Pop Music

by / on May 20, 2013 at 11:41 am / in Pop Music, Rock Music, Uncategorized

‘I have ultimate respect for the man’: Journey’s Neal Schon on his distant relationship with Steve Perry

Neal Schon, touring again with Journey after completing a pair of solo efforts and sitting in with Sammy Hagar, is never far away from questions about his old bandmate Steve Perry. He admits the two haven’t spoken since 2005

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by / on May 20, 2013 at 9:06 am / in Pop Music, Rock Music

‘It affected me very much’: Stevie Nicks on the Beatles connection in Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Beautiful Child’

Stevie Nicks has spent years sorting through the tangled history of her affairs with bandmates Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood. With “Beautiful Child,” however, she was talking about someone else.

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by / on May 19, 2013 at 11:24 am / in Gimme Five, Pop Music, Rock Music, Uncategorized

Gimme Five: Songs by Chicago … That Weren’t

There are plenty of bands that wear their influences on their sleeves, to the point where their material could be mistaken for those who influenced them. Sometimes its an intentional homage, other times its accidental

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by / on May 19, 2013 at 10:31 am / in Pop Music, Rock Music, Uncategorized

Lisa Mychols – Above, Beyond and In Between (2013)

For the past couple of decades, Lisa Mychols has been very busy making music through a variety of vessels.

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by / on May 18, 2013 at 2:35 pm / in Pop Music, Reissue, Rock Music, Uncategorized

Paul McCartney and Wings – Wings Over America (1976; 2013 reissue)

It’s much easier, nearly four decades later, to separate the music from the moment when it comes to Wings Over America. Back then, this multi-disc concert souvenir from Paul McCartney seemed like a triumphant musical summation.

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by / on May 18, 2013 at 12:25 pm / in One Track Mind, Pop Music, Uncategorized

One Track Mind: Lykke Li, “Get Some” from Wounded Rhymes (2010)

Upon a rolling wave of buzzing beats and percussion pitched halfway between the Burundi borrowings of Bow Wow Wow and Gene Krupa’s “Sing Sing Sing,” comes indie-pop nymph Lykke Li with “Get Some.”

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by / on May 17, 2013 at 9:12 am / in Jazz, Pop Music

‘I kind of had my suspicions’: John Clayton on the mystery gig that turned out to be Paul McCartney

For John Clayton, the gig was a complete mystery. He knew that Diana Krall would be on piano, but not who the singer would be. “They wouldn’t say who it was,” the Grammy-winning jazz bassist reveals. Because it was Paul McCartney.

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by / on May 15, 2013 at 9:32 am / in Pop Music, Rock Music, Streams, Uncategorized

Exclusive stream: James McCartney, “Strong as You” from Me (2013)

James McCartney, a musician with a blessing/curse of a last name, tries to come to terms with the strength needed to overcome such strokes of luck/misery on “Strong as You”

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by / on May 14, 2013 at 10:19 am / in Movies, Pop Music, Rock Music, Uncategorized

Movies: Stevie Nicks – In Your Dreams (2013)

Looking back, it seemed preordained. Stevie Nicks met Dave Stewart years ago, and had a good feeling about him. “Maybe,” Stevie Nicks says toward the end of the film In Your Dreams, “this played out for a reason.”

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by / on May 14, 2013 at 8:00 am / in Almost Hits, Pop Music, Rhythm and Blues, Soul Music, Uncategorized

Almost Hits: Isley-Jasper-Isley, “Caravan Of Love” (1985)

The best peace, love and harmony anthem of 1985 didn’t come from the composing pen of Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, wasn’t produced by Quincy Jones and not sung by hordes of rock music’s biggest stars.

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