Dec 8, 2014
Prince made a surprise appearance at W Hollywood Hotels jazz night. Initially merely a spectator, Prince reportedly made his way to the stage for a lengthy guitar solo in the middle of the Beatles With A Little Help From My Friends" during the set by Ryan Edgar and Nikki Leonti-Edgar.Watch video of the performance (...
Nov 10, 2014
Bob Dylan decamped for three shows in Chicago just as things are exploding in his corner of the universe.The Bootleg Series Volume 11, a six CD complete recording of all the music made with The Band during the historic sixties sessions. Here's a track-by-track breakdownA Bob Dylan Bootleg Series iOS app is now availableLost On...
Sep 20, 2014
City Winery will show two music documentaries in the coming weeks, Beatles documentary Good Ol Freda and End Of The Century: The Story Of The Ramones.The movies will be projected onto dual 90-inch screens in the performance area, utilizing the winerys sound system and seating, with food service and themed drink specials available.End...
Jun 3, 2014
Jackie Greene and his band of stormed Chicago's Lincoln Hall on Saturday night (but not before celebrating their drummer's birthday at nearby Fiesta Americana).Highlights included Greene's originals "So Hard To Find My Way" and "Prayer For Spanish Harlem". But the true show stopper was the set closing sequence of covers, segueing from the Beatles ("...
Jun 2, 2014
The notorious FirstMerit Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island opened its season under clear skies last weekend with a pairing of Jack Johnson and Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes.The acts shared the stage for a pair of covers of The Beatles and The Band and Johnson and his band reeled off additional takes on...
Apr 15, 2014
I've looked at some of my favorite album cover art so many times, I tend to think of it as divorced from greater context, that the images aren't actual photos of real places.But indeed they are! In fact, many of them have been cataloged by Google's cameras using it's Street View feature. So, of...
Feb 11, 2014
I'd like to buy a drink for the author of this one but, regrettably, it was presented unattributed at I Love Charts tumblr.Pretty simple concept: just take the byzantine lyrics of The Beatle's "I Am The Walrus" and visualize them. A Venn works surprisingly well.Also those circles are very well proportioned for a...
Nov 20, 2013
As a childhood Legomaniac and father of three boys, it's no surprise that my hearts races whenever I see something truly awesome made of the bricks, moreso if it's music related. If it's related to my favorite artists, I may have to be physically restrained from posting about it. Here's another trio of ultra creative...
Oct 9, 2013
It's always been pretty amazing to see just how much was documented about Beatles recording sessions. Now, the folks at Pop Chart Lab have managed to capture a great deal of info into a series of images that convey the contributions of each band members and the wide, and ever-growing sonic palliate that they employed...
Oct 4, 2013
Australian Beatles cover band The Beatnix recorded this for an Aussie television show, The Money or The Gun, that featured a different band covering "Stairway To Heaven" each week. It's a brilliant juxtaposition of "Stairway To Heaven" lyrics over the Beatles early 60's jangle rock like "Please Please Me" and "I Want To Hold Your...