SPOTIFY AND OTHER STREAMING DELIGHTS: MUSIC FOR THE PEOPLE OR SAME AS THE OLD BOSS?
By Paul Bisbort and Alan Bisbort With Spotify in the crosshairs following Neil Young’s exodus from the music...
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THE SKY DON’T HAVE NO ROOF: THE LAST ORNETTE COLEMAN INTERVIEW
Ornette Coleman (1930-2015), undoubtedly a great musician and composer who freed jazz from nearly all constrictions, was also...
BOOGALOO DOWN BROADWAY: WHEN FANIA RECORDS FUSED SOUL MUSIC WITH LATIN RHYTHMS AND MELODIES
Fania Records is mostly known as a superpower of salsa, issuing records by some of salsa’s biggest names,...
MY DAD IS DEAD: IMPECCABLE POST-PUNK ANGST STRAIGHT OUTTA CLEVELAND
Cleveland native Mark Edwards threw down a startling gauntlet of bare bones words/music in 1986 called …And He’s...
ON THE WAY TO PARADISE: MY TRAVELS WITH JOHN PRINE
John Prine hit the ground running with his debut album in 1971, a seamless masterpiece of what seemed...
TED JOANS: GOING FAR BEYOND ‘RENT-A-BEATNIK”
Poet, musician, artist and avowed “surrealist” Ted Joans was, along with LeRoi Jones (later Amiri Baraka), one of...
AL KOOPER REMEMBERS PART II
He was a participant in some of the great musical moments of the past half century, as musician,...
AL KOOPER REMEMBERS, PART I
He was a participant in some of the great musical moments of the past half century, part of...
ANGUS MACLISE: THE PETE BEST OF THE PUNK GODFATHERS
Angus MacLise (1938-1979) was, as the Velvet Underground’s original drummer, an essential element of their early free-form sound,...
THE MYSTERIOUS BARD: PETE BROWN’S JOURNEY FROM THE BEATS TO CREAM
Before Beatlemania and the British Invasion, Pete Brown was one of the UK’s few professional poets who made...
RAHSAAN ROLAND KIRK: A TORTURED LOVE AFFAIR WITH ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the blind jazz visionary, inspired a who’s who of rock music, including Jimi Hendrix, Frank...
PETER K. SIEGEL: QUIETLY CHANGING AMERICAN MUSIC
A chance encounter on Craigslist between guitarist-composer Elliott Sharp and musical archivist and producer Peter K. Siegel—one time...
FINNISH AVANT-GARDIST KEUHKOT IS CONTINUING THE UNIVERSE
Keuhkot is, as Jordan N. Mamone suggests, “the world’s only one-man avant-garde Finnish vaudeville act.” “Keuhkot” is the...
THE NEXT ‘NEW DYLAN’
After Bob Dylan went into hiding in upstate New York in 1966, the search was on for the...