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Sunday, March 7, 2021

His Blood Runs Cold: Peter Wolf at 75

March 7, 2021March 7, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 75th birthday, Blues, Boston, Cape Cod, J. Geils Band, Peter Wolf, Rolling Stones, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Jim Sullivan digs into his archives for a career-spanning 2018 interview with the vibrant frontman for the J. Geils Band

Progressive Rock Rock

David Gilmour at 75

March 6, 2021March 6, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 75th birthday, About Face, Bad Company, David Gilmour, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, The Dark Side Of The Moon, The Endless River, The Final Cut

Jim Sullivan recounts his conversation with the Pink Floyd guitarist while he was promoting his vastly underrated second solo album About Face

Indie Rock Power Pop

Too Much Joy: Humor Always Belongs In Music

March 5, 2021March 5, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Cereal Killers, Green Eggs and Crack, Jay Blumenfield, Sandy Smallens, Son of Sam I Am, Tim Quirk, Tommy Vinton, Too Much Joy

Tim Quirk talks at length with Rock & Roll Globe about the road to the band’s first new album in over 20 years

Indie Rock Pop

ALBUMS: Game On for Two Way Radio

March 4, 2021March 4, 2021 Zachary Corsa 0 Comments Al Green, Ardent Studios, Back To The Light Records, Craig Brewer, Hustle and Flow, Memphis, Succinct Extinction, Two Way Radio

Succinct Extinction is more definitive proof that it’s always a mistake to count Memphis out

Music Journalism

Famous Quotes Vol. 17: March 2021

March 3, 2021March 3, 2021 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments ‘Til Tuesday, “Voices Carry", Aimee Mann, Cream, Famous Quotes, Gang Green, Ginger Baker, Jim Sullivan, Michael Hausmann, My Way, Paul Anka, Paul Westerberg, Pop Will Eat Itself, Richard March, Sid Vicious, the Ginger Baker Jazz Confusion, The Replacements

Veteran rock critic Jim Sullivan looks back on a career of epic interviews in the latest installment of his inquisitive column

Alternative Rock New Wave Soundtracks and Film Scores

Left of Center: the Pretty in Pink Soundtrack at 35

March 3, 2021March 3, 2021 Thomas Inskeep 0 Comments INXS, John Hughes, Molly Ringwald, OMD, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Pretty In Pink, Prince and the Revolution, The Psychedelic Furs, The Rolling Stones, Van Halen, Whitney Houston

Director John Hughes’s curatorial powers got college rock higher than ever on the charts

Reggae Remembrance

LISTEN: Farewell, Bunny Wailer

March 2, 2021March 2, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments Bob Marley, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Bunny Wailer, Jamaica, Peter Tosh, Reggae, RIP

The last surviving member of the original Wailers was 73

Alternative Rock Hard Rock Heavy Metal

Working in the Sludge Factory

March 2, 2021March 2, 2021 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments 1995, Alice in Chains, Columbia Records, Grind, Jerry Cantrell, Layne Staley, Mad Season, Mike Inez, Sean Kinney, Sludge Factory

Reflections on Alice in Chains’ last studio album with Layne Staley

Power Pop Rock

Catch North Jersey’s Best Rock Band Live This Week!

March 1, 2021March 2, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments Bowery Electric, Drew Eckmann, Ecks' Men, Jesse Malin, New Jersey, New York City, Rick Norman, Ringwood, The Feelies, Titus Andronicus, Tommy Stinson

Tickets are still available to see Ringwood’s Eck’s Men in their barn-burning concert at Bowery Electric, performing songs off their Tommy Stinson-produced debut LP

Folk

Small Talk On MacDougal Street

March 1, 2021March 1, 2021 j. poet 0 Comments 2021, 38 MacDougal, Barry McGuire, David Crosby, Delmark Records, Fred Neil, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, John Sebastian, Paul Kantner, Peter Childs, The Holy Modal Rounders, The Lovin’ Spoonful, Tim Hardin, Vince Martin

Digging on a previously unreleased session from an enigmatic Greenwich Village folk hero

Pop Rock

LISTEN: Eric Hirshberg’s Call of Duty

February 26, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments Activision, Benjamin Orr, Call of Duty, Drive, Elliot Easton, Eric Hirshberg, Freedy Johnston, Jon Brion, Largo, Mar-a-Lago, Pitfall!, The Cars

The L.A. singer-songwriter who traded in an executive role at a video game juggernaut for his rock ‘n’ roll dreams shares cover of The Cars’ “Drive”

jazz

William Parker and the Tonal Universe

February 25, 2021February 26, 2021 Todd Manning 0 Comments 2021, AUM Fidelity, Cisco Bradley, Jazz, The Music of William Parker: Migration of Silence Into And Out Of The Tone World, Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker, William Parker

A new book and ambitious box set cements the legacy of New York City’s double bass kingpin

North Americana

ALBUMS: Rod Abernethy’s Idea of Normal

February 24, 2021February 25, 2021 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 2021, Americana, Normal Isn’t Normal Anymore, Rod Abernethy, Tobacco

The North Carolina troubadour explores normality from a topsy-turvy perspective

adblock Alternative Rock Punk

Whatever’s Cool With Mascis: Green Mind at 30

February 24, 2021February 24, 2021 Steve Holtje 0 Comments 1991, Bug, Dinosaur Jr., Green Mind, J Mascis, Lou Barlow, Murph, The Wagon, You’re Living All Over Me

How the first Dinosaur Jr. LP without Lou Barlow still resonates today

Dance Electronic

We Were The Robots: Daft Punk, RIP

February 23, 2021February 24, 2021 Thomas Inskeep 1 Comment Daft Punk, Discovery, France, Homework, Nile Rodgers, Paris, Pharrell Williams, Random Access Memories, RIP, Stevie Wonder, The KLF

Some personal notes on the French Touch icons

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