Every review you’ve read of the new Roger Waters album is wrong (except for this one)
Last Friday, June 2, I spent the entire day checking the mail. I’d preordered the new Roger Waters album–his first album of original rock material…
Music Archives: 06/2017
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club parodies from the Sex Pistols, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd & many more
In case you haven’t heard, this summer marks the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Oh yeah, that’s right–you probably…
Stoner doom-mongers The Sword recreate Pink Floyd’s ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ in doom metal style
To celebrate 50 years since the August 5, 1967 release of Pink Floyd’s debut The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Kyle Shutt, the guitarist…
William S. Burroughs’ answer to the Sex Pistols’ ‘God Save the Queen’
The author at home It’s the 40th anniversary of the Sex Pistols’ “God Save the Queen,” and you know what that means: it’s the 40th…
Hip harp: Dorothy Ashby, jazz-funk harpist extraordinaire
1968 was a great year in music, to be sure, great enough that in addition to all of the uncontested masterpieces, it coughed up its…
‘Dirt Sounds’: A record made of dirt from Brian Wilson’s childhood home
Working with my friend LeRoy Stevens of the record label Small World, the LA-based artist Jeff Hassay has created an audio souvenir of Brian, Dennis,…