Buddy Holly

Alternative Rock Hard Rock Noise Pop Power Pop Rock 

How Weezer Forecasted Stardom With Debut LP

May 11, 2024May 11, 2024 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1994, 30th Anniversary, avant-garde, Brian Bell, Buddy Holly, In The Garage, Matt Sharp, Pat Wilson, Pinkerton, Ric Ocasek, River Cuomo, Say It Ain't So, The Cars, Undone - The Sweater Song, Weezer, Zoom

Looking back on the genesis of a modern rock institution

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Pop Remembrance Rock Soul 

In Dreams: 35 Years Without Roy Orbison

December 6, 2023February 19, 2024 Jim Sullivan 1 Comment 35th Anniversary, Buddy Holly, In Dreams, k.d. lang, Oh Pretty Woman, Only the Lonely, RIP, Roy Orbison, The Traveling Wilburys

Reflections on the moment we lost a crucial voice in rock ‘n’ roll

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New Wave Pop Rock 

Marshall Crenshaw: Field Day of Dreams

July 24, 2023July 26, 2023 Dave Steinfeld 0 Comments 1983, 40th Anniversary, Beatlemania, Buddy Holly, Chris Donato, Field Day, Marshall Crenshaw, Robert Crenshaw, Steve Lillywhite, Warner Bros. Records, Yep Roc

A 40th Anniversary reissue revisits the New Wave great’s classic sophomore LP

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Remembrance Rock 

The Last Man’s Last Stand: Remembering Jerry Lee Lewis

November 1, 2022February 19, 2024 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Buddy Holly, Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry, Eddie Cochran, Elvis Presley, Great Balls of Fire, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Little Richard, Memphis, RIP, Rock 'n' Roll, Roy Orbison, The Everly Brothers, The Million Dollar Quartet

The Killer is gone but will never be forgotten 

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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?

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Progressive Rock 

Steve Hackett: From Blues To Baroque

January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 2021, Buddy Holly, Genesis, Inside Out, Progressive Rock, Roger King, Steve Hackett, The Beatles, Under A Mediterranean Sky

The prog rock guitar guru takes an instrumental excursion while Under A Mediterranean Sky

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Pop Remembrance Rock 

Farewell, Spencer Davis

October 21, 2020October 21, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Alexis Korner, Big Bill Bronzy, Buddy Holly, Huddie Ledbetter, Long John Baldry, Spencer Davis, Steve Winwood, Traffic

The man who helmed the group of the same name and nurtured a young Steve Winwood, succumbs at Age 81

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Rockabilly 

Forever The Coolest Cats

September 22, 2020September 22, 2020 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments 40, American Bandstand, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Eddie Cochran, Elvis Presley, Gene Vincent, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Massapequa, Saturday Night Live, Stray Cats, The Midnight Special

Slim Jim Phantom talks with Rock & Roll Globe about the scorching new Stray Cats live album and their London roots

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Surf 

GEAR TALK: Beach Boys Guitarist Rewires a Classic Amp

July 10, 2020December 11, 2022 Ken Kurson 11 Comments amplifiers, Bruce Johnston, Buddy Holly, gear, John Cowsill, Magnatone, Mike Love, Scott Totten, The Beach Boys

Scott Totten uses shelter at home to fix up a ’57 Magnatone

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Blues Dylan Folk 

On “I Contain Multitudes,” Bob Dylan Transcribes Dreams For An Audience of One

April 24, 2020April 24, 2020 Tim Sommer 0 Comments 2020, Bob Dylan, Buddy Holly, I Contain Multitudes, Murder Most Foul, R. Stevie Moore, The Grateful Dead

Tim Sommer listens to the second new Dylan song since Quarantine began

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Remembrance Rock 

True Love Ways

February 3, 2019November 9, 2022 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments 1959, Buddy Holly, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

On the 60th anniversary of “The Day the Music Died,” Buddy Holly is still taking us in new directions

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