It’s not very often that you get to watch a 23 minute jam on television, but you can tonight when VH-1 Classic broadcasts Led Zeppelin’s newly-remastered The Song Remains The
On September 23 the band that was once labeled the Southern-Strokes, Kings Of Leon, will release their second album in as many years: Only By The Night. The trashy Tennessee
In honor of so many Phish anniversaries today (Clifford Ball, The Great Went, Lemonwheel, Coventry) Andy Gadiel is streaming his iTunes Phish library all day. Andy’s iTunes just hit pay
Earlier this week I was able to score a last minute ticket to Conor Oberst’s long sold out, intimate gig at New York City’s Bowery Ballroom. The prolific singer-songwriter, better
Most people usually scratch their head when they find out that the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame calls Cleveland, Ohio it’s home. Sure pioneering DJ Alan Freed got his
This week’s mix tape is a Lazy Susan of Olympic-themed tuneskis. It kicks off with Glory from Umphrey’s, because it’s plain silly that all those Olympic athletes make such a
Fleet Foxes have announced a full tour of North America, kicking off after they complete dates with Wilco later this month. The band will kick off the jaunt in Vancouver
Music industry legend Jerry Wexler, who kick-started his career as a Billboard journalist in the late 1940s and went on to cultivate the careers of Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and
On July 31, Bruce Springsteen closed out his three-night stand at his "homefield," Giants Stadium, under even more special circumstances than usual. An overturned tanker truck (sounding like a Springsteen song in itself) wreaked havoc on concert traffic. Not surprisingly, the Boss compensated for his fans' inconvenience as Springsteen's management put the word out that the show would be pushed back an hour to 9:30.
It's uncomfortable to say so—given all the other variables and the fact that they still bring the heat with such regular intensity—but five years removed from the last, and one of its best, original albums (2003's Hittin the Note) the Allman Brothers Band is in a holding pattern. A new year and another batch of covers—however excitingly rendered–just isn't going to hold the critics back any longer. We need some new tunes, boys—some new fire in the blues-rockin' belly.
