2012

Petty Fest: Webster Hall, New York, NY 10/24/12

Everyone loves Tom Petty. For over 35 years, he’s been a constant staple of the rock and roll landscape, writing honest and straightforward vignettes that always seem to unify the varied branches of the music universe. He’s the common ground that connects the hipster to the mainstream, the urban liberal to the red-state conservative, the jaded blogger to the well-worn classic rock scribe.

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Gov’t Mule: The Georgia Bootleg Box

With  a simply but eye-catching package inside and out, The Georgia Bootleg Box documents the process by which the original Gov’t Mule trio, two years into its existence, was well on its way towards a mission of fine-tuning a repertoire that provides a foundation for the group even today, in its third formal incarnation.

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Brad Gillis

Brad Gillis is one of the reasons Night Ranger has chugged along with the kind of energy you mostly see in bands twice their age. However, on the day that he called in to talk with me about his career, he was enjoying a lazy, beautiful day in the East Bay, “home for eight days so it’s kind of nice,” Gillis laughed.

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