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Ray Manzarek, 1939-2013: A Tribute Playlist
The Doors' organist Ray Manzarek, who died on May 20th at 74, remembered the day his band was born this way, in his 1998 memoir, Light My Fire: My Life With the D... | More »May 21, 3:10 PM ET| David Fricke -
Tom Petty at the Beacon Theatre: One Down and Four to Go Deeper
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers opened their May 20th concert at New York's Beacon Theatre, the first show of a five-night residency, with a song about wish fulfi... | More »May 21, 1:20 PM ET| David Fricke -
Liars Dance With Holy Ghosts at the Temple of Dendur in New York
To get to the May 18th concert by the Brooklyn-based band Liars at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, you had to walk through the afterlife – the long s... | More »May 20, 5:47 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks Radio: Volume Now, Episode Infinity
A change in plans, but not intent, frequency or variety: I am new to this online radio thing, especially the technical logistics of mounting these playlists in a fluid... | More »May 14, 1:40 PM ET| David Fricke -
Crosby, Stills and Nash Work Out With Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
On January 27th, 1970, Miles Davis recorded a version of the medieval whisper "Guinevere" from Crosby, Stills and Nash's 1969 debut album, Crosby, Stills & Na... | More »May 6, 2:25 PM ET| David Fricke -
At New Orleans Jazz Fest 2013, Local Spice and Old Favorites
Everyone uses it: locals; out-of-town vets; first timers who know, as soon as they get a taste, that they are coming back for more. But the full, formal name of Jazz F... | More »May 1, 5:40 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks Radio: Volume 1, Episode 3
"I just want to be treated like a normal legend," Rodriguez, the resurrection story of 2012, said in a low, firm voice, silencing a weirdly loving, disruptive audience... | More »April 23, 12:20 PM ET| David Fricke -
Crossroads 2013 Review: Friends, Apostles and Inspirations
Eric Clapton was the opening act of his own Crossroads Guitar Festival on April 12. He took the stage at New York's Madison Square Garden just before the official... | More »April 15, 2:35 PM ET| David Fricke -
Q&A: Nick Cave on His Coachella Sets and Denying Himself 'Sacred Moments'
On March 28th at New York's Beacon Theater, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds followed a spectacular encore thrashing of "Tupelo" – a swampy homage to Elvis Presl... | More »April 11, 10:00 AM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks Radio: Volume 1, Episode 2
Winter still hangs around, but New York is in spring-gig bloom, and there is a lot of rebound in this hour from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' first of three nights... | More »April 4, 9:00 AM ET| David Fricke -
Remembering Paul Williams, The First Rock Critic
In 1988, Paul Williams – the pioneering music writer, science-fiction authority and lifelong Bob Dylan enthusiast who died on March 27th in California at the age... | More »April 2, 11:20 AM ET| David Fricke -
Moving Sidewalks' Reunion Show Honors Jimi Hendrix
They walked onstage to a subtle jolt of dry wit. The intro music for the Moving Sidewalks' first show in 44 years, on Saturday at B.B. King's Blues Club and ... | More »April 1, 3:50 PM ET| David Fricke -
Introducing Fricke's Picks Radio: Log On, Tune In, Turn It Up
Before I started writing about music as my mission and living, my heart belonged to radio – specifically, the everything-goes FM rock & roll broadcasting pio... | More »March 26, 12:00 PM ET| David Fricke -
The Week in Rock: My 22nd SXSW With the Stooges, Palma Violets, Royal Thunder and the True Believers
I attended my first South by Southwest in 1991. The Austin, Texas megathon was in its sixth year and still intimate enough to fit in one hotel and two dozen venues, wi... | More »March 20, 1:25 PM ET| David Fricke
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