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Post-Grateful Dead Band Furthur Opens Eight-Night Stand in NYC
The long strange trip continues. Furthur – the Grateful Dead-afterlife project led by the latter band's busiest touring survivors, bassist Phil Lesh and sin... | More »April 10, 4:50 PM ET| David Fricke -
Allman Brothers Finish March Run at the Beacon Minus Gregg but in High Gear
"It was a total celebration – everybody rose to the occasion and played their best," guitarist Warren Haynes said the day after the Allman Brothers Band ended th... | More »March 26, 4:05 PM ET| David Fricke -
Bruce Springsteen Brings It Home at SXSW
At the end of his SXSW keynote address on March 15th, Bruce Springsteen left the thousands of aspiring songwriters and performers congregated in Austin, Texa... | More »March 16, 10:25 AM ET| David Fricke -
Bruce Springsteen Makes Surprise Appearance at Austin Music Awards
Bruce Springsteen opened his SXSW blitz a night early, making a surprise appearance on lead guitar and occasional vocals during Alejandro Escovedo's closing set ... | More »March 15, 10:00 AM ET| David Fricke -
New Order Revisit Their Past in Australia
Before the third song of New Order's March 7th show at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, Australia, the British band's singer-guitarist Bernard Sumner thanked ... | More »March 7, 4:20 PM ET| David Fricke -
Radiohead Shine in Miami to Kick Off First U.S. Tour in Four Years
Radiohead began the opening night of their first U.S. tour in four years – at Miami's American Airlines Arena on February 27th – with a perfect descri... | More »February 28, 12:05 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Alice Cooper, Bob Seger and Humble Pie Rock Your TV, 1970-71
There was a time, mostly in the Sixties, when like all politics, the best rock & roll television was local. Top 40 disc jockeys hosted low-budget dance parties mod... | More »February 23, 5:40 PM ET| David Fricke -
Dion Sings the Bronx Blues With Little Steven in New York
Before he interviewed Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer Dion at the 92nd Street Y in New York on February 19th, Steven Van Zandt, the E Street Band guitarist and garag... | More »February 22, 4:15 PM ET| David Fricke -
Joey Ramone Rocks Again on New LP
February 21, 12:35 PM ET| David FrickeAfter Joey Ramone's death from lymphoma in April 2001, his mother, Charlotte Lesher, and younger brother, Mickey Leigh, were cleaning the Ramones singer's New York apartment when Charlotte picked up an old pizza-delivery receipt. "She was about to throw it away," Leigh recalls. "I turned it over, and there were song lyrics on the back." Right to the end, Leigh says, "Joey was working on something in his head."
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Bjork Brings Her Engaging Spectacle to the New York Hall of Science
"Are you enjoying Queens?" Björk asked with an exultant squeal during the February 3rd opening of her Biophilia residency at the New York Hall of Science in Flush... | More »February 6, 4:00 PM ET| David Fricke -
Thurston Moore Mixes Folk, Noise and No Wave Memories in New York Show
"Why can't we play facing this way?" Thurston Moore asked during his February 2nd acoustic, solo concert at New York's Allen Room, turning from the audience ... | More »February 3, 2:30 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Frank Zappa Invades Carnegie Hall, 1971
January 23, 11:10 AM ET| David FrickeThe American composer and rock & roll provocateur, Frank Zappa, died at age 52 almost two decades ago, on December 4th, 1993. At the time of his passing, his official discography totaled 62 albums released under his own name and that of his landmark combo, the Mothers of Invention.
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The Dark Prince of Garage Rock: A Tribute to Sean Bonniwell of the Music Machine
January 4, 12:00 PM ET| David Fricke"It speaks of a timeless problem of teenage misunderstanding": That is how singer-guitarist-songwriter Sean Bonniwell of the Music Machine described the Los Angeles band's 1966 single "Talk Talk" to me in a 1986 interview. It was a pith worthy of the record itself, 1:57 of proto-punk severity that peaked at Number 15 in Billboard and went even higher in some markets, going Top Ten in L.A.
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The Best Under-the-Radar Albums of 2011
December 23, 1:45 PM ET| David FrickeWhen it comes to best-of-the-year album lists, there are the polls of authority, like the survey just published by this magazine – and there is everything that hit my Victrola and stuck around, from under the radar and beyond the insitutional consensus. This is some of the best of what happened to me on records in 2011.
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ABOUT THIS BLOG
Rolling Stone senior writer David Fricke has more than 10,000 albums in his New York apartment. His first record review for the magazine was Frank Zappa's 'Sheik Yerbouti' (RS 290).