Something Else! Interview: Dave Wendels on big bands, Rebel Rousers, Brian Epstein + Lulu
Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers were European hitmakers at the height of Beatlemania.

Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers were European hitmakers at the height of Beatlemania.

The bluesman found fame with a new generation of blues-loving rockers just before his death.

‘Battle Lines’ found John Wetton beginning anew as a solo artist after an on-again, off-again initial period with Asia.
Let’s start by getting rid of “Yellow Submarine.” Buy the soundtrack if you feel that strongly about it.

Continuing in the long line of jazz musicians who have molded and revitalized modern jazz from behind a drum kit, ‘The Passion of Color’ is Rob Garcia at his best.
In praise of a song about bowling – yes, about bowling – from Donald Fagen’s ‘Sunken Condos.’

This heretofore traditional Americana trio offramps into a diaphanous, mystery-filled place.

Juber, with Wings from 1978-81, always had a keen sense of what this opportunity meant.

His career with Eagles took flight with a similar sound more than 40 years ago.
“I don’t think,” Steve Cropper says, “I had even pulled my guitar out of the case yet.”