London based rock quartet The Vaccines just unleashed their third album English Graffiti. As the record wasn’t out yet when I saw them at SXSW, I was hearing songs like Dream Lover for the first time – and thinking they sounded great next to older material like Bad Mood. Those […]
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Steve Reynolds – whose sets span the 1990’s – works his DJ magic at The Bell House on or about the first Saturday of every month. Whether at that venue in Brooklyn or at his day job in Manhattan in which he often interviews artists across genres, this maniacal music maven is a […]
Pedrito Martinez is such a heavy guy that Wynton, Waters, and Winwood as well as Springsteen, Sting, and Simon have either dropped in on him or invited him on stage or to a session…and those are just the names that grouped well by letter. The Cuban percussionist, singer, bandleader and […]
The Violent Femmes have a long history with New York (Brian Ritchie lived here for a decade, Gordon Gano longer than that, and Brian Viglione now) and a longer history making distinctive music – some visceral, some cerebral – always honest. The veteran proto-alt-rockers tore it up at Rough Trade […]
In this John Patitucci interview he is quick to give credit to some of the great jazz artists like Chick Corea and Wayne Shorter who encouraged him and were important in his career.
John Patitucci is among the most accomplished bass players in the world. His latest project has JP focusing on the electric side of his playing with his longtime collaborator – Brian (one of the most exciting drummers alive) Blade plus a pair of shining guitarists: Steve Cardenas and Adam Rogers. […]
An important reason Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn writes such powerful political songs is his first hand experience. A new memoir Rumours of Glory from the folk-rock artist recalls visiting places around the world, often places wracked by war, that informed his lyrics. He highlighted the songs he wrote about in his […]
Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell have a way of bringing out the best in each other and that is the best of Americana music. The pair drew upon their 40 year kinship and upped the ante on their Grammy winning album of 2 years ago by penning half a dozen […]
Courtney Barnett was the ‘it’ girl at SXSW this year… everyone wanted to see her. After I saw her, I wanted to see her again…and again! Here are my favorite moments that will give you a good flavor for the indie rock singer-songwriter from Melbourne, Australia who will visit New […]
A live band up there with Bad Brains and Iggy Pop for manic energy and reckless abandon: Fishbone was featured in the very first Sound Advice report (along with Roger Waters) on NY1 in July of 2012. A couple of months before my third anniversary at NY1, The Bone was […]
As I was sitting at Madison Square Garden watching Eric Clapton, it hit me that it was 30 years ago almost to the month that I saw the man at the Worcester Centrum (setlist to that show) in one of my fist concerts. I was a couple of weeks shy […]
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 […]
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…