Laurel Canyon – Film Feature
Expounding on the concept of a ‘place and a time’ setting the wheels of culture in motion, Laurel Canyon, a two-part docuseries from the EPIX premium television network, reveals the...
Long Beach Blues Festival | August 30-31, 2008 | Rainbow Lagoon Park | Long...
Concert Review by Shawn Perry
Hot, hot, hot. That might be a good way to describe the 29th annual Long Beach Blues Festival. The music was hot, the food was...
Bob Dylan | Dylan – CD Review
Revisiting the music of Bob Dylan can be a trifling, traumatic experience for the uninitiated. The sheer diversity and volume is enough to make even self-proclaimed Dylanologist A. J....
Concert Review: Leo Kottke | 2/28/12 | City Winery | New York, NY
Review by Ralph Greco, Jr.
I double-dog dare you to find a better guitarist than Leo Kottke — go ahead and look for one … I’ll wait.
You’d be hard-pressed to...
Toto | 40 Trips Around The Sun – CD Review
Toto is one of those great musical collectives that people (hopefully unintentionally) tend to define by two hits from their most successful album — “Rosanna” and “Africa.” I’m putting...
Keith Emerson & Greg Lake | April 8, 2010 | Nokia Theatre | New...
Review by Ralph Greco, Jr.
Photo by hightea
It's been a while for us die-hard Emerson, Lake and Palmer fans. Sure, we got Carl Palmer coming through with Asia and...
Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Trilogy (Deluxe Edition) – CD Review
Trilogy, the appropriately titled third studio album from Emerson, Lake & Palmer, was released in 1972 and welcomed with open arms. Tarkus, its predecessor, was conceptually brilliant, but Trilogy...
Fleetwood Mac | May 28, 2013 | Honda Center | Anaheim, CA – Concert...
Review by Shawn Perry
Photos by Kimberly Annette
Few bands have as colorful history as Fleetwood Mac. Let’s start with how they transformed themselves from basically an underground British blues band...
Yes | Magnification – CD Review
The key to the music of Yes has always been about how much texturing could be applied to jolt any given piece through the stratosphere. Anyone familiar with the...
Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy: Rhythm Of Light Tour 2014 | November 22, 2014 |...
Review by Ralph Greco, Jr.
Photos by Carla Huntington
Carl Palmer, arguably the loudest third of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, recently rumbled through Havana in New Hope. The drummer and his...
