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Fricke's Picks: White Denim Party
Like Ike and Tina Turner, the Austin trio White Denim never do anything nice and easy. Singer-guitarist James Petralli, bassist Steve Terebecki and drummer Josh Block ... | More »August 4, 11:52 AM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Vintage Urban Pop
There was a time, in the first half of the 1900s, when boogie and blues pianists were as urban and commercial as Jay-Z, making black pop and party music about no money... | More »July 22, 3:28 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: College-Rock Flashback
Indie rock was still called college rock when the Individuals of Hoboken, New Jersey, released their 1981 EP Aquamarine and '82 album Fields. They are now on one ... | More »July 21, 1:25 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Indie-Rock History Lessons
Indie rock is not a genre or a sound — it is a mission, a commitment to go your own way, the hard way. And in Michigan in the late Sixties, Hugh "Jeep" Holland was o... | More »July 17, 3:48 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Marky Ramone With Teenage Head
On Teenage Head with Marky Ramone (Sonic Unyon), Canadian punks Teenage Head recut their best turn-of-the-Eighties songs with guest drummer Marky Ramone. It's gre... | More »June 23, 4:05 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Midnight Oil
During a trip to Australia in 1986, I spent a day with Midnight Oil at a mixing session in Sydney for their single, "The Dead Heart." Part protest, part celebration, w... | More »June 20, 12:58 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Mudhoney
Incorrigible and indestructible, Seattle's real supersonics, Mudhoney, celebrate 20 years of naked garage rock with a shotgun blast. Their 1988 six-song EP, Super... | More »June 19, 12:28 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: The Byrds
The Byrds were still a year and change from their messy end when they played the newly unearthed London show on Live at Royal Albert Hall 1971 (Sundazed). This is the ... | More »June 6, 4:57 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: "Miles From India"
Miles From India (Four Quarters/Times Square) is an exultant two-CD meeting of Eastern and Western musicians covering the India in Miles Davis — mostly the open-road... | More »June 5, 11:37 AM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Motorpsycho
"Suite: Little Lucid Moments," the opening track on Little Lucid Moments (Rune Grammofon), by the Norwegian power trio Motorpsycho, is not little. It is a mini-album i... | More »June 4, 12:40 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Cajun Spice and Thrash
The Zydepunks — a New Orleans quintet with dueling accordions and fiddles instead of rock guitars — play a fast, whirling music that is not just zydeco and way mor... | More »May 23, 12:00 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Dylan's Basement Bash
"At 2:12 Dylan plays a tender if slightly clumsy lead guitar solo on his acoustic twelve-string. At 3:18 Bob bumps his guitar on his chair." That is the kind of detail... | More »May 22, 11:27 AM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Everyone Sings Newman
After releasing Randy Newman's 1968 debut album, Randy Newman, to great acclaim and near-zero sales, the singer-songwriter's label, Reprise, ran a pair of co... | More »May 21, 11:36 AM ET| David Fricke
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