Hopefully this list will inspire you to get off your couch and check out some of these bands live. We all need a little rock n' roll to make us feel good. If you have additions to the list please email me at amy(at)rockerzine(dot)com and I will be happy to include them in the next update. Click the band you want to see dates for below, or scroll to see em all! Adam Ant *~* Ryan Adams [...]
Editor's Note: In the interest of preserving the environment this holiday season, we are going to recycle and reuse some old blog posts. Oh, there may be a new one here and there but we want to reduce our footprint on the blogosphere (whatever that means). In other words, we're just lazy. Don't worry, we have made sure all our links are working for the most part. So let the holiday season begin! With Thanksgiving coming up and all, we are sure you have a lot of things to do and to think about. [...]
I never dreamed I'd own the whole Tex Skerball collection without illegally downloading the videos from YouTube. And to tell you the truth, I was afraid to do that because, frankly, Tex scares me a little. But I plopped "Five Loose Screws," the new five-song EP of Graham Parker outtakes, into my computer and there [...]
As a New Englander, we get a bit jaded around here. I find it really hard to take overblown (get it?) prognostications of foul weather very seriously. I distinctly remember one time it cost me dearly though. I was working in Framingham, MA and there was a big snowstorm in the offing. Why I went to the office that day I'll never know, but I think I was scheduled to have lunch with a friend of mine if memory serves. There was some kind of announcement at work and the office was closed by 11 AM. Everybody was scampering [...]
This is Graham Parker & The Rumour back on the 17th March 1977 performing live in concert for BBC Sight & Sounds, in London. Fans of Graham Parker's music would do well to check out his website (link below) as he has been and continues to release a considerable amount of archive material from across his career. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Graham Parker sang in small-time English bands such as the Black Rockers and Deep Cut Three while working in dead-end jobs like a glove factory and a petrol [...]
Nice weather is right around the corner. Know how I know? 'Cause so many bands are loading up their tour buses and vans and hitting the road. To which I say woo hoo! Some are doing club shows, others are gearing up larger venues including festivals (Hello Coachella and Sasquatch!), and there's something for everyone. Hopefully this list will inspire you to get off your couch and check out some of these bands live. We all need a little rock n' roll to make us feel good. If you have additions to the list [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music , Exclusive Kevin Trapp In Graham Parker 's experience, the performance you try to record is always the one where something goes wrong. "There's always a certain edge that creeps in, and usually what happens is, something creeps in that makes it the worst gig of the tour and ruins the whole thing," Parker tells Spinner.
The two soul Christmas mixes focussed on soul from the 1960s and '70s. This mix, the third for Christmas, covers mostly the era from the 1980s to the present (I think the Sweet Divines' version of Everyday Will Be Like A Holiday is the most recent recording on this mix). One song, I'll Be Home For Christmas, is represented twice here, but in two very different versions. The packed file includes a front and back cover, and the mix is timed, as always to fit on a standard CD-R (plus a bonus track, which wouldn't fit on the [...]
This DVD is about as good an introduction to the man and his music as one could ask for.
With Thanksgiving coming up and all, we are sure you have a lot of things to do and to think about. Like: wouldn't it be great if my turkey made the in-laws sick? So sick they couldn't come back for Christmas? Or: Are the Houston Texans (substitute your team name here) going to win any more games? And: Is somebody gonna give me that Springsteen box set for Christmas (so I don't have to drop 100 bucks on it)? Ah, we know you have a lot on your mind. So don't worry - you take care of the [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News For a punk singer-songwriter, Ted Leo has written his fair share of lengthy tunes. But Sunday night at the Matador 21 birthday concert in Las Vegas, when Leo said "we've got two more" despite there being at least 15 minutes left in his allotted set, you knew something was up. There was. First, an epic, thrashing take on the 'Hearts of Oak' live favorite 'Ballad of a Sin Eater,' Leo [...]
I first met Karen in a bar in Southeast, a new wave club near the Eastern Market run by an Arab named Haddad whom everyone called HaDaddy-O. This was late in '79 or early in 1980, the watershed years that saw the debut release of the Pretenders, Graham Parker's Squeezing Out Sparks, and Elvis Costello's Get Happy, three of the finest albums ever produced. That I get nostalgic now when I hear "You Can't Be Too Strong" or "New Amsterdam" or when I smell cigarette smoke in a bar or feel sweat drip down my back in a [...]
Editor's Note: Our L.A. correspondent Randy Fuller has written a post for his excellent wine blog Now and Zin on wine and rock and roll. He has graciously allowed us to reprint this post - and we've included links to some of the songs referenced in the copy. And at the end, we have added a few "bonus" songs of our own.) One of my many joys in life is music. I love gathering mp3s of songs together in a thematic group and burning them to a CD. I [...]
I'm leaving for the wonderful world of white blazes this weekend (not pictured above), so get at me if you'll be around the NY/CT border. We'll see about drinking some beers as the sun goes down. Hope it's good for everyone. MP3: Graham Parker - Silly Thing MP3: Lowell George - What Do You Want The Girl To Do [...]
The cursive scrawl on the cover of Graham Parker's 1976 debut makes it look like it's called Howlin' Wino, which is kind of appropriate; after all, this is rambunctious British pub rock at its finest. Though lumped in with the punk and new-wave movements owing to his connections with Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds, and Stiff Records honcho Dave Robinson, Parker comes off here more like an angry soul man
It's not yet the summer, but the new albums are coming pretty hot and heavy now. Let's take a listen to a few new sets that have come out recently. Peter Frampton might have been a bit of a fluke as a platinum-selling artist in the 1970s, but he's always been a pretty decent singer/songwriter and an outstanding guitarist. The veteran rocker's newest, Thank You Mr. Churchill , is a strong album that showcases the strengths that Frampton always had, even back to his days in Humble Pie. Anywhere you want [...]
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Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive It's no secret that getting a song in a popular television show means big bucks for artists these days, and it's even better if your song is chosen as the show's theme song. For old-school rocker Graham Parker , whose recording career dates back to the mid-'70s, it seemed he was potentially heading down that television-theme path to riches as well. "CD sales are over, let's face it," Parker tells Spinner. "This is a hobby. I'd never [...]
Graham Parker es un hombre inteligente. El sabe que en esta era digital es muy difícil hacer plata a punta de ventas digitales, así que prefiere hacer canciones para programas de televisión y cobrar regalías. Lastimosamente parece que la mayoría de productores de comedias baratas y dramas criminalísticos sólo conocen a The Who , entonces al señor Parker no le quedó otra que inventarse los programas y escribir al respecto, a ver si le paran bolas de una vez por todas. De su más reciente álbum, Imaginary Television , ahí les [...]
Continúa la fructífera relación entre Graham Parker y Bloodshot Records. Imaginary Television , con temas creados para programas de televisión ficticios, es el cuarto álbum que el veterano artista británico publica en el sello estadounidense y el número veinte en sus treinta años de carrera. * Graham Parker-Weather Report * Graham Parker-Snowgun
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