Music News

Lume Cube Panel Mini

When we heard rumors about the new bicolor LED light, the Lume Cube Panel Mini, we couldn’t wait to try it out on mid-sized stages during performances and backstage in … Read more

Ken Wenzel offers a Healing Heart

Ken Francis Wenzel studied classical saxophone, graduating college with a degree in jazz studies and spent the next ten years playing sax all over the world with Frankie Avalon, Ben … Read more

Dion

Dion DiMucci is not one of the first names that comes to mind when I think of the blues. Yes, that Dion of Dion and the Belmonts, the king of … Read more

Lume Cube Panel Mini

  I’m impressed by the Lume Cube Panel Mini, a very versatile LED light just released by Lume Cube. As a professional photographer currently shooting video as well as stills, … Read more

America, The Band

Refugees of the turbulent 1960s came out of that wilderness traumatized and weary. The breezy, soft-rock therapy peddled by America had the power to heal and blow away the pollution … Read more

Ruthie Foster Big Band

Multitudes of musical artists regularly seek out Ruthie Foster to sing on their albums and at their concerts. Foster possesses a caramel-creamy, and utterly breathtaking voice that electrifies and enhances … Read more

Goodbye…Little Richard

Although I met the irreverently charming and talented mischief maker and pastor a few times, my favorite memory is from a Johnny Carson Tonight Show. Little Richard showed up in … Read more

John Stewart

The late John Stewart underwent a radical conversion before rousing Sleepy Jean with his perfectly charming fairy tale “Daydream Believer,” which bursts wide open with transcendent romantic pop idealism in … Read more

Let It Be 50th Anniversary

Elmore writer Bob Girouard had a chat with music executive, producer and author Ken Mansfield about the legendary “rooftop concert,” the Beatles’ unannounced and final performance, held a half century ago. … Read more