The Rolling Stones — actually Jagger and Richards — played The Marquee Jazz Club in London on this day in 1962. The set list, according to Rolling...
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This is a bit of the third soundtrack of the 1960s — the one that wasn’t rock-and-roll and the one that wasn’t afraid of it. I purposely...
Earlier today I posted about the upswing in the sale of old fashion vinyl records. Here’s another note that should make the older folks among us...
The New York Times offers an interesting article on Woody at 100, a three-CD boxed set from the Smithsonian Institution. The story mentions Guthrie’s...
Joe Petro at Music Think Tank: Listeners spent over $100 million dollars on vinyl records in 2011. That is a 30% increase in both revenue from and unit sales...
The folks at CNET have a piece about the “sonification” of the Higgs Boson, the elemental particle that was discovered by the CERN Institute in...
The Ramones came from Forest Hills, which is in Queens, New York. Forest Hills also produced Simon and Garfunkel. That’s probably the only thing the two...
This is from This Day in Music.com entry for July 10, 1987: Producer and record company executive John Hammond died. He brought Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bob Dylan...
A couple of weeks ago, the site posted the fabulous song and dance routine from the Indian film Gumnaam (the song is Jaan Pehchan, the singer is Mohammad Rafi)...
A couple of weeks ago Paul McCartney celebrated his 70th birthday. Proving once again that even being a member of Beatles doesn’t stop the aging...