Nils Lofgren, the longtime member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, has emerged with a fiery, emotionally frank solo release – his first original project in six years.

The thing that makes today’s release of All We Are Saying feel so connective is guitarist Bill Frisell‘s willingness to simply let things happen — to accept life as it goes.

When I first got a hold of this CD I gotta admit, I greeted it with a lot of skepticism. Another Beatles covers project? I mean, I think every single Beatles song short of “Revolution No. 9″ has been covered at least once, if not a million times.

Usually the One You Skip on the Beatles’ White Album, “Revolution No. 9″ caught my attention again the other day — and I listened to it, really listened, for the first time in ages.

For Joey Molland, the last surviving member of the classic lineup of Badfinger, every day is a gift. “I have me health, and my voice is holding up,” Molland, 64, told us in a recent interview. “I keep practicing on my guitar, so I can get better one day.

Neal Morse, former frontman for Spock’s Beard, joined us for an SER Sitdown in advance of today’s release of his long-awaited Testimony 2 on Radiant/Metal Blade Records

by Tom Johnson Paul McCartney has managed to document each of his more recent tours, yet insists on releasing them not as actual concert videos but more as documentaries of the show. This would be fine if he’d do as others have done, such as Peter Gabriel with Still Growing Up, and put the unedited live footage together as a [...]

by Nick DeRiso Jazz guitarist Al Di Meola, the former teen prodigy in Return to Forever, accomplishes an uncommon thing here, making something out of a cover attempt at the Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields Forever.”

by Pico Paul McCartney declared it is “probably my favorite Beatles’ track” and yet, it’s also one of The Beatles’ silliest, discombobulated and for decades, one of their most obscure. For me, “You Know My Name (Look up The Number)” just brings me back to a long-ago time. My family (I say “family” but it probably belonged to one of [...]

By Nick DeRiso and S. Victor Aaron Beatles drummer Ringo Starr has taken his share of knocks over the years. Some of those, in the interest of full disclosure, came from us. Then there was legendary jazz figure Buddy Rich’s blunt assessment: “Ringo Starr was adequate. No more than that.” Still, it wasn’t like he didn’t have his moments — [...]