Glen Campbell’sGhost on the Canvas came to my attention over the summer in tandem with the artists’ announcement about his fight with Alzheimer's. We don't know how we missed it last year for our best albums list. It's his best ever....
I didn’t get to watch Dick Clark’s “Rockin’ New Year’s Eve” in its entirety the other night, but I did see a heavily made-up Clark trying in earnest to get his thoughts across. Ryan Seacrest and Jenny McCarthy did yeoman duty counting the minutes down to the big moment....
The Police Benevolent Association's party for police widows and orphans this year was was one of their best ever and attracted a number of top celebrities from Robert DeNiro and Harvey Keitel to Colin Quinn and up-and-coming singer Dayme....
RCA Records is the latest to try to spin another sign of the music industry's decline--the closing of imprints, Arista and Jive--into something positive....
It took me more than a few tries to get into the last great British Band Coldplay. The really first caught my attention when Chris Martin married Gwyneth Paltrow....
I’ve always had an interesting relationship regarding Robbie Robertson from The Band. Even though I was a die-hard college radio geek, I just never really got into the band, although boy did I try more than once....
It’s not every day of late that someone starts a record company; the music business today is a harder crack than ever. Yet Bruce Pegg, chief executive of City Boy Records sees opportunity all around him. "It’s definitely more challenging, but options exist like never before,” he says....
One of my all-time favorite groups has been and will always be The Bee Gees. Our friends at Eagle Rock Entertainment have just released In Our Time a revealing look at the history of the group....
When The Beatles started their own record label Apple Records in 1968, it represented just how important the group was and how big they had become. Sure, the Moody Blues had Threshold Records, but Apple really set the standard and every artist-startup had that label as their template....
When this was first announced that Al Pacino would play Phil Spector, I wondered who was going to play Beatles John Lennon and George Harrison. Spector produced landmark solo albums for both....
When I first heard about Elton John and Leon Russell teaming up for an album, I thought, what an overdue idea. I had seen Leon two years back at a Dave Mason concert at the North Fork Theatre in Westbury, Long Island (my first time ever!) and was excited to hear him....
When Brandon Flowers, lead singer of The Killers, said he was about the release his first solo album, I wondered how much better this kid would get....
A long time ago, a musical Mecca existed in Roslyn on Long Island, called My Father’s Place. The club had everyone from Hall & Oates and Dave Mason to Andrew Gold and Hot Tuna. It quickly became the place to play on the East Coast....
Hard to believe that Bruce Springsteen’s album Born To Run was released in 1975. Wow, how time flies. When that album came out, it was the artist’s masterpiece...
Eagle Vision’s new DVD When You're Strange; A Film About The Doors has finally arrived and it's been well worth the wait. The DVD, narrated by Johnny Depp, no less, is a no-holds barred documentary about how the group came together and eventually burned out....
