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Tom Waits Shares Unreleased Live Recordings Supersize: A Painter Who's Giving Rock ’n’ Roll Singles New Dimensions …Read more

Today on the Rock & Roll is a State of Mind blog we celebrate the late great Big Daddy Tom Donahue (May 21, 1928 – April 28, 1975), who was a renowned American rock and roll radio disc jockey, …Read more

It's Time For Our Weekly Compendium  Of  Random Rock & Roll Articles From The World Wide Web!

A Brief Review Of The New Reissue Of A Rare Jack Nitzsche Solo Album Blues For Gorbachev: A …Read more

It's Time For Our Weekly Compendium  Of  Random Rock & Roll Articles From The World Wide Web!

Rockeology: Old Yellow Give ‘Em Enough Hope: Joe Strummer at 70 'Dirt Does Dylan' Ork Records: …Read more

It's Time For Our Weekly Compendium  Of  Random Rock & Roll Articles From The World Wide Web!

100 Lost Rock Albums From The 1970s - An Extract On Donald Fagen's Kamakiriad Donald Fagen: Candid …Read more

It's Time For Our Weekly Compendium  Of  Random Rock & Roll Articles From The World Wide Web!

Bo Diddley Interview Rock & Roll Ghosts Neil Diamond: A Solitary Man 'Jailhouse Rock' Made Prison …Read more

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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It's Time For Our Weekly Compendium  Of  Random Rock & Roll Articles From The World Wide Web!

The Final Album: Tom Petty’s “Hypnotic Eye” Bob Dylan Announces 2022 UK & European Tour Dates Don't …Read more

Raising Hell Tour '86  RUN DMC  WHODINI  LL COOL J  Municipal Auditorium  Nashville, TN

"All Hell Breaks Loose at a Run-D.M.C. 'Raising Hell' Rap Concert in California: 'I am great--get it straight--that`s…

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Today we look back at The US Festival 1982!

 

STEVE WOZNIAK "Woodstock set the bar impossibly high for rock festivals. Ever since, people have expected nothing less than majesty and transcendence, although merely mind-blowing will …Read more

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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It's Time For Our Weekly Compendium  Of  Random Articles From The World Wide Web!

Sam Cutler: Life With The Stones, The Dead & Other Wonderful Reprobates The Doors Revisited Island Records Founder Chris Blackwell: …Read more

THE BEATLES @ The Peppermint Lounge 1964

 

 

BRIAN JONES prior to his untimely death in 1969

 

EDDIE COCHRAN on stage

 

 

THE ONE & ONLY KEITH …Read more

The Who  London Coliseum London, UK

 

 

Grateful Dead Alpine Valley Music Theatre East Troy, MI

 

Jerry Garcia Band Electric Wiltern Theatre 379 Wilshire Blvd …Read more

JERRY LEE LEWIS The Casuals, Bobby One, Alan Marlo State Theatre Niagra Falls, NY

 

HOWLIN WOLF & HIS ORCHESTRA Rosewood Club Memphis, TN

 

BROOK BENTON Ruth Brown, …Read more

It's Time For Our Weekly Compendium  Of  Random Articles From The World Wide Web!

Lightning Strikes Lenny Kaye! Buddy Guy Walks Into A Bar Ike & Tina Turner & The Scene That Formed Their …Read more

BOB DYLAN GRATEFUL DEAD Oakland Stadium Oakland, CA

 

IGGY POP The Austin Opera House Austin, TX

 

BRYAN FERRY Greek Theatre U.C. Berkeley Berkeley, Ca …Read more

It's Time For Our Weekly Compendium  Of  Random Articles From The World Wide Web!

An April Fool's Daydream Robert Johnson: The Sound & The Fury Rock & Roll Acid Casualties Never To Be …Read more

 

The Beatles First Concert In America!

The Beatles’ first US concert was watched by a crowd of 8,092 fans

at the Washington Coliseum in Washington, DC.

The Beatles Washington Sports Arena …Read more

It's Time For Our Weekly Compendium  Of  Random Articles From The World Wide Web!

50 Gigs That Changed Music Chris Charlesworth: Gigs That Transformed Live Music Mutations: A Retrospective of Beck PJ O'Rourke …Read more

It's Time For Our Weekly Compendium  Of  Random Articles From The World Wide Web!

When Paul McCartney Teamed Up With Elvis Costello Little Richard & Solomon Burke: Sex & God & Rock & Roll …Read more

Release Date: November 29, 1968 Warner Bros Records

When I got out of bed his morning, I suddenly realized that 53 years ago Van Morrison's Astral Weeks album was released.  Looking back on those days, I…

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The Cramps Eldorado Paris, France  

Back In Black Tour '80 AC/DC Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum Uniondale, NY  

Ramones Keystone Palo Alto, CA  

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Elvis Costello & The Attractions The Palladium NYC  

Damn The Torpedo Tour '79 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Orpheum Theatre Memphis, TN

 

The Specials Tiffany's Late Bar …Read more