Free Essay: Tim Wall’s writing “Rocking Around the Clock” helped further understand the social dancing during the 50s and 60s. He wrote about social and...
Pollard and I would sit around writing lyrics all day, talking about Bob Dylan and The Band, thinking up ridiculous plots for the movie. Before I left Morocco, Pollard wrote in my book ‘The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys’. For me, it summed him up. He had this tremendous rebel attit...
Welcome to the Rocking Magpie HQ – a box-room on the Internet for one man and a bunch of his Roots Music loving friend’s thoughts and musings on a wide variety of music, usually; but not exclusively based around all things ROOTS:- Americana, Folk, Blues, R&B, all variants of Count...
A: Things are cyclical in music. Things will come around again to my kind of music. There are a few good bands playing that music, but that’s all. A few of those bands will survive--the really good ones--and the pretenders will fade. * Q: What’s your audience now? A: The av...
But by the 2010s private schools across the country had begun reckoning with instances of sexual abuse by faculty members. Astonishingly, Miss Hall’s seems to have made the gamble to keep silent even as the world around it changed. (The school declined to respond to Vanity Fair’s ...
Josie Ho: I really cannot discuss much about this project yet, but I will say that I enjoyed working with the director, Eric Khoo, as well as the producers and the whole crew. Really good people all around. Melissa Parker (Smashing Interviews Magazine): Have you ever...
Globe: What inspired you to make music together? Has the line up been stable since you started playing? AG: Three of us grew up on the same street, and the other two lived around the corner. We came together artistically at a collective called the Peace and Justice Center in Westlake,...
Bandmates used to have to drive him to all the gigs. He was good enough to replace those much older with an uncanny ability to hear a song and play it back verbatim. From his days playing with Cats on a Smooth Surface, which was the house band at the famed Stone Pony in Asbury ...
Since the first AI technology came into being, countries around the world have entered a race to be the first to improve and elevate the technology. Now, we’re in a full sprint as AI becomes more accessible and advanced. In late 2022, OpenAI releasedChatGPTand opened the floodgates for ...
the situation was discovered thru an angiogram before any sort of heart attack weakened my heart. I went to the hospital to get what I thought would be an angioplasty; then they discovered a much more dire situation, so they invited me to stick around for a couple of days (lol) These ...