email They were the penultimate act at the Woodstock Music & Arts Fair, coming on right before Jimi Hendrix 44 years ago today. Sha Na Na was a 1950s revival group that hailed from Columbia University in New York City. By a stroke of luck, they were booked to perform at the Woodstock Music & […]
Song Of The Day – “Evil Ways” by Santana from “Woodstock”
email This week we are celebrating the 44th anniversary of “An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music” which took place August 15-18th 1969 on Max Yasgur’s farm in Bethel, N.Y. Of course, everyone knows the festival by its more common name, Woodstock.. While most people are familiar with Santana’s blazing performance of “Soul Sacrifice” […]
Song Of The Day – “Andmoreagain” by Love
email Love were the biggest rock act on the Elektra Record label, and along with The Byrds, were the darlings of the Whiskey a Go Go rock music scene on the Sunset Strip. That was until The Doors came along… The Summer Of Love wasn’t all sunshine and flower power, and Arthur Lee wasn’t your […]
Song Of The Day – “Infestissumam / Per Aspera Ad Inferi” by Ghost B.C.
email It’s not Spinal Tap during their “Stonehenge” phase, however Ghost B.C.’s satanic metal church music offers a theatrical twist (a la Tap’s “Henge”) unseen in rock music for many years. The stage fills with thick plumes of white smoke while the sound of Latin liturgical chanting fills the air. Out of the haze emerge […]
Song Of The Day – “Do You Know Who I Am? I’m F**kin’ Snooki!!” by The Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel Band
email It’s a joke…and it’s completely for real…Hey Hey…It’s The Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel Band is also one of the most refreshing, rough ‘n’ tumble spins you’re likely to hear all year. Jeffrey Lewis is a comic book artist and historian who is known for his successful series of Fuff (aka Guff ) comic […]
Song Of The Day – “Stay Away From Downtown” by Redd Kross
email Great power pop artists: Raspberries, Sweet, Cheap Trick, Big Star, The Cars, The Knack, Rockpile, Let’s Active, The dBs, Squeeze, Nick Lowe, The Smithereens, Marshall Crenshaw, Matthew Sweet, Guided By Voices, Fountains Of Wayne, The Minus Five, Apples In Stereo…REDD KROSS! How is it that some of the catchiest power pop ever committed to […]
Song Of The Day– “Shake Your Hips” by Slim Harpo
email This record’s got it all! An insinuating groove that doesn’t quit…otherworldly vocals that spook and caress at the same time…laid bare stripped down production, and the stellar harp playing that gave Slim Harpo his surname. There’s good reason why ‘60s British Invasion groups like The Who, the Yardbirds, the Kinks and the Rolling Stones […]
Song Of The Day – “Theme From An Imaginary Western” by Mountain
email Originally posted on August 28, 2012 Every so often, you hear a song that you haven’t heard in a long time, and it blows you away as if you were hearing it for the very first time. I had this experience last night at our weekly “Vinyl Night” gathering at the Firkin bar Libertyville, […]
Song Of The Day – “My God Is The Sun” (Live On Letterman) by Queens Of The Stone Age
email Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “My God Is The Sun” by Queens Of The Stone Age I wrote about Queen’s Of The Stone Age’s latest album …Like Clockwork several weeks ago proclaiming it as one of the best of the year, and I’ve been playing it incessantly since its release. There […]
Song Of The Day– “Lumpy Gravy” by The Persuasions
email From Gospel to The Grateful Dead, The Persuasions are an a capella group whose musical tastes know no boundaries. The group’s five original members, Jerry Lawson, Jesse “Sweet Joe” Russell, Jayotis Washington, Herbert “Toubo” Rhoad, and bass vocalist Jimmy “Bro” Hayes began singing on the street corners of Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn during the early […]
