Escovedo keeps getting off the canvas
- 6:30 AM — May 15 —
- Source: Wisconsin State Journal - Madison WI
Texas-born singer-songwriter Alejandro Escovedo kicks off his latest album, "Big Station" (Fantasy/Concord), with "Man of the World," a throwback rocker that doubles as another musical chapter in his remarkable autobiography. Read More
Music Review: The Nighthawks - Damn Good Time!
- 8:57 PM — May 9 —
- Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Seattle WA
While Mark Wenner is the only original member still in the Washington D.C.-based Nighthawks, the band has maintained a more or less consistent sound since its live debut in 1972. Read More
Music: MusicalWork Review: Ty Segall and White Fence: Hair
- 1:21 PM — May 1 —
- Source: The A.V. Club
Ty Segall and Tim Presley (who records as White Fence , among other monikers and bands) are two young stars of a scene that's been classified under many different names—garage, psych, garage-punk, psych-punk, flower-punk, psych-pop, and so on—but is almost always described in broad terms as "retro."Read More
Hank Cochran Documentary Spotlights Songwriter's Legacy
- 5:18 PM — Apr 26 —
- Source: The Boot
Hank Cochran was one of the most prolific and successful songwriters to call Nashville home. Read More
SONNY VINCENT: A HUM, NOT A CLICK
- 4:52 PM — Apr 26 —
- Source: L.A. Record
Sonny Vincent's Testors are the great lost punk band of New York City '77—high-intensity guitar warfare at its finest that went almost totally unreleased until a trickle of issues in the 2000s and a deluxe discog on John Reis' Swami that presented the Testors in all their gory glory. Read More
Dick Clark had a pretty good beat
- 6:00 PM — Apr 18 —
- Source: MSNBC
When the Doors went on "American Bandstand" in the late 1960s, Dick Clark wanted Jim Morrison, the leather-clad "Lizard King," to wear a tie. Read More
The Legacy of Dick Clark, 'The Fastest Follower in the Business'
- 5:19 PM — Apr 18 —
- Source: Rolling Stone
When the Doors went on American Bandstand in the late Sixties, Dick Clark wanted Jim Morrison, the Lizard King in leather, to wear a tie. Read More
Remembering Eddie Cochran
- 8:14 AM — Apr 17 —
- Source: antiMusic
(Gibson) On this day in 1960, Touring in the U.K., 21-year-old singer Eddie Cochran was killed when the taxi he was traveling in crashed into a lamppost on Rowden Hill, Chippenham, Wiltshire (where a plaque now commemorates the event). Read More
Biography
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