In a perfect world, I’d have all day everyday to sit around and watch the album “making of” documentaries and videos featuring the “stories behind the songs,” but too often, I see something of interest, bookmark it to watch it later and then never get around to it. But when I saw that Richard Marx […]
Contest: Free Pair Of Passes To See ‘For The Love Of Music’
A new documentary exploring the roots of the Cambridge folk music scene and Club 47, the legendary Harvard Square coffeehouse, recently screened to rave reviews in front of a sold out crowd at the Boston International Film Festival. Now, For The Love Of Music: The Club 47 Folk Revival will come home for a special […]
Glen Phillips In The Chapel
I finally had a chance to participate in “Sofa Sundays” with Glen Phillips last night via the fine folks at StageIt, which is a whole ‘nother conversation. But while I was checking that out, somebody in the chat room mentioned that Fuel/Friends had recently posted an entry in their Chapel Sessions series featuring Glen, which […]
Setlist: Fountains of Wayne at Beachland Ballroom, 4/24/12
The song selection was delectable, the offbeat sense of humor seemed to be fully intact and overall, it was just nice to have Fountains of Wayne back in Cleveland. I thought it was 2009…but no, it was 2007 that was the year of my last Fountains of Wayne encounter. There were two great encounters that […]
Marty Stuart Aims To ‘Tear The Woodpile Down’ With New Album
Many, many moons ago, I got a promo of Marty Stuart’s newest album at the time, This One’s Gonna Hurt You. With titles like “Me & Hank & Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” I could tell that for a country guy, Stuart probably liked to rock. So I put the album on and for approximately one album, […]
Metallica Resurrects The ‘Snake Pit’
You’ve got to hand it to Metallica – when they decide to be nostalgic about things, they really do it right. From the latest newsletter: As you may have heard, the theme of our summer trek through Europe is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the release of the Black Album by playing it in its […]
Musical Notes: Bonnie Raitt, Counting Crows, Vinyl
There’s quite a bit to enjoy about today’s slate of new releases. First of all, Bonnie Raitt makes a very welcome return with a new album Slipstream, in which she splits the production duties between herself and veteran Joe Henry. The results are something that your ears will love. For the download folks, Amazon has […]
Discovering Wally
“Wally” is a rather nondescript name when you see it on an album cover. It could be a one man band project or the musical vanity plate for a band driven by the principal songwriter. In this case, Wally is a British progressive band that for nearly 40 years has been most active via the […]
Genesis: Come Rain Or Shine
I just watched Come Rain or Shine, the Genesis film that documents the preparatory process as the band and their crew worked to get ready for the first Genesis tour in 15 years. The film has been showing recently on VH-1 Classic (and apparently, you can also watch it on Hulu – see below) and […]
Lion’s Den!
I never thought I’d hear this one outside of listening to it on my copy of Tracks, so I was severely geeked to see (well, virtually anyway) Bruce Springsteen pull out “Lion’s Den” last night at the first MSG show. Now that they appear to have worked up a nice arrangement for the band, I […]