Archive for July 3rd, 2014

Nick DeRiso’s Mid-Year Best of 2014 (Reissues and Live): Toto, the Who, Roy Orbison, Stick Men, Jon Anderson, Mike Bloomfield

Nick DeRiso’s Mid-Year Best of 2014 (Reissues and Live): Toto, the Who, Roy Orbison, Stick Men, Jon Anderson, Mike Bloomfield

These 10 reissues and live sets provided us with important new perspectives.

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‘More like brothers than actual friends’: The complicated, but enduring, partnership that is Hall and Oates

Forever linked by music, and by their band name, each is actually very different.

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Something Else! sneak peek: Jeff Crosby and the Refugees, “Love, Hate Relationship” (2014)

This brings us back to when we first got smitten with rock music so long ago.

The Band, “Jupiter Hollow” from Northern Lights-Southern Cross (1975): Across the Great Divide

The Band, “Jupiter Hollow” from Northern Lights-Southern Cross (1975): Across the Great Divide

An odyssey toward imagination’s outer limits, with the Band’s Garth Hudson as rocket fuel.

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Something Else! Interview: Larry Tamblyn of garage-rock pioneers the Standells

Decades after their biggest hits, the Standells are still creating garage-shaking rock.