I started listening to this guy and his band in 1970. They were doing stuff that was magic to my ears, and it still is. I never tire of it and if it is some show that I have never…
He’s a Man Way Beyond Description: We Miss You, Jerry!
Category: Music
Stop Making Sense: Blu-ray Edition
Stop Making Sense: Blu-ray Edition | Director Jonathan Demme | Score: 7.9 Music famously fixes you in time and place; a song you heard incessantly twenty years ago will always bring you back to that moment, the people you were…
Jackie Green, an All Round Musician, Singer, and Songwriter
There is an unbelievable amount of music out there, and there are a lot of talented musicians making music. The word musician is typically a “catch all” word used to describe someone that “makes music”. A good musician is usually…
A Free Concert: Combo Bossa Nova in Princeton on Saturday!!!
Combo Bossa Nova Greetings music lovers, This coming Saturday, May 4th, Combo Bossa Nova will be performing outdoors at the Halo Ice Cream Pub from 6:30-9pm in downtown Princeton (9 Hullfish St). And hey, it’s a free concert! •…
Our World is Always Changing, How We Listen to Music is as well!
B.B. King once sang “The thrill is gone,” and when it comes to the current state of music, I have to agree. I’m not one to compare one era to another and declare either greater; music is an art form…
Steve Kimock, Guitar Player Extraordinaire
Guitar music, I love it, I have 2 guitars myself, I hardly ever play and when I do I play, it sounds as though I hardly ever play. Like anything else, if you want to be good at something, you need…
Sal Cannestra’s Sound Choices for Best New Music – 2011
Every year I wonder if my tastes (musical and otherwise) are getting just a little narrower, a little less open to the new and the strange. I look at this list and can say yeah, these are all guitar rock…
Music/CD Review: Hair Rocket’s New One, Punishment Cookie
A walk through Punishment Cookie: Like riding a bathtub through Space Mountain after a fight with your girlfriend. The openings of Eyes, the first track, are a water park in outer space, soaking with reverb the sound splashes all around…
Sal’s Quick Musical Suggestions: The Measure (SA) – Notes
The Measure (SA) – Notes (No Idea CD) The last release from this soon-to-be-no-more Jersey punk band and arguably their best. Towards the end it gets a little too generic pop-punk, but it is front-loaded with great tunes and some pleasantly assured…
This Sunday, At Kung Fu Necktie: Three Bands on a Single Billing, Including The Thirteen!?
Hey Guys, If yer getting this you probably showed some interest in the Pete Donnelly house concert Marilyn and I hosted a few weeks ago. I am writing again to let you know about another great show coming up –…