Lightning Bolt, released in October 2013, is the tenth studio album by veteran Seattle grunge rockers Pearl Jam. An album that gets better with every listen, Lightning Bolt combines a variety of styles with contemporary production ...
Don’t Let Go is a live album by the Jerry Garcia Band, recorded at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco on May 21, 1976. The show took place just weeks before Garcia’s main band, the ...
Forever Changes, released November 1967, is the third album by the band Love. It has been widely heralded as a psychedelic classic from the Summer of Love, and ranks 40th on Rolling Stone’s list of ...
“Bread & Butter” is a 2009 instrumental release by the Jive Turkeys, a four-piece funk/soul combo from Oxford, Ohio. The band lines up like Booker T & the M.G.’s, and plays with the energy and ...
Penguin is the seventh album by British rock band Fleetwood Mac. It features Bob Welch on guitar and vocals, Christine McVie on piano and vocals, the rhythm section of Mick Fleetwood on drums and John ...
Sixto Rodriguez is a poet of the streets who released two albums of social protest in the early 1970’s, then languished in obscurity for decades until reappearing as the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary ...
By: Stephen Rose Psychedelic Pill is the thirty-fifth studio album by Neil Young. The two-disc set was released in October 2012, and features Billy Talbot, Ralph Molina, and Frank “Poncho” Sampedro, Young’s longtime collaborators from ...
By: Stephen Rose Lucinda Williams is a singer-songwriter whose music helped define the Americana movement in the mid-90’s. She has released nine albums of original material, combining elements of folk, country, rock and blues. Lucinda ...
By: Stephen Rose Nick Drake was part of the British folk revival movement of the late 60’s, which included Fairport Convention, Pentangle, and The Incredible String Band. He died in 1974 from an accidental overdose ...
By: Stephen Rose Little Axe is the alias for Skip McDonald, a blues guitarist who has spent his career at the forefront of emerging musical trends. At Sugar Hill Records, he laid down the ...
By Stephen Rose Brad Wilson is a California-based blues guitarist currently touring up and down the West Coast in support of his new album “Blues Magic.” In concert, he is a charismatic performer who easily ...
By: Stephen Rose John Sebastian is another example of a performer who had everything in place for a successful solo career, but was never able to recapture the commercial heights he attained with his first ...
By: Stephen Rose Ty Curtis is a 25-year-old singer, songwriter and guitarist based in Salem, Oregon, who already has four albums under his youthful belt. His band has performed at Portland’s Waterfront Music Festival, The ...
By: Stephen Rose Gene Clark was a folk-singer who gained fame in 1964 as founding member and chief songwriter for folk-rock pioneers the Byrds. He made two albums with the Byrds and was responsible for ...
By: Stephen Rose Steppenwolf was a successful rock band in the late 60’s and early 70’s who are still remembered for their hit singles and top selling albums. However, time has forgotten their revolutionary political ...
By: Stephen Rose This is a shout out to Calvin Keys, an American jazz guitarist currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Known for his funky deep grooves, this legendary sideman is primarily remembered ...
By: Stephen Rose Dengue Fever is a band from the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles that performs Cambodian pop music from the sixties with a contemporary rock sensibility. They combine world music with surf, ...
By: Stephen Rose Canned Heat was the rock band that put the boogie in the blues. They were featured in two of the most prominent rock festivals of the sixties: The Monterey International Pop Festival ...
By: Stephen Rose Led by guitarist Jim Thomas, and supported by Allen Whitman on bass and Martyn Jones on drums, the Mermen are a San Francisco surf-rock trio formed in 1989 and considered to be ...