There’s a Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars & the Rise and Fall of ‘60s Counter-Culture By Peter Doggett Canongate, 2008 598 pages, $29.95 (pb) When rock and revolution met in the 1960s, chords and commitment combined....
I mentioned prior that there are too many stories here for me to hope to tell. So far, what I’ve related has been largely personal, as it should be, this is after all, my story. It’s not lost on me however that I have an...
Willie Nelson www.cmt.com by: Stephen Thomas Erlewine & Steve Leggett As a songwriter and a performer, Willie Nelson played a vital role in post-rock & roll country music. Although he didn’t become a star until the mid-’70s,...
South African vocalist Miriam Mekeba was known as “Mama Afrika” and this beautiful double CD of her best work is a fitting celebration of life in music. As the London Jazz Festival comes to a close this weekend, the Barbican is...
Nov 20, 2009 (PRWeb.com via COMTEX) -- Grammy(R) Award winner Howard Levy is thrilled to announce he has partnered with online video exchange pioneers, ArtistWorks, Inc. The team will be launching The Howard Levy Harmonica...
by David Roberts I have a huge, huge soft spot for Paul Simon. Simon & Garfunkel was one of the first bands I ever got into (like when I was eight) and I still love virtually everything Simon’s ever done. My musical tastes were...
Forgetting Sarah Marshall star Jason Segel made a surprise appearance at the Swell Seasons November 18th concert at the Wiltern in Los Angeles, entertaining the ladies in the audience with a love song...
Photo:Edelson/NBC As Jay Leno, David Letterman and Conan OBrien battle for late-night supremacy, one thing has become clear: Jimmy Fallon has the hottest house band. In their eight months on the air,...
Go ahead, change your life if you have the time as MUSICVISION PHOENIX is twenty tracks that changed their lives. MUSICVISION PHOENIX from Guillaume Delaperriere on Vimeo . (Via mlrm) Spotify this: 01-Blue monday people /...
There were a lot of things that made me feel old this year—Say Anything’s 20th anniversary? Are you sure?—but nothing quite hits me like the news that Oprah Winfrey will be quitting her talk show on Sept. 9, 2011. A little...