John Cruz – watch “Missing You” video
When I hear an artist that I like, I get this natural desire to want to tell people about them. That’s one of thee best things about Band Weblogs. It’s a great platform to do just that …
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Roy Orbison / Bono video – watch Mystery Girl interview
After receiving press regarding the upcoming release of ‘Roy Orbison The Soul Of Rock And Roll’, I was looking around YouTube for a video to add along with it. What I ended up finding was footage of Bono (U2) talking about Roy Orbison …
Harold Lopez Nussa ‘Sobre el Atelier’ review + Cuba, Havana-Cultura.com
Man the boy can play. ‘Sobre el Atelier’ is an instrumental CD of hot piano music from young Cuban virtuoso Harold Lopez Nussa. The CD contains original compositions as well as American and Cuban standards …
Stay Golden, Smog – The Best of Golden Smog The Rykodisc Years review
Golden Smog, an alt-country super group by all accounts, is what Soul Asylum’s Dan Murphy calls (a central Golden Smog member) “an ad hoc group of musicians” and is made up of members from Soul Asylum, the Jayhawks, Run Westy Run, Wilco/Uncle Tupelo, and occasionally Big Star, the Replacements and the Honeydogs …
Neil Halstead ‘Oh! Mighty Engine’ review + watch Queen Bee video
There are things to like about Neil Halstead. His songs are wistful and well-constructed, the arrangements are tasteful, with his back-up band supplementing and supporting the songs rather than drowning them with unnecessary and inappropriate additions …
Later Live with Jools Holland – Nicole Atkins, VV Brown, Carla Bruni, Metallica, more
Last night I was excited to see that Nicole Atkins was scheduled to play on Later Live…with Jools Holland. A few months ago I was lucky to have had the opportunity to interview Nicole over the phone – and then the next day to watch her play an intimate show at the Soho Review Bar …
Fun with Heart – watch “Alone” (original + acoustic) videos
Maybe it’s a little cheesy – but I really like the song, “Alone” by Heart. There’s no denying, though, the power of Ann Wilson’s voice. Along with her sister Nancy’s harmonies …
Guillemots NEW Kriss Kross video directed by MC Lord Magrao!
Here’s the new video for Guillemots’ latest single “Kriss Kross” from their album, ‘Red’. The video was directed by none other than their guitarist MC Lord Magrao! …
Slightly Stoopid review – ‘Slightly Not Stoned Enough to Eat Breakfast Yet Stoopid’
Even if you’re not one of Slightly Stoopid’s fans (and judging from MySpace there are a lot of them out there), you should know what you are going to get from the title of this CD of ‘outtakes, rarities and a couple of new joints’ …
Seasick Steve review – I Started Out With Nothin’ and I Still Got Most of It Left
The blues in Britain has always been derivative. It was appropriated mercilessly in the 60s of course by the likes of the Rolling Stones and Cream, but the innovations of those artists took the music sideways into the kinds of rock stylings that spawned Led Zeppelin and ‘eavy metal …
