Archive for August 7th, 2014

Robbie Robertson + Rick Danko, “Sonny Got Caught in the Moonlight” (1987): Across the Great Divide

Robbie Robertson + Rick Danko, “Sonny Got Caught in the Moonlight” (1987): Across the Great Divide

This Robbie Robertson collaboration with Rick Danko is comfortably like, but also thrillingly unlike, everything that came before.

‘Two individual artists working together’: Actually, they were never really ‘Hall and Oates’

‘Two individual artists working together’: Actually, they were never really ‘Hall and Oates’

Turns out, Hall and Oates were hinting at solo careers to come from the first.

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The Road Hammers – Wheels (2014)

Forget about the genre this album is supposed – or not supposed – to be.

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Something Else! sneak peek: MoeTar, “Regression to the Mean” from Entropy of the Century (2014)

Does a song have to be repetitive and elementary to work? MoeTar says: No.

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The Doughboys, “The Tears of a Clown” (2014): One Track Mind

Covering Motown classics can be awfully risky, but you can always trust the Doughboys to do things right.

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‘He liked the Beatles, too’: Tom Petty opens up about his relationship with George Harrison

They memorably recorded two albums together with the Traveling Wilburys.

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‘Heaved it at least 150 feet’: Peter Frampton teaches video-obsessed concertgoer a lesson

Don’t use your cell to film a Frampton show. Not if you want it back.