Elmore finds its way to 50. Founders Arnie Goodman and Suzanne Cadgene renew their Elmore vows and announce a new (digital) baby
Melissa Caruso takes us on a visit to the cult we call music festivals, complete with tips from fans, performers and promoters alike on how to have fun on a farm with your 999,999 best friends
Bono is set to add even more profit to his bulging bank account today as his investment group Elevation Partners is set to net $1.5 billion in the public offering of Facebook stock. Purchasing 2.3 percent of the popular social network site in the world, Elevation paid a mere $90 million in 2009. Facebook is… [read more]
If Mark Ronson and Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed are a little too polished for your liking, perhaps Nick Waterhouse can provide a grittier take on the retro sound. With help from his backing band the Tarots (including horn section), Nick will be transporting the audience back to a time of analogue audio and pomade slick hair… [read more]
On this night, singer/songwriter/pianist Joy Askew demonstrated that fascinating songs and passionate vocals can transfix an audience under any circumstances. In the dimly-lit room, she remained seated behind the piano during her nine-song set. But although her excellent three-piece band was front and center, Askew dominated the stage. And despite some great solos from guitarist… [read more]
The Kooks play a brand of pub-pop (something between pub-rock and brit-pop – think the Kinks meets Kings of Leon) that eschews subtlety in favor broad melodic strokes and bouncy mid-tempo singalongs. Floor-level patrons held camera phones high and mezzanine-dwellers dangled Chuck Taylor-adorned feet over the crowd as the Kooks m the stage and cracked… [read more]
Starting with his 1957 hit, “Butterfly,” Charlie Gracie is a man that still has ’50s rock ‘n’ roll roots. He was also the man that helped establish the Philly label Cameo-Parkway with hits like “Ninety Nine Ways,” ”Wandering Eyes,” “I Love You So Much It Hurts” and “ Cool Baby.” Now, Charlie is back with… [read more]
If you’re nostalgic for the great rock and country music of your youth, this album will take you back. But while the songs’ styles pay homage to bands like The Beach Boys (“Brian’s Room, ” “Special Thing”) and Cream (“Bitter Cream”), and artists like Lee Dorsey (“Ravioli”) and Ray Price (“Two Shots of Heartache, Two… [read more]
New York City-based neo-soul singer Alan Leatherman takes a “Detour” for some straight-ahead jazz. Backed by the best (McCoy Tyner’s bassist Gerald Cannon, the late Shirley Horn’s longtime drummer Steve Williams, and Manhattan mainstay pianist Rick Germanson), Leatherman’s self-produced gem is gorgeous. Leatherman doesn’t over-sing what could have been a detour to… [read more]
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Since 1976, Tail Dragger and Bob Corritore have been performing the raw intensity of lowdown blues at its sticky, sweaty best. Their album, Longtime Friends In The Blues delivers you straight to a steamy Chicago juke joint in the late ‘50s. It comes as no surprise that the legendary Howlin’ Wolf bestowed James Yancy Jones… [read more]
