A Weekly Compendium Of Random Articles From The World Wide Web! New Metadata Standard Making Music Easy To Find Ron Asheton: King Of The Stooges The Nuttiest Albums From The Age Of …
Mar 27 2020
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Mar 24 2020
Faces in the Crowd: Jimmy Miller (Producer)
“One thing that producers and engineers tend to have in common is their undeniable love of music, and it is the highs they experience in the recording studio--those exhilarating moments when the blending of artistic effort, musical material, and…
Mar 18 2020
When Concert Posters Were An Art Form 1967
From the Famous Rock Posters site: "Concert poster art is usually defined by the bold and graphical psychedelic rock posters from the 1960's. In the history of rock poster production, these posters were considered just advertising for the…
Feb 11 2020
The History of Glam Rock
Glam Rock was a rock & roll music genre which proceeded the punk music movement in the early 70's. Along with the music which parlayed rock music in a much more flamboyant manner, Glam Rock also had a significant…
Jan 14 2020
Younger Than Yesterday: Early Photos of Rock & Roll Stars
1953
1953 Eddie Cochran age 15
1960 David Crosby when he was a member of the folk music combo Les Baxter's Balladeers
1961 Eric Clapton …
Jan 3 2020
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Oct 22 2019
Rock & Roll: Why The 80's Pretty Much Sucked
As I remember it, the 1980s was a decade in which the genre known as basic meat & potatoes rock & roll began to be undergo a myriad of changes. The punk rock revolution was underway but…
Sep 3 2019
Rock & Roll Library: Great Jones Street - Don DiLillo (1973)
"Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the somber renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings. I mean long journeys across gray space. I mean danger, the edge of every void…
Aug 15 2019
Remembering Woodstock On Its 50 Year Anniversary
50 years ago today, The Woodstock Festival took place in White Lake, NY. It was an event that transformed the youth culture and established the Music Festival template that continues to this very day.
Woodstock: The Event …
Aug 13 2019
My First Rock Concert
"Say, what was the first rock concert you went to?" Hmmm...let me think about that for a minute or two...no, wait! I remember now! It happened on a beautiful summer day on August 13, 1967. I had just returned…