Author: Lauren Leadingham

At 75 years of age, Jack Casady allows no grass to grow under to his feet

With a guitar tone and vocal lassitude as pristine as they have ever been, J. Mascis has released his reworking of Tom Petty’s “Don’t Do Me Like That.” While putting his own twist on it, the Dinosaur Jr. frontman was careful to preserve the pith of the song, which is in its punch. Indeed, fills stay untampered with, notes are unwasted, and the overall rhythmic pattern just as it was in the original. The release comes almost a year after someone shot a video of Mascis singing the 1979 hit to a rather empty karaoke bar in Provincetown, Massachusetts with…

“You better be somewhat flexible. I’ve played all kinds of places, 300 people to 200,000. Basically, I treat it as another show. And the rest of it, they’re just life lessons.” – Dave Mason

Robin Trower’s newest album, ‘Coming Closer to the Day,’ has been officially released on this 22nd day of March. “I’m very happy with it; I’m very pleased with it,” he told us.

One could really get lost in New Orleans, lose themselves in the reverie of rhythm and blues. For Alex Chilton, this was especially true.

One pursuit that has always beckoned to Jim Allchin, long before his indispensable executive role at Microsoft, is playing the blues.

‘Been So Long: My Life and Music,’ a memoir by Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, hit the shelves in late August of this year. It doesn’t read like a typical sex, drugs, and rock and roll autobiography.

“I’m just going to be a vocalist and sing the things that I want to sing. I’ll play a little guitar, but essentially as a musician, I’m primarily a vocalist.”

Educators who sign up for the workshop sessions before the concert will receive a free ticket to that evening’s show.

“I believe that the lineup we have this year is probably one of the strongest, if not the best, that we’ve ever produced in our past 24 years.”