John Sebastian News and Photos

Forgotten series: Lovin’ Spoonful’s Zalman Yanovsky – Alive and Well in Argentina (1968)

Wed, May 08 2013 1:07pm - Source: Something Else!

Lead guitarist Zal Yanovsky's lone solo, after his unceremonious and quite unfair firing from the Lovin' Spoonful in 1967, announces his new sense of freedom with an opening Jerry Yester co-written up-tempo rocker called "Raven in a Cage."

Forgotten series: The Everpresent Fullness – Fine and Dandy: The Complete Recordings (2004)

Thu, February 14 2013 1:42pm - Source: Something Else!

Although the mystical name suggests a psychedelic consciousness, this Southern California act actually specialized in jugband-styled folk rock.

Tim Hardin: remembering the lost genius of his music

Sat, January 19 2013 8:40am - Source: Telegraph - London - UK [Music]

Bob Dylan once called him "the greatest songwriter alive" and Joe Strummer regarded him as a "lost genius of music".

Band Profile: Grey Host

Mon, November 26 2012 5:35pm - Source: Each Note Secure

It's a weekday afternoon in early autumn, and I'm holding my ears as a deep cacophony erupts around me.

Graded on a Curve: Phil Ochs, All the News that’s Fit to Sing

Thu, November 01 2012 2:02pm - Source: The Vinyl District

The union of political subject matter and music can surely make for a problematic, sometimes even dysfunctional relationship, but the occasions where the results actually work are cause for celebration.

Concert Review: John Sebastian and Jimmy Vivino Dig Down to Their Roots

Wed, September 26 2012 1:18am - Source: Pop Dose

To the untrained observer, the pairing of a '60s pop icon with a late-night guitar master might seem a bit mismatched, but when the musicians in question are John Sebastian and Jimmy Vivino, it makes perfect sense.

Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 60

Wed, August 29 2012 12:08pm - Source: Pop Dose

Dw. Dunphy - And so America begins its long love affair with Hall and Oates and Hall begins his long love affair with Hall. I kid, of course (but not by much).

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 237

Fri, July 20 2012 3:21pm - Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

Blues mandolin legend James "Yank" Rachell was born in Brownsville, Tennessee, in 1910.

White Manna - White Manna

Wed, July 04 2012 3:30pm - Source: The Quietus

It is a testament to the confidence White Manna must have surrounding their first album that this most triumphant of uncompromisingly relentless psych bands have the absolute bare minimum of online presences.

Got to Get You Into My Life

Fri, June 22 2012 5:52pm - Source: The Hits Just Keep On Comin'

Stealing a page from the artist formerly known as Kinky Paprika , who used to break down American Top 40 shows song-by-song while listening to 'em, here's my live blog of the show for the weekend of June 19, 1976.

Graded on a Curve: Pianosaurus, Groovy Neighborhood

Thu, June 21 2012 4:59pm - Source: The Vinyl District

Some bands beat around the bush in communicating what makes them hypothetically so special, offering a slow smoldering come on ala the archetypal filmic femme fatale.

Fifty Sides sheds new light on songs that made the Beach Boys’ legend

Tue, June 12 2012 11:43am - Source: Something Else!

Though Carl and Dennis Wilson are much missed, the harmonious and largely gratifying new album by the surviving and reunited Beach Boys comprises the first new studio material in over two decades from "America's Band," both celebrating and exemplifying "push button heaven, capturing memories from afar."

Book Notes - Dylan Hicks "Boarded Windows"

Fri, May 04 2012 3:11pm - Source: Largehearted Boy

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.

The #1 Albums: The Mamas and the Papas’ “If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears”

Fri, May 04 2012 12:24am - Source: Pop Dose

This series, which intends to discuss each album to reach #1 on the Billboard chart began at a now-defunct website with Meet the Beatles in the winter of 1964.

Dr Feelgood - All Through The City

Sat, April 14 2012 9:19am - Source: Uncut.co.uk

It's Sunday, November 17, 1974 at that bastion of hippie fundamentalism, the Camden Roundhouse, where mad dog Canvey Island rhythm and blues monsters Dr Feelgood are supporting Nektar, the Anglo-German space warriors, who the rump of the hairy crowd is here to see.

Drunk Music Reviews: The Upset Victory Release Show at Madison Theatre

Fri, March 02 2012 5:39pm - Source: Each Note Secure

Drunk Music Review is Caitlin Behle and John Sebastian.

Holly Cara Price: Dion DiMucci in Conversation With Steven Van Zandt at the 92nd Street Y

Wed, February 22 2012 10:58pm - Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

Just imagine you're sitting in your own living room and it's nice and cozy and quiet, and across from you in two comfy chairs are Dion DiMucci and Steven Van Zandt talking, for 90 minutes, about Dion's long and amazing career.

Rock Flashback: Dr. Timothy Leary

Fri, November 04 2011 5:22pm - Source: WNEW

If there were some kind of national word-association test, the name of Timothy Leary would likely elicit puzzled looks from younger people — but those of a certain age would remember Leary well as one of the chief philosophers of the hippie era, the so-called "High Priest of LSD."

Drunk Music Review: Clifton Heights Music Fest 2011

Fri, October 14 2011 2:13pm - Source: Each Note Secure

The Clifton Heights Music Festival is a great opportunity to catch sets from what seems like every local band in a span of two nights.

Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 14

Wed, October 05 2011 12:38pm - Source: Pop Dose

It's safe to say that there's at least one or two bona fide classics in this week's AM Gold wrapup.

Pop’s Creepiest Treasures: Lost and Found

Sat, September 17 2011 4:15pm - Source: Obscure Sound

Love, as those who have been in it can attest, is a finely tuned balancing act of emotions and expressions, one which can be tilted askew by the slightest bit of overindulgence, made threatening by the tone-deafness of a proclamation.

WayBack Wednesday - Lovin Spoonful remastered

Wed, September 14 2011 8:44pm - Source: MOG

All sixteen singles released between 1965 and 1968 have been remastered and are here.

Rock Flashback: Bruce Springsteen Destroys Anne Murray

Wed, August 03 2011 5:31pm - Source: WNEW

Last April, we told you about the time Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band opened for the Beach Boys — in 1973, just after the release of Greetings From Asbury Park. A year later, Springsteen was still not yet a headliner, although the gigs were getting better.