Artist: Ringo Starr

A steamy Saturday all around: ► Bloomfest , the downtown arts and music event featuring Superhumanoids, the Neighbourhood, Grace Woodroofe, Helena, Robotanists, Light FM, Yellow Alex & the Feelings, Mike Watt & the Missingmen and more, goes off at 3rd and Traction streets in downtown L.A. Above is the video for "Sunlight," the first single from the India-born, Pennsylvania-reared Helena. [Full set times at the end of this post.] ► Ray Davies plays a special show (at the Wiltern backed by L.A. rockers the 88. ► Power-pop stalwarts [...]

Incoming: Gary Lucas, Frank Ocean, Peter Case, Trash Talk, Amanda Palmer, Adam Lambert, Al Green, Nick 13, Fountains of Wayne, Bloomfest, Ray Davies, Smokey Robinson, Ringo Starr, the Ettes, the Happy Hollows, more. Above: The uncensored, NSFW video for Amanda Palmer's "Want It Back." You've been warned. The pop provocateur and Kickstarter sensation visits the Roxy Theatre on Thursday; her new album "Theater Is Evil is out Sept. 11. Our staff picks of the week: [...]

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RAY DAVIES ( Aladdin Theater , 3017 SE Milwaukie) This city is really, really excited about Ray Davies' appearance. I mean, for chrissakes, Mayor Sam Adams has officially declared Sunday, July 15 to be "Ray Davies Day" in Portland (effectively keeping this city weird). In addition to performing at the Aladdin tonight, Davies will host a reception at the Hollywood Theatre preceding a matinee screening of his film Return to Waterloo , and Holocene will celebrate with a Davies-themed event of their own that will undoubtedly be off the hook. What about his music, though? Well, [...]

With over a dozen albums to his credit, Ringo Starr has many underrated songs. Let's focus on seven of them. Ringo Starr recently celebrated his 72nd birthday, and most of the media focused on his time as a member of The Beatles and a few of his biggest solo hits. But being that he has released 17 albums throughout his solo career, let's look at the songs that are never played on the radio and are hardly mentioned by the press, in other words, his most underrated songs. The opening track to what is arguably...

Filed under: News Rob Shanahan, AP The Beatles once sang that "all you need is love." And when one of the Fab Four , country-music-loving drummer Ringo Starr , hit Music City this past weekend, he inspired an outpouring of love and pleas for peace from Nashville fans and a celebration of music that included several celebrity friends, among them country stars Brad Paisley , Vince Gill and Kix Brooks . [...]

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (MCT) -- ATLANTA - Ringo Starr's hands must be cramping by now. No, not because of the drumming. The former Beatle, who's bringing his All Starr Band to Atlanta, arguably flashes more peace signs than any other celebrity. Whenever you see Ringo, you see those two fingers. "Isn't that a good thing?" Starr said recently as the band launched its current tour in Niagara Falls, Ontario. "I'm glad. I felt it then in the middle of the...

Photo by G. O M G!  Before I go any further, my deepest gratitude to Anne Raso and Gail Worley for getting me into such a marvelous event.  Ringo Starr was in New York to celebrate an exhibit of his art. As you can imagine, the gallery was packed to the rafters with art aficionados, Beatles fans and [...]

Inflicted by a steadfast belief that resonates around the inspirations of  Ajapai , Datsik, Dada Life and Kaskade, Houston, Texas’s well-mannered man (as Feature Cuts ) drops this pugilist example of Beatles pageantry amid major reverbed function and loads of sawtooth clamour. He makes a stairway of crashing plates falling down the stairs sound like an angelic choir singing their hearts out for a specially selected televised hour.

After all these years, it looks like a combination of Joe Anderson and Grant Shaps have done what Flo Clucas never could, and saved Ringo Dtarr's first home . And actually saved this time, not merely issued some half-asses promise about it being taken down and rebuilt in some ill-defined museum somewhere. It's actually part of a plan to save some of the Victorian terraces in the city which had been due to be demolished, so it goes beyond Beatleabilia in its significance. Assuming, of course, that this time the promises are genuine and [...]

After a massive campaign by fans the terraced house in Liverpool will no longer be knocked down...

Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Preservationists and Beatles fans in Liverpool have saved Ringo Starr 's birthplace and early childhood home from being demolished, Britain's Telegraph reports . Developers had sought to tear down the three-bedroom terrace house at 9 Madryn St. , but the property will instead be renovated and put on the market. "Ringo Starr's home is a significant beacon of Beatlemania, a bricks and mortar reminder of a hugely important influence on British music," said Grant Shapps, a government housing minister instrumental [...]

Ringo Starr is taking his All Starr (...) band on tour, starting today at the Fallsview Casino at Niagra Falls and finishing in late July at the Greek in Los Angeles (the closest he comes to St.... Continue reading "Play the Celebrity Artwork Matching Game, in Honor of Ringo Starr's (Microsoft) Paint Tour" >

Filed under: News , News Today, Oh Boy! Kevin Winter, Getty Images Keith Richards says he won't join Mick Jagger on "SNL." [ Rolling Stone ] Watch people do tricks with vinyl records. It's seriously the most amazing thing we've seen today, aside from the video below. [ Buzzfeed ] Ringo Starr lost his photos of the Beatles. [ Rolling Stone ] [...]

Filed under: News Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Ex- Beatles drummer Ringo Starr teamed up with former Eurythmics man Dave Stewart to write a musical , which they now have successfully sold to Paramount for a silver screen adaptation. The musical is entitled "Hole in the Fence" and is a coming-of-age tale about a group of kids who start a band in order to escape their humdrum mining town. The [...]

Grammy Award winning rock and roll legend Joe Walsh returns with Analog Man , his first solo album in two decades to be released on June 5th, 2012 from Fantasy Records/Concord. Analog Man is both modern and timelessly soulful, packed with Walsh's beloved wit, charm and chops; it delivers an incredibly raw and intimate sound. Joe Walsh - Analog Man (Live) - video: "It's been 20 years and I have a lot [...]

In the interest of full disclosure, I've known Ray Wylie Hubbard for going on 15 years, have crashed at his home in the hills of Wimberley, Texas and once rode on his tour bus (OK, it was borrow... Continue reading "Ray Wylie Hubbard on the Grifter Blues, Songwriting and Ringo Starr" >

Filed under: News Frazer Harrison/Getty Images You'd think that being in the Beatles and playing to swelling crowds and swooning girls night after night would eventually cure one of stage fright. Unfortunately, that's not the case for Ringo Starr . The rock legend confessed that even after 50 years of performing, he is still in the grips of crippling anxiety. "I have actually puked before I went on as all my nerves come [...]

If the sons of the Beatles formed a band together, would they be good? What would they be called? This scenario could actually happen if Paul McCartney's son, James, gets his wish. He wants to form a band with Sean Lennon, Dhani Harrison and one of Ringo Starr's kids. Leave a comment and let me know your thoughts on a potentially new Beatles being made.

¿Qué les parece la idea de resucitar a los Beatles ? ¿O clonarlos para reformar a la banda más grande de todos los tiempos? Pues algo parecido es lo que tiene en mente James McCartney , hijo del mismísimo Sir Paul MacCartney . Resulta que durante una entrevista para la BBC, James McCartney comentó que estaría dispuesto a formar una banda con el resto de los hijos de los Beatles , algo así como: “The Beatles – Next Generation” . James expresó que tanto Dhani Harrison como Sean [...]