Keith Richards To Publish Children’s Book
If you know much about Keith Richards, you know that a lot of the stories about his life aren’t the most appropriate things for children to hear. Well, it turns … Read more
Posted in March, 2014
Staying True To Your Roots: An Interview With Sean Sullivan
Sean Sullivan is a musician’s musician, a consummate student of the art form itself. A Southerner transplanted to Manhattan’s Upper West Side at an early age, Sullivan’s training at the … Read more
Mel Tillis Recovering From Heart Surgery
Country legend Mel Tillis is recovering at home in Nashville after undergoing a heart procedure last weekend. Sources close to Tillis described the procedure as “routine” and expect the 81-year … Read more
Mutual Benefit – Love’s Crushing Diamond (Other Music Recording Co.)
Mutual Benefit’s debut album plays like a soundtrack where each song represents an image and each image, a feeling. Love’s Crushing Diamond is strewn with nostalgic sentiments and is evocative … Read more
Neil Young Announces PonoMusic Launch
Neil Young is going to change the way you listen to music. We don’t mean that in the sense that After The Gold Rush changed our lives after we heard it for … Read more
Johnny Cash’s 82nd Birthday Bash – The Bell House (Brooklyn, NY)
Well this was a cool fuckin idea. For the past five years, the Bell House has been celebrating Johnny Cash’s birthday. Due to popular demand, the event has stretched itself … Read more
Looking Back With Camper Van Beethoven
It’s hard to believe it now, but there was once a time when record labels took real risks when trying to break new artists. In the age before illegal downloading … Read more
U2 Push Back Album, Tour To 2015
Billboard is reporting that U2 have pushed back their upcoming album and tour to 2015 after scheduling new recording sessions with producers Ryan Tedder and Paul Epworth. Recently, the band undertook … Read more
Johnny Winter – B.B. King’s (New York, NY)
Johnny Winter celebrated his 70th birthday and the release of his new Sony/Legacy box set, True To The Blues (reviewed in the March/April issue) with an all-star gig at BB … Read more
Catherine Russell – Bring It Back (Jazz Village)
Nobody makes records like these. Nobody else has the musicologist knack for bringing back the best music of the twenties through fifties while making it all sound so vital. That’s … Read more
