [BBC] Lady...
Carlos Santana knows the power of a good guest vocalist: His 1999 album Supernatural, which paired the guitarist with a youthful cast of star singers, sold 28 million copies. His forthcoming Guitar Heaven (out September 21st) tweaks the formula, teaming...
Last Friday, Santana shocked the audience at a Chicago concert by proposing to his girlfriend Cindy Blackman four songs into the show. Following her solo during the tune "Corazon Espinado," Santana popped the question and she accepted, prompting the crowd...
If it had all been sun-shine and clockwork, with a tidy profit on the morning after, no one would have said another word. Instead, the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, held August 15th to 17th, 1969, near Bethel, New York — a refugee-camp experience...
When Barack Obama moved into the White House on January 20th, he gained access to five chefs, a private bowling alley – and a killer collection of classic LPs. Stored in the basement of the executive mansion is the official White House Record Library:...
With the 40th anniversary of the original Woodstock festival coming this August, organizers are hoping to honor the famed musical event with a pair of free two-day concerts taking place in both New York and Berlin, Germany, TheRockRadio.com reports. The...
Derek Trucks might be the luckiest dude in rock. The guitarist is a few months shy of his 30th birthday and already he's been playing with the Allman Brothers for a generation. His uncle, Butch Trucks, is the band's founding drummer, but the group is...
Bootleg archive site Wolfgang's Vault has reached a tentative settlement with the Doors and Santana, two of the artists that sued the site in 2006 for posting free online recordings and selling copyrighted merchandise. Wolfgang's Vault is best known for...
