All This Is That

by Jack Brummet The Posies were recruited by Alex Chilton when he reformed his band Big Star.  They toured and recorded with Big Star unti...

By Jack Brummet This is kind of a mindf***er. Staples high school in Westport, Connecticut, in the early days of US touring rock, had co...

By Jack Brummet, American Music History Ed. Thanks for the music, and rock and roll in general, Chuck. I wonder what people at the other...

By Jack Brummet, North American Travel Ed. At Vikingo Video,  three guys play rock non-stop.  They have, at most, a couple hundred DVDs ...

By Jack Brummet, Jazz Ed. Miles Davis with a) Carlos Santana and b) Kenny G. I'd had the Miles/Kenny G photo for a long time, but ju...

By Jack Brummet, Rock Ed. Joan Baez with Jimi Hendrix. I originally saw the bong version, which is probably someone's Photoshop. A v...

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By Jack Brummet, Music Ed. Happy 70th birthday to Sly Stone a/k/a Sylvester Stewart later this week... [listen in, but ignore the strange...

By Jack Brummet, Rock Editor Roy had one of the great voices in music. In the last couple years of his life, had an amazing resurgence/co...

Shots from the Furthur show at WaMu Theater (a decidedly strange venue) and pre-func tailgater in the shadow of the Pinoeer Square sports s...

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A trailer from a forthcoming documentary on the legendary band Big Star. The trailer itself has some great footage of the survivors talkin...

By Jack Brummet Pop Music Editor Waterloo Bridge on the Thames River in London - click to enlarge A London FM radio poll in 2004 named W...

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By Mona Goldwater, Rock & Roll Correspondent Frank Zappa once wrote , in response to persistent rumors that he defecated on stag...

John Roderick of The Long Winters performs Not Moving To Portland at The Triple Door in Seattle last summer.  In between songs, he is proba...

By Jack Brummet Rock & Roll Editor There were three masters of the wah-wah pedal (I am missing the wah-wah tonight): Seattle's o...

...and the soundboard MP3s are just fantastic.   The show sounds even better on this recording that it did live.  It was the greatest latter...