There is a very nice piece in The Washington Post about The Newport Folk Festival, which starts runs from July 28 to the 29th at Rhode Island’s Fort Adams...
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Mick Taylor was the lead guitarist for The Rolling Stones before Ron Wood. One of the commentators suggests that the bass player is John McVie from Fleetwood...
On this day in 1968, Iron Butterfly’s In-a-Gadda-da-Vida entered the U.S. charts, where it sold 4 million copies. It was the band’s second album...
Rachel Crow, who appeared in the first season of the show X-Factor, has released a terrific anti-bullying video entitled Mean Girls. Check it out at Hollywood...
This post comes from my nephew. He writes: Blockhead is an instrumental-hip hop/trip hop producer from Manhattan. His songs are made exclusively from samples...
The Spice Girls made their debut on this day in 1996 on the British show Top of the Pops. Above they sing Viva Forever with Hairy Spice, who also was known as...
The above probably predates The Thundering Herd, which was the great name that Herman used for years. It was a driving and creative band. Here is the first...
This morning, I posted an item about Norah Jones. Jones, I learned yesterday, is the daughter of Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. Here is dad at work…
The Mother Nature Network has an interesting story detailing how music is helping people with serious spinal injuries. Patients are fitted with a glove that...
I had no idea that Norah Jones is the daughter of Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. It was the most surprising thing I’ve learned since starting this...
