2016 is turning out to be the year we won’t soon forget when it comes to losing our favorite music stars, as David Bowie, Glenn Frey, Natalie Cole, and country singer Craig Strickland (to name a few) have all gone to that Rock ‘N Roll band in heaven. Now we’ve lost another icon. Jefferson Airplane […]
Bruce Springsteen is out on tour with “The River,” a tribute to the 80s album of the same name, and it’s selling out like hot cakes. The show will feature songs that did not make the album. This will be a tour without Clarence Clemons and Danny Federici who have gone on to that Rock […]
The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards were announced recently, and the new inductees are Run-D.M.C., Earth Wind and Fire, Jefferson Airplane, Herbie Hancock, and Linda Ronstadt. Here’s our final look at these deserving musicians… Earth Wind and Fire is one of those rare soul groups out of Chicago from the late 60s that brought a horn […]
The greatest recognition for any rocker is the attention you receive from your peers, and recently the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards were announced, Run-D.M.C., Earth Wind and Fire, Jefferson Airplane, Herbie Hancock, and Linda Ronstadt will be honored at the upcoming ceremony. Let’s take a couple of days to showcase each upcoming honoree. Here is […]
2016 is the year of the Goat for the Chinese calendar, but please don’t be a goat. This upcoming year will also be a leap year, meaning there will be 29 days in February. Let’s leap into 2016 with a new attitude and showcase the most interesting and lesser known artist of our time with […]
It’s time for another Beatles bite! The little known song “In Spite of All the Danger” was the first recording by the Quarrymen, the precursor to the Beatles in the late 50s, and was written by Paul and George. If you look closely on the disc you will see McCartney/Harrison. It’s the only time the […]
If you can go to only one concert in 2016, the “Rock Hall Three for All” starring super groups Heart, Cheap Trick, and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts is the one to save your money for. The obvious reference to Hall of Fame is that not only are all three in the Hall, Cheap Trick […]
David Bowie lost his life to cancer a few weeks ago, and we’ve been looking at our favorite Bowie songs, here’s part two… “Star Man” was released in 1972, and was a late addition to the album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and Spiders From Mars.” Ziggy was David’s alter ego and was […]
The late Blues guitarist legend B.B. King will be the subject of an upcoming American Masters documentary on PBS, airing February 12th, and will feature Bono, Ringo Starr, Carlos Santana, The Stones Mike Taylor, Paul Rogers, Joe Walsh and more. Riley B. King was born in Mississippi in 1925 to a share cropper’s family, and […]
David Robert Jones, better known as David Bowie, died a while ago and we can’t help thinking about his contributions to Rock ‘N Roll. Here’s part one of our look at David Bowie… Most people don’t realize that he changed his name to David Bowie from David Robert Jones, because Davy Jones of the Monkees […]