Finding that record for which you’ve been searching to complete your Frank Zappa collection — the one you’ve been looking for since you owned it as a teenager but then lost it, or gave it away — brings palpable joy […]
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Five years ago, in her dreamy, hardened, vulnerable, and steely nostalgic way, Patti Smith told us the story of her life with Robert Mapplethorpe in Just Kids (Ecco). In 1967, the 21-year-old singer-songwriter was determined to make art her life […]
Some hardened James McMurtry fans might be quite surprised about the gifted Americana singer-songwriter’s best concert choices. McMurtry, who released his widely acclaimed Complicated Game album in February, says a Cyndi Lauper show at Austin’s Stubbs BBQ in June 2013 […]
I’m focusing on Lester Bangs this week – one of our most trenchant, edgiest, provocative, often beguiling, cantankerous, unreasonable, off-kilter, and sometimes dead-wrong critics. Yet, rock writing and criticism died with Lester Bangs when he died in 1982. Look around […]
Australia has always had musicians that were serious contenders on the world’s stage. Men at Work with Colin Hay, Midnight Oil, Daryl Braithwaite, Nick Cave, Tommy Emmanuel, The Easybeats, Crowded House, AC/DC, Natalie Imbruglia, Kylie Minogue – and that is really […]
From the opening track that opens warm like a flower in the morning sun “Honey, Don’t” has the power to draw a listener into a vacuum of colorful melody, structured intensely with brilliantly layered vocals and fuzzy guitars — all supported by a scuffling drum […]
As I was getting ready to go out the other night, my teenage son was doing the same. With his Spotify playlist blasting through the computer speakers, I heard a Patti Smith song and paused to tell him the story about the […]
Patti Smith 1/31/15 Balboa Theatre San Diego, CA
Patti Smith 1/31/15 Balboa Theatre San Diego, CA
Patti Smith 1/31/15 Balboa Theatre San Diego, CA
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