Review: John Mellencamp- No Better than This
"Don't judge a book by it's cover," the old saying goes. As with most old sayings it proves true in most cases. But not this time. Go ahead and judge this one by it's cover. What appears to be a vintage photo
Neil Young's Archives Vol. 2 will include 4 unreleased albums
Even as he continues to tour and finalize a new Daniel Lanois-produced set of songs, work pushes ahead on the second installment of Neil Young's multi-volume career retrospective, Archives.
According to a post on Young's own news page, NY Times, the second set of the Archives
Broolyn's Guignol & Philadelphia's Mischief Brew "Fight Dirty"
Towards the end of 2009, Erik Petersen, frontman for Philadelphia's very own gypsy punk trio Mischief Brew, teamed up with Brooklyn's instrumental gypsy jazz quartet Guignol for a rather impressive collaboration of musical efforts titled "Fight Dirty." Taking into consideration songs like Mischief Brew&
how many cover versions of "Wagon Wheel" are there?
The answer to that question is clearly "not enough".
Feeling like Rip Van Winkle, a few weeks ago my kid came into the office and asks if I ever heard the Against Me version of "Wagon Wheel" and I just looked back at him with a
Setting the Record Straight on Bobby Fuller
I had a fascinating phone conversation this afternoon with Rick Stone, a friendly guy from El Paso who in the mid '60s was the road manager for The Bobby Fuller 4.
Rick had contacted Kyla Fairchild of No Depression, where I'd cross-posted my recent column on the
Tuli Kupferberg of the Fugs (1923 - 2010): Rad pacifist street peddler who begat folk rock, hippiedom & punk
According to the family of Tuli Kupferberg, the poet-comic-satirist-cartoonist-street artist-community media star and truth teller who died last week at age 86, the public service at Manhattan's St. Marks church from noon to 3 pm Saturday 7/17, will have "no religious element. . . and Fugs Coby Batty,