Country Joe & The Fish - Electric Music For The Mind And Body
It isn't easy to pinpoint singular, watershed moments in a culture's evolution – in fact, it's a messy business, heroes and hucksters alike laying claims to history.
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It isn't easy to pinpoint singular, watershed moments in a culture's evolution – in fact, it's a messy business, heroes and hucksters alike laying claims to history.
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Women rock and if you live in Seattle, you can celebrate them, as the first museum exhibit featuring the most influential female musicians hits the EMP Museum in Seattle this summer.
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Lore City are not the kind of band to take things lightly.
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A Haight-Ashbury Museum of Psychedelic Art and History is in development in San Francisco, but former Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen has beaten them to the idea.
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"No, I'm the luckiest guy in the world!"
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I attended my first South by Southwest in 1991.
Read MoreIn the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.
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The Show No Mercy showcase at House Of Vans (aka Mohawk) started early.
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The Grateful Dead graced the stage of the Capitol Theatre on the 23rd of February exactly forty two years before this Grace Potter & the Nocturnals show.
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Craig Chaquico joins us to talk about key moments from Jefferson Starship and his solo career, including his take on the Albert King-via-Cream classic "Born Under a Bad Sign" from the guitarist's newly released debut for Blind Pig. "JANE," with JEFFERSON STARSHIP ( FREEDOM AT POINT ZERO, 1979): The first album to feature singer Mickey Thomas, after the departure of singers Marty Balin and Grace Slick in 1978, saw Jefferson Starship's sound shift more to Chaquico's serrated guitar work — perhaps best heard on this No. 14 hit, with its lengthy solo.
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So it's obvious that the band is rocking again.
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In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.
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Go to RockstarUproar.com to check out the chat between the frontmen of UPROAR, which is in full swing right now.
Read MoreWith intertwining acoustic and electric guitars, and Buffalo Springfield's effervescent backup harmonies, Stephen Stills paid tribute to a "Rock & Roll Woman" who epitomized cool hipness.
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Native New Yorker Jim Sclavunos of Teenage Jesus/Grinderman/The Cramps/et cetera fame was spotted in Armley in Leeds recently.
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I've been listening to a lot of Joni Mitchell lately, and I'm not sure exactly why.
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The Killing Jar opens with a bold statement of intent – a gargantuan drum roll that evokes The Misfits, The Dead Kennedys and Grinderman.
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commercialized commodity they were originally intended to be.
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Legendary singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell has said she is 'trying' to quit the music business to help out sufferers of Morgellons disease ' an illness she first publicly admitted to having in 2010.
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Due to circumstances beyond my control, I was unable to participate in the voting and write-ups for what is by far the most popular Popdose post to date, the 100 " Greatest Cover Songs of All Time ".
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It's a Monday night at L.A,'s Viper Room, but people are packed into the club tighter than fat Elvis in leather pants.
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This week in rock history, the Apollo Theater reopened, John Lennon knocked out "Instant Karma" in one day, Grace Slick and Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane gave birth to a daughter named god, superstars gathered to record "We Are the World" and Ray Charles sang "America the Beautiful" at the Super Bowl.
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This was an incredible year for metal, with major players and up-and-comers alike releasing stellar material in almost every subgenre.
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With the music industry being in the sad state that it's in, more and more artists are going the DIY route.
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I hope that listening to this album does not automatically enlist me into a cult!
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This week in rock history, Beatles manager Brian Epstein and R&B singer Aaliyah passed away, Jefferson Airplane incited a riot, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant reunited for a famed MTV special and Brian May received a doctorate in astrophysics.
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Morning time in Pickathon-land started with kids-o-plenty dashing past me; an act which sent plumes of dust both skyward and camp-ward like mini Mt. St. Helens eruptions.
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Kirpatrick Thomas may not be a household name, but as far as the Los Angeles underground scene is concerned, he's up there with the likes of Anton Newcombe in the city's musical folklore.
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As FiL reminded us, 1967 was the year that psychedelic music arrived, led by Magical Mystery Tour, but with many artists ready and able to follow.
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