A previously unreleased batch of demos from the late 1960s reveals David Bowie groping toward the sound, vision and alter egos he would later assume, and then ...
He viewed the mayhem of the 1969 Altamont concert from high up on a light tower and left before the Stones hit the stage, but by then Bill Owens had already cap...
In the best of all possible worlds, a man who has made music with the likes of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Nice, Paul McCartney, Ian Anderson, Peter Townshend...
Sixty-five years ago this summer, Sun Records released a single (“That’s All Right” b/w “Blue Moon of Kentucky”) that paved the way to rock & roll’s throne ...
Sandy Denny (1947-1978) had one of the most remarkable voices in British folk-rock as well as superior songwriting skills, but her darker impulses got the best ...
Bowie’s first manager was an old school, former publicist for Sinatra, Ellington, Jerry Lee Lewis and Manfred Mann, but he was also a gentleman who provided his...
After a blush of success with her all-girl group the GTOs and a role in Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels, our Miss Pamela found herself slogging down the slippery slope...
Hunter S. Thompson became a known quantity with the publication of Hell’s Angels (1967), but it wasn’t until he teamed up with Ralph Steadman for the first time...
At 80, the tireless and talented fiddle, banjo and guitar player, Ur-punk provocateur, former Rounder, Fug, devotee of Harry Smith, Spike Jones, Pete Seeger, Li...
Christine Ohlman, the Beehive Queen of blue-eyed rock & soul, pays homage to Dusty Springfield, one of her greatest influences, as we approach the 20th...
His father, Wallace Berman, was one of the best-known artists in America, featured on the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Tosh had ...
The Stones met Sly Stone when Little Willie G. stepped up to the microphone in the late 1960s/early 1970s to assert ‘Chicano Power’
In the mid-to-late 1960s, t...
Yes! This week Crispin Kott and Mike Katz of the Rock & Roll Explorer Guide to New York City take us to the (once) infamous Dom on St. Mark's Place to reliv...
When Steve Katz, late of Blood Sweat & Tears and the Blues Project, signed on to produce some Lou Reed albums, he discovered that there were two Lou Reeds. ...
