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Fricke's Picks: Folk-Blues Guitarist David Bromberg, British Instrumentalist James Blackshaw, Bruce Licher's "Exploratorium"
The extraordinary folk-blues guitarist David Bromberg has strolled back into the spotlight as abruptly as he resigned from it nearly three decades ago, when he dissolv... | More »February 24, 1:29 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Revisiting Steppenwolf's Provocative Hard-Rock Opera "Monster/Suicide/America"
"America, where are you now?/Don't you care about your sons and daughters?/Don't you know we need you now?/We can't fight alone against the monster": Th... | More »February 11, 1:10 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Your New Favorite Band, Television's Richard Lloyd and the La's
You have read the hype: "Your new favorite band" - New Musical Express. The backlash is surely just around the corner. Here's the common sense: The View are four ... | More »January 27, 9:36 PM ET| David Fricke -
Live Review: Black Crowes + North Mississippi All-Stars = Circle Sound
Somehow, in the limited downtime on their respective dance cards, guitarists Rich Robinson of the Black Crowes and Luther Dickinson of the North Mississippi All-Stars ... | More »January 22, 6:03 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Junior Wells, Looker, River City Tanlines, Butch Hancock
For more than two decades starting in the late Fifties, whenever Chicago fireball Junior Wells wasn't touring with his blues sidekick, guitarist Buddy Guy, the si... | More »January 13, 5:47 AM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Home-Demo Larks From XTC's Andy Partridge, Sixties Garage From the Mynah Birds
XTC singer- songwriter-guitarist Andy Partridge suffered a nervous-exhaustion meltdown that forced the British band to permanently retire from concerts. The time Partr... | More »December 17, 11:33 AM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: What If Pink Floyd Gave Birth to Ummagumma in the Band's Basement?
Akron/Family are a four-man band based in Brooklyn, of assorted rural origins (in Pennsylvania, California and upstate New York) and now roaming all over a wide, open ... | More »November 29, 10:01 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Free, Bluesman Alexis Korner, "Scandinavia Action Jazz"
Guitarist Paul Kossoff of the British blues-rock quartet Free was two months shy of his eighteenth birthday when he played the quick, fierce solo in "Waiting on You," ... | More »November 17, 4:56 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: New CDs From Gary Lucas, Soft Machine and Jeremy Spencer
Gary Lucas is one of the best and most original guitarists in America - a master synthesist of deep blues, avant-rock and madrigal-like folk who was a vital member of ... | More »November 2, 6:41 PM ET| David Fricke -
Review: My Chemical Romance's 'Welcome to the Black Parade'
My Chemical Romance may be the oldest young band in America. None of the members -- singer Gerard Way, his brother and bassist Mikey, drummer Bob Bryar and guitarists ... | More »October 16, 6:57 PM ET| David Fricke -
Live Review: The Zombies Show Young Garage Rockers How It's Done
In Little Steven's Underground Garage — his Sirius Satellite Radio channel and weekly syndicated program on the plain ol' FM dial— guitars are king, song... | More »September 22, 1:54 PM ET| David Fricke -
Live Review: The Big Easy Lives at Merkin Concert Hall
Pianist Henry Butler and clarinetist Dr. Michael White — two New Orleans musicians who lost so much a year ago to Hurricane Katrina, including their homes, instrumen... | More »September 5, 2:40 PM ET| David Fricke -
Jam-tastic!: Umphrey's McGee in New York
Umphrey's McGee ended their two-hour non-stop set at Central Park's Summerstage in New York last week with an explosive cover of the Who's "Baba O'... | More »July 24, 12:34 PM ET| David Fricke -
Live Review: Elvis Costello and Allan Toussaint in New York
There was politics, outrage and a determined, jubilant spirit of renewal in everything Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint sang and played together at the Beacon Theate... | More »July 12, 11:47 AM ET| David Fricke
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