Announcements and reviews about new music
Some weeks ago we concluded a two part series about bands doing cover versions of songs. A good number of bands continued the practice even after they became famous for their own compositions. The article was inspired by an issue of Classic Rock Magazine (Issue #298, March 2022) that devoted forty pages to the topic. […]
In Cover Me – Part 1, we expanded on some of the cover songs discussed in the forty pages Classic Rock Magazine devoted to the topic in March 2022 (Issue #298). Some covers are better than others, some became more famous than the originals, and just about all have interesting stories behind them. Take […]
Reading Bill DeMain’s excellent introduction to Classic Rock Magazine’s feature on Rock’s Greatest Cover Versions (CRM # 298 – March 2022), it dawned on me that 95 percent of musicians get their start playing cover versions of other people’s music. The other 5 percent (and that may actually be an overly generous slice of the […]
Raise your hands if you were in the audience for one or both of the Measured Chaos shows at the Ontonagon Theater for the Performing Arts in the summer of 2005 or 2009. If you were, then this will be a re-introduction to the band’s guitarist, harmonica player, lead vocalist, and leader, Al Jacquez. […]
As a space geek, I got accustomed to NASA (the National Aeronautic and Space Administration) using acronyms for just about everything. It only really bugged me when they would use one and not tell you what it meant, YKWIM (You Know What I Mean)? Okay, I am just toying with you a bit because […]
In the space of one week in early November 2021, two albums landed in my mailbox to remind me it was time to do a good old fashioned album review column. Regular readers of this column would no doubt agree the range of topics covered here is ‘eclectic’, but in the early days, the […]
We recently received a CD entitled Brewed In Buffalo by a guitar / organ / drum trio called Organ Fairchild. I am betting the title might give you a hint as to where they hail from. It only took a few emails (one with an attached teaser track) sent by guitarist Dave Ruch to […]
In the 2017 movie, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Elton John plays himself, at least he does a spot on parody of the ‘Chicken Suit Elton John’. I do not recall exactly if John had really worn the chicken outfit on stage in the past, but it resembled a cross between the mass of feathers he […]
COME TOGETHER as only Ringo could orchestrate it . . .
Our favorite Australian B-3 / Whammy Clavy player Lachey Doley has been putting out some great music – he also has a new album coming out we are trying to source – problem is, the shipping from down under costs more than the product – we will see what we can do. Combining my love […]