Goodbye Phantom DanBy
JBev
As members of the E Street Band go, it was easy to overlook keyboardist Danny Federici, who passed away on April 17 due to complications from melanoma. After all, Stevie Van Zandt and Max Weinberg are now certified TV stars, Roy Bittan’s piano is front and center for much of [...] Your favorite song is selling what now?By
Jimmy Mac
Besides for cute babies and adorable animals, popular music is the strongest selling point for trying to get you to buy their product. Television and radio advertising has been aligning itself with music since their advent, so if you’re wondering how you arrived at the decision to buy that canister of Pringles, you just may [...]  Record store dayBy
David
April 19th is being celebrated as Record Store Day, a bit of a marketing effort to get people to remember what was THE place to buy music, pre-the series of tubes. Metallica has agreed to launch the day with an in-store appearance at Rasputin Music in San Francisco. But when asked what their [...] Who’s minding The Beatles’ store?By
JBev
The recent passing of longtime Beatles associate Neil Aspinall should be a cause for sadness and alarm among Beatle fans. Sadness, for obvious reasons, as Aspinall was with the band before they got big and filled every role from driving the band to gigs to managing Apple Records. He [...] Austin City Limits 2008By
David
The lineup for the Austin City Limits Music Festival to be held in Austin, TX September 26-28 2008 was announced today. Once again, it is a strong lineup for what was last year the fourth largest grossing music festival in the world, with $11 million in sales and almost 250,000 fans in attendance over [...]  BrrruuucceeeeBy
David
Part-preacher, part-shaman, part-observer, part-rocker, part-best bar band frontman you’ve ever seen, Bruce Springsteen rolled into town last night with the venerable E-Street Band in tow. They’ve been in mothballs for the last couple Bruce tours, but they were back in all-black and put the frame around Bruce’s three-hour painting. And all the grandparents go, do-do-do-do-doBy
David
Young@Heart is a new documentary about the Young@Heart Chorus. The current performers in Young@Heart range in age from 72 to 88. There are some with prior professional theater or music experience, others who have performed extensively on the amateur level, and some who never stepped onto a stage before turning eighty. What makes the chorus [...] Black PostcardsBy
David
I just completed reading a frontman’s tale of rock ‘n roll life. The book is Black Postcards by Dean Wareham, formerly of the bands Luna and Galaxie 500. Neither band made great commercial nor critical waves, but Dean’s words speak of fighting the good fight, album after album, tour after tour & band [...] |
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