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Article: Extended Analysis

Grateful Dead: The Best of the Grateful Dead

by Doug Collette
August 9, 2015

As with so many aspects of the Grateful Dead oeuvre, there's more to The Best of the Grateful Dead than meets the eyes and ears. An embossed cover the glossy likes of which don't usually adorn such compilations, plus the presence of sound arising from brand new remastering done on the bulk of the thirty two ...

Article: Live Review

Peter Frampton & Cheap Trick at The Paramount

by Mike Perciaccante
August 9, 2015

Peter Frampton & Cheap Trick The Paramount Huntington, NY July 29, 2015 Frampton Comes Alive! (A&M, 1976) and Live At Budukan (Epic, 1978) are two of the most iconic live recordings of the past 40-or-so years. As such, it's only fitting (and inevitable) that Peter Frampton and Cheap Trick would eventually ...

Article: Live Review

U2 The iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Tour 2015

by Christine Connallon
August 9, 2015

U2 The iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Tour 2015 Madison Square Garden New York, NY July 30, 2015 Eight sold out shows during a residency at Madison Square Garden is no small feat, even for a band of U2's stature. The four man band that formed in Dublin, Ireland in 1976 ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Sly and the Family Stone: Live at The Fillmore East October 4th and 4th 1968

by Doug Collette
August 9, 2015

Sly and The Family Stone's galvanizing appearance at the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair in August of 1969 may well represent the pinnacle of their career, but their rise to this apogee of recognition was the culmination of a long slow climb to fame dating back even further than Sylvester Stewart's, nee Sly, tenure as a ...

News: Event

Sneak Peek For Thomas Chapin Film At Litchfield Jazz Fest

August 8, 2015

Join the Litchfield Jazz Festival's tribute to Thomas Chapin, tomorrow and Saturday at the Goshen Fairgrounds, in Goshen, Conn. for a musical concert featuring Chapin's music and a sneak peak of a new jazz film about him. Tomorrow evening August 7, the Litchfield Jazz Orchestra will salute Thomas Chapin as part of the festival's gala opening ...

Article: Live Review

Steely Dan at Blossom Music Center

by C. Andrew Hovan
August 8, 2015

Steely Dan Blossom Music Center Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio July 28, 2015 Back in April, Steely Dan got the busses loaded up for their semi regular touring season that included a few nights at Coachella. July 6th then brought forth the official summer tour, with twenty-three dates set through the middle of ...

Article: Album Review

Mark Winkler: Jazz and Other Four Letter Words

Read "Jazz and Other Four Letter Words" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
August 8, 2015

On Jazz And Other Four Letter Words songwriter and vocalist Mark Winkler explores themes of love and romance and also takes time to investigate hipness. Exploration and investigation succeed joyously, resulting in one of the year's finest releases. Winkler's aided and abetted by some fine musicians-- pianist Jamieson Trotter (who also arranged most of ...

Article: Live Review

The 2015 Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival

by Christine Connallon
August 8, 2015

The 2015 Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival Nikon at Jones Beach Theater Wantagh, NY July 26, 2015 In a world of full of corporate branding and everything under the sun being sponsored, there are some partnerships that truly make sense. Vans backing the Warped Tour, which started as a skate punk ...

Article: Live Review

Whitesnake at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury

by Mike Perciaccante
August 8, 2015

Whitesnake with special guests the Dead Daisies NYCB Theatre at Westbury Westbury, NY July 27, 2015 In 1978, following his departure from Deep Purple, David Coverdale formed Whitesnake. Since that time Whitesnake's music has evolved from sounding much like the blues-rock of Deep Purple to a more accessible rock 'n' roll-based ...

Article: Album Review

Old Time Musketry: Drifter

by Dave Wayne
August 8, 2015

Old and new collide and intermingle in a variety of appealing ways on Drifter, the second long-player by the Brooklyn-based collective, Old Time Musketry. It's funny, though, how old has become new and new has become old. J. P. Schlegelmilch, the keyboardist and primary composer for the band (he wrote all but 2 of Drifter's varied ...