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The commercial release of this May 2007 concert at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C.—originally shown on PBS—is a cause for rejoicing for all...
Written in the same creative cycle as songs for 'True Stories,' "Road To Nowhere" marked a return to Americana for the group
I swear, someday they’re going to run out of new Woodstock stuff to put out…but not yet! Just in time for the 40th anniversary...
Back in the mid- to late ’70s, one of my favorite singer-songwriters was Indiana-born and Northern California–raised Dirk Hamilton. He had assimilated bits of...
Like so many of the people who became part of the bedrock of San Francisco's colorful music scene in the mid- to late '60s,...
B.B. King was 68 when this wonderful show was recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival. That sounds like a lot, but considering he’s still...
Chick Corea and John McLaughlin first played together in 1969 on Miles Davis’ seminal jazz-rock albums In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew, before...
CREATIVITY, COLLABORATION AND LOTS OF PERCUSSION MAKE FOR COMPELLING GAME SCORE
Lennon and Ono at Their Strangest
American Idiot felt like such an audacious over-achievement from what had heretofore been a strong but not particularly original post-punk band, is it any...
Boasting members of such popular bands as Maroon 5, Gomez and Phantom Planet, the loose aggregation known as Operation Aloha qualifies as a modern...
Wow, where does the time go? It’s hard to believe that the great Texas/Americana singer-songwriter-bandleader Doug Sahm has been dead for 10 years now....
Really, with a player as great as tenor and soprano sax giant Wayne Shorter, you could carve out a few songs from just about...
This excellent double-CD finds a collection of first-rate contemporary Chicago players, some with roots going back to artists active in the peak years of...
What a delightful surprise this album is! Toussaint, of course, is well known as a songwriter, producer and arranger, but he’s also made his...
Read Mix Editor Blair Jackson Introduction to Mix May special issue on Getting Noticed Getting Heard Getting Paid
WIRED EDITOR'S BOOK THE LONG TAIL SHEDS LIGHT ON THE CHANGING MUSIC BUSINESS MODEL
Living Things Family Caverns St. Louis recording studio profiled in Mix magazine
This fine two-DVD set from the fall of 2008 includes a feature-length documentary about Smashing Pumpkins’ two comeback residencies in the early summer of...
And now for something completely different. On February 8, 2007, the Alberta (Canada) Ballet Company debuted a wonderful 50-minute dance program set entirely to...
This fine two-DVD set from the fall of 2008 includes a feature-length documentary about Smashing Pumpkins’ two comeback residencies in the early summer of...
Various Artists: From the Basement (Eagle Vision)
A Technicolor Dream (Eagle Vision) Three months after San Francisco’s hippie counterculture staged its giant coming-out party in Golden Gate Park at the “Human...
Paul Simon: Live From Philadelphia (Eagle Vision) Billed as “Greatest Hits Live,” this is actually slightly less than hour of a 1980 concert shot...
From Jazz Icons, Box 3: Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Nina Simone (Reelin’ in the Years Productions/Naxos) Is there no bottom to the well of...
