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Arista Records and the P-Funk Multiverse

August 16, 2022August 16, 2022 Mitchell Cohen 0 Comments 1978, All The Woo In The World, Arista Records, Barry White, Bernie Worrell, Chaka Khan, Glenn Goins, Mitchell Cohen, Parliament-Funkadelic, Quazar, Ray Parker Jr., Raydio, Stevie Wonder, Tom Vickers

Read the funkiest excerpt from Mitchell Cohen’s Looking for the Magic: New York City, the ‘70s and The Rise of Arista Records

Music Journalism Records Remembrance

Record Man: Mo Ostin (1927-2022)

August 3, 2022August 2, 2022 Mitchell Cohen 0 Comments Alice Cooper, Devo, Family, Fanny, Fleetwood Mac, Frank Sinatra, Frank Zappa, Gang of Four, Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix, Jonathan Richman, Joni Mitchell, Mo Ostin, Neil Young, Reprise Records, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, Sex Pistols, T.Rex, The Everly Brothers, The Grateful Dead, The Kinks, The Modern Lovers, The Pentangle, The Small Faces, Van Dyke Parks, Van Morrison, Warner Bros. Records

Remembering a music industry giant responsible for Jimi Hendrix, Fleetwood Mac, Joni Mitchell and countless others

Pop Remembrance

Bobby Rydell and the Appeal of Normalcy

April 8, 2022April 8, 2022 Mitchell Cohen 0 Comments American Bandstand, Bobby Rydell, Bobby Vee, Chubby Checker, Dion, Jack Benny, Jerry Lee Lewis, Red Skelton, RIP, The Wild One

The 60s pop icon passed away this week at age 79

Pop Rock

Ronnie Spector: The Baddest Bad Girl

January 13, 2022April 3, 2022 Mitchell Cohen 1 Comment Amy Winehouse, Be My Baby, Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Thunders, RIP, Ronnie Spector, Say Goodbye to Hollywood, The Beatles, The Chantels, The Rolling Stones, The Shirelles

Saying goodbye to a New York Original and an American Treasure

Films jazz Remembrance

Sidney Poitier and the Burden of Responsibility

January 10, 2022January 10, 2022 Mitchell Cohen 0 Comments Blackboard Jungle, Daniel Petrie, Diahann Carroll, Joanne Woodward, Norman Jewison, Paris Blues, Paul Newman, RIP, Sidney Poitier, Stanley Kramer

How music helped match the finest moments in the film legend’s greatest roles

Broadway Pop

Stephen Sondheim and the Hills of Tomorrow

November 27, 2021April 3, 2022 Mitchell Cohen 0 Comments Bernadette Peters, Broadway, Company, Mandy Patinkin, Merrily We Roll Along, RIP, Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park with George, Theater

Remembering the legendary American theater composer and lyricist, who left us on November 26th at age 91

Pop Rock

We Sang Dirges in the Dark: American Pie at 50

November 8, 2021November 10, 2021 Mitchell Cohen 0 Comments American Pie, Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, David Hepworth, Don McLean

Why is this overbaked Don McLean epic still even a thing?

Soundtracks and Film Scores

Wonderland by Night: Edgar Wright’s Delirious Mod Jukebox

October 28, 2021October 28, 2021 Mitchell Cohen 0 Comments Anya Taylor-Joy, Edgar Wright, Face, Julie Driscoll, Last Night In Soho, Patti Boyd, Petula Clark, Sandie Shaw, Scott Walker, Steve Marriott, The Kinks

The acclaimed British filmmaker’s new film Last Night in Soho pulsates with the lure of nostalgia

Pop Remembrance

Jay Black and the Money Note

October 26, 2021April 3, 2022 Mitchell Cohen 1 Comment Cara Mia, Donald Fagen, Jay and the Americans, Jay Black, Steely Dan, This Magic Moment, Walter Becker

Remembering one of the golden voices of American Pop, gone at 82

Music Journalism

Le Tigre v. Barry Mann: Who Owns the Bomp?

October 13, 2021October 13, 2021 Mitchell Cohen 4 Comments Barry Mann, Bomp! Records, Deceptacon, Frankie Lymon, Gerry Goffin, Greg Shaw, Jesse Winchester, Le Tigre, Legal, Who Put The Bomp

A new court case aims to settle who holds proprietorship over the most defining example of rock ‘n’ roll onomatopoeia in pop history

Rock

Stevie Van Zandt’s Unrequited Infatuations and the Persistence of Memory

October 4, 2021April 3, 2022 Mitchell Cohen 0 Comments Books, Bruce Springsteen, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Hachette Books, Little Steven, Little Steven’s Underground Garage, Memoir, Stevie Van Zandt, Sun City, Unrequited Infatuations

The beloved New Jersey musician and actor’s memoir is also a syllabus of rock history, a thesis on the art of collaboration, a political manifesto, a settling of grievances and a grab bag of opinions

Bruce Music Journalism Rock

That Dress: Bruce Springsteen and the Thunder Road Situation

August 18, 2021March 29, 2022 Mitchell Cohen 10 Comments Amanda Shires, Bobby Rydell, Bruce Springsteen, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Jon Landau, Thunder Road

On the great debate between “sway” and “wave” in the second line of a most iconic Boss song

Dylan

Smoke and Mirrors: On Dylan’s Shadow Kingdom

July 21, 2021March 28, 2022 Mitchell Cohen 0 Comments Bob Dylan, Concerts, Rough and Rowdy Ways, Shadow Kingdom, Tempest, Veeps

Mr. Zimmerman rung in his 80th year with a cinematic journey through his past

Funk jazz Pop Soul

Aaron Neville: Warming Hearts In Crescent City

June 30, 2021January 8, 2023 Mitchell Cohen 0 Comments 1991, 30th Anniversary, A&M Records, Aaron Neville, Bo Diddley, Bobby Blue BLand, Everybody Plays The Fool, Fats Domino, Linda Ronstadt, New Orleans, Roy Orbison, Tipitina’s, Warm Your Heart

Looking back at the New Orleans icon’s epic 1991 LP

Blues Folk Gospel Irish jazz

Van Morrison’s Pandemic Blues

May 11, 2021March 24, 2022 Mitchell Cohen 2 Comments 2021, Aldous Snow, BMG, Facebook, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Latest Record Project Volume 1, Russell Brand, Spotify, Twitter, Van Morrison

The Irishman airs his grievances and alienates fans on Latest Record Project Volume 1

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