Lucky, Lucky Us!
Home alone. Another day to face. What to do. Laundry, shopping, cooking, cleaning and looking for work. Like so many American’s I wake up to face another day at home, by myself and I’m mad. I can’t believe how this country has turned it’s back on it’s own people. Companies are refusing to hire people, [...]
Read full story...Interview with Robby Takac – Goo Goo Dolls
Robby Takac, bassist for the Goo Goo Dolls, has to pause for a split second and think, “Where am I? Oh, Grand Rapids,” he replied with a laugh. But ask him again in a few more weeks, the answer may come harder. This summer the Goos, as they are affectionately known, will be making a [...]
Read full story...Howie Mandel – Expect the Unexpected
Expect the unexpected when Howie Mandel performs live. No one knows what’s going to happen – not even Howie. Mandel’s unique style of comedy touches a chord with his audience, because he gives his listeners a chance to get a little bit closer to the child inside. He brings us down that road where playfulness [...]
Read full story...3 Doors Down: Profile
3 Doors Down Current Members: Brad Arnold – lead vocals Matt Roberts – guitar Chris Henderson – guitar Todd Harrell – bass guitar Greg Upchurch – drums, percussion Even Superman can’t score a record deal if the music is no good. But when radio station WCPR in Biloxi, Mississippi was inundated with phone calls requesting [...]
Read full story...Roger McGuinn: Artist, Guitarist and Techie
Roger McGuinn is a bit of a paradox. It’s a rare occurrence when art and technology find a home in one heart, but here it dwells. The front man, the guitarist, the folk rocker, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, is best known for being a member of the Byrds, back in the [...]
Read full story...Lindsey Buckingham – Still Looking Forward
Lindsay Buckingham isn’t looking back too much these days.It could be because the future for him is now. In the last ten years, he’s married, started a family, and birthed a new album that is as intimate and personal a portrait as any artist may dare to venture. But for him, taking risks may be his proverbial fountain of youth. After all, he did it with Fleetwood Mac.Following the commercially successful Rumors, which catapulted the band into rock icon status, Buckingham could have followed the same recipe and spoon-fed fans a Rumors II. Instead, he followed it up with the quirky, Tusk, a 180-degree departure from Rumors.True to his word, at 58 he’s still not stopped thinking about tomorrow.
Read full story...So, What Does Bo Know?
Bo Diddley, that is, the consummate performer, musician, humanitarian and even actor. As a Founding Father of rock-n-roll, he is known to many as “the Originator” for taking the Blues and infusing it with what he was influenced by-Chicago street music, hambone, the strumming of guitar mixed with the rhythm that comes from slapping the guitar, knee and chest, while soulfully singing the lyrics. Mix that with some harder edge guitar and you’ve got the signature “Bo Diddley beat”-a sound best described as “shave and a haircut, two bits.” Think U2′s “Desire” or Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away,” and you’ve got it. Bo was born Ellas Bates on a farm in Mississippi, near the Louisiana border, on December 30, 1928. His cousin, Gussie McDaniel, later adopted him. He took her last name and moved with the family to the South side of Chicago at age five. He got the name Bo Diddley when he became a Golden Gloves boxer.
Read full story...Joe Piscopo – Just Your Average Work’n Joe
Going through airport security Joe Piscopo, known best for being a Saturday Night Live alum, is talking on his cell phone, arranging interviews and signing autographs to fans who obviously feel comfortable enough to walk up and ask. Security checks his bag, as he says with a laugh into the phone, “I’m just going through [...]
Read full story...Dashboard Confessional – Chris Carrabba Lets Us In – A Little Bit
Dashboard Confessional is the band’s name, but don’t ask founder Chris Carraba to give up his sins or reveal too much personal information. If you want him to bare his soul, give a listen, that information is contained in the lyrics of his songs.“I put a lot of myself into my songs,” he confessed.He was [...]
Read full story...Kathleen Madigan – Irreverent Style in a Small Package
If Kathleen Madigan ever had to go into the witness protection program she could hide in South Florida, no problem. She would blend right in because she drives a Cadillac and you can’t see her head over the steering wheel. Madigan 40, native of St. Louis and a comedian who gained face recognition on NBC’s reality show, Last Comic Standing, is thinking aloud about her blog that appears on her website — where she writes down exactly what’s on her mind.
Read full story...The Essential Top 10 Rock Albums
If you want a rock & roll education, this would be a good place to start. The ten albums below are not just listed because they were the best-selling or most popular rock music in history. The list was not compiled using charts and graphs or for that matter a dartboard. These albums make the [...]
Read full story...Memory Lane – Leaves You Aching For More
Don’t go see this band…Ok; you’ve been warned…you’ll be sorry. The next morning when you rise to find your hips hurting, your shoulders sore, and your body radiating a dull general ache from dancing like a fool – echoes of “I told you so,” will ring in your ears. When you can barely whisper a [...]
Read full story...Mississippi Blues – Ben Prestage
Some might say that Ben Prestage has the muddy waters of the mighty Mississippi Delta coursing through his veins in order for him to suck the pain right out of that guitar and play the blues the way they were meant to be played — from the depths of the soul.
Read full story...Forty…Fabulous? – Not So Much!
Spring may be when a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love, but for me, this is the May I’ve been dreading for 39 years. Yes, I’m gonna hit 40. Did I just admit that on paper? I must be getting old. Facing 40 makes you ponder some of life’s biggest most mysterious [...]
Read full story...Littly Italy in the Palm Beaches – FORGEDDABOUDIT!
Mama Mia, for a few special days, Abacoa Town Center will be transformed from the trendy little Mediterranean-style, upscale shopping center to what resembles a corner of New York City’s Little Italy complete with an outdoor market, strolling according players and opera sung from the balconies above, all in preparation for the three-day event known [...]
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