Archive: 2016

2016 aint over yet and now we’ve lost two thirds of Emerson Lake and Palmer.  Greg Lake, who fronted both King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer, has died aged 69. One of the founding fathers of progressive rock, Lake died on Wednesday after “a long and stubborn battle with cancer”, said his manager.The news comes […]

Don DiLego has long been known as a musical troubadour. The singer-songwriter has garnered praises from the likes of Rolling Stone Country, Paste Magazine, Huffington Post and No Depression to name a few, and has been deemed ‘alt-country’s next poster boy.’ As A Magnificent Ram A showcases his most ambitious set of recordings to date, “Idiot […]

Plenty of people go to see bands when they come through their town, but most people don’t think about everything that it takes to get those bands to their favorite club. Being on tour for a musician is both enlightening and daunting, as physically and mentally draining as it is stimulating. And no matter what, […]

Prince protege Jesse Johnson  (original guitarist in The Time) and Friends feat Sonny Thompson and Michael Bland vistied their hometown turf of First Avenue in Minneapolis on 12/2/16. Photos by Billy Briggss. Jesse Johnson Sonny Thompson Michael Bland

Chicano Batman came out of L.A., four young men in vintage formalwear, playing songs that blended Brazilian Tropicalía with early ’70s psychedelic soul and the romantic pop of bands like Los Ángeles Negros. It was an immediately addictive sonic brew, and their reputation grew fast. Now, they’re making their boldest statement yet with Freedom Is Free, their third album […]

Michael Dorf is proud to announce that the music of Aretha Franklin, the 18-time GRAMMY Winner and Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame inductee who was named the number one singer of all-time by Rolling Stone magazine, will be celebrated with a special benefit concert at Carnegie Hall on March 6. The initial lineup includes […]

The Chris Robinson Brotherhood (CRB) played to a full house at Portland, Oregon’s Revolution Hall on Saturday, December 3rd, offering up two well-received sets of their signature rock n’ soul sound. Although CRB released a new album, If You Lived Here, You Would Be Home By Now, just a month ago, they would play only […]

Also, Fifty Shades Darker releases its second trailer.

Ryan Adams has announced that his new album Prisoner will be out February 17th on Pax Am/Blue Note – his first new studio LP since his 2015 take on Taylor Swift’s 1989. The twelve tracks that make up Prisoner came to Adams over a prolific period stretching back as far as the week his 2014 self-titled […]