How many musicians can you match with their real names? 1 Alecia Moore 1 Afrika Bambaataa 2 Alicia Augello Cook 2 Alice Cooper 3 Annie Mae Bullock 3 Alicia Keys 4 Anthony Ray 4 Barry Manilow 5 Arnold George Dorsey I 5 Beck 6 Artis Ivey Jr. 6 Billie Holliday 7 Barry Alan Pincus 7 Billy Idol 8 Bek Dav...

Another short month, preoccupied with construction, with little time to listen and write. Hence two obvious African pieces in the lead slots, plus more peppered with scattered jazz in the fine print. A year after putting this column in mothballs, I'm having second thoughts. For one thing, it's more ...

This is the week that was in matters musical … 1949, RCA introduces the first 45rpm record … some record labels actually release extended classical works on sets of 45s with the playback interrupted every 4 or 5 minutes while listeners swap discs … 1952, Sun Records, future home...

This is one of the most consistently bluesy of Thorogood's '90s albums, with fewer of the overt goofs and '60s garage-band and punk influences that drove the purists crazy. Instead, it's a big-sounding, mostly serious set, in which Thorogood covers the usual suspects--John Lee Hooker ("Want Ad Blues...

Words by: Sarah Hagerman | Images by: Manny Moss Gov't Mule/The Disco Biscuits :: 02.06.09 :: Stubb's BBQ :: Austin, TX Barber :: 02.06.09 :: Austin It seemed like an odd co-bill. The Southern rock muscle of Gov't Mule meeting the psychedelic-electronic pioneering of The Disco Biscuits for a three-s...

& pays tribute to the influential doo-wop genre. New York, NY – The Los Angeles rapper and founding member of Freestyle Fellowship, Haiku D'Etat and Project Blowed, Aceyalone returns with Aceyalone & The Lonely Ones, which draws on Phil Spector, 60s girl groups, the J.B.s and a slew of...

Our favorite birdbrains sent me this list. Let’s add to it! You can even click on the links to listen to the song. Architecture is great metaphor material. Buildings are ostensibly simple, everyday background constructions, but haunted with significance — memories, emotions, stories. A world...

HERE ARE PRESENTED 2 OF THE MOST IMPORTANT US ELECTRONIC/EXPERIMENTAL LP's of the 80s.Both released through Thermidor label.Dark exerimental electronics with ritualistic edges. Travis P. voice is responsible for that mystical result. Truly unique LPs and much shame they are still unknown to bigger a...

(born March 20, 1933, Birmingham, Ala.) Sam Lay is a veteran Chicago drummer who has played with many of the city's most celebrated post-World War II blues artists, including HOWLIN' WOLF, MUDDY WATERS, JIMMY REED, OTIS SPANN, and PAUL BUTTERFIELD. Lay is best known as a master of the shuffle beat, ...

Radio Bean is my favorite coffeehouse in Burlington, despite never having had any coffee there. It's not that I don't drink coffee. It's just that I'm usually there at night to check out live music or play an open mic. And after dark, I much prefer a draught of Switchback over a cup ...