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Young and restless England, stirred up by rough sounds from gramophone and fairground loudspeaker, was waiting breathlessly for Bill Haley to come and take their forlorn, stooped, war-weary country by storm, to shake it out of the doldrums and into the modern world -- as shown in violent American movies like "Blackboard Jungle" and as mythologized in "The Wild One."
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On a construction site in Seattle, Washington, in 1959, two guitarists, Don Wilson and Bob Bogle, decided to perform together at local sock hops, initially as the Versatones.
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During the Swinging Sixties, which actually began in 1965 with the conquest of the American pop charts by the British Invaders spearheaded by the lascivious Mick Jagger...
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Any good student of pop-music history knows what happened in the 1970s: The broken bricks from the aesthetic street-fights of the '60s were scooped up and mortared into a new edifice, "rock"...
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Garage rock is a hard elephant to describe, in the light or in the dark. In some ways, almost everything qualifies. In others, nothing quite fits the bill.
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The first time I met Clifford Antone, he sold me a sandwich. He had opened a shop on Guadalupe, right around the corner from the first office of the Austin Sun on 15th Street, bringing his family's business in Houston to town.
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A funny thing about revolutions: Once they're won, it's hard to find anyone who opposed them. Paris, 1789: "Mais oui! My servants will tell you: for me, it was always liberte, egalite, fraternite!"
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The Rolling Stones were there, along with James Brown, the Beach Boys, the Supremes, Chuck Berry, Marvin Gaye and more, filmed live before their screaming fans as dancers -- including Teri Garr -- pranced all around while Jan & Dean hosted.
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Lucinda Williams is a little distracted. She keeps popping up from her seat, perched between the four overstuffed pillows that are arranged artfully on her azure blue sofa in a family room bordered on one side by a massive television...
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The timelessly sensual groove of soul singer Al Green and the Hi Records Memphis sound has been collected and just released in a four CD set The Immortal Soul of Al Green.
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Bruce Springsteen opened his show at Baltimore's First Mariner Arena Friday night with "Wrecking Ball," which may well be the best song he's written in 22 years.
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