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Who knew 2011 would be a big Hollies year?
Photo of (L to R) Allan Clarke, Graham Nash and Tony Hicks of the Hollies, harmonizing on On a Carousel, courtesy of the Allan Clarke Archives. If one sound captures the joy and exhilaration of the...
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DVD Review: Queen: Days of Our Lives
Queen Days of Our Lives Eagle Vision Like the best of Queen’s music, Days of Our Lives wastes no time in getting to the point. Ten minutes into the two-hour documentary about the group, you’re already...
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DVD review: The Richard Thompson Band: Live at Celtic Connections
With just about every solo he plays seeming like a carefully-constructed epic drama, it’s still one of contemporary music’s greatest mysteries that Richard Thompson isn’t lauded daily as one of rock’s...
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DVD review: Big Easy Express (S2BN)
Maybe the Festival Express needed to be re-imagined for a new generation. Granted, Mumford & Sons aren’t the Band, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros don’t really stand in for the Grateful Dead...
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DVD review: Muddy Waters/ The Rolling Stones/ Checkerboard Lounge/ Live...
The Rolling Stones were in mid-tour in 1981 when they decided to slip down to Buddy Guy’s Checkerboard Lounge, on Chicago’s South Side, to catch Muddy Waters. Waters meant everything to the Stones, who...
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DVD review: Having a Wild Weekend (1965); starring The Dave Clark Five
Photo of the Dave Clark Five (left to right: Rick Huxley, Denis Payton, Lenny Davidson, Dave Clark, Mike Smith) from Gazette files. In the wake of A Hard Day’s Night, music and film-biz sharpies were...
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The Los Lobos masterpiece Kiko gets a superb 20th anniversary celebration
In the concert documentary Kiko Live, engineer Tchad Blake recalls a general feeling that rock was dead when he and producer Mitchell Froom got to work on the 1992 Los Lobos classic Kiko. “If we’re...
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New music review: Celebration Day, Led Zeppelin (Swan Song)
Left to right: Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Jason Bonham; photo courtesy of Warner Music Canada Celebration Day, a document of Led Zeppelin’s one-off reunion concert at London’s 02...
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New music review: Love for Levon: A Benefit to Save the Barn, Various Artists...
Incredibly, it was 45 years ago that the Band shocked a generation of music lovers obsessed with psychedelia and musical experimentation by reimagining, repackaging and reselling the roots music that...
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