Posts by Leslie Michele Derrough

When it’s the last night of a year-long celebratory tour, the guys like to have a little bit of extra fun. So when Foreigner singer Kelly Hansen yells out, “I don’t have to save my voice for the next show!” during the second song in their set in Biloxi, Mississippi, last week, you knew it […]

Sting has been on the rock music charts since 1978 when The Police released their debut album, Outlandos d’Amour featuring the hit singles “Roxanne,” “Can’t Stand Losing You” and “So Lonely.” With their breath-of-fresh-air reggae rhythms and punk undertones, the trio of Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland soared high through five studio albums and […]

Greta Van Fleet Leads Must Needed Hard Rock Revival (INTERVIEW)

Rex Brown said in a recent Glide interview that, “You can take the boy away from the farm but the farm pretty much comes with you,” in regards to his music past. And that is very well true of John Doe when he played the Red Dragon Listening Room in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Saturday […]

One year ago this month, the Red Dragon Listening Room in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, brought Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen to sing in front of a sold out crowd. With their harmonies and Hillman’s mandolin magic, it was a show you couldn’t imagine being any better. Well, on Wednesday night it got better. With Hillman […]

Rex Brown doesn’t mince too many words. He’s about as straight-forward as an arrow heading directly towards the red circle. So when he was ready to make some new music, he wanted it on his terms, in his words and let the fans see if they liked it, without him begging like a wide-eyed pop […]

When talking about Prog, inevitably Spock’s Beard will come up in the discussion. I mean, how can it not? Yes, ELP and Genesis may have been the genre’s biggest stars in those early days but Spock’s Beard was the new generation’s messiah of intelligent, mind-bending sounds. And one of their greatest achievements was the 2002 […]

“Light it up, let’s get this show on the road!” Co-lead singer/keyboard player Lawrence Gowan sings out the rally cry and Styx is off and running for ninety-plus minutes of rock & roll at Studio A inside the IP Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi on Friday night, October 20th. Those words also happen to be the […]

“We’re An American Band.” “Some Kind Of Wonderful.” “I’m Your Captain/Closer To Home.” For Grand Funk Railroad, the hits kept rolling in the seventies as they packed arenas for supercharged live shows. Mark Farner, Don Brewer and Mel Schacher took longhaired rock, fused it with their love of R&B and high-tailed their Flint, Michigan, band […]

Following a week that saw the passing of one of rock music’s top songwriters in Tom Petty, it brings to mind how important words are to the songs we love. Not just a beat or a hummable melody, a good song becomes a great song when the words are powerful, touching a nerve or a […]

For their third DVD release of 2017, the Rolling Stones dive into their vault in more ways than one. Celebrating the release of their iconic zipper-covered album, Sticky Fingers, which had been released in April of 1971, with a 2015 concert at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles which kicked off their Zip Code US […]

You can hear it in their voices that this is something genuinely exciting. With last Friday’s release of Rise, the first collaborative EP from Orianthi and Richie Sambora, you can easily imagine this is only the tip of the iceberg for the duo who call their project RSO. The five songs spring to life with […]

Rock & roll is part of my DNA. I don’t do it because I have to do it; I do it because I love this kind of music. I’ve never done anything but this. For Billy Burnette, his brand of rock & roll, known commonly as Rockabilly, is very much a part of his DNA. […]

Today’s world is a chaotic place, full of anger and vocalized disappointment in government; a place where families cling to each other in safe solidarity and the everyday workingman is the backbone of small communities. And it is in times like these that the ghost of Woody Guthrie’s words, the echo of an old acoustic […]

It’s common knowledge what a breeding ground for great music Austin, Texas is. So it’s no surprise that Tyrone Vaughan has been gaining attention for his guitar playing and singing, starting with his group Breedlove, through Royal Southern Brotherhood and now with the Milligan Vaughan Project. While RSB is laying low, Vaughan decided it was […]

She’s been a Bangle, a Drifter and a substitute Go-Go. And now Vicki Peterson is a Skull – an Action Skull, to be precise. Along with her husband, Beach Boys touring drummer John Cowsill, and singer/songwriter/actor Bill Mumy, Peterson’s love for harmonies is percolating once again, this time with a Laurel Canyon flavor. Premiering in […]

Paul Gilbert of Mr. Big Talks His Longtime Relationship With All Guitars (INTERVIEW)

You may have heard about this little band from up around Seattle. They make a loud noise and have become cult music gods over their thirty-four year career. They’re called the Melvins. “We’re definitely an acquired taste,” singer Buzz Osborne told Kerrang! Magazine back in 1992, after they had been hailed as the punk messiahs […]

You might not think that a Pennsylvania born, California raised young man would be so heavily influenced by the boogie woogie piano music that circulated down in the deep south of New Orleans. But he was and now A.J. Croce is a man with eight albums under his belt and a new one on the […]

Like their British brothers-in-arms the Rolling Stones, The Who is getting in the habit of regularly releasing old concerts in their entirety on DVD/Blu-Ray for public consumption. This time out it’s their set at the Isle Of Wight Festival in 2004, where they headlined Saturday night to a worshipful crowd eating up their every note. […]