Richard Lloyd was in town tonight, and it felt like a message from the home country, back before we had email and flying cars in our pockets, when you needed to talk to someone from another place to find out about that place. The last time I saw Lloyd he
Patti Smith
The tl;dr - I wrote a short book about the five shows I saw on Patti Smith's Horses 50th anniversary tour and you can buy it now! three chords and blessed noise In November, Patti Smith & her Band went out on the road for the 50th
Patti Smith
I know these songs. I know them. They know me.
Elvis Costello
They leave him half way to paradise They leave you half way to bliss
When I was in my late teens/early 20s, one of the worst pieces of advice I ever got from “older” folks -- not my parents or that generation, but people maybe 5-10 years older -- was to not bother going to see older artists. This was the late 70s/
Pilgrimage
in honor of Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder
Concert Reviews
live music is better | bumperstickers should be issued
The tl;dr - I wrote a short book about the five shows I saw on Patti Smith's Horses 50th anniversary tour and you can buy it now! three chords and blessed noise In November, Patti Smith & her Band went out on the road for the 50th
let's just dance.
side two. song four.
Your phone's off the hook, but you're not
rock and roll reviews, writing, analysis, history & criticism from Caryn Rose
The Daniel Lanois Trio played two nights at the Aeolian Hall in London, Ontario, an ancient and gorgeous venue a two-hour drive from Detroit that is apparently one of the top 10 halls in Canada, according to the CBC. It was an intimate space with great resonance and that is
if you love his music you should see this, and if you don’t know what I’m talking about you should definitely watch it.
We all need to work to end the annoying habit of asking people at a concert how many times they’ve seen the artist.
I have a pathological need to identify every location in NYC that appears in a film or tv or random photo, so when the first shot of ONE TO ONE : JOHN & YOKO appears on the screen, out of focus, fuzzy, zooming in on a crowd of people, I immediately
He’s one of those people who was born to be onstage.
My favorite element has always been figuring out what songs the artists decide they want to perform and how they interpret them.
There is dirt. There is sex and drugs. There are internecine squabbles.
I read "Heartbreaker" in three days. I didn’t want to put it down.
What Pelly’s book does a fantastic job of uncovering is how Spotify just does not care about music.
they call her Natasha when she looks like Elsie
let's just dance.
"It all feeds you."