Why Tom Petty’s ‘Wildflowers & All The Rest’ Meant So Much To Petty And...
By Christopher McKittrick
Few musicians can claim that their 10th album that was released nearly 20 years into their career as their creative peak as a musician. Even the best...
Africa’s Top Music Festivals
Africa is a continent that vibrates with music all through the year, and has its own distinctive rhythms and sounds. It offers plenty to music lovers, especially the kinds...
Best Vintage Rock Studio Albums Of 2014
Love it or leave it, the studio ''album" lives on in an age of downloading, streaming and attention span deficiencies. And 2014 had enough nuggets to keep the trend...
My Evening With Roy Orbison
by Ronnie Lyon
I arrived at the Travelodge in Anaheim (corner of Ball and Harbor behind Disneyland) at around 5:00 or 6:00 PM. It was still daylight. The...
Woodstock Memories From The Musicians Who Played There
Fifty years after the fact, and we’re still talking about Woodstock. It was on the verge of becoming a major disaster — more people than expected, inaccessible, no parking,...
Lines On My Face | Chris Epting
By Chris Epting
We all have those songs that have gotten into our blood. They make our hearts beat faster when we hear them, and they grab us and drag...
Where In The Universe Is Jefferson Starship?
Article by David Gardiner
Photo by Stan Johnson
As far as I know, Jefferson Starship is still going strong.
They went to Tokyo in November 2012 for a San Francisco Sound Special...
The Great Band Scandal
By Ralph Greco, Jr.
Here’s a question that may be on nobody’s mind but mine: Just who is left of the original “beach boys” in The Beach Boys? The 60s...
Berlin, U2, and Achtung Baby
By Lanny Cordola
When U2 made the trek to Berlin in the early 1990s, their mission was to record the follow-up to their great American homage: Rattle & Hum. However,...
Counterfeit Guitars: Real Or Real Good Knock-Off
By Carl Cunningham
Their names are as iconic and legendary as the musicians that have played them: Gibson, Fender, Gretsch, Epiphone. In the hands of guitar legends like Jimi Hendrix,...
