Accomplished author and ex-Apple Records U.S. Manager, Ken Mansfield takes the reader on a “not so magical mystery tour,” inside Apple’s building at 3 Saville Row; centering on the pivotal … Read more
Completely oblivious to the late-1970s emergence of punk-rock savagery, slick new wave and suave disco, NRBQ’s fifth album All Hopped Up arrived in 1977 with a shit-eating grin on its … Read more
Communing with Paul Kelly’s Nature is good for the soul. Shaking his fist at his own mortality, the venerable Australian singer-songwriter, whose celebrated 2017 LP Life is Fine was the … Read more
The blues and rock saxophone is usually a lead instrument. It’s perfect for solos and for sweetening a chorus, only to recede into the background when the need has passed. … Read more
Photos by Arnie Goodman Every other year, the Long Island Music Hall of Fame inducts a few of their own into a justly star-studded group. This year, frontmen, songwriters, bands, … Read more
Context matters, especially when reassessing the overlooked 1998 masterpiece Dan Loves Patti, a great flood of arresting, lovelorn chamber-pop and shoegazing indie-rock ecstasy. The story of how it seemed … Read more
When Bob Margolin delivers a new release the blues world sits up, reaches out and takes note. All entirely understandable, for Margolin is one of those true blues troubadours who … Read more
This is a glorious release from a music giant who never fails to deliver interesting, gripping and, at times, downright excellent albums. Here we have a look back, a retrospective … Read more
Smooth-singing, US bluesman Eric Bibb’s latest offering is a full 24-track double disc release. Already receiving plaudits and murmurings about it being his best release to date, it’s hard to … Read more
Last year Roy Orbison’s sons put out a A Love So Beautiful, a collection of Orbison vocal outtakes digitally paired with arrangements for the Royal Philharmonic, to (deservedly) tremendous success. … Read more
