During the Rolling Stones’ awkward interview with Jimmy Fallon as they announced their new album last month, Fallon asked what the title, Hackney Diamonds, means. “It’s like when you get your windscreen broken on Saturday night in Hackney,” Mick Jagger […]
Many baby boomers got their first taste of the blues through an English filter. Starting in the ’60s, Brit blues/rockers like The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, The Animals, Led Zeppelin, and John Mayall and the Blues Breakers introduced American teens […]
As we roll into June, the summer touring season and festival season are in full force. Time on the road and not in the studio means a bit of a lull for the crowdfunding sites. But that doesn’t mean there […]
Reviewers tend to overuse the word “historic,” but the Rolling Stones’ On Air deserves that label. Like a pair of Beatles collections that appeared in 1994 and 2013, this set captures a monumental rock band in a crucial formative period […]
The Rolling Stones opened their 2015 North American tour with something special: a first-ever live performance of their entire Sticky Fingers album, a raucous, drug-fueled 1971 LP that includes several tunes they’ve rarely offered in concert. The album, which topped […]
Released between Between the Buttons and Beggars Banquet, the Rolling Stones’ 1967 foray into psychedelia has often been heard as a divisive outlier. Recorded in sessions spread throughout a tumultuous year, and often relegated to also-ran status as a me-too […]
The Rolling Stones’ Their Satanic Majesties Request garnered less than universal acclaim when it first appeared in December of 1967. The group, said some, had taken up residence in the shadow of the Beatles’ then six-month-old Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts […]
Here’s To Life!: The Story Of The Refreshments There was a brief time in the mid-’90s when a small Arizona bar band took popular music by storm. Following a heralded appearance at SXSW, Tempe’s The Refreshments were signed by Mercury […]
A winter’s day in New York should be dark, cold, and frosty, but when the mercury soared into the 60s recently I took a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. The only plan for the next seven hours was to keep […]
“Muddy Waters’ music changed my life, and whether you know it or not, and like it or not, it probably changed yours too.” Eric Clapton about Muddy Waters, who grew up in Clarksdale, Miss. Your life has probably been changed […]
