interview

Blues Hard Rock Rock 

Robin Trower: Guitar Conqueror

April 20, 2022April 20, 2022 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments Bridge of Sighs, For Earth Below, guitar, In City Dreams, interview, Long Misty Days, No More Worlds to Conquer, Provogue Records, Robin Trower

The legendary British axe icon has nothing left to prove

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Rock 

Rob Clores Goes Big Game Hunting

February 13, 2022February 14, 2022 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments Big Game Hunting, Charli XCX, Colin Hay, interview, Jesse Malin, Rob Clores, session musician, The Black Crowes, Tom Jones

Prolific New York session musician returns to rock on crunchy new single

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Music Journalism 

A Brief History of the Beef Between Meat Loaf and the Music Press

January 31, 2022January 31, 2022 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Chicago Sun Times, Fox Pass, interview, Jim Steinman, John Macey, Julie Panebianco, Meat Loaf, Music Journalism, Rock Critics, U2, WBCN

What rock critics’ coverage of Meat says about the art of rock criticism

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Music Journalism Rock 

Editing Jim Morrison

January 30, 2022January 30, 2022 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments Danny Sugerman, Feast of Friends, Frank Lisciandro, Grand Central Publishing, interview, Jim Morrison, No One Here Gets Out Alive, Oliver Stone, poetry, The Collected Works, The Doors, Wilderness

Talking with the man who smoothed out the poetry and prose of The Lizard King

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Pop Rock 

Ronnie Spector: Somewhere Over the Rainbow

January 17, 2022January 17, 2022 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments Be My Baby, Frankie Lymon, Frankie Valli, George Harrison, interview, Joey Ramone, John Lennon, Johnny Thunders, Kill Rock Stars, Ronnie Spector, She Talks To Rainbows, The Cleftones, The Four Seasons

“I want to be one of those voices like Ruth Brown,” she proclaimed in this epic interview

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Folk Rock 

Bruce Cockburn Returns To His Regularly Scheduled 50th Anniversary

December 14, 2021December 14, 2021 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Bruce Cockburn, Canada, folk, Greatest Hits, guitar, interview, rock, The 2nd Attempt Tour, True North

With a new Greatest Hits album, the Canadian folk-rock legend looks back on a half century in music

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Art Pop 

Claude DeBussy Bubblegum

October 29, 2021October 29, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments Arthur Russell, Chimney, Coco, Dan Molad, Dustrider, interview, Lana del Rey, Lucius, Maia Friedman. Dirty Projectors, Oliver Hill, Pavo Pavo, Uni Ika Ai

Members of the indie pop supergroup Coco guide us through their beguiling eponymous debut

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