Assessing Fallon's Stones Week
It's been a strange, passive aggressive media attack by the Rolling Stones this spring. Mostly, it's involved other people doing their songs - the kids on "American Idol" one week, then all this week...
View ArticleRonnie James Dio, 1942-2010
He didn't have the easiest job in rock 'n' roll, replacing Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath and then cutting out on his own. But Ronnie James Dio, who died Sunday at 67 after a six month bout with...
View ArticleKoplik to Komcast
Longtime Connnecticut concert prompoter Jim Koplik has found a new medium for promotion and for telling his stories of decades in the rock business. Starting today, he's featured on Comcast cable...
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On Tonight: Cute Beatle at White House
The musical highlight of the week and the summer is the special made out of the Gershwin Award for American Song given to Sir Paul McCartney last month at the White House.In the special edition of "In...
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On Tonight: White Stripes on Tour, 'Real Housewives DC'
The rock duo of Jack and Meg White play bowling alleys, flour mills, a youth center and a city bus, as well as a few arenas on their Canadian tour chronicled in the black and white "The White Stripes:...
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Shedding a Light on 'Darkness'
HBO will premiere a new documentary chronicling the making of Bruce Springsteen's classic 1978 album "Darkness on the Edge of Town" in October, the network announced Sunday."The Promise: The Making of...
View ArticleVH1 Revises 'Top 100 of All Time' List
One thing you do when you run out of ideas is make another list. And VH1 is expert at devising a list including one starting Labor Day that counts down the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time." It's a...
View ArticleRe: Mud and Modules
A reader writes: I have enjoyed your music column over the years in the 80's and 90's. I ran across this one when seeking out an image or video.The year 1995. Cypress Hill on stage and the turf starts...
View Article'Yo Gabba Gabba!' Hits the Road
When Christian Jacobs and Scott Scultz, skateboard filmmakers and part-time rockers, decided to devise a show that they could enjoy with their own kids, they had no idea the resulting "Yo Gabba Gabba!"...
View Article'Mad Men:' Going to the Beatles
"Mad Men" finally acknowledged the Beatles in its episode Sunday, framing the episode with tickets don Draper was going to give to his daughter Sally to attend the Beatles' famed show at Shea Stadium...
View ArticleOn Tonight: The Making of 'Darkness'
At the time, though, it seemed like a make it or break it work. Coming years after the splash of "Born to Run," delayed by legal battles and then production problems, it could possibly be the last...
View ArticleWhen Brian Met the Boss
Oh, it can happen to the most savvy interviewer. Put him up against a hero and the session goes south immediately in a fit of fawning that's uncomfortable for the subject and for the audience to...
View ArticleFallon's Neil Young and Springsteen Do 'Whip My Hair'
It was already my favorite song of the moment from the one time I heard it on the car radio. Pop music should be made by 10 year olds more often: they are guileless who know the basics of what's hot...
View ArticleSteam Rising
A relatively unheralded highlight of Connecticut rock history came from Bridgeport, when a group filled a B-side with a song they never quite finished writing. Still, Steam's "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him...
View ArticleSpike to Honor Keith
It doesn't seem like the home of "Manswers" would be the kind of network Keith Richards would watch a lot of. Nevertheless, Spike TV will give the Rolling Stones co-founder a special honor at the 2011...
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