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Ronnie Wood: Rolling Stones return to the studio hoping 'to get the feel again'

The Rolling Stones took eight years between Bridges to Babylon and 2005’s A Bigger Bang, and it’s been seven years since that studio recording. Perhaps the long wait is over. You May Also Like: How the Rolling Stones Got Their Mojo Back With ‘A Bigger Bang’

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'Celebrate Ronnie's life': Montrose family reacts to confirmation that he committed suicide

A new report confirms that guitar hero Ronnie Montrose, who had been battling cancer for years, took his own life. You May Also Like: Edgar Winter Group – They Only Come Out at Night (1972): On Second Thought The Immediate Family, “Cruel Twist” (2020): One Track Mind

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Queen’s Roger Taylor on that drunk guy singing "Bohemian Rhapsody": ‘Very funny’

One of the Web’s biggest 2012 viral sensations so far has been that video of a Canadian man, under arrest for drunken driving in the back seat of a Canadian police car, singing Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” in its entirety. Count the band’s co-founding drummer Roger Taylor as a fan. “It’sRead More

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Jon Cleary – Occapella (2012)

Jon Cleary is a big enough fan, and an accomplished enough musician, to mix it up on this forthcoming tribute record — which is smartly subtitled “Having Fun with the Songs of Allen Toussaint.” You May Also Like: No related posts.

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Something Else! Featured Artist: More Led Zeppelin!

What’s the continuing attraction, in 2012, for the long-gone Led Zeppelin? From movie trailers to “American Idol,” these long-haired, often-shirtless heavy-metal rock-gods — disbanded since the turn of the 1980s, mind you — remain front of mind. You May Also Like: Why ‘Celebration Day’ Provided the Perfect Farewell for LedRead More

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The Staves – The Motherlode EP (2012)

The Staves arrive as the very image of a twee sibling act — and you prepare yourself for another sweetly unthreatening batch of folk tunes. But this is an aptly titled EP, full of musical (and emotional) surprises. You May Also Like: Jenny Scheinman – Here on Earth (2017)

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Eivind Opsvik – Overseas IV (2012)

Sometimes when it comes to listening to music, patience is a virtue… Imagine cueing up a record by a jazz bassist and being greeted with the ornate sounds of a timpani, harpsichord and bowed bass. You May Also Like: Eivind Opsvik – Overseas V (2017) Burnt Sugar the Arkestra ChamberRead More

The Successful Failures - Here I Am! (2012)

The Successful Failures – Here I Am! (2012)

‘Here I Am!’ hugs tight to the New Jersey-based Successful Failures’ tradition of excellence, excitement and enthusiasm.

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Flowtilla – Waves and Particles (2011)

Since its formation as the Len Paterson Trio in 2000, Bay Area funk-jazz outfit Flowtilla has been going against the grain when it comes to funk. You May Also Like: Flowtilla – Just Passing Through (2017) Charged Particles – ‘Live at the Baked Potato’; Mike Bogle – ‘Let There BeRead More

Todd Rundgren's Utopia - 'Live at Hammersmith Odeon '75' (2012)

Todd Rundgren’s Utopia – ‘Live at Hammersmith Odeon ’75’ (2012)

Todd Rundgren’s once out-of-this-world vision for Utopia – prog-pop? proto-new wave rock? – was coalescing into a provocative and powerful musical conception.