DIXIE DREGS CLASSIC LINEUP BACK TOGETHER FOR FIRST TIME IN 40 YEARS
The Dixie Dregs were seemingly an exercise in how not to be successful in the music business. Five guys playing complex, southern-flavored rock music. Or was it jazz? And oh yeah, there was no singer....
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A CONVERSATION WITH COL. BRUCE HAMPTON
Aquarium Rescue Unit, the absurdist jam-rock outfit led by the colorful Col. Bruce Hampton, is back, performing together for the first time since a 2011 reunion. While the band isn’t a household na...
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CABINET, MOE. & ‘THE WEIGHT’ SIT-INS IN BINGHAMTON (PHOTO GALLERY)
Photos by Pati Bobeck Cabinet not only opened for moe. Wednesday night at the Forum Theatre in Binghamton, N.Y., last night, but the band's J.P. Biondo and Pappy Biondo sat in with the headliners f...
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ANDERS OSBORNE’S INTERCONTINENTAL MUSICAL ADVENTURE HITS ARDMORE & PORT CHESTER
By Michael Lester Photos by Jay Blakesberg Name a low-paying, manual labor job, and singer-songwriter blues-based guitarist Anders Osborne has probably done it during his well-traveled, adventur...
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STEVE HACKETT REVISITS THE DREAM OF CLASSIC GENESIS
By Michael Lello If you were writing the bible of British progressive rock, you would be well advised to start with the book of Genesis. While the band might be best known for its 1980s and ’90s h...
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COMPLETE LAST WALTZ SET FOR THE CAPITOL THEATRE
On Wednesday, November 27 at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY, a star-studded lineup of musicians will pay tribute to "The Last Waltz," the historic concert and legendary film by The Band. "Th...
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MUSIC, WORDS and PLAYING IN ‘THE BAND’ FOR BENEVENTO
By Michael Lello Of all the eclectic sounds on Marco Benevento’s albums, there was one thing you were guaranteed not to hear: vocals. That changed, however, the keyboardist said, when he was writin...
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