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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.
Good weather and good tunes in Times Square in year 2 of the CBGB festival with James Murphy, Grizzly Bear, and My Morning Jacket.
The little town in Alabama where countless classic songs were recorded – Muscle Shoals – gets immortalized in film.
John McCauley dropped by NY1 on the release of the new Deer Tick album Negativity to talk about the record and play a couple of songs – just him and his acoustic.
Metallica celebrated a Sirius/XM station that plays only their music plus the release of a new flick.
The exceptional blues songstress Kirsten Thien played an unusual gig as part of the Society Cafe Concert Series at the Unitarian Church in Ridgewood, NJ.
Elvis Costello & The Roots celebrated the release of their collaborative album Wise Up Ghost with a show at the 600 person capacity Brooklyn Bowl. Audio of entire performance at WFUV.org.
