Gone were the days when hits such as "Black Magic Woman" and "Oye Como Va" generated a crackling wave of electricity among the Woodstock generation, who eagerly tapped into the group's raw fusion. Both as a solo artist and with his trusted band, Carlos Santana had spent the 1970s ...
We’ve always been prone to nostalgia in music. Think of groups like Sha Na Na, who performed at Woodstock right before Jimi Hendrix’s mind-bending set and whose entire career was made up of performing ‘50s music; or the Stray Cats, an ‘80s band whose very look and sound paid tribu...
drugs was glorified in many ways by bands like The Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead,Jimi Hendrix, and Pink Floyd. This music became known as “acid rock” (Szatmary 1996). The music fashioned the ideas of peace and love along with it a dark trend. San Francisco was bursting with ...
If most music festivals simply seem to self-propagate in every mid-size city across the country, drafting at random from a pre-approved pool of bands, many of these artist-run events are honest attempts to break the stasis. “It’s this cut-and-paste arms race of headliners,” ...
Marcell Williams met Matthews backstage. She even reveals that it was my older brother that turned her onto the band in 1994 in the first place. (I can attest; he was an early adopter of many bands that became my favorites, too.) “I fell madly in love with Dave at that first SPAC...
Concert-goers sit on the roof of a Volkswagen bus at the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair at Bethel, N.Y., in mid-August 1969.AP That’s quite a transition for the vehicle, considering its roots. Known as Type 2, the Microbus was an offshoot of the VW Beetle, called Type 1, which ...
I would put up so many of these songs, 'Tonight,' 'Ecstasy,' [with] the most incredible pop songs [by other artists]. I don't want anyone to get angry with me, but I put [those songs] on the level of 'Go All the Way,' with being so incredible. I would want people to ...
album they wanted to make. He ended up financing most of the project, which was recorded at Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, New York, with such players as Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg of the E Street Band and Rundgren’s Utopia bandmates Kasim Sulton, Roger Powell and John “Willie” ...
Now that Summer is winding down let's take a look back at what 2022 has been like, so far, for artists and concert-goers. How many of these shows were you at? Which was your favorite? Who did you miss?Get our free mobile app Scroll through the concert calendar below and you will...
t get enough of the mix of modified bass drum samples, electro based synths and bass squelches that delivered an interesting sound different from most music of the day. With “Closer” doing well at MTV,The Downward Spiralalbum being highly anticipated and a well-placedWoodstock ‘94 ...