Evan Parker, John Edwards + others, November 20, 2014: Shows I’ll Never Forget
Evan Parker and John Edwards offered soul music for the spiritually minded during a very special performance at the Vortex.

Evan Parker and John Edwards offered soul music for the spiritually minded during a very special performance at the Vortex.

You hear this Velvet Underground classic as never before, without its now-familiar street-tough attitude, to say nothing of its insouciant gait.

Roger Waters once replaced his school-age chum Nick Mason with another drummer, during the contentious sessions for Pink Floyd’s ‘The Final Cut.’

With ‘All Purpose Music,’ the Virginia-based soul-funk-jazz quartet Butcher Brown shows why Nicholas Payton is so fired up about this band.
Here are Steely Dan’s five best sax solos, selected in tandem by our panel of Dan-loving authorities.

Peter Gabriel has inserted an elegiac new song into the acoustic portion of his ongoing Back to Front tour. Listen to it here!

An ailing Jeff Beck simply couldn’t make it on stage in 1966. So the Yardbirds asked their bass player to take over. A bass player named Jimmy Page.

Steve Earle sounds like he was born to the blues, even if he’s just now turning his focus there.
Steely Dan’s ‘Gaucho’ was issued 34 years ago today. Getting it to the point of release was no easy task.
The frenetic pace kept Steve Cropper so busy, there was often little time to actually take the stage to play.