There was also The Creation, a sharp, antsy, Who-like quartet whose violin-bow-brandishing guitarist, Eddie Phillips, delivered the deathless quote: “Our music is red with purple flashes.” Their second single, October 1966’s “Painter Man,” richly took the piss out of starving-artist id...
It was my first summer as a college student. I was living in a tiny but expensive walk-up in the LES, spiritually vacant and utterly depressed, making frequent trips to visit my girlfriend in Philadelphia where a small, committed group of artists were turning me on to the rich ...
He’s been playing in New York bands since he was 12 years old—he was literally 12 and playing at CBGB’s! I think he opened up for the Misfits when he was 13. He’s just a real authentic New York rock guy. This is off his latest album, Sunset Kids, which is great. It’s ...
and there was a strong relationship then between New York’s community of young artists and the highly conceptual punk scene. You’d assume an artist with Otterson’s interest in pop culture spent his nights at CBGB seeing
She didn’t care whether you liked her or not. Her expression seemed to say, “Here I am, take me or leave me.” And then there was the music… “Rip Her to Shreds,”“Hanging on the Telephone,”“Sunday Girl,”“Rapture,”“Heart of Glass.” The songs were an intriguing blend ...
Ornette Coleman's Dancing in Your Head--"cosmic as they come" (Richard Riegel), "funnier than Funkadelic" (Tom Smucker)--was the first album by a jazz artist ever to make the poll. The Eagles would have placed had not their Hotel California been released December 6, 1976. The surprise...
Was a resume of playing countless clubs coast-to-coast, from New York’s famed CBGB’s to Los Angeles’ Whisky a Go Go, enough to send the smoky-voiced Sarah J onto your TV next season? Let’s find out. She recently sat down with Billboard atFaust Harrison Pianosin White Plains, N...
For thirty hard years I was a newspaperman Made my living with a pen and a pad God I miss the smell of paper and the ink on my hands Been back from the desert for a year or so Left more in the sand then you'll ever know Another war's waiting for me when I got back...
Michael Goldberg is a distinguished pioneer in the online music space; Newsweek magazine called him an ‘Internet visionary.’ In 1994 he founded Addicted To Noise (ATN), the highly influential music web site. He was a senior vice-president and editor in chief at SonicNet from March 1997 thr...
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