2010

Televised Tune: On The Tube This Weekend

The Classic Albums series dissects Black Sabbath’s epic Paranoid LP nearly 40 years to the day after its release. Tune in to VH1 Classic at 10AM on Sunday morning for

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Video: Junip – Always

Prior to his success as a solo artist, José González fronted an indie-rock band in Sweden in the late ’90s called Junip – releasing a 4-song EP with the group.

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Ray Charles: Rare Genius: The Undiscovered Masters

Concord Record’s John Burk, has compiled an album’s worth of songs worthy of inclusion in the Charles canon. Burk, with cooperation from RPM studios where Charles' music is stored, culled through four decades of tapes, looking for material.  “We narrowed it down to what was actually unreleased, and narrowed that down to songs that feel connected, like an album”, Burk noted. What he chose were ten songs, two from the 70’s, six from the 80’s, and two from the 90’s.

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Sacha Boutros

Sacha Boutros is all about good music and good lyrics.  Although she performs a lot of covers, she also engages herself in writing and producing as well.  Years of piano playing, accompanied by opera training that has strengthened her four-octave range, come together as the perfect recipe for a satisfying and delicious treat.  This treat, which can be delivered in multiple languages, is her voice.

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The B List: 10 Favorite Grateful Dead Books

[Originally Published March 26, 2009]

I’ll never forget the day late Grateful Dead keyboardist Brent Mydland passed away in 1990. I was playing hockey at Camp Westmont when a bunkmate’s brother came down the hill to tell us Brent had died. Now, I’ll be honest – I didn’t know a thing about the band at the time, but I wanted to find out. One of my Deadhead counselors turned me onto David Gans and Peter Simon’s well-written biography of the band, Playing in the Band, and I was immediately fascinated by the history of the band.

Over the past twenty years, I’ve read a number of books on the Grateful Dead and some are spectacular and some aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. The latest tome on the band – Peter Conners’ Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead – is available now at Amazon.com and in honor of what looks to be a terrific addition to a Deadhead’s bookshelf, I’ve put together a list of my ten favorite books on the band…

10. Skeleton Key – David Shenk, Steve Silberman

I’ll never forget David & Steve’s book as the first time I ever saw the phrase 4:20. Skeleton Key offers bite-sized tidbits on phrases that are part of the Deadhead vocabulary – such as 4:20 – among its 400 pages of history, lore, and interviews about the band.

READ ON for nine more of Scotty’s favorite books on the Dead…

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Bloggy Goodness: Drive My Car

A few months back we reported that seminal pop-rock band The Cars had taken to their official Facebook page posting a photo of the surviving band members in a recording

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Another One For Woody

Ten years after former ABB/Gov’t Mule bassist Allen Woody’s death – and the One For Woody concert that celebrated his life – Woody’s former band mates are throwing Another One

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