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Bruce Springsteen @ Madison Square Garden, October 17th

A couple years ago, I made a list of the top three old-school rock acts that I wanted to see while they were still around and touring – The Eagles, The Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen. This was before the Eagles had a new album, before The Rolling Stones had A Bigger Bang, so I...

Will Scorsese “Shine A Light” on The Stones?

Martin Scorsese’s films haven’t especially impressed me in the past (though I’ve only seen three), but I do enjoy “The Last Waltz,” and his attempt at making a “Last Waltz”-esque film for the Rolling Stones in “Shine A Light,” could be interesting… here’s the trailer. It’s due out next year. [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=gKS6tduF43E[/youtube]

Mark Ronson @ Highline Ballroom, Wednesday, July 11th

Though the phrase “big in Europe” has become something of a joke among the music set, for someone like Mark Ronson, it’s no laughing matter. While he was born in London, Ronson’s family moved to New York at the age of 8, and it’s this big city he considers his hometown. After attending prestigious schools...

Where in the World is Taylor T-Sides?

I’ve been awfully busy at work lately, which means I’ve been awful tired lately, thus the slowing down of postings. However, there are some goodies for you this week: 1. I did a Mix Six for Py Korry with the theme of “Rap… for people who don’t like rap.” It was a bit of a...

Lost MP3 of the Week: “These Days”

  When I saw St. Vincent at Union Hall a couple weeks ago, I was really taken with her cover of Jackson Browne’s “These Days.” Of all the cover versions of this song, it’s unsurprisingly most akin to Nico’s, with its folky, rambling speed. Browne’s “original” — although he wrote the song, he recorded it...

Lost MP3 of the Week: King Crimson, “I Talk to the Wind”

When I was at Hofstra, I took a class called the History of Electronic Music. It was one of my favorite classes that I took there, partly because it was taught by Herbert Deutsch, who collaborated with Bob Moog on the creation of the Moog synthesizer. Aside from the fact that the class was taught...

I Know it’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll, but I Like it…

When I’m trying to recall something from my life thus far, there are generally two points of reference that I use: 1) what band I was listening to the most and 2) who I had a crush on at the time. As I’ve gotten older, it’s become harder to categorize things this way, because my...

22nd Birthday Extravaganza!

Things in History that happened on August 28th (from Wikipedia): 475 – The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital of Ravenna and appoints his own son Romulus Augustus in his place. 1565 – St. Augustine, Florida, established. It is the oldest surviving settlement in the European United States....

If You Count Me, Count Me Out.

I spent most of Friday being hungover, and most of yesterday relaxing on the beach, so it is only today that I am hearing the news of Arthur Lee’s death from Leukemia. I’ve thought for a long time that Love never got enough play, and the fact that I’ve only read about Lee’s death in...

Internship: Days Thirteen + Fourteen

Fridays are usually my day off from RS. This week was a closing week (for those of you not in the biz, this means the magazine was getting ready to go to print / all the pages & articles were on deadline / that kind of thing), it was Spring Break for one of the...

The “Girl With No Eyes” will “Never Be Alone.”

It’s A Beautiful Day When I listen to the radio, I tend to listen to “classic rock” stations, because there’s a better shot that they’ll play things I both recognize and enjoy (of course, when I’m in Seattle, KEXP takes over a sizable portion of the air time in my car). Recently, I was listening...

Taylor: A Musical History

When you’re reading any sort of non-fiction memoirs, articles in newspapers & magazines, blogs, it’s good to know where the writer is coming from. Having an idea of the author’s general tastes, opinions and areas of expertise make it easier for us to know how to interpret what they write. This all sounds very serious...