Carolina Chocolate Drops @ Stoughton Opera House, 21 October 2011
The Carolina Chocolate Drops cruised into Stoughton last Friday night and played to a sold out Opera House. It was their third stop here in the Madison area in the past year and a half and they put on...
View ArticleThe Black Roots of Vaudeville in Chicago
The African-American roots of Vaudeville will be on display at Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music starting next Thursday when The Black Roots of Vaudeville” opens for a five-day run. Follow the...
View ArticleOzrics Trip Through the Midwest
Ozric Tentacles are doing what looks to be a brief tour through the Midwest starting Thursday. No Madison date but here are the closest stops. Friday, October 28th, 2011 Infrasound Halloween with...
View ArticleMarillion to tour North America Next Summer
Marillion will be coming stateside next summer for their first tour of this continent in a long time. For those of us in the Midwest, there are two shows in Chicago on 22 & 23 June at the Park...
View ArticleShow #242: Quidam
October is Polish American Heritage Month here in the States so I thought I’d do my part. (Photo from here.) Quidam are a progressive rock band hailing from Poland. They got their start in the early...
View ArticlePink Floyd’s “Household Objects” Finally Out of the Cupboard
After the Floyd’s success with Dark Side of the Moon, the band decided to try something different. Very different. They hit upon the idea of making music with household objects. Rubber bands stretched...
View Article“Aqualung”, the 8-Bit Mix
Today the new 40th Anniversary reissues of Aqualung were released. A handful of unreleased tunes accompany new mixes and remasters of the album and associated tracks. If you’re willing to part with...
View ArticleRush on the Big Screen
A couple weeks ago I headed to the cinema to catch a special screening of Rush: Time Machine – Live in Cleveland. It’s a concert movie of a Rush gig from earlier this year on their Time Machine Tour...
View ArticleThe Musical Box @ Pabst Theatre, 28 October 2011
A couple weekends ago my partner, The Dulcinea, and I caught The Musical Box at the Pabst in Milwaukee. They were doing The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway again and I’d seen them do it back in 2005 while...
View ArticleThe Whole Nine Yards
I recently received an e-mail stating that Peter Frampton was coming to the Pabst Theatre and that he’d be performing his 1976 live album, Frampton Comes Alive!, in its entirety. At first, I thought...
View ArticleMadison LPFM Station Has Prog Rock Show
I have discovered that WIDE-LP, a low-power FM radio station here in Madison has a show featuring progressive rock. It’s called “Back to the Progressive Rock” and it airs on Saturday evenings from...
View ArticleThe Whole Nine Yards Redux
A couple weeks ago I wrote about the trend of rock bands playing entire albums in concert. I now see that it is spreading to symphony orchestras. The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra will be playing the...
View Article“Such a journey is not possible without roadies”
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View ArticleHappy (Belated) Solstice 2012
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View ArticleToyah Covers “I Believe in Father Christmas”
After watching this, there should be no surprise that she married Robert Fripp. Related posts:I Believe in Father Christmas League of Crafty Guitarists Coming to Town with Fripp in Tow Degrees of...
View ArticleShow #243: Pinetop Perkins in Madison
Blues legend Pinetop Perkins died this year at age 97 so here’s a show in his memory. (Photo found here.) Pinetop was here in Madison on 24 August 2002 at the Madison Blues Festival and luckily...
View ArticleThe New Aqualung Mix
Jethro Tull’s Aqualung got the deluxe treatment in honor of its 40th Anniversary this year. There were multiple configurations of the set but the “standard” 2CD version included a new mix of the album...
View ArticleShow #244: Russkaja
(Photo found here.) Russkaja’s press kit says their name is a portmanteau combining “‘Russia’, ‘Ska’, and ‘Ja’”. It’s an opt moniker as the band has members from Germany, Austria, Ukraine, and Russia....
View ArticleShow #245: Goodbye Hubert Sumlin
(Photo by Ray Stiles.) Blues guitar legend Hubert Sumlin passed away earlier this month at the age of 80. Although he was born and raised in the South, he moved to Chicago in 1954 to join Howlin’...
View ArticleShow #246: Small Talk in Berkeley
(Photo found here.) Gil Scott-Heron died this past spring. Most people know him for “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” but his oeuvre is much larger than that single song. Honestly, I didn’t know...
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