Posted Fri May 29, 2009 4:12pm PDT
As a tribute to the late Jay Bennett, multi-instrumentalist wonder and sometime Wilco linchpin, RBP presents a Ben Thompson interview with him and the band's leader Jeff Tweedy. 
Posted Fri May 22, 2009 5:35pm PDT
Morrissey's 50th birthday affords me the perfect excuse to revisit the impact of his Smiths back in 1984. Quite simply, he was the most extraordinary pop star I had ever met. 
Posted Sat May 16, 2009 5:12pm PDT
Manny's is--or was--a Manhattan musical institution: the guitar shop of choice for superstars and cognoscenti alike. Binky Philips, who worked there, waves goodbye to Axe Heaven. 
Posted Fri May 15, 2009 5:04pm PDT
Slim Shady, Marshall Mathers, Eminem--whatever you want to call the dude, he's back. Back from a long relapse, showing up for life again. Ten years ago he came to London and spoke to Ben Thompson for the Daily Telegraph. 
Posted Mon May 11, 2009 4:53pm PDT
It takes a brave soul to stick up for Albert Goldman, the abhorred biographer of Elvis, Lennon, Jim Morrison and others. More power, then, to Tom Graves for laying his neck on the line in this fine apologia for an underrated writer. 
Posted Sat May 9, 2009 11:43am PDT
The 1989 debut album by Manchester's Stone Roses is widely regarded as one of the greatest ever made. Along with Shaun Ryder's Happy Mondays, the Roses' Byrds-on-Esctasy sound turned the city of the Smiths and Joy Division into the bacchanalian metro 
Posted Thu May 7, 2009 11:10am PDT
Paul Yamada on two more pointless chapters in the slow-death decline of a once-mighty talent. 
Posted Mon May 4, 2009 5:50pm PDT
Can rock or pop ever be a properly democratic process? That thought popped into Johnny Black's mind recently while interviewing Ian Broudie of the Lightning Seeds. Here's the conclusion he came to. | Select a Blog | Posts |
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