As is our habit around here at B&V, I started this year with a Playlist: Rock Songs From 1976, where I feature 1 song from any number of rock n roll albums from 50 years back, this year, from ’76 (obviously). As typically happens in any given year, I find myself going back to that…
I got a ping from my dear friend RK with a link to the song “Volver A Celaya” and the words “Have been listening to this lately…” His text couldn’t have come at a more opportune time. As I sit around the B&V labs waiting for new albums from Neil Young, Beck and Greta Van…
A few weeks back I posted a list of my favorite movie soundtrack albums. Having done this a while, I have to say posting that list was long overdue. I did do a list of songs that could only be found on soundtracks – music recorded or released only for that particular film (i.e. “Somebody’s…
Neil Young and his latest backing band the Chrome Hearts: Micah Nelson (guitar), Corey McCormick (bass), Anthony Logerfo (drums) and old time cohort Spooner Oldham (keyboards), have announced their follow up to 2025’s Talkin’ To The Trees, and released the title track for the album, Second Song. “Second Song” is a track that Neil Young and I mean…
I was aware that Greta Van Fleet were working on a new album, my buddy Drummer Blake told me, but I just now stumbled upon the fact that they’d released two songs from the new album already, “Saw You Stand” and “Play Your Games.” The new album is called Palace For The People and is due…
I can’t get over what a dark time it is right now in the history of the world. We don’t speak about world events here, this is a rock n roll blog, but damn… Perhaps because my spirits have been buoyed of late by the recent Black Crowes concert here in KC, and that communal…
*Photo of Chris Robinson of The Black Crowes taken by your intrepid blogger last night The Black Crowes, along with co-headliners Whiskey Myers, brought their Southern Hospitality Tour to Kansas City’s brand new Morton Amphitheater over in Riverside, Mo last night and I can’t tell you how happy I was to be there. I can’t…
You’ll have to forgive me but I’ll be the first to admit, I have no idea who DJ Martin Garrix is nor am I familiar with any of his work. I guess I’m not up on the whole pantheon of DJs today…I think it was Bowie who sang, “I am a DJ, I am what…
On the heels of releasing a wonderful “odds and sods” compilation album of stray tracks this last February Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime, B&V perpetual fav Beck has announced he’s releasing his first album in seven years entitled Ride Lonesome. He has already released two songs for the album, expected in September. I can’t believe it’s been…
Fiona Apple has released a new song, albeit a very brief one, “Horns Of A Bull” which serves as the theme song of the new Anya Taylor Joy show, Lucky. I think this is similar to what R.E.M.’s erstwhile singer Michael Stipe (working with uber-producer Andrew Watt) did earlier this year with “I Played The Fool”…