The 2017 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of 2017 is an exciting group of stars including ELO, Joan Baez, Journey (finally!), Pearl Jam, Tupac Shakur and Yes. The induction ceremony will be held at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn, April 7th. Who will be eligible this year for the 2018 voting process? The […]
The 2017 inductees into the Songwriters Hall of Fame were announced not too long ago and the list is quite impressive. Honored are Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr., Peter Cetera, Robert Lamm and James Pankow of Chicago, and Jay-Z, the first rapper to be included in this impressive Hall. This Hall was […]
Record Store Day’s details have been released and it’s time to get excited. It’s less than one month away! The date of this one is April 22 and can be found at participating locations around the United States. Metallica and Dave Grohl have been previous ambassadors for this day and this year it’ll be St. […]
The 80s was an interesting decade, perhaps one of the greatest set of years since the 60s. The 80s was the birth of the internet and the IT revolution, and ultimately Reganomics; the ‘Trickle Down Economics’ that greatly impacted our country. Here are the 80s albums that remain part of our music fabric… ‘Synchronicity’ by […]
We live in interesting times. In the good old days, if you wanted to see a band live in concert you would buy a ticket to the show as stand the entire night screaming your head off. Now, we have Skype, text, video meetings, virtual experiences and more. In that vein of futuristic thought we […]
1982 was a year of early British invasion, punk, and more. Gas was $.91 cents a gallon, the news-paper USA Today began to publish, and Michal Mann submitted his first draft to the NBC executives for a new show called ‘Gold Coast,’ evolving to the iconic ‘Miami Vice.’ What were the top songs in 1982? […]
MLB Spring training is almost over, which means the baseball season is about to start. How about those great baseball songs? Although considered to be a country song, “Cheap Seats” by the group Alabama is a great song about life in the minor leagues, mentioning the ‘in-between innings’ promotions and memorable food. Minor league baseball […]
Donald Fagen and Walter Becker have been ‘Steely Dan’ for over 30 years, and boy they’ve seen their share of ups and downs. The two met in 1968 at Bard College, located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. They joined the pop group Jay and the American’s for a tour, then struck out on their own and […]
Jimi Hendrix was one in a million in the word of rock and roll, leaving this warm earth at the age of 27, well before his time. If you were to look at any ‘top guitarists’ of all-time list, Jimi will undoubtedly be in every top five. In honor of life and talents, there’s a […]
Charles Edward Anderson Berry, or Chuck Berry, died over the weekend at the age of 90. We thought we’d spend one more day illuminating the contributions made by Chuck over the course of his 70-year career. How good of a songwriter was Chuck Berry? He wrote “No Particular Place to Go,” “You Never Can Tell,” […]