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”…
Josh Homme’s band Queens Of The Stone Age have returned with a new song, “Easy Street,” that features Nikki Lane of outlaw country fame on vocals. I’m sort of used to first singles from these guys that rock me out of my chair like “The Way You Used To Do,” so I was gobsmacked to…
Perhaps lost in the hubbub of the Stones’ new release Foreign Tongues last Friday, guitar god Jack White released his 7th studio album Frozen Charlotte. I slipped out of the B&V labs in between spins of the new Stones this weekend and dashed down to the local indy record store to pick up the midnight blue…
The venerable Rolling Stones have returned a mere three years after Hackney Diamonds with their new album Foreign Tongues and it is a stupendous, joyous rock n roll record. These guys are rocking with an energy unmatched by men half their age. It sounds like they’re reinvigorated and have rediscovered the joy of making new music. It’s hard…
As I sit around in anxious pain, watching the clock in anticipation of the release of both the Stones’ (Foreign Tongues) and Jack White’s (Frozen Charlotte) new albums, I find myself cycling through my playlists. Rock music soothes the savage beast, as the saying goes. It’s either that or whiskey and this is healthier. As…
Editor’s Note: I inadvertently hit “publish” yesterday while I was trying to sketch out my initial thoughts about the framework/context of my review on U2’s new song. My apologies for the boneheaded publish/delete. If you got the two paragraph email version of those early sketched out ideas, sorry! Consider it a teaser! After releasing two…