Tame Impala, “Elephant” (technically, last year I know but c’mon, it’s my fave of the whole year) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, “Jubilee Street” Lorde, “Royals” Josh Ritter, “Hopeful” Arctic Monkeys, “R U Mine?” Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes, “Love Letter” The White Buffalo, “Joey White” Billy Bragg, […]
Yearly Archives: 2013
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…you know, the ones I saw! 1 Dinosaur Jr; Irving Plaza 2 Metallica; Apollo 3 Robert Plant; Prospect Park 4 Erykah Badu; BAM 5 Elvis Costello & The Roots; Brooklyn Bowl 6 The Hives; Irving Plaza 7 Tom Morello; Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Allen Room 8 Television; Rough Trade NYC […]
1 The Lone Bellow; self-titled 2 Phosphorescent; Muchacho 3 Savoir Adore; Our Nature 4 Hunters; self-titled 5 So So Glos; Blowout 6 The Strokes; Comedown Machine 7 Yeah Yeah Yeahs; Mosquito 8 Minor Alps; Get There 9 Chelsea Light Moving; self-titled 10 Lucius; Wildewoman
1 Nick Cave; Push The Sky Away 2 Smith Westerns; Soft Will 3 The White Buffalo; Shadows, Greys & Evil Ways 4 Queens of The Stone Age; Like Clockwork 5 Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes; Baby Caught the Bus 6 Elvis Costello & The Roots; Wise Up Ghost 7 […]
When John Fogerty played The Beacon last month, he served up entire album worth of Creedence Clearwater Revival material. For a long time, that was unthinkable. Here he describes what he experienced while visiting Robert Johnson’s grave in the summer of 1990.
Rough Trade NYC opens in style as Television reminds us how amazing they are. Tom Verlaine and the fellas played two nights at the new record store/venue while fans speculate on possible release of new music from Tom and the fellas.
After going 25 years refusing to play the songs of his old band, John Fogerty tears it up with full albums from the old days after recording new versions of CCR tunes with star pals.
Dancehall Ace Mr. Vegas has worked with Beyonce, Wyclef Jean, Snoop, and Shaggy while dropping a pair of albums in eighteen months.
Hear My Train a Comin’ is a must for Jimi fans… I can talk Jimi all day and so can director Bob Smeaton whose directed a handful of documentaries about the man. Here Bob talks more about him as well as Paul McCartney, Chas Chandler, and Ringo Starr.
Most of the video is from the outstanding American Masters documentary directed and produced by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders in 1998: Rock and Roll Heart: Lou Reed.
Placebo played just two shows in the states this year but one of them was in New York where I had a chat with Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal.