Password: Close Close Close OR Close seconds. Busy school days replace golden days of summer A Column Called Bob Bob Challinor, Desert Valley Times * Published: September 03. [Link]
Supernatural Santana: A Trip Through The Hits Adds Concert Dates in 2011 at ...PR Newswire press release Ticket prices start at only $51 and can be purchased at the Hard Rock Hotel Box Office, all Ticketmaster locations, online at Ticketmaster.com or ...and more » [Link]
The Budos Band, 'The Budos Band III' : When Staten Island's Budos Band went into the studio to record its third full-length album, they say, the musicians worried it would be a psychedelic doom-rock record. [Link]
PopMatters The Shock Heard 'Round the World: 'Bitches Brew' Turns 40PopMatters For the full and unfettered experience, you need to acquire the box set that includes the complete Bitches Brew sessions, which was released several years ...and more » [Link]
Yankovic, Stanley, more rock Taste of ClevelandThe Morning JournalRelive the days when Beatlemania landed in Northeast Ohio when author Dave Schwensen presents a multi-media event for his book “The Beatles In Cleveland: ...and more » [Link]
Neu! is 'cool' 35 years after revolutionizing rockChicago Tribune blog “I grew up playing guitar and imitating musicians like Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles,” Rother says. “But I became frustrated with that because I knew it was ... [Link]
Rolling Stone is about to release a special issue counting down the magazine's choices for the 100 best Beatles songs of all time, and previewed the list by posting the Top 10 on rollingstone.com . Maybe it's just that Rocks Off doesn't have quite the encyclopedic knowledge of the Fab Four as the RS staff, but 100 songs seems excessive to us. [Link]
Internet-only radio station UC Radio has broadcast the world wide premier of the song "Old Man" by James McCartney, a single from his upcoming EP "Available Light" which will be released on Engine Company Records on September 21. "Old Man" is a cover of the Neil Young hit. You can listen to the song streaming on their web site. [Link]
Billy J. Kramer explained before an audience at last Sunday's Liverpool Beatles Convention why, after John Lennon broke up with Cynthia, he could no longer "chum up" with John. He said he saw John for the last time when he was still married to Cynthia. "I was a bit of a prude after he broke up with Cynthia and he took off with Yoko." [Link]
Crosby, Stills & Nash are about one-third done with their next album, a set of classic rock covers produced by Rick Rubin, but Graham Nash won't hazard a guess on when it will be finished and released. "It's a lot slower than it's ever taken us to do an album," Nash tells Billboard.com, "because we've been on the road since May, and we don't quit until October. "We all want it to be right -- Rick, too -- so we're ... [Link]
For Carlos Santana's latest album, 'Guitar Heaven: Santana Performs the Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time,' the axeman teams with vocalists like Chris Cornell, Rob Thomas and Scott Weiland to cover songs by Led Zeppelin, Cream, the Rolling Stones and more. During a recent press junket in Las Vegas, the guitar legend admitted that the album, which was conceived by Clive Davis, initially made him nervous. "I feel really grateful and really honored that he pursued with a lot of ... [Link]
Off Topic: My Favorite Music Today is a travel day for me, so here is some off-topic amusement, a list of my favorite songs and albums of all time. [Link]
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