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On the Way to Led Zeppelin: Jimmy Page on the Yardbirds Years
"I knew instinctively what the music should be doing," Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page says, looking back at his original vision for that band. "It's what I had... | More »November 27, 10:00 AM ET| David Fricke -
Jimmy Page Digs Up 'Substantial' Rarities for New Led Zeppelin Remasters
"It will be coming out, bit by bit," Jimmy Page says with a tantalizing lilt in his voice. The Led Zeppelin guitarist is referring to his current labors in the b... | More »November 26, 11:40 AM ET| David Fricke -
The Greatest Rolling Stones Movie You've Never Seen: 'Cocksucker Blues'
Gritty, tedious, funny, nauseating, thrilling and merciless: Cocksucker Blues, Robert Frank's film about the Rolling Stones' 1972 tour of North America, may ... | More »November 20, 8:00 AM ET| David Fricke -
Sigur Ros Close Iceland Airwaves With Hits, New Direction
It is absolutely official: Sigur Rós are the biggest rock band in Icelandic history. For their show at the Laugardalshöll arena on the closing night of Ice... | More »November 6, 1:00 PM ET| David Fricke -
Q&A: Thom Yorke on Atoms for Peace's 'Mechanistic' New Album
On a weirdly balmy afternoon in September, Thom Yorke, the singer-guitarist of Radiohead, sat at a table in his New York hotel room, with an enviable view of lower Man... | More »November 5, 12:50 PM ET| David Fricke -
Dirty Projectors, Sigur Ros Highlight Iceland Airwaves 2012
The 2012 edition of the annual rock paradise Iceland Airwaves was the biggest and longest in the festival's 13-year history: nearly 230 acts performing over five ... | More »November 5, 10:05 AM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: R.E.M. Guitarist Peter Buck Makes His Solo Debut on Vinyl
Complete freedom after a long spell in a very successful rock band has its privileges. Peter Buck (Mississippi/Change), the new good-time album by ex-R.E.M. guitarist ... | More »October 31, 2:00 PM ET| David Fricke -
Green Day Blast Through Raucous 40-Song Set in New York
"Do you want a party, or do you want a celebration?" Billie Joe Armstrong asked at a hectoring pitch over the rhythm-section break in "Letterbomb," during Green Day�... | More »September 17, 10:59 AM ET| David Fricke -
Resurrecting 'Sugar Man': Rodriguez Comes Alive in Solo New York Show
Rodriguez, the missing-then-found star of the hit documentary Searching for Sugar Man, opened his August 31st show at New York's Highline Ballroom – his fir... | More »September 4, 1:30 PM ET| David Fricke -
A Stoned Soul Weekend: New York Pays Tribute to Laura Nyro, Gil Scott-Heron and R&B's Living Legends
"His words were the story of our lives/In a world lost in lies," Abiodun Oyewole of the Last Poets chanted atop a rumbling river of percussion in the clear and cool ni... | More »August 13, 3:55 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Woody Guthrie's First Session Issued in 100th Birthday Set
A sumptuous birthday celebration of a true American idol, Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection (Smithsonian Folkways) is really a present to us: two C... | More »July 26, 11:45 AM ET| David Fricke -
Charlie Watts Rips the Joint With Boogie Woogie in New York
Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards was in the front row for the opening set. The great jazz drummer Roy Haynes was in the same chair for the second set, which bro... | More »July 3, 5:30 PM ET| David Fricke -
Bob Welch's Missing Music: The Fleetwood Mac Years
After ex-Fleetwood Mac singer-guitarist Bob Welch died on June 7th, by his own hand at his home in Nashville, his boss in the early Seventies, drummer and Mac co-found... | More »June 21, 11:20 AM ET| David Fricke -
Memories of Doc Watson
With the passing of Arthel "Doc" Watson, in Winston-Salem., North Carolina on May 29th at the age of 89, America has lost a master of acoustic folk and country guitar ... | More »May 30, 4:30 PM ET| David Fricke
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