George Michael, Greg Lake and All The Musicians Who Died in December 2016
2016 didn’t hold back at the end of the year.
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Prince, David Bowie, Glenn Frey, and Too Many Other Great Musicians Died in 2016
The Grip Reaper had a busy, devastating year.
Leonard Cohen, Leon Russell, Sharon Jones, and 17 Other Musicians Who Died in November 2016
November 2016 was a brutal month for music fans, as legends dropped at a seemingly nonstop rate.
Crushed Returns For Reunion Show Celebrating Release of Unheard ’90s Demos
The band returns with the songs that made major labels salivate in the ’90s.
We Checked Out The New Intimate Music Venue in Phoenix, The Listening Room
It’s a space designed to be intimate and focused entirely on the artist.
How to Make Sense of the Anderson, Rabin, and Wakeman “Evening of Yes” Concert
Your guide to the work of Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, and Rick Wakeman.
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Beatles Animator Ron Campbell Helped Animate Some of the Iconic Beatles Cartoons
Ron Campbell, now an Anthem resident, helped animated the Beatles’ animated cartoon series and parts of “Yellow Submarine.”
Even at His Most Depressing Moments, Leonard Cohen Made a Lot of People Happy
Rest in peace to one of the country’s most important songwriters.
10 Reasons Ringo Starr Was The Most Important Beatle
If you want to learn how much someone doesn’t know about music, engage them in a conversation that weighs in on the importance of Ringo Starr to the Beatles. If the person casts Ringo as the bit player in the Beatles, you know he is missing the big picture and…
Death Race 2016: Here are all the Musicians Who Died in October 2016
With Halloween and Day of the Dead behind us, we turn now to our Month of the Dead tally and see if there were any October surprises. Of course, there were. Like the nine months before it, we lost some great underrated musicians, many of them songwriters whose names may not…
Yeasayer Will Make You Yearn for the Vinyl Eras of the Past
“Reward the listener.” When was the last time you heard any artist say that and not have it not mean including a discount coupon for their fragrance tucked away in a CD? Okay, so Brooklyn neo-psychedelic pop band Yeasayer never actually say anything about rewarding the listener either, but Chris Keating,…
After a Promising Start, a Rough 2016 Has Cait Brennan Back in the Crowdfunding Game
Singer-songwriter Cait Brennan’s first crowdfunding campaign, created to cover some of the costs for Debutante (her debut album, released last January), was all sweetness and light. Contrast that to her new GoFundMe campaign where, Brennan says, “I look like Nixon resigning.” 2016 has not been the year Brennan had hoped…
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Death Race 2016: Here are the Musicians Who Died in September- Please Pray!
Now cognizant of the dwindling rock star pool that is 2016, you’ve no doubt you’ve clicked on a story like this a couple of times every day on FaceBook: “BREAKING: Rock Music Legend Found Dead — Please Pray” I only just noticed that the source of this click bait turns…
Death Race 2016: Here are the Musicians Who Died in August 2016
Even the Grim Reaper has to hang up his scythe and take a vacation once in awhile, and nothing shows he was slumming it in August more than the emergence of that Indonesian dude Mbah Gotho, who both claims to be both the oldest man alive at 145 and the…
Why the U.S. Version of Revolver Is Better Than the U.K. One
By now, you are aware that every music blog has already celebrated the 50th anniversary of Revolver, the Beatles’ seventh long player, the one that paved the way for Sgt. Pepper (the album that CHANGED THE WAY ALBUMS WERE EVERMORE MADE and perhaps is less fondly remembered in retrospect for…
Here Are All the Musicians Who Died in July 2016
We went into 2016 with a bunch of whopper deaths in the rock pantheon and for a while it looked like they would continue unabated. As far as legends go, few of this month’s casualties would qualify as that. But what we do have are a lot of journeyman players…
Steven Tyler Scarfs Down Newfound Solo Freedom at Comerica Theatre
Despite Steven Tyler’s own protestations that this is not a solo tour because he is performing with a fully integrated band called Loving Mary, it’s hard not to see his whole career trajectory of the last few years—from signing on to judge American Idol to writing a tell-all best-selling biography…
All The Famous Musicians Who Died In June 2016
Here we are at the midway point of what has been the worst year for music having nothing to do with what was issued and everything to do with who was discontinued. “Sure,” you say. “We lost a lot of giants early in the year like Bowie and Prince, but…
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KONGOS Tackle Ego and Lofty Expectations on Sophomore Major Album
In 2012, KONGOS released Lunatic to virtually no fanfare. In 2014, a major label (Epic/Sony) re-released that same album without changing so much as a micro-tone, and it spawned a platinum hit in “Come With Me Now,” heard everywhere from The Expendables 3 to the Spike TV app to every…
Death Race 2016: All the Musicians Who Died in May 2016
You stick around long enough and they make up a word to describe you. This month saw the passing of Susannah Mushatt Jones, the world’s oldest living person, and while it’s impolite to ask a woman’s age, at 116, it’s a whole different ball game. Imagine the speedy service you’d…
Death Race 2016: All The Musicians Who Died in April 2016
No doubt about it, we suffered two devastating music legend losses in April 2016, but it is heartwarming to know that alarmist podcasts like Infowars and websites Survivopedia.com have found the missing link between Merle Haggard and Prince and united them in death — yes, those geo-engineering chemtrails! “Just to…
The Posies To Announce Secret Show in Phoenix on Sunday, May 1
Although firmly entrenched in people’s minds and hearts as a power pop band, The Posies were never the rigid adherents to the “verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge” structure as that movement suggests. While always exhibiting impeccable harmonies, the band never skimped on the power part of the equation, which is why they came into…