Lacy J. Dalton/Interview
Major Singer In A Minor Key Country Music Awards to Honor Lacy J. Dalton Lacy J. Dalton may be best known as a country singer, but her musical roots go back to growing up in a musical family in Pennsylvania, years in New York City during a decade when Joan...
Fred Roberts/Music
In time for the January 20 inauguration of America’s 45th president, the venerable Austrian institution Wilhelm Show me the Major Label has pulled off a coup of its own…
Fred Roberts / Dispatches
he EurNoVision project which began in 2015 released a new edition late December 2016, curated by Paul Mangan. The compilation registers a strong political statement at a time when the veneer on Europe is showing serious cracks. Waves of refugees. Brexit. Terrorist attacks. While Europe veers towards disintegration, the cycle of songs shows a cohesive spiritual unity with many stand-out entries.
Bob Minkin/Photographer Interview
The Grateful Dead were/are the most interesting people I’ve worked with, being a Dead Head since I was 13, to actually get close to that organization and do work for them was a dream come true…
Fred Roberts/Music
Mention the record label Sun and the first associations are Memphis, Elvis or Sam Phillips. It’s what I thought when I first stumbled upon the 78 with a Sun design, but from a company located in the…
Fred Roberts/Interview with Spencer Drate
Judith and I met in 1982 and our first album design collaboration was “Marshall Crenshaw”, his first album. It won many design awards including the “AIGA Cover Show” Award in 1983 and was voted in by Annie Leibovitz and Roger Black!
Fred Roberts/Music
Crystin Moritz photo *** The Brilliant Dilettantes: Modern experiments in Art & Music Introduction ne often hears the deliberately misspelled term "geniale Dilletanten" in Germany used to describe...
Fred Roberts/Musical Decalogue
The music piles up at my desk, in the the living room, all over the house and finally I have to surrender the goal to write about everything that I think is deserving.
Music Review / Fred Roberts
The Hoodoo Two’s newest EP Werewolff opens with “No Service,” conjuring images of a back country church in the swamplands (it’s that kind of service). The title track “Werewolff” captures the astonishment of a man whose lady turns into a werewolf: “Baby, you look strange tonight in the moonlight” − it can’t end well.
EuroSound Reviews/Fred Roberts
This set of reviews highlights some European releases of the last months. Maia Vidal is back with her long-awaited third album You’re the Waves. Schnipo Schranke celebrate their triumphant debut with Satt, following months of viral airplay of Pisse (Piss). Sündenrausch debut with a sizzling set of songs focusing on lust: Sündstoff. Last but not least, the Eurnovision compilation delivers a knockout punch to its mainstream counterpart.
Bill Dixon/From the Edge
Everyone develops a system of rationalizing their more aberrant behavioral issues, I suppose, and I have developed mine. I don’t watch much television. (Here comes the rationalization)….In Maine, I don’t have any means of doing so: no cable, no antenna, and absolutely no interest in turning on the tube even if I had the means to do so. Accordingly, for nearly six months out of the year, I don’t watch any TV at all − as in none!
Kristina Jung, Rostock 2 / Infant Thoughts
As I strolled along meters and meters of shelves full of fetuses, limbs and samples of cancer, I found an exhibit that still haunts me. It was a newborn infant, kept in a jar full of formaldehyde. It had not developed a brain. Deformed as it was, it was smiling, like it was having a nice, little, private joke.
Bill Laymon Interview/Music
As far as gigs, there have been so many − it all rolls into one, as they say. Playing Red Rocks was very cool, as well as many of the theaters and festivals I’ve played. Playing Japan was very fun − the Japanese Deadheads turned out en masse and treated us great. Also, playing the Raccoon Lodge in Brooklyn − those folks there are more than fantastic − turns out that they’re big New Riders fans and they swore all of us into their lodge in a very solemn ceremony over a big spliff − they gave us all custom Raccoon Lodge jackets…
LOCAL HEROES, 2015, Hamburg
Axid Rain was my highlight of the 4th semi-final night. They call their genre flatrock, which I attempted to google but finally gave up. They’re a hard rock band, in the classic vein of MTV or Huey Lewis and the News, with a fantastic live show. Frontman Yannick Mense, in his leather hat and seaman’s jacket was all over the stage. Pure charisma and wild guitar riffs. All in all an electrifying performance.
Rolling with the Stones
“… What I remember the most was that several hours afterwards I was walking down the hotel corridor and as I passed an open door I saw Keith Richards sitting at a table by himself in his room. Of course having not met him yet I just continued walking but within a second or two I heard ‘Hey, roadie, come on in and say hello.’ Well I sort of froze but managed to saunter into his room, noticing that a rather large amount of drugs and a bottle of Jack Daniels were his only company. And as he invited me to sit, talk and enjoy I remember saying to myself ‘Don’t blow this man, I think he wants to see who I am so I got to keep up with it all, I mean this is fucking Keith Richards.’…”
Fred Roberts/Music
Where is My Weather is a wonderful album, the cognac of rock and roll, gritty, dirty, poetic, thoughtful, wonderfully arranged, and rich cultural influences befitting its geographical birthplace. It could be a distant cousin to Steve Wynn’s Crossing Dragon Bridge, recorded in Slovenia. Trying to place Norbert Wally’s vocals has been driving me crazy.
Got Them Missouri Blues/Music
Nick & Bootsy working the mics during their "music discovery" program in the studios of KKID radio, Missouri. The Basement Tapes: Up & Coming, Here & There on KKID: “Everyone is local to somewhere.” [dropcap...
Music/Fred Roberts
Ragazine is pleased to present a world premier video by Club K out of Kristianstad, Sweden. If you’ve heard of Club K before you will probably want to skip straight to the video.