Photo by Sara Finke. Very sad news this morning. Various sites are reporting that John Studebaker Hardy passed away at the age of 63. Hardy wasn’t all that well-known outside of folkie circles, but he deserved to be. […]
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The Akron Sound is getting some love with The Black Keys winning Grammy Awards, Chrissie Hynde performing with Faith Hill for a Super Bowl Crossroads telecast, and Joseph Arthur teaming with Dhani Harrison (George’s son) and Ben Harper in the […]
Each year the Rose Garden Coffeehouse in Mansfield, Mass., runs a Performing Songwriter Competition and entries for this year’s edition (the 19th annual!) close April 15. Over the years, they’ve had topnotch songwriters enter and compete from all over the […]
Garage-rock has been primarily an American cultural phenomenon that exploded principally in the areas of Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis from 1965 on. The standard-bearer of the movement were a bunch of bands who on one hand were […]
‘Tis the season for inferiority to rear its ugly head here in Canada, or Toronto more specifically. In other words, it’s Canadian Music Week. What should be a celebration of locally produced music the week serves to reinforce our eternal […]
70s Rock Influence on Todays Country Music By Jim Moulton, CSO Staff Journalist Something missing today are the great jam bands of the seventies. I want to talk about a couple; The Marshall Tucker Band and The Grateful Dead. Both […]
The word of the day is bounce, which stands for bounce (obviously), jump, leap, but also for elasticity; for example the mental and physical one that babies have when they bounce on their parents knees at the rhythm of some […]
First CD release of the acclaimed live concert recording In the half-century between his earliest recordings in the 1950s and his death in 2004, Ray Charles ascended to icon status by leaving his mark on virtually every form of American […]
A few weeks ago, my wife Annie asked me to go with her to see her friend Melissa’s daughter, Morgana, perform in the School of Rock tribute to Queen. “What?” I said. “You know, ‘School of Rock,’ like the […]
What could be the album of 2011 has already hit store shelves as The King is Dead by The Decemberists is topping both the Top 40 and College Radio album charts. The sixth studio release from Colin Meloy (lead vocals), […]
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