MUSIC NEWS - Locals James Taylor, Aerosmith and Boston lead a lineup of prominent Boston area musicians and other acts that are teaming up for a May 30 benefit concert for the victims of the Boston Marathon terrorist bombings. The...
The US Hockey team beat the Russians, CNN debuted, J.R. was shot on TV and the pop charts were a mix of later-era disco, new wave and rock and rollers reaching their commercial peak. Here are the Top 10 Rock Hits of 1980 according to me (who else?!). 10. The J. Geils Band - "Love Stinks" I was 18 at the time. Love did stink. 9. John Lennon - "(Just Like) Starting Over" Sadly, it was just coming [...]
We keep watching this video: it's got drama, it's got understated humor, and it's for a great song we listened to a lot this year. And this is a pretty "old dude" thing to say, but most of all, it makes us miss the golden age of MTV, when there were videos like this , and this , and this . Stuff that was fun, quirky, and incorporated the band, hopefully performing, maybe not. Future Carnivore 's terrific clip is akin to the sort of televisual stuff we gorged ourselves on heavily from about 1981 (starting [...]
Working our way back in time through the greatest rock hits of all time, we consider 1974. Gas cost 55 cents a gallon, a new car ran about $3700 and a new house checked in at about $10K. On the charts, heavy numbers from heavyweights like BTO, Skynyrd and the former Fabs John and Paul.
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As I opt to periodically do - when I have no other viable or unviable ideas - it's time to pull up an old Billboard magazine Hot 100 chart and note the songs that debuted that week. I nicked the concept from Chris at 702s Music Mayhem who uses the format with far greater attention to detail as he works his way through the '70s. The first few years of the '80s was when pop radio provided much of the music for me and Casey Kasem's [...]
I put this together for my brother a few months ago as a running/exercise companion. Since then, I've listened to it quite a few times on my runs, and quite simply, it pretty much kicks ass. So download, throw it on your iPod/iPhone/SmartPhone of choice, and move ! (Or, sit back in a La-Z-Boy with a strong cocktail. You do what you want, I'm not your daddy). IckMix 6: Move (mp3) [See post to listen to audio] 1. "Month of May" - Arcade Fire (3:51) [...]
Now that I've wasted so much time here establishing a few traditions, I'd be remiss to honor not them... Almost every artist in the history of mankind has at least one title in their catalog that is a compilation, a stopgap collection meant to maintain interest between releases (often to boost holiday sales) or to fulfill a contractual obligation. This is the former, a chance to make use, one more time, of a lot of wasted time over the past twelve months. Three years ago, I reflected on the annual, childhood tradition of [...]
Photos by G. Peter Wolf I know what you are thinking - Michael Jackson is dead. The above photo might look like Michael, but it's rock god Peter Wolf! The former front man of the J. Geils Band performed at New York's Bowery Ballroom on October 26, 2011. For the first time in my New York concert going experiences at Bowery Ballroom, the show was seated. I think it worked in this setting because the show was so intimate. Peter Wolf told stories in between songs [...]
Peter Wolf will play a Brooklyn show at The Bell House on October 28 in addition to the the previosuly mentioned Manhattan and CT shows he has scheduled. According to The Bell House's website , the show will be a special seated show. Tickets are on sale now for that, and for his Bowery Ballroom show happening two days earlier (10/26). Still no full Peter Wolf tour to announce, but as mentioned , his band the J. Geils Band also play [...]
Over the last couple of years, West London's folk scene has been churning out a number of much buzzed about bands, with Mumford & Sons leading the charge. The other rising star of the burgeoning movement is the 21-year-old Laura Marling , who earlier this year won the 2011 Brit Award for Best Female Solo Artist. On September 13, the singer-songwriter will release her third studio album, A Creature I Don't Know , and has recently announced a short nine-date U.S. tour that includes a two-night stand in Los Angeles, as well as a high profile [...]
Peter Wolf @ Highline Ballroom in 2010 ( more by Jacob Blickenstaff ) J. Geils Band frontman Peter Wolf , who we last saw when he was a guest of Yo La Tengo at Maxwell's for Hanukkah , went on a short tour this past March that never hit NYC. It looks like he'll head out on another one this October that does include a NYC show happening on October 26 at Bowery Ballroom . Tickets go on sale Friday (7/29) [...]
It was during this week in 1982, that I graduated from grade school. I'm not sure if it was because of our small town's agrairian past - when not everyone went on to high school - or if it was the chance to inject excitement into the sleepy hum of daily life, but the event was treated with considerable pomp and circumstance. As a kid that, like a lot of kids, had no use for formalities, I thought most of it was an inconvenient hullabaloo. But there was an upside to losing a [...]
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In a world full of trouble, people like the chance to focus on something positive - so, even though they're all royal and all the baggage that comes with that, there are still a lot of people around the world who are interested, even excited, by the royal wedding next Friday of Prince William and [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
are great. I spend a horrendous amount of time trolling the interwebs looking for Annie Mac Minimixes for my own unadulterated pleasure. This mix however, has something a tremendous Annie Mac minimix doesn't have - an amazing intro. You may or may not have heard of The J Geils Band? Oizo sampled them, they make [...]
this 11-video playlist of YouTube videos counts as my mim mix for March. but its not just about the music this time. i must rant first, then rock. read on.... the rock and roll hall of fame has again proved itself to be an exclusive club of musical snobs. after finally nominating KISS once, the voters inevitably snubbed KISS once again. snubbing snobs. then the 2011 ballot didn't even include them. the BIG LIE that is the rock hall is really about rock music because it clearly doesn't have a clue about [...]
As I surfed channels the other night, I couldn't help but momentarily get sucked into an infommercial. It was by Time-Life and for a nine-CD collection - Ultimate Rock Ballads . Hosting the half-hour pitch to earn my affection, interest, and credit card number was REO Speedwagon lead singer Kevin Cronin. His sidekick was some chick who looked like a dental hygenist and likely had no idea who Kevin Cronin or REO Speedwagon was until her world and his collided in this cash grab. Kevin Cronin wouldn't stop smiling. [...]
Happy Valentine's Day to all the single ladies and gentlemen of Portland. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
"I got you Babe" by Sonny & Cher and "Nothing Compares to you" by Sinead O'connor are a couple of those songs I can't stand sometimes but we all can admit love stinks right sometimes? Mostly because it's so hard to explain as we go and as the explanation gets fuzzier and fuzzier and we turn into some stale marshmallow on the couch. Love's meaning changes as you go through different stages of life too but one thing is for sure; there are songs that strike a note in our blackened caverns and makes us all light headed [...]
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