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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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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 ...

Courtney Barnett: Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit

Review by Larry Jaffee, Huffington Post, 12 April 2015

As much as I adore my Spotify subscription for music discovery, music creators cannot live off the pittance from the streaming model, which is why ...

The Beach Boys, The Byrds, The Righteous Brothers, Phil Spector: The Wrecking Crew Played On All Your Favourite '60s And '70s Songs (Seriously)

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

Karen Dalton Lives

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. ...

August Darnell, Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, Kid Creole & The Coconuts: August Darnell: Kid Creole's Alter-Ego Mounts a NY Musical

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Fugs: For The Benefit Of Tuli Kupferberg

Report by Michael Simmons, Huffington Post, 15 June 2010

For those who trot out the tired cliché of hippies morphing into stockbrokers, check out the Fugs. No sell-out here. ...

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 ...

Ellie Greenwich: Rock Music Legend Sandy Pearlman On The Passing Of Feminine Culture Power Source, Ellie Greenwich

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 ...

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 ...

Martin Kemp, Spandau Ballet: Martin Kemp: From Punk to Spandau Redux

Interview by Larry Jaffee, Huffington Post, 5 July 2015

Spandau bassist Martin Kemp, fondly remembered byfans as the dashing gangster Steve Owen last seen blown to bits in a car explosion before handing off ...

Phil Ochs Lives!

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Supertramp's Roger Hodgson: The Paramount, NYC

Live Review by Larry Jaffee, Huffington Post, 13 November 2014

Supertramp's Roger Hodgson Still Eating Breakfast in America ...

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