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July 10, 2019
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Review: Glen Campbell – The Legacy [1961-2017]
Fifteen years ago, Glen Campbell fans were treated to a career-spanning box set that reached back to his days of arriving in Los Angeles (“Turn Around, Look At Me”) and as part of The Green River Boys (“Kentucky Means Paradise”), working its way forward while culling material from virtually all his significant albums and singles. […]
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July 9, 2019
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The Ann Arbor Blues Festival Celebrates 50th Anniversary With Historic Album Release
Back in August 15-18, 1969, more than 400,000 young people descended on Bethel, New York, at Max Yasgur’s dairy farm for a series of concerts since dubbed “Woodstock” after a town 43 miles southwest of the event. Though Woodstock would become the most historically referenced musical gathering of that year and possibly all time, earlier […]
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July 8, 2019
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Blinded By The Light Movie & Soundtrack Coming
In the same approach as the massively popular, Beatles-inspired Yesterday comes a movie inspired by the music of Bruce Springsteen, Blinded By The Light, guided by Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha. The film received critical acclaim when released at Sundance and will be released in theaters on August 14. Its accompanying soundtrack features […]
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July 3, 2019
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Celebrating Country Music’s Bakersfield Sound
Many country music lovers who are into the genre’s early “Bakersfield Sound” immediately conjur memories of Merle Haggard and Buck Owens, the field’s biggest and most storied stars. But beyond the hillbilly and variations on folk and bluegrass that evolved into the Nashvillian soundtrack to America’s working class, Bakersville’s blend of California attitude, honky-tonk, smokey […]
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July 2, 2019
Your Invitation To Ringo Starr’s Birthday Party!
With the press release announcing, “All are welcome,” it looks like we’re invited to Ringo Starr’s birthday party this year! So if you’re in Hollywood on Sunday, July 7, you may want to drop in on the Capitol Tower for Ringo’s 11th annual Peace & Love birthday celebration. Who’ll be there, you ask? Why, former […]
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July 1, 2019
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Turning On and Tuning In with NRBQ Live
Assembling their six Sirius/XM performances on “The Loft” (November 30, 2015) and WFMU-FM’s Monty Hall, Jersey City, NJ concert (August 20, 2017), NRBQ’s new album Turn On, Tune In features the innovative band at their best live, containing six previously unrecorded songs among the 21 tracks. Bob Brainen wrote the liner notes for Turn On, […]
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June 28, 2019
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The Black Keys Rock…Because They Can
The Black Keys are back for their ninth album, Let’s Rock. It’s released today on Easy Eye Sound/Nonesuch, and this one’s a rocker. Let’s Rock is a collection of what’s being called “straightforward rock,” the kind that singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney played in their early days as a band. “When we’re together, […]
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June 27, 2019
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Brian Eno Flies “Capsule,” Relaunches Apollo, Awarded Asteroid
Ambient musician Brian Eno recently advanced the track “Capsule” that is taken from the bonus disc “album” included as the second disc of his upcoming July 19 release, a remastered and “extended” version of his classic Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks. “Capsule” reunites Eno with Apollo‘s original musical cast, his brother Roger and famed producer Daniel […]
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