Huffington Post
The Huffington Post is a liberal American online news aggregator and blog launched in 2005. It now has a number of international editions.
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The Doors return to Sunset Boulevard
Retrospective by Michael Simmons, Huffington Post, 8 November 2006
EVER SINCE Jim Morrison cancelled his subscription to the resurrection in 1971, the Lizard King phenom has raged on. If you saw the Doors live, ...
John Stewart: Daydream Believer: John Stewart, 1939-2008
Obituary by Michael Simmons, Huffington Post, 21 February 2008
JOHN STEWART – singer, songwriter, guitarist, artist, husband, father, grandfather, Californian, American – was scheduled to perform at McCabe's in Santa Monica on Saturday, February ...
Ed Sanders: The American Bard Takes On Katrina
Essay by Michael Simmons, Huffington Post, 1 April 2008
THERE IS A GIANT in our midst and his name is Edward Sanders. Ed was born in 1939 in Kansas City, Missouri. He moved to ...
Review by Michael Simmons, Huffington Post, 29 January 2009
For the second year running, a new Karen Dalton record is my choice for The Album of the Year. ...
Obituary by Howie Klein, Huffington Post, 6 September 2009
ON MY FIRST DAY of college freshman orientation I met the president of the student body, Sandy Pearlman. He had long hair and I figured ...
Barry Goldberg & Bob Dylan's Secret Gem
Profile by Michael Simmons, Huffington Post, 18 March 2010
ONE OF THE QUIET GEMS OF 2009 was an album originally produced by Bob Dylan in 1973. Other than his own work under the pseudonymous ...
Retrospective and Interview by Michael Simmons, Huffington Post, 3 January 2011
The late Phil Ochs, one of the greatest singer/songwriters of the 1960s in a rarified perch with Dylan, Joni and Cohen, wasn't a household name ...
Van Dyke Parks Keeps On Cyclin'
Retrospective by Michael Simmons, Huffington Post, 29 March 2013
Van Dyke Parks remains in forward motion despite the fickle tastes of the Entertainment-Industrial Complex. An eloquent raconteur and great wit, he's philosophical about the ...
Memoir by Michael Simmons, Huffington Post, 5 April 2013
"I WANNA BE a neuron – I don't wanna be the brain," said all-night radio host Bob Fass in the 1960s to his audience. "We're ...
Jefferson Airplane: Tripping With Jorma Kaukonen At The Psylodelic Gallery
Retrospective and Interview by Michael Simmons, Huffington Post, 28 June 2013
Given that the Jefferson Airplane and Tuna are two of the mightiest hippie bands to emerge from the '60s, it made sense that Jorma Kaukonen ...
Soundgarden: The 'Black Hole Sun' Also Rises: Soundgarden's Superunknown At 20
Retrospective by Juliette Jagger, Huffington Post, 13 March 2014
BY EARLY 1994, Grunge had already changed the mainstream musical landscape forever. At the decade's onset, the success of albums such as Nirvana's Nevermind and ...
Big Star, The Box Tops, Alex Chilton: Holly George-Warren's Alex Chilton
Memoir by Binky Philips, Huffington Post, 11 April 2014
When I was running the East Village record store, St Mark's Sounds in the 1980s, Alex Chilton's LP Like Flies On Sherbert [sic] was a ...
Bob Dylan: Oh No! Not Another Bob Dylan Book: David Kinney's The Dylanologists
Book Review by Larry Jaffee, Huffington Post, May 2014
"Sometimes it seemed that every fan in Britain had launched a fanzine…" —David Kinney, The Dylanologists ...
Allen Toussaint: City Winery, New York
Live Review by Larry Jaffee, Huffington Post, 3 June 2014
It's A New Orleans Thing Rejoices Allen Toussaint ...
Carlene Carter and the Unbroken Circle
Interview by Michael Simmons, Huffington Post, 8 June 2014
If there's a better hardcore country record in 2014 than Carlene Carter's Carter Girl, I haven't heard it. ...
Bryan Ferry: Beacon Theatre, New York
Live Review by Larry Jaffee, Huffington Post, 6 October 2014
Bryan Ferry Tried But He Could Not Stay Away From NYC, Philly ...
Report and Interview by Juliette Jagger, Huffington Post, 19 February 2015
IN THE '60s and '70s, a should-be-legendary group of studio musicians dubbed the Wrecking Crew played on the era's defining songs. ...
Brits Are Still in Love with Rave Culture
Comment by Carl Loben, Huffington Post, 12 August 2015
"HALF OF UK nightclubs close as Brits abandon rave culture," reported the Daily Telegraph yesterday morning (Tuesday 11th August). Other titles led with "Clubs close as dancing ...
Steve Earle: "Mississippi, It's Time!"
Interview by Michael Simmons, Huffington Post, 11 September 2015
"IT'S LARGELY ABOUT EMPATHY," says Steve Earle of his mandate as a songwriter. "The job is about empathy whether you're writing love songs or political ...
David Bowie, Holy Holy: Bowie's Week-Long N.Y. Wake Gets Holy Holy
Live Review by Larry Jaffee, Huffington Post, 18 January 2016
A WEEK REMOVED from the shocking news that David Bowie had died, Holy Holy's performance on 17 January in Huntington, Long Island, surely wasn't the ...
Report and Interview by Larry Jaffee, Huffington Post, 21 May 2016
THE BREAKOUT HIT from the first Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band album in 1976 was 'Cherchez la Femme', a sublime dance hit that even appealed ...
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