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Saturday, March 28, 2020

In The Beginning: Watch Foo Fighters’ Baby Steps in Previously Unreleased Video

March 11, 2020March 12, 2020 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments 1995, 25th Anniversary, amateur concert footage, Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, Kurt Cobain, March 4, Nirvana, Pat Smear, Seattle, Velvet Elvis

Newly liberated online, this electric March 1995 performance comes ahead of the 25th anniversary of the debut from Dave Grohl’s long-running band

Remembrance Rock

Six Reasons To Miss Keith Olsen

March 11, 2020March 11, 2020 Jim Allen 2 Comments Fleetwood Mac, Keith Olsen, Lindsey Buckingham, Pat Benatar, Rick Springfield, Sammy Hagar, Stevie Nicks, The Scorpions, Whitesnake

The producer’s passing leaves a hole in the rock ‘n’ roll firmament

Pop Rock

Peter Buck and Luke Haines Unite For Beat Poetry and Survival

March 10, 2020March 10, 2020 Katherine Yeske Taylor 1 Comment Beat Poetry for Survivalists, Corin Tucker, Filthy Friends, Luke Haines, Michael Stipe, Omnivore Recordings, Peter Buck, R.E.M., The Auteurs

In this exclusive chat, the R.E.M. guitar hero talks extensively about his fantastic collaboration with the onetime Auteurs frontman and much more

Music Journalism Rock

Famous Quotes Vol. 5: March 2020

March 9, 2020March 9, 2020 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 30 Seconds to Mars, George Thorogood, Jared Leto, Jaz Coleman, Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke, Killing Joke, Marianne Faithful, Marianne Faithfull, Pete Shelley, Pete Shelley of Buzzcocks, The Buzzcocks

Jim Sullivan looks back on a career of epic interviews in the fifth installment of his inquisitive column

Music Journalism Rock

Dear Rock ‘n’ Roll: This Is Your Last Chance

March 9, 2020March 10, 2020 Tim Sommer 1 Comment Brexit, Bruce Springsteen, Donald J. Trump, Donald Trump, Elvis Presley, John Mellencamp, Keith Urban, Stephen Miller, The Clash

An open letter to the new generation of sonic youth

Folk Punk Rock

IN CONCERT: Patti Has The Power

March 8, 2020March 9, 2020 Evelyn McDonnell 0 Comments Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Herbie Hancock, Jay Dee Daugherty, Lenny Kaye, Patti Smith, Patti Smith and Her Band, Patti Smith Group, People Have the Power, Power to the People, Richard Sohl, Robert Mapplethorpe, Todd Smith, Tony Shanahan, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Women's History Month

At the cusp of International Women’s Day weekend, Patti Smith and Her Band brought the Mouse House down with a fearless and inspired performance this past Friday night at Los Angeles’s Walt Disney Concert Hall

jazz Remembrance

LISTEN: Remembering McCoy Tyner

March 7, 2020March 7, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments Charles Lloyd, Chick Corea, Elvin Jones, Flea, Jack DeJohnette, Jimmy Garrison, John Coltrane, Matthew Shipp, McCoy Tyner, Nile Rodgers, Sonny Rollins, The John Coltrane Quartet

Listen to our exclusive playlist honoring the phenomenal solo catalog of the man who redefined jazz piano

Records

Young Men Take A Look At Your Lives

March 6, 2020March 9, 2020 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Elvis Costello, Free Four, Help the Aged, Neil Young, Old & In The Way, Old Man, Picture Book, Pink Floyd, Pulp, She's So Cold, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Magnetic Fields, The Rolling Stones, When I'm Sixty Four, When You're Old and Lonely

10 songs about aging in rock ‘n’ roll from legendary acts in the prime of their youth

Indie Rock Pop Rock

Beach Slang Is Surfing the Wave of Teenage Angst

March 6, 2020March 6, 2020 j. poet 0 Comments AFGHAN WHIGS, Beach Slang, Conor Oberst, Cully Symington, Deadbeat Bang Of Heartbreak City, James Alex, Okkervil River, Tommy Stinson

Catching up with frontman James Alex from the fringes of Heartbreak City

Country and/or Western Rock Roots

Come On, Pilgrim: The Odyssey Of A Marty Stuart Masterpiece

March 5, 2020March 5, 2020 Robert Baird 0 Comments 1999, Carter Family, George Jones, Johnny Cash, Lefty Frizzell, Marty Stuart, Patsy Cline, The Pilgrim

New coffee table book gives a “wall-to-wall” look into the singer’s star-studded, ill-fated 1999 LP

Folk Punk

Billy Bragg’s The Internationale Imagines a Fairer world

March 4, 2020March 4, 2020 Jennfer Kelly 0 Comments

Bragg’s most earnest and political album remains surprisingly relevant 30 years later

Blues Folk

ALBUMS: Dom Flemons Is The American Songster

March 4, 2020March 5, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 2020, Dom Flemons, Omnivore Recordings, Prospect Hill, Taj Mahal, The American Songster Omnibus, The Carolina Chocolate Drops

On this excellent expanded edition of 2014’s Prospect Hill, the solo sounds of this onetime Carolina Chocolate Drop is taken to New Heights

Blues Post-Punk

Hell Ain’t Half Full: PJ Harvey’s To Bring You My Love Turns 25

March 3, 2020March 3, 2020 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 1995, Down By The Water, Island Records, John Parish, Meet Ze Monsta, PJ Harvey, Polly Jean Harvey, Steve Albini, To Bring You My Love

The third Island LP from Polly Jean and her machine remains her singular blues punk masterpiece

Progressive Rock

Prepare Yourself: Porcupine Tree’s ‘The Sky Moves Sideways’ at 25

March 2, 2020March 3, 2020 Bill Kopp 0 Comments 1995, Dark Side of the Moon, David Gilmour, Delirium Records, Fear of a Blank Planet, Japan, Nick Mason, Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, Richard Barbieri, Steven Wilson, The Incident, The Orb, The Sky Moves Sideways

In 1995, the band released its third official album, an exemplar of the kind of ethereal space rock that would win over fans of Pink Floyd’s post-Syd Barrett and pre-The Dark Side of the Moon period

Folk Remembrance Rock

Buzzy Linhart Is, Was and Will Always Be Music

March 2, 2020March 4, 2020 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 3 Comments Bette Midler, Bob Dylan, Buzzy Linhart, Fred Neil, Jesse Colin Young, Mark Klingman, Max Ochs, raga-rock, RIP, Serge Katzen, The Divine Miss M, The Lovin’ Spoonful, Tim Hardin, You've Got to Have Friends

Remembering Buzzy, an unsung hero of the folk-rock connection who passed away February 13 at age 76