November 23, 2011

Best of the B List: The Muppet Show

Scott Bernstein November 23, 2011 7 Comments

A list of 10 great musical performances starring The Muppets.

F4tF: Turducken

Jon Hochstat November 23, 2011 No Comments

Try something a little different this Thanksgiving.

Rolling Stone Releases 100 Greatest Guitarists List

Scott Bernstein November 23, 2011 39 Comments

An esteemed panel puts together a list of the greatest guitarists for RS.

Video: The Roots – Sleep

Ryan Dembinsky November 23, 2011 No Comments

The Roots give us our first taste of the forthcoming LP undun.

Intermezzo: Apologetic Fallon Grounds Questlove

Scott Bernstein November 23, 2011 No Comments

Was Questlove wrong to take a shot at a Presidential candidate?

Paul Kelly: Songs From The South Volumes 1 & 2: Greatest Hits

Doug Collette November 23, 2011 No Comments

Based on the range of material included in Songs From the South Vol. 1&2, not to mention the uniformly brilliant production throughout the two discs, it’s deeply confounding to consider that Paul Kelly remains sadly unknown outside his homeland of Australia. “”Before Too Long” and “”Look So Fine, Feel So Low” suggest how fully-formed he was as a writer and performer when he began recording. Then as now, he and his work transcend easy categorization or comparisons.

Chris Cornell : Songbook

Jeremy Lukens November 23, 2011 No Comments

Throughout his enviable career, Chris Cornell has always enjoyed taking his music in different directions. Whether blazing the trail for the grunge movement with Soundgarden, fronting rock supergroup Audioslave or releasing solo albums, Cornell was always experimenting with his artistic expression. Though at times his experiments failed, such as his ill-conceived collaboration with Timbaland, even at his worst Cornell’s music had one nugget of redemption: that voice.

Mona: Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA 11/20/11

Nick Gunther November 23, 2011 No Comments

Nick Brown, lead singer and guitarist of the Nashville-by-way-of-Ohio-based rock group Mona, hasn’t broken a string in six months, but this evening at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia he’s already broken two in back to back songs; it doesn’t seem to bother him the least. There’s an edge to Mona’s sound and band complexion, greatly elevated by Brown’s attitude and energy, comparable to The Clash’s Joe Strummer with a faint similarity in the style made public more recently by the Kings of Leon.