Rock and Roll Globe

Easy For Her to Say: Linda Ronstadt’s Get Closer at 40

September 25, 2022September 25, 2022 Thomas Inskeep 0 Comments 1982, 40th Anniversary, Asylum Records, Billy Joe Shaver, Get Closer, Ike and Tina Turner, Jimmy Webb, Linda Ronstadt, Lindsey Buckingham, Peter Asher, The Exciters

The final mainstream pop album the iconic singer would make for seven years is a gleefully mixed bag

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Learn to Work the Saxophone: Steely Dan’s Aja at 45

September 24, 2022September 24, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1977, 45th Anniversary, Aja, Bernard Purdie, Black Cow, Chuck Rainey, Clydie King, Deacon Blues, Dean Parks, Donald Fagen, Home at Last, I Got The News, Jim Keltner, Joe Sample, Josie, Larry Carlton, Michael McDonald, Peg, Steely Dan, Tim Schmit, Tom Scott, Victor Feldman, Walter Becker

Why Becker and Fagen’s sixth album together can also be considered their best

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North Americana

LISTEN: Veronica Stanton Owes You No Apology

September 23, 2022September 23, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2022, Americana, Caught Up On A Feeling, Listen, Self-Released, single, Sorry If It Bothers You, Veronica Stanton

Check out “Sorry If It Bothers You” from her new LP Caught Up On A Feeling

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North Americana

Another Amazing Year of Americana

September 23, 2022September 23, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 2022, 40 Acre Mule, 49 Winchester, Alisa Amador, Allison Russell, Alton Wolfe, AmericanaFest, Amy Speace, Andrew Leahey & The Homestead, Bette Smith, Brandi Carlile, Brian Wright, Buddy Miller, Chrie Isaak, Coral Moons, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Freedy Johnston, Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, Joshua Ray Walker, Kaitlin Butts, Lilly Hiatt, Lyle Lovett, Marina Rocks, Maura Stripes, Michael McArthur, Michelle Malone, Nashville, Peter Case, Rissi Palmer, Robert Plant, Sara Petite, Side Pony, Sierra Ferrell, South for the Winter, Steely Dan, Strung Like a Horse, Tami Neilson, Taylor Rae, Teddy & The Rough Riders, Tennessee, the Doobie Brothers, the HawtThornes, Will Hoge

AmericanaFest 2022 offers further example of its stunning success

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Music Journalism

Jann Wenner, Bruce Springsteen and Me (Well, Not Really Me)

September 22, 2022September 24, 2022 Tim Sommer 1 Comment 2022, 92nd St. Y, Bruce Springsteen, Hootie and the Blowfish, Jann Wenner, Jim DeRogatis, Rolling Stone, the New York Observer

Why the ex-Rolling Stone publisher’s response to HootieGate was total nonsense

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Psychedelics Rock Southern Rock

Tones of Home: Blind Melon at 30

September 22, 2022September 30, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1992, 30th Anniversary, Blind Melon, Capitol Records, David Briggs, No Rain, Rick Parahar, Shannon Hoon

The ill-fated band’s indelible debut makes its mark

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Alternative Rock Post-Punk Rock

Straight to You: Nick Cave at 65

September 22, 2022September 22, 2022 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 1992, 1994, 65th birthday, Goth, Henry's Dream, Lollapalooza, Nick Cave, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Birthday Party, The Mercy Seat, Warren Ellis

Looking back on the career of Australia’s Goth bard

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Alternative Rock Electronic Industrial Rock

We Get What Pigs Deserve: Nine Inch Nails’ Broken EP at 30

September 21, 2022September 21, 2022 Ted Miller 1 Comment 1992, 30th Anniversary, Adam Ant, EP, Grammys, Happiness in Slavery, Nine Inch Nails, Pinion, Pretty Hate Machine, Suck, Trent Reznor, Wish

Looking back on the harshest music to ever win a Grammy

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LISTEN: Field Guide Shares “You Could Be Free”

September 21, 2022September 21, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments "You Could Be Free", 2022, Birthday Cake Records, David Pajo, Field Guide, L'Rain, Manitoba, Winnipeg

The new single appears on the Winnipeg artist’s forthcoming eponymous sophomore set

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Art Pop Glam Rock

Roxy Music Celebrates 50 Years In Boston

September 20, 2022September 20, 2022 Jim Sullivan 3 Comments Andy Mackay, Avalon, Boston, Bryan Ferry, Concert, Do The Strand, Fonzi Thornton, Jealous Guy, John Lennon, MGM Music Hall, Paul Thompson, Phebe Edwards, Phil Manzanera, Roxy Music, Senab Adekunle

The reunited art-glam greats rock through their past, darkly and otherwise

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Art Pop Dream Pop Pop Synth

WATCH: RVBY MY DEAR Gets “Over It”

September 20, 2022September 20, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2022, Gabbi Coenen, Madonna, Morcheeba, Over It, Portishead, RVBY MY DEAR, Sneaker Pimps, Spirit House Records

The single appears on the Australian noir-pop project’s forthcoming eponymous EP

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North Americana Rock

LISTEN: Stephen McCarthy and Carla Olson Share Title Track for Forthcoming LP

September 20, 2022September 20, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments Carla Olson, Gene Clark, Have Harmony Will Travel, Night Comes Falling, Stephen McCarthy, The Jayhawks, The Long Ryders

The duo’s debut album, Night Comes Falling, comes out on November 11th

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Pop Power Pop Rock

LISTEN: The Cowsills Prepare for “Nuclear Winter”

September 19, 2022September 19, 2022 Ron Hart 1 Comment 2022, Bob Cowsill, Nuclear Winter, Omnivore Recordings, Paul Cowsill, Rhythm of the World, Susan Cowsill, The Cowsills

The legendary family band releases their first LP of new music in 30 years, Rhythm Of The World, on September 30

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A Funky Little Boat Race: Mott The Hoople’s All the Young Dudes at 50

September 19, 2022September 20, 2022 Tim Sommer 7 Comments 1972, 50th anniversary, All the Young Dudes, David Bowie, Ian Hunter, Mick Ralphs, Mott the Hoople, The Clash, The Kinks

What makes it one of the weakest albums from one of the greatest British rock bands

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Gogol Bordello: Coming to Terms with the Era of the End of Eras

September 18, 2022September 18, 2022 j. poet 0 Comments 2022, Agnostic Front, Cooking Vinyl, Eugene Hütz, Fugazi, Gogol Bordello, Gorilla Biscuits, Green Day, Jello Biafra, Joe Lally, Les Claypool, Primus, Quicksand, Rival Schools, Roger Miret, Solidaritine, Tre Cool, Ukraine, Walter Schreifels

Frontman Eugene Hütz talks about the band’s new album Solidaritine and the ongoing war in his Ukrainian homeland

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