One of the most memorable shows at this year’s South by Southwest Festival was the one, in a church no less, from the group led by Hull, England’s Stuart Matthewman who co-wrote just about every Sade song that’s ever existed as well as played sax (& some guitar) on them […]
Monthly Archives: April 2015
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Here comes a Sydney, Australia outfit led by singer-songwriter Tim Rogers, aka Jack Ladder – he of the weighty baritone voice and wryly melancholic delivery – and supported by his accomplished backing band, The Dreamlanders, featuring guitarist Kirin J. Callinan who has a solo career as well. (Try his album […]
Here’s bonus Kurtis Blow interview material featuring more of his rap as well as KB giving credit to the artists who set the stage for his becoming the first Hip-Hop artist to sign to a major label – The Sugarhill Gang. Plus he speaks about his work as a minister, […]
The 35th anniversary of The Breaks presented a brilliant opportunity to speak with Kurtis Blow who very succinctly explains how Hip-Hop was born. “The Furious Five, Kurtis Blow, Run-DMC are no different from Robert Johnson and Charley Patton and Blind Willie McTell.” – Jack White at Madison Square Garden 1/30/15 […]
Here is the last of the hollandude.com Record Store Day 2015 exclusive giveaways! This is a “double A side” 7″ vinyl record – “Purple Haze/Freedom” – rock legend Jimi Hendrix playing live at the Atlanta Pop Festival in July 1970. Enter using the Rafflecopter box below. a Rafflecopter giveaway
Here is a chance for one lucky entrant to win the Record Store Day 2015 exclusive 10″ vinyl record – “You Go To My Head/The Mood That I’m In” – a record with Billie Holiday’s originals of the 2 songs on one side, and contemporary jazz singer Cassandra Wilson singing […]
Freedy Johnston plans to play the last Thursday of every month (for an unspecified period of time!) at the lovely and intimate Rockwood Music Hall beginning next Thursday April 30th 2015. Here’s a peek at a Joe’s Pub show and our chat shortly after he moved back to New York […]
A powerful film Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten is opening in Greenwich Village today for a one week run at the Film Forum about how the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia targeted artists among so many others and how their music has ultimately survived. I spoke with director John Pirozzi…
It’s vinyl giveaway week here at Hollandude.com! Awarded to one lucky entrant will be the Record Store Day 2015 exclusive LP vinyl record – Koncert v Praze -which features the late great country legend Johnny Cash playing live in iron curtain era Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1983. “Pressed on Soviet Red 180 gram vinyl” […]
Hollandude.com is giving away to one lucky entrant the Record Store Day 2015 exclusive 7″ vinyl record – “Touch Me I’m Dick” – by fictitious band Citizen Dick (really members of Pearl Jam). They were big in Belgium in the early 1990’s as explained by Cliff Poncier (Matt Dillion) in […]
San Fermin, who knocked my socks off at SXSW, release their new album Jackrabbit tomorrow and are a doing a pair of shows in Brooklyn this week. Here’s a look at their show in Austin and a conversation with Ellis Ludwig-Leone, Allen Tate, and Charlene Kaye …
We lost R&B legend Percy Sledge this week at the age of 74. It was an honor to chat with him in the fall of 2013 when he was doing some interviews surrounding a documentary about Muscle Shoals. Here’s the story of truly one of the greatest songs of all […]
Flashback to a quick Record Store Day 2013 hang with the mighty American musical pop artist Marshall Crenshaw 2 years ago…
A whole lotta Lady Day around the city, and the world, this month as Billie Holiday was born in April of 1915. At the Apollo, she was inducted into the Walk of Fame while Molly Johnson at Jazz at Lincoln Center led a handful of vocalists interpreting her songs. Three […]
Record Store Day…What an excellent idea! It’s not only really just become a thing. It’s really just become a great thing! Record Store Day 2015 is this Saturday, April 18. As a guy who worked at Second Coming Records (the one between Harvard Square & Central Square in Cambridge, MA […]
I used to see The Sheila Divine a lot while living in Boston in the late 1990s. They were the kind of band who brought so much energy and power to the stage that I’d want to catch them any chance I could. I had my first chance to catch […]
New York Before The War is Jesse Malin’s first record in 5 years. The quintessential New York rocker spoke to me about it and let me roll some video on his mean band in their Lower East Side practice space. He’s at the Bowery Ballroom next Saturday…
You don’t have to be a Jesse Malin fan to appreciate this interview although it might make you one of the veteran rocker – only someone who loves New York…
Austin orchestral rock band Mother Falcon and South Florida hip hop string musician duo Black Violin both have roots in high school orchestras, are both wildly original and creative, and both played at St. David’s Bethell Hall as part of the SXSW Universal Music Classics showcase. There are few similarities […]