Dean Budnick on July 16, 2021
photo credit: Alysse Gafkjen “This is a reflective record about how to deal with hardship,” Lukas Nelson says, as he considers A Few Stars Apart, his new album with Promise of the Real. “I wrote a bunch of songs at the beginning of the pandemic, and we also had a lot of songs archived that […]
Mike Greenhaus on July 2, 2021
In the midst of his first off season in three decades, and with rescheduled Primus and Oysterhead dates on the horizon, Les Claypool makes the most of his unexpected family time to create a new short film with his son Cage and Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo. Les Claypool has a bunch of projects—across a number […]
Mike Greenhaus on April 30, 2021
Mick Fleetwood during the Peter Green era of Fleetwood Mac (photo credit: Barry Plumber) As he celebrates the life and legacy of Fleetwood Mac’s original driving force, Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood looks back on his band’s blues-based origins. “Fleetwood Mac is a very odd story of survival,” drummer Mick Fleetwood says, as he thinks back […]
Dean Budnick on August 4, 2020
Volume 13 of the GarciaLive series travels back to September 1989, when the Jerry Garcia Band played a string of dates with Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons. GarciaLive Volume 13 finds the group and their special guest at Poplar Creek Music Theatre just outside of Chicago on Sept. 16, 1989, during […]
July 16, 2020
Steven Van Zandt has announced ‘The Little Steven TeachRock Roadshow,’ a “series of living-room style talks with special musical and celebrity guests and education heroes from those cities discussing music, education, and national issues.” (Quote via press release.) Proceeds and donations raised during the show will benefit Van Zandt’s education charity, TeachRock. The first episode […]
July 8, 2020
FEATURED PREMIERE From Good Homes: Charlie Loves Our Band Charlie Loves Our Band is a feature documentary that tells the story of the band From Good Homes. In the 1980’s, fifty miles west of New York city, three childhood friends, Patrick Fitzsimmons, Brady Rymer and Todd Sheaffer, crafted a style of music, influenced by rock […]
