LABELLE: THE TRIO THAT BROKE ALL THE MOLDS
Labelle, the trio of Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash, turned the music world on its head,...
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THE LONG NIGHT OF JOHN MARTYN
Before his late-career decline, John Martyn was one of the most innovative figures in the British folk-rock firmament,...
ROD EVANS: DEEP IN THE PURPLE
Rod Evans, original lead singer of hard-rocking Deep Purple, walked away from the music business in the late...
SUNSHINE WALKERS: KIMBERLEY REW & LEE CAVE-BERRY
After stints in the Soft Boys (with Robyn Hitchcock) and Katrina and the Waves, Kimberley Rew has pursued...
SECOND FIDDLE TO NO MAN: BEVERLEY MARTYN AND LINDA THOMPSON
The talented singer-songwriters Beverley Martyn and Linda Thompson faced an unfair hurdle in their careers: Though accomplished before...
BODY SLAM: PRO WRESTLING VS. ROCK & ROLL, A CAGE MATCH
The influence of professional wrestling on the music industry has seldom been examined. Consider, for starters, the rock...
KINKY 101: LIFE ADVICE FROM DOMINATRIXES
Financial journalist Lindsay Goldwert saw parallels between the work of dominatrixes and how all the rest of us...
LHASA DE SELA MATTERS
Beautiful but uncategorizable music flowed through Lhasa de Sela (1972-2010), whose itinerant, off-the-grid childhood with spiritually-inclined parents allowed...
THE CHANGER AND THE CHANGED: A HISTORY OF THE WOMEN’S MUSIC MOVEMENT
Long before legalized same-sex marriage became a reality and the #Metoo movement crashed the patriarchal gates, a women’s...
FAKEWOOD MAC: THE UNREAL FLEETWOOD MAC, 1974
There are some who’d say the “real” Fleetwood Mac ended when Peter Green left the band for good...
DON’T GIMME NO LIP, CHILD: THE ‘STRANGE EFFECT’ OF DAVE BERRY
The UK hitmaker whose career began before The Beatles and still continues at age 80, was always one...