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Elvis Costello is our first Featured Artist of 2014. Check out his YouTube clips posted on our Home Page. It's hard to do justice to his prolific and protean talents within our limited space, but I've found a few gems.
The English singer-songwriter Declan MacManus adopted the stage name Elvis Costello when he released his first single, "Less Than Zero," in March 1977. Five months later, Elvis Presley died. When Costello's first LP was ... (more)
The English singer-songwriter Declan MacManus adopted the stage name Elvis Costello when he released his first single, "Less Than Zero," in March 1977. Five months later, Elvis Presley died. When Costello's first LP was ... (more)
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For the first time ever, Rolling Stone Magazine and the Pitchfork website -- generations apart in their perspectives on music -- agreed on the two top albums of the year for 2013. They both picked Vampire Weekend's Modern Vampires of the City as #1 and Kanye West's Yeezus as #2. It now looks like these two albums will be the runaway consensus best albums of 2013 across all critics lists.
Not by me. Modern Vampires does make my top 10, and I do admire a few tra... (more)
Not by me. Modern Vampires does make my top 10, and I do admire a few tra... (more)
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The Everly Brothers are our Featured Artist through the end of 2013. Check out their YouTube clips posted on the Home Page.
Growing up in a touring musical family, Don and Phil Everly were polished performers while still in their teens. Their earliest recordings are pure country, distinguished even then by the most beautiful close harmony singing this side of the Louvin Brothers. There's just some indescribable magic to the blend of si... (more)
Growing up in a touring musical family, Don and Phil Everly were polished performers while still in their teens. Their earliest recordings are pure country, distinguished even then by the most beautiful close harmony singing this side of the Louvin Brothers. There's just some indescribable magic to the blend of si... (more)
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Sly & The Family Stone is our Featured Artist for the whole summer of 2013. It's "Hot Fun in the Summertime" on the Alley this year!
Sylvester Stewart was a Bay Area disc jockey and record producer before he formed his mixed gender, multiracial powerhouse in 1967. Along with James Brown and George Clinton (Parliament/Funkadelic), Sly & The Family Stone were essential creators of funk music.
Between 1968 and 1971, with a ... (more)
Sylvester Stewart was a Bay Area disc jockey and record producer before he formed his mixed gender, multiracial powerhouse in 1967. Along with James Brown and George Clinton (Parliament/Funkadelic), Sly & The Family Stone were essential creators of funk music.
Between 1968 and 1971, with a ... (more)
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Boz Scaggs is a unique and consummate "blue-eyed soul" singer, songwriter, and guitar player whose mesmerizing style and vocal timbre never cease to entrance record buyers and live audiences. He has the easy confidence and skills to cover songs by icons like Otis Redding and Al Green. He can evoke Mose Allison's hipness in a rhythmic context and Van Morrison's interpretive pallette as a balladeer. He's that good, and that sui generis.
Boz first achieved prominence as a guit... (more)
Boz first achieved prominence as a guit... (more)
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Sam & Dave were always a great live act. But during their heyday (1966-1968), Sam Moore (tenor) and Dave Prater (tenor/baritone) were at the very pinnacle of show business, bringing all the fervor of gospel music to their performances of great songs with outstanding instrumental support. Only Otis Redding and James Brown among soul musicians and Bruce Springsteen among rock musicians could generate the same level of sustained live excitement as Sam & Dave at their peak.
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