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Devendra Banhart: Stranger than Folk: Devendra Banhart

Profile and Interview by Chris Campion, Observer Music Monthly, 12 August 2007

IN A HOUSE on a hill, in a canyon near L.A., Devendra Banhart scatters popcorn on the earth like seed. "This is for the hairs," ...

Blondie, Rick Derringer, Suzi Quatro, Smokie: Mike Chapman: Producer

Interview by Harold Bronson, New York Rocker, September 1978

PRODUCER MIKE Chapman, once removed from his baronial digs in the hillier regions of Beverly Hills and ensconced in the recording studio, sheds his bemused ...

Cheech & Chong, Crazy Horse, Graham Nash, Neil Young: Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Graham Nash, Cheech & Chong: the Roxy, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 29 September 1973

Neil joins Roxy music! ...

Don Cherry, Richard Davis, Billy Taylor: Jazz In The Seventies

Report and Interview by Lita Eliscu, Phonograph Record, November 1976

OVER THE last few years, iazz has re-achieved, to use an inelegant word, the enthusiastic encouragement of a new and important audience: people with money ...

Richard Davis, Van Morrison: Nothin' But A Stranger In This World: Van Morrison and Astral Weeks

Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, November 2001

THE FITFUL BRITISH SUMMER of 2001 is ending not with a whimper but a bang – a burst of Bank Holiday heat that's got everyone ...

Nicky Hopkins

Interview by Harold Bronson, Zoo World, 25 October 1973

ALTHOUGH NICKY Hopkins' bouts with more than casual illness are no secret, the British pianist has one of the more prolific careers as a session ...

Paul Jones, Manfred Mann: Monday, December 4, 1972

Book Excerpt by Harold Bronson, 'Time Has Come Today' (Trouser Press Books), September 2023

I RECEIVED a letter (dated November 21) from Paul Jones, the original lead singer of Manfred Mann, thanking me for an album I had sent ...

Bob Marley & the Wailers: Roxy, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 1975

Magic of Reggae by Marley & Co. ...

Bruce Springsteen & the Street Band: Roxy, Los Angeles

Live Review by Don Snowden, Pasadena Guardian, October 1975

"I’m gonna sit back right easy and laugh When Scooter and Big Man bust this city in half" (‘10th Avenue Freeze-Out’) ...

Neil Young: Roxy – Tonight's the Night Live

Review by Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 23 April 2018

The songwriter opened a legendary L.A. club in 1973 with an incredible performance that spotlighted his classic album. ...

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