Hubs 1-10 (updated every 30 minutes)sort by Hot Best Latest
66San Francisco '67... Summer of Love?
After all, the media told us it was, and record labels cashed in on it, big-time. The press handed us images of flower children, psychedelia and rock music which even today partially define San Francisco. ...
0 comments
66CHARLOTTESVILLE VA--- Music In a Garden of Eden
Charlottesville's city fathers like to think of themselves as a city, though the town proper's number (a mere 40,000+) begs to differ. Add the few thousand from the surrounding area and you still fall short of most people's concept of city, even if...
0 comments56Good Music Equals Great Videos--- Sometimes...
I'm a music critic. I write about music. All kinds of music, but music of my choosing. I search. I find. I listen. Then I search some more. I call it the Net Beat. It is tiring. It is drudgery. It...
0 comments572009's SISTERS FOLK FESTIVAL/Company of Friends
Hot is hot and there was no doubt it was going to be, but early morning in the Cascades is nirvana even on the hot days. I grew up in Sweet Home before I-5 turned Oregon into a traffic conduit and when...
0 comments
74NOTARY SOJAC: The Night of the Grateful Dead
By 1971, the Grateful Dead's stage setup included the legendary 'pyramid' PA system, and even though Jim Lowry had heard of it, he was not prepared for what he saw. There were "like a million speakers--- smaller speakers they'd stacked up like two...
4 comments57I LOVE A (LISA) PARADE
And I mean for the music. It seems to me that the world has gotten away from the very thing the music industry was built upon. These days it's video, merchandise, ringtones--- anything but the music itself. I spend many hours a week scouring...
2 comments58THE OLYMPICS AND ALI MILNER
The Olympic Games are just around the corner and just as it happens every four years, the crowd is getting anxious. While the snow seems to have chosen Virginia, the Games are in Vancouver, nonetheless, and...
0 comments64Research Turtles... Leading the New Wave Into the 21st Century
In many ways, these are not the best of times in the music business. Major labels are so busy shooting themselves in the foot that they have lost all direction, ignoring the music and signing sensationalism...
0 comments65COMPACT DISCS: Dead? They Only Wish...
Compact discs are yesterday's news, old technology, inferior product. Everyone who is anyone knows it and if you don't, well, good luck plugging that diesel-powered disc player into the brand-spanking-new system of the future because more than...
2 comments66Power Poppin' Daddies....
Rock & Roll. Pop. Power Pop. Garage. Is today's music really all that complicated? I wonder what it is that makes us all want to listen to different genres--- soul, progrock, jazz. Are we predisposed to...
0 comments
