Daily Newsletter, February 20, 2024

Malowany and his Parkland Music Project shed some exquisite light on our daily darkness. There is a particular, rarified group of singer-songwriters that particularly populate the world of American…

Or Maybe You See them again…

Today in beginnings: Yoko Ono was born (screaming, one assumes) in 1933, Dr. Dre arrived to kick in the bass in 1965 — on the same day that The Beatles recorded You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away and Tell Me What You See — and The Beach Boys started recording Good Vibrations in 1966. […]

Royel Otis borrows bits of excellence from bands of greatness and makes an album made of pure fun.

“Subterranean Homesick Blues” was such a trailblazing work it almost feels underappreciated. Not only was this the song with which a scruffy East Greenwich folky hitched his caboose to rock’s throttle, delivering his first electric performance, but it’s associated with what’s generally accepted as the world’s first rock video. Let's look at the story and meaning behind “Subterranean Homesick Blues.”

Looking back at recording Silk Degrees, Boz Scaggs said that while listening to the playbacks he had the sense something special happened

A bizarre but well-intentioned troupe.

Paul McCartney: “I remember the guys getting pissed with me... I was trying to get what was in my head.” 

La Dolce Vita, The Rolling Stones B-sides, ’50s exotica jazz – and ‘no crazy solos on any instrument’

A Sex Pistol shoots from the hip, Neil Finn lives the dream, the Incredible String Band get untangled and more: Here are the latest additions to your reading list. Let’s crack the covers:   Triggers: A Life In Music By Glen Matlock THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Courting controversy wherever they went, The Sex Pistols embraced […]