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Live & Swingin’ on Stage, 1964
Vintage onstage banter between the key players of The Rat Pack - Sammy, Frank, Dino
Concluding The Band’s 16 years on the road, The Last Waltz was held Thanksgiving Day 1976 at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. Billed as a farewell concert, Martin Scorsese was on hand to record the event and his effort is hailed as a masterwork among rock documentaries, a landmark in rock history. The long […]
How many of these dances do you remember? Or better yet - did you do?
The Pony
On this day in 1966 the garage band Count Five entered the Billboard charts with “Psychotic Reaction”, their only hit. The Count Five are one of many garage bands featured in the legendary Nuggets collection curated by Jac Holzman of Elektra Records and the Patti Smith Group’s Lenny Kaye. The Nuggets sound and garage band […]
A video sampler of performers that kept the music in the family. What are your favorite family acts? Did we forget a major family act?
Everly Brothers - “Wake Up Little Suzie”
On this date 31 years ago, Fleetwood Mac topped the U.S. album charts for the very first time with their self-titled album. It was the first album to feature Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. The following year Fleetwood Mac put their private romantic turmoil on very public display with the release of Rumours.
In various interviews […]
The eighties saw an explosion of teen films, and the main auteur behind this golden age was John Hughes. Something that is pretty amazing about these films - besides just how much some of us of a certain age identified with them - are the soundtracks. In retrospect, the track listings read like a who’s […]
Choice items related to pioneering music rag Rolling Stone.
“On the Cover of the Rolling Stone”
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show sum up the cultural zeitgeist of Rolling Stone Magazine in its heyday. Well, sort of… in between demonstrating how good drugs in the 70s must have been.
In tribute to Hilly Kristal, who sadly passed away this week, a collection of the major players in the NYC punk scene, 1973-1978, as well as some post-punkers in the era that followed.
New York Dolls – “Chatterbox” at Club 82 in NYC, 1973
One of the most fun rock nerd books in recent years, The Rocklopedia Fakebandica, is the ultimate guide to fake bands. Fake bands? That is to say, singers and bands that only exist in movies or television - frequently cartoons. A font of a million “hey… I remember that…” musical moments, the book and its […]