Peter Wolf, has always been one of the great rock & roll raconteurs, ever since his days as the loudmouth singer of the J. Geils Band. But the Boston blues madman has finally written the book everyone always hoped he would write, with Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, …
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Neil Young has joined the lineup for the annual BST Hyde Park summer concert series in London. Young, along with his band Chrome Hearts, will headline the outdoor stage on July 11. Young will be supported by Yusuf/Cat Stevens and Van Morrison, with more musicians to be announced. Young last …
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Let’s start at the end. “We love you, Robbie!” Mavis Staples exclaimed. “We love you!” Late Thursday night in Los Angeles, a few minutes shy of midnight, the soul-stirring vocalist had the crowd at the Forum on their feet. Staples had just performed “The Weight” onstage with Bob Weir, Phish …
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Van Morrison and Robin Swann, the former Northern Ireland Minister of Health, have settled their defamation battle. The dispute stemmed from disagreements over Covid-19 safety precautions, including an opinion piece Swann published in Rolling Stone critical of Morrison’s opinions on the coronavirus and lockdown measures. As the BBC reports, the …
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You may know Kōji Yakusho as the oyster-slurping mystery man from the noodle-Western extraordinaire Tampopo (1985). Perhaps you remember him as the depressed suburbanite who ballroom dances his blues away in the international feel-good hit Shall We Dance? (1996). He’s the reformed felon in the Cannes-winning character study The Eel …
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Richard Davis, the prolific bassist who adorned jazz classics by Pharoah Sanders, Eric Dolphy, and Andrew Hill and laid the musical foundation for Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks, has died at the age of 93. Davis’ daughter Persia confirmed her father’s death Thursday on both a memorial page and to Madison …
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Two months after stunning fans in Japan by working Grateful Dead songs into his otherwise rigid setlist, Bob Dylan has moved onto the catalog of Van Morison. At Alicante, Spain’s Plaza de Toros Alicante on Thursday evening, he broke out a cover of Morrison’s 1970 classic “Into the Mystic” for …
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Van Morrison‘s latest single appears to be the latest move in the singer’s multi-year feud with Robin Swann, the Northern Ireland Minister of Health who, last fall, filed a defamation lawsuit against the 76-year-old singer. Over a breezy R&B groove, Morrison spends nearly eight minutes on “Dangerous” extolling his truth-telling …
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