Josh Groban & Idina Menzel – Wells Fargo Center – Philadelphia, PA – November 12, 2018 Broadway came to the Wells Fargo Center on Monday as Josh Groban (The Great Comet of 1812, the album Stages) and diva Idina Menzel (Wicked, Rent) shared the stage. Menzel opened the night with a stellar set, mixing her … Continue reading
The Stars Came Out at the Paley Center for A Gala Tribute to Music on Television On Thursday, October 25th, The Paley Center for Media hosted the Paley Honors in Hollywood: A Gala Tribute to Music on Television at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The exciting evening highlighted groundbreaking musical moments in television, from music-based series … Continue reading
Herb Alpert & Lani Hall – World Café Live – Philadelphia, PA – April 23, 2018 World Café Live took a Tijuana taxi south of the border the other night when legendary trumpeter Herb Alpert and his long-time wife Lani Hall (who used to be the lead singer of Sergio Mendes and Brazil ‘66) shared … Continue reading
Jon Anderson Anderson Rabin Wakeman to Record ‘21st Century’ YES-Style Music This Year by Russ Allen Jon Anderson is truly in a golden stretch of his amazing half-century plus arc in the musical world. Famous as the lead singer and front-man of YES – the progressive-rock giant of a band – Anderson has steadily toured, written … Continue reading
CLASSIC ALBUMS – THE BEACH BOYS: PET SOUNDS (2016) Featuring Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, David Marks, Tony Asher, Karl Engemann, Mark Linett, Hal Blaine, Don Randi, Bruce Botnick, Helen Shapiro, Keith Altham, David WIld, Lucy O’Brien and archival footage of Dennis Wilson. Directed by Martin R. Smith and Matthew Longfellow. Distributed … Continue reading
Jeff Lynne’s ELO – Hollywood Bowl – Hollywood, California – September 11, 2016 Back in 2001, Jeff Lynne was slated to tour with a new version of ELO (Electric Light Orchestra) in support of his then new album, Zoom. Unfortunately, despite a few warm-up shows, which included an episode of VH1 Storytellers, those dates never … Continue reading
Gene Simmons Exercises His Freedom to Rock by Ken Sharp For a group routinely dismissed by short-sighted critics as a flash in the pan, a joke band comprised of talentless, cretinous musical goons soon to be forgotten and quickly discarded on the junk heap of failed rock bands past, KISS are having the last laugh. … Continue reading
Warren Zanes Writing the Book on Tom Petty by Jay S. Jacobs Thirty years ago, Warren Zanes and his brother Dan led a hip rock band called The Del Fuegos. The Boston-based band released three albums on the cutting-edge Slash/WB label, gaining a cult following, but never quite making the breakthrough that was expected. … Continue reading
Delta Rae – World Cafe Live at the Queen – Wilmington, DE – August 29, 2015 It almost feels too simplistic to compare Durham, NC’s faves Delta Rae with Fleetwood Mac. After all they both have multiple lead singers (Rae has two women and two men, while the Mac had two women and only one … Continue reading
#WhoIsTOPLINE There’s a new boy band coming to town and it’s impressive lineup contains… Oh yeah! We don’t know!! It’s not a first, though. Have you ever heard of Klaatu? Nope? Ask your parents. Maybe even your grandparents. In the 1970s a mysterious band named after a robot in an old sci-fi movie (The Day … Continue reading
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