August 19, 2019

Green Day, Woodstock, Rock ‘N’ Roll Bedrooms and Much More: A Conversation With Photographer Bob Gruen

Green Day / Photographs by Bob Gruen

Mike Ragogna: Bob, you’ve photographed so many bands, your photos appearing on various album covers and included in many books and publications. Your latest rock anthology is simply titled Green Day Photographs by Bob Gruen. So was it just finally Green Day’s turn? Bob Gruen: [laughs] I don’t know if it works like that! They […]

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August 15, 2019

Rethink Thursday: A Brief Reintroduction To Bob Hillman And His album Some Of Us Are Free, Some Of Us Are Lost

Bob Hillman / Some Us Are Free, Some Of Us Are Lost

Today being the anniversary of the launch of the Woodstock festival, one can’t help but reflect on some of the greatest artists and rock groups of all time, such as Santana, The Band, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin, Arlo Guthrie, Richie Havens, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Melanie, Jimi Hendrix, and so many […]

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July 22, 2019

For Apollo 11’s 50th Anniversary: A Song About The Moon Called “Song About The Moon”

Song About The Moon

Back on September 19, 1981, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunited as “Simon & Garfunkel” for their famous concert in New York’s Central Park that was released as an album the following year. Despite some traditional tension the pair already had built-in to their relationship that reached back to childhood, the touring apparently worked so […]

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July 19, 2019

Jethro Tull’s Stormwatch Turns 40

Jethro Tull's Stormwatch 40th Anniversary Force Ten Edition

A new 4 CD/2 DVD collection of Jethro Tull’s Stormwatch is coming October 18, Rhino’s latest expanded box set in a series celebrating the group’s albums’ 40th anniversaries. Stormwatch was the third in a series of Tull’s folk-rock releases, following Songs From The Wood and Heavy Horses, the project also the last to feature the […]

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