Jerry Leiber

Loudon Wainwright III and Richard Thompson wrapped up their five-week tour as a duo, under the fittingly ironic title "Loud & Rich," with a sterling display of songwriting acumen and musicianship Friday at UCLA, but one that wasn't particularly loud or likely to make anybody rich. Read More

The Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Smokey Joe's Café comes to the Clark Center in Arroyo Grande. Read More

"Smokey Joe's Cafe" begins with a happy reminder that we are all part of a "Neighborhood." Read More

Early-60s girl groups like the Shirelles and the Chiffons conjure a bygone, more innocent time when female adolescent concerns ostensibly could be summed up in songs like "Chapel of Love" and "I Wish I Knew What Dress to Wear." Because of this perception, and because the girl groups merely sang--they almost never wrote their own material or played instruments--their records are often assumed to have little bearing on rock, which everybody knows is made by self-contained bands of bad boys who write their own songs. Read More

Early-60s girl groups like the Shirelles and the Chiffons conjure a bygone, more innocent time when female adolescent concerns ostensibly could be summed up in songs like "Chapel of Love" and "I Wish I Knew What Dress to Wear." Because of this perception, and because the girl groups merely sang--they almost never wrote their own material or played instruments--their records are often assumed to have little bearing on rock, which everybody knows is made by self-contained bands of bad boys who write their own songs. Read More

Freddy Bienstock, a prominent music publishing executive who had a long association with Elvis Presley as his designated song screener, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. Read More

My Illustrious Wasteland , there are a handful of period musicals dealing with atypical musical theater issues and plenty of shows that seem both promising and inspired. Read More

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"Smokey Joe's Cafe," a rock 'n' roll musical revue, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 26 at Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center, Richland Township. Read More

These are songs that shaped a generation and laid the foundation for all pop and rock songs that followed. Read More