A Visit and 1975 Interview with Queen’s Freddie Mercury
It’s Dax-a-rific
McCartney, Motown and Marley
The Al Green Sound
On the Flipside: Shocking Blue’s “Hot Sand,” the B-side of their hit single “Venus” was a sultry revelation — and a bargain at five bucks!
The Bizarre World of Zappa
The Rolling Stones Circus Returns
Features
BY HARVEY KUBERNIK Actor Rami Malek is the 2019 Academy Award-winning recipient in the Best Leading Actor category for his portrayal of the late singer/songwriter Freddie Mercury in the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody which has now generated a global gross over $800 million. Century Fox Home Entertainment during February released a DVD, Blu-ray and 4K […]
The Sound and the Fury
Musician Danielle Dax is celebrated with a reissue of Dark Adapted Eye By Gillian G. Gaar In the days before people had blogs, they put together fanzines — Xeroxed publications painstakingly put together with text you banged out on a typewriter (if you wanted to look more professional; others simply wrote out copy by hand), […]
Kaplan's Korner
By Jim Kaplan Spring and summer are stacking up with a plethora of concerts along with album and CD events. Paul McCartney has a May 17 release of Egypt Station-Explorer’s Edition on Capitol Records. It coincides with the start of the U.S. leg of Paul’s “Freshen Up” tour. Paul’s 2019 North American dates begin in […]
Legends
An interview with Hi-Records’ Willie Mitchell, the producer behind much of the chart-topping success of the legendary multi-genre singer By Harvey Kubernik Singer and songwriter Al Green just concluded a US tour, including a May 9 date at the Greek theatre in L.A. With a highly successful recording and touring career that spans over five […]
Rare Finds
BY NICK ARIETANO Imagine my delight in not only finding the original press of this 45 but discovering it had a U.S. picture sleeve! “Venus” was a huge hit for the “Nederbeat” psychedelic rock group in 1969, and being a flip-side collector I had to indulge in “Hot Sand.” So I fired up (pun intended) […]
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2019 Is The Year Of Frank Zappa With The Zappa Hologram Tour And The 40Th Anniversary Of Zappa In New York Frank Zappa’s live double album Zappa in New York is being celebrated with 40th anniversary releases including a deluxe box set, expanded LPs and a 5-disc collection featuring unreleased performances. Plus, this April, “The Bizarre World Of Frank Zappa,” a Frank […]
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Rolling Stones announce spring 2019 U.S. Tour; Rolling Stones Live DVDs out; Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet (50th anniversary edition) available on super audio CD; expanded edition of The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus due in spring 2019. BY HARVEY KUBERNIK THE ROLLING STONES HAVE JUST ANNOUNCED THAT THEY WILL bring their hugely successful No Filter tour to stadiums in 13 cities across America in 2019. The tour […]
