Announcements and reviews about new music
Searching for an article to reference, I realized that the list has gotten a bit out of hand. Here is the CHRONOLOGICAL LISTING of FTV articles through 2016 (with 2017 being added to as time goes on) to make it easier to find past articles I may reference from time to time (who was it that […]
From the Vaults: Hendrix lives on Newsflash: I am no longer mad at Jimi Hendrix for dying the week before my 17th birthday. I am also no longer concerned that so many young rock stars flamed out at age 27, which by sheer coincidence happens to be the number of the day I was born. […]
“No one wants to see a drunken bluesman anymore”. Pretty profound words from Deak Harp who was just that and as a result, he was considered a five time loser (as in ‘failed rehab five times’), messed up, unreliable, and black balled by just about all the blues clubs in New York and Chicago. “They […]
John Lennon loved ELO. In 1974, he proclaimed that they were the “natural heirs to the Fab Four” which more or less fulfilled Jeff Lynne’s teenage fantasies generated as a Beatles fan during his formative years in Birmingham. America also loved ELO. England? Not so much. Sharon Osbourne? More on her later. Even Phil Lynne, […]
Marquette’s new UFO landing strip is a good idea (A Marquette Mining Journal editorial) Just checking. There is, of course, no UFO landing strip , and possibly no UFOs – but that is fodder for another editorial. What we really wanted to see is if anyone intended on reading past the headline. In 2014, a […]
We knew it wouldn’t be long before our buds Scott Bradlee & Post Modern Jukebox and Puddles Pity Party would team up again – this time on the 21 Pilots tune Stressed Out
Bar Scott recently gave us permission to reprint a piece she wrote entitled Grace. She had sent it along in one of the numerous e-mails we had exchanged about two CDs she had sent for us to air (Parachute and Journey). She mentioned living in Woodstock, NY for a period of years and I admitted […]
Mudcrutch. This article isn’t going to be about Mudcrutch, per se, I just like to say the name: Mudcrutch. This FTV is going to be about the mystical process of coming up with a name for a band and I just happen to be reading Petty: The Biography by Warren Zanes (2015 Henry Holt & […]
Frank Marino scoffs at the thought of being a ‘guitar god’. “I think it is ridiculous – You can either be a guitar god or you can be a musician.” For someone who influenced a lot of today’s guitar players like Marty Friedman, Joe Bonamassa, Steve Vai, and Zakk Wylde, it is even more amazing […]
Why is it that I do not like child prodigies? Jackie Evancho is a wonderfully talented young woman, but even at the ripe old age of 15, I can’t enjoy her music. Why? Because she was a child phenom. In trying to sort out my feelings about child prodigies, I have finally honed in […]