The Park City Song Summit, which I attended from September 7th to 9th, aims to become a new kind of interactive music experience for artists and fans, with a special focus on mental health, recovery support and community relations. Will Schube did a wonderful job covering those aspects in this article, but how did things […]
Name Gavin Rossdale Best known for Bush, a small dog and a few kids. Current city On tour, two weeks from home…doesn’t matter…and no one told me. Dream city Home. This has been a long year. Excited about The Art Of Survival(Oct. 7). Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas with my boys. Current music The Mars Volta, […]
In 1993, when Darryl Jones heard Bill Wyman was leaving The Rolling Stones, he called Mick Jagger’s team and asked to audition. Jones, who had already played with Miles Davis, Sting, Madonna, and Peter Gabriel, joined the band after two rounds of auditions. Since 1994’s Voodoo Lounge, Jones has played on every Stones album. In […]
Michael R. Jackson is the author and composer of A Strange Loop, the hit Broadway show that I have not stopped thinking about. I left the play, stumbling onto a hot Avenue, bewildered, tickled, and ruminant. The play’s writing had a mastery to it, a hard rhythm that was still pulsing in my heart, and […]
I was born in Detroit in the 1980s, and it was a wild place back then. My mom worked for Michigan Bell, like “Ma bell, got the ill communications” (Beastie Boys “Get It Together” ft. Q-Tip from Ill Communication). My parents got me out of there when I was young, and we moved to Pennsylvania […]
Few acts from the original punk era are more deserving of a comprehensive box set than Blondie. And the hype is well-earned with Against The Odds 1974-1982, a historical juggernaut documenting the first eight years of CBGB’s most successful export. This 8-CD (or 10-LP) collection documents the band’s sonic evolution as it happened — how […]
On a Tuesday afternoon, during the lunchtime rush at Los Angeles’ über-trendy Highly Likely Café, the strains of Iranian singer Googoosh’s song “Talagh” come through the speakers. The song, whose title means “divorce,” is sung in Farsi. It slips in between modern-day songs that would be found on NPR’s New Music Friday playlist and the […]
Name Sammy Hagar Best known for Making tequila and bringing it to the masses—plus I’m a singer and songwriter. Current city San Francisco Really want to be in In Cabo eating tacos, drinking margaritas and jamming on stage with friends at the Cabo Wabo Cantina! Excited about I’m excited that my new album with The […]
It is crystal clear from the happy face beaming in front of me that London-based, 12-year-old phenom Nandi Bushell is not tired of doing press interviews. “I like them, actually,” she says with a bright smile, her father John at her side, “because I get to tell people like you about my new single and […]
“Music on stage was always our playground, always our candy field, always where we were the happiest,” says Bob Cowsill, sitting on a sofa in a Louisville, Kentucky dressing-room trailer with his sister Susan and brother Paul. “Even if everything around us might not have been happy at all,” he adds. Yes, those Cowsills. “The […]