Bombino is Goumour Almoctar, a musician who was born in Tidene, Niger, on January 1, 1980. He is member of the nomadic Ifoghas tribe, which part of the Tuareg...
Category - Rock
For a band of some importance, there is almost no decent video of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. The vintage clip above looks like it was shot...
[column size=one_half position=first ]Captain Beefheart’s real name was Don Van Vliet. He led a life that makes a chronological profile a great deal of...
The invaluable site bobbobst.com tells us that the top song on this day in 1998 was Steve Winwoods “Roll With It.” Here is more on Winwood, who...
David Bromberg has played everything with everyone, or at least it seems that way. His profile is deep and wide: Bob Dylan, Levon Helm, George Harrison...
I vaguely remember that Bill Wyman played bass in a band that was popular decades ago. They had some pretty big hits, as I recall. They say that the fellows...
HT: Ron H. It takes a very brave band–or one with absolutely no notion of how the Internet works–to use a common noun as its name. It likely is the...
Some milestones in the history of civilization: 1772 BC: The Code of Hammurabi 1215 AD: The Magna Carta 1789: The Constitution of the United States 1793: The...
Last month, I had the opportunity to chat with Denny Somach, the author of “Get the Led Out: How Led Zeppelin Became the Biggest Band in the World.” During the...
Wikipedia says that Jan & Dean’s song was tops 51 years ago today. Wikipedia, which knows everything about everything, says that the song originated...
