Dave DiMartino
Dave DiMartino is the former executive editor of Yahoo! Music in Los Angeles. He is a former editor of CREEM, where he worked from 1979-1986. Later he was West Coast Bureau Chief of Billboard magazine (1986-1991), senior writer at Entertainment Weekly (1991-1993), and in 1995 became executive editor of LAUNCH, a CD-ROM magazine and internet music site which was purchased by Yahoo! in 2001 and redubbed Yahoo! Music. He really hung around there quite a bit.
He is the author of Singer Songwriters: Pop Music's Performer-Composers, from A to Zevon (Billboard Books, 1994), Do It Again: The Steely Dan Years (Amazon, 2009), consultant editor of Moonlight Drive: The Stories Behind Every Doors Song (Carlton, 1995), and U.S. editor of Music In The 20th Century (M.E. Sharpe, 1998). His writing has appeared in The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion (Canongate, 2003) and The Pop, Rock, and Soul Reader (Oxford University Press, 2004) and in other anthologies, and in numerous publications including Rolling Stone, Mojo, Musician, Spin and the Village Voice.
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John Hiatt: Slow Turning (A&M)
Review by Dave DiMartino, Musician, December 1988
THE FOLLOW-up to one of 1987's most acclaimed albums," imprinted on Slow Turnings cover sticker, says it all. Hiatt's previous Bring the Family garnered press ...
Tangerine Dream And You Don't!
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, November 1986
SOME INFO on Tangerine Dream: they're from Germany. They've put out 22 albums. A few more solo LPs. They play space music. They do movie ...
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, May 1986
DO YOU know who Essra Mohawk is? ...
Loverboy: Hot Nights In Puerto Rico
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, April 1982
Canadian Loverboys Work For Their Weekend ...
Interview by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, November 1999
David is chatting on his earphone, Steve is resting between rounds of golf in Monaco, Graham is boating in Hawaii, and Neil is relaxing down ...
Shalamar, Jody Watley: Watley's Looking For A New Career
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Billboard, 25 April 1987
Ex-Shalamar Singer Finds Success Solo ...
Basia: The Roxy, Hollywood, CA
Live Review by Dave DiMartino, Billboard, 23 July 1988
PERSEVERANCE IS paying off for Basia Trzetrzelewska, despite the perpetual handicaps she endures. First she sang with Matt Bianco, an act that featured no one ...
Lone Justice: The Palace, Hollywood CA
Live Review by Dave DiMartino, Billboard, 28 February 1987
IT WAS A warm homecoming in one way, a tentative one in another. Geffen's Lone Justice returned home for this first "official" gig with its ...
Walter/Wendy Carlos: Wendy Carlos Invents New Sounds
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Billboard, 21 February 1987
Material Is Digitally Generated ...
Severed Heads, Skinny Puppy: Skinny Puppy, Severed Heads: Roxy Theatre, Hollywood CA
Live Review by Dave DiMartino, Billboard, 17 January 1987
CHAOS, NOISE, and general disarray marked a fascinating double bill that brought together two different countries' versions of the future of rock on one stage. ...
Meat Puppets: Arizona Dreams: The Parallel World of the Meat Puppets
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Musician, November 1995
FLASHBACK, 1994: It's mid-morning in Vancouver, and the sun shines brightly over the crisp, clear October sky. Not that you'd notice, if you were Curt ...
NRBQ: The One And Only Combined NRBQ: Nothing Really Beats Quality
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, March 1982
YEARS AGO, say 1968 or so, I was a snivelling adolescent who stole off outside the house to smoke Tareyton cigarettes. I often did shameful ...
Cherie Currie: Non-Incredible Ex-Runaway Non-Interview!
Report by Dave DiMartino, Creem, April 1980
SOUTHFIELD, MI — "These bitches suck." Harsh were Rick Johnson's words in these pages when the unanimously-acclaimed Heavy Metal connoisseur reviewed the Runaways' second runaway ...
Electric Light Orchestra: On The Third Day (United Artists)
Review by Dave DiMartino, Michigan State News, 22 January 1974
LP good change for band ...
Alice Coltrane: Performance by Coltrane promises outstanding jazz
Profile by Dave DiMartino, Michigan State News, 27 September 1973
THIS SUNDAY night promises to be an occasion that campus music lovers will never forget, as the brilliant Alice Coltrane opens up the series of ...
Willie Dixon & his Chicago All-Stars: Brewery, East Lansing MI
Live Review by Dave DiMartino, Michigan State News, 16 January 1974
Dixon classics, band thrill blues lovers ...
Live Review by Dave DiMartino, Michigan State News, 15 November 1977
Roscoe Mitchell returns ...
Carla Bley: The Carla Bley Band: Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti MI
Live Review by Dave DiMartino, Michigan State News, 16 January 1978
Bley makes American debut ...
Live Review by Dave DiMartino, Bill Holdship, Michigan State News, 14 November 1977
Ronstadt: golden dream for Tarnished Age ...
Patti Smith: With her star now rising on high, Patti Smith opens at Silver Dollar
Profile by Dave DiMartino, Michigan State News, 9 March 1976
PATTI SMITH, poet/vocalist of the Patti Smith Band, will be making her East Lansing debut at the Silver Dollar Saloon Wednesday night. ...
Bruce Springsteen: Springsteen's Thrill is Gone
Comment by Dave DiMartino, Michigan State News, 20 November 1978
I'M SORRY, folks, — Bruce Springsteen is NOT the Boss, not by a long shot. ...
Henry Threadgill: Rag, Bush and All (Novus)
Review by Dave DiMartino, Musician, May 1989
HENRY THREADGILL, who with Air explored the trio format more thoroughly than most jazz musicians, has been shifting his focus toward composition and large ensemble ...
Review by Dave DiMartino, Musician, April 1994
ANYONE WHO thinks these aren't weird times in the music biz should consider the case of 23-year-old Beck, who is, according to Billboard, "at the ...
The Who: Quadrophenia (Dir. Franc Roddam, The Who Films Ltd)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Dave DiMartino, Creem, March 1980
Quadrophenia: Pass Those Purple Hearts ...
Sheryl Crow: The Education of Sheryl Crow
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Musician, September 1994
The long strange trip of an overnight success ...
Crazy Horse, Neil Young: Crazy Horse: Who Is Neil Young's Band, Anyway?
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Musician, November 1987
DOES CRAZY Horse have day jobs or something? These guys have played on the Neil Young records most people swear by. From 1969's Everybody Knows ...
The High Llamas: Hawaii (Alpaca Park/V2)
Review by Dave DiMartino, Rolling Stone, 18 September 1997
THE LATEST album by England's High Llamas — finally released here — is guaranteed to elicit open-mouthed astonishment from Brian Wilson fans who thought they ...
Ry Cooder: Get Rhythm (Warner Bros.)
Review by Dave DiMartino, Musician, January 1988
SO RY COODER gives us his first non-soundtrack album in five years, and it's great, rock-solid, a worthy companion to John Hiatt's Bring the Family, ...
Liz Phair: An Extraordinary Interview with Liz Phair
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Yahoo! Music, 25 April 2004
WHEN FIERCELY independent and outspoken singer-songwriter Liz Phair first emerged in 1993 with her watershed debut album, Exile In Guyville – a lo-fi, track-by-track response ...
Gin Blossoms: New Miserable Experience (A&M)
Review by Dave DiMartino, Musician, October 1992
SO NEW MISERABLE Experience was recorded at Memphis' Ardent Studios, where Big Star made their three minuscule-selling albums 20 years ago — and, as the ...
J.J. Cale: 6 Weeks On, 46 Off: J.J. Cale's Got it Made
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Musician, November 1990
"ALL MY records are kind of in a demo state," says the elusive J.J. Cale, typically self-effacing, in the L.A. office of BMG Records one ...
Overview by Dave DiMartino, Vidiot, March 1983
THE RAPID acceptance of MTV throughout wired-up America proves three things. First, that there's Big Bucks at stake in the rock 'n' roll biz no ...
Report and Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, August 1982
Just A Coupla White Guys Sittin' Around, Makin' Money, etc. ...
Book Review by Dave DiMartino, Creem, October 1980
Dead Pigeon On Love Street ...
Crazy Horse, Neil Young: Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Ragged Glory (Reprise)
Review by Dave DiMartino, Musician, October 1990
The Force of the Horse: Neil Young & Crazy Horse Triumphant ...
Report and Interview by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, July 1994
Blues with just a soupcon of psychedelia. Dash of raga-rock. R&B to taste. Put in blender. Heat, serve. Repeat as required. ...
Report by Dave DiMartino, Creem, November 1980
JUST OUT of the Detroit-Windsor tunnel, a friend and I are fighting a losing battle. We're trying to take Canada seriously. ...
Soft Machine, Robert Wyatt: The Things You Should Know About Robert Wyatt
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, January 1987
IT'S DIFFICULT to call it more than coincidence. ...
Stone Temple Pilots: Universal Amphitheater, California
Live Review by Dave DiMartino, Rolling Stone, 12 December 1996
SCOTT WEILAND seemed the picture of health at the opening night of Stone Temple Pilots' current six-week tour, confounding the expectations of some cynics who ...
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Rolling Stone, 26 June 1997
AFTER 10 LONG YEARS, John Fogerty is back with Blue Moon Swamp, his first album since 1986's Eye of the Zombie, and it is a far better, breezier affair. ...
Charlie Sexton: Facing Charlie Sexton
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, July 1986
EXPERIENCE CHARLIE Sexton as I did: ...
The Lovin' Spoonful, Zal Yanovsky: Zal Yanovsky
Obituary by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, March 2003
ZAL YANOVSKY, to many the man who provided that special spark of magic in The Lovin' Spoonful, died of a heart attack on December 13 ...
Steely Dan: 10 Questions for Steely Dan
Interview by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, September 2003
Dave Di Martino talks to the venerable jazz-pop double act about sexual aids, Charlotte Rampling and perfectionism. Well, why not? ...
Alice In Chains, Mother Love Bone, The Posies: A Seattle Slew
Report and Interview by Dave DiMartino, Rolling Stone, 20 September 1990
Record companies are flocking to the Great Northwest, signing bands like crazy and hoping to find the Next Big Thing ...
Grand Funk Railroad: Hot Rails To Hell
Retrospective and Interview by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, October 2003
They were America's biggest band. Live they outsold The Beatles. Then they sued their manager. Dave DiMartino charts the remarkable highs and ridiculous lows of ...
Retrospective and Interview by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, February 2003
IN 2003 CARLOS SANTANA IS A GLOBAL SUPERSTAR ONCE AGAIN. BUT FOR OVER 20 YEARS, THE GUITARIST WAS CONDEMNED TO THE ARTIST’S WILDERNESS. DAVE DIMARTINO ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead
Retrospective by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, Summer 2007
WE ARE GETTING ahead of ourselves slightly, but we are in New York at the tail end of 1967, late December in the Village, in ...
Raspberries: The Raspberries: Rebirth Of The Cool
Guide by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, November 2002
Who are they? The inspired combination of two of Cleveland's finest unsung rock bands of the late '60s – Cyrus Erie and The Choir – ...
Rod Stewart: Roderick Of Hollywood...
Retrospective by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, May 1995
ROD STEWART IN THE '80S? HERE'S WHERE THE MEMORIES really fly. While it's true that the man had just produced some of the most commercially ...
The Lovin' Spoonful: End Of The Rainbow
Retrospective by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, July 2002
The Lovin' Spoonful epitomised the euphoric, carefree spirit of the Summer of Love. But then came unwated adoration as The American Beatles., their very own ...
Retrospective and Interview by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, September 2001
CITY OF LIGHT OR CITY AT NIGHT? It is 1968, maybe '69, and we are walking through the throngs of people crowding the Sunset Strip. ...
Squeeze: Not Another Squeeze Story!
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, October 1982
DIFFORD AND TILBROOK. Lennon and McCartney. Difford and Tilbrook. Lennon and McCartney. Difford and Tilbrook. Lennon and McCartney. Blah, blah, blah. ...
The Church: You Must Like The Church!
Profile and Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, March 1985
(OR PERISH TRYING) ...
The Cure: The Head On The Cure
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, December 1986
IMAGINE BEING SENT BACK THROUGH TIME! ...
Emerson Lake And Palmer: Emerson Lake: Rockin' Dudes Or Art-Rock Mofos?
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, October 1986
IT'S A SPACIOUS rehearsal studio, though not the world's classiest. I am in London, behind the man running the soundboard, watching the three musicians facing ...
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, March 1986
"YOU DO IT one of two ways: either spectacle or personality. ...
Rockpile: Seconds Of Pleasure, Years Of Drinking: Rockpile Wakes Up Early
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, February 1981
LONDON – Having never been in London before, I suppose I should feel some shame at spending my first night in a comfortably Americanish club ...
Robert Plant: Hot Dog To Big Log: Robert Plant Hits The Road
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, October 1983
"WHY DON'T you take off your clothes?" asks Robert Plant, grinning, clutching at the bare white towel wrapped around his waist. ...
Aztec Camera: High Land, Hard Rain
Review by Dave DiMartino, Creem, December 1983
NEVER A BACKWARD GLANCE: Imagine a perfect world, where some human somewhere has the wisdom, taste and fortuity to take Love's Forever Changes, the third ...
The Motels: Martha Davis Feeds Her Family
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, December 1980
LEONARD COHEN'S Death Of A Ladies' Man LP, his first and only collaborative effort with Phil Spector, was never really given its due as one ...
Report and Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, September 1981
MIYAKO HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO ...
The Waterboys: Something About The Waterboys
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, April 1986
SUPPOSE FOR JUST a moment there was a fellow who named his band the Waterboys because "a Waterboy was something fluid and ever-changing" and also ...
Pink Floyd: Live and All Pink On the Inside
Live Review by Dave DiMartino, Creem, June 1980
Pink Floyd: Nassau Coliseum, Long Island NY ...
The Go-Betweens: Go-Betweens Aim To Strike Public Chord
Profile and Interview by Dave DiMartino, Billboard, 14 January 1989
AT THE END of the day, what do good reviews really mean? In the case of the Go-Betweens, whose debut Capitol album 16 Lovers Lane ...
Gary Numan: The Principal Pleasure Of Being Gary Numan
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, June 1980
GARY NUMAN is a nice guy. Seriously. And what I want to know – and what he wants to know, too, though he's probably too ...
Def Leppard: Spot Checking Def Leppard
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, May 1983
LONDON – Directly or indirectly, Eric Clapton is responsible for my being here. ...
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, September 1980
DON'T LET anybody tell you Bob Seger is not a cool guy. ...
Gang Of Four Face The Capitalist Threat
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, August 1980
IT SEEMS FUNNY now that I thought the Gang Of Four might be an "unpleasant" interview. The band's image as one of England's most overtly ...
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, September 1980
"There's a lot of very funny things floating around my albums." ...
David Lee Roth, Van Halen: David Lee Roth: Foul-Mouthed Reagan Shocks The World
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, June 1986
IT'S FITTING THAT here in this unjust world, where rock stars regularly slander one another openly, where newspapers often present one and only one side ...
Boomtown Rats: Bob Geldof, Frank Sinatra Not Linked
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, May 1981
"I THOUGHT THE last album, where we thought we did something musically in a different direction, stood up," says Boom-town Rat Johnny Fingers. He's talking ...
Live Review by Dave DiMartino, Creem, December 1979
DETROIT – The Only Ones lived up to their name during their recent Detroit debut at Bookie's Club 870, which was a shame: they were ...
Blue Oyster Cult: California Club Caprice, Redondo Beach, CA
Live Review by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, March 1998
WHEN ONE plopped down the appropriate coinage for the self-titled debut of the Blue Oyster Cult in 1972, one prepared to enjoy the hard-edged glory ...
Pink Floyd's Can I Have My Money Back? Post-Partum Parity
Report and Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, November 1984
6:30 PM (Apparently He Was Driving To Chicago) ...
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, March 1981
MAY 1970. High School kids in my living room. Singing "Hot and slimy weenie, knocking at my door/Hot and slimy weenie, crawling 'cross the floor/Hot ...
Todd Rundgren, Utopia: Todd Rundgren: Swinging To The Right And Being Left
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, July 1981
THERE'S A STANDARD story about Todd Rundgren that you've probably already heard. It goes like this: He's great. An enormous talent. Can write songs blindfolded. ...
The Clash: Rash Clash Mash In Motor City Bash
Report and Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, December 1979
JOE STRUMMER and I are sitting in a bar, talking about his band. I ask him about ‘I Fought the Law’ and its relatively unexpected ...
Van Halen: Remnants Of The Flesh Hangover
Profile and Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, July 1980
ONE THING that's always bothered me about myself: I enjoy offending people. I've done it for years and see no need to stop. I have ...
Profile and Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, February 1986
"I MUST BE QUITE HONEST," announces Morrissey of the Smiths. "I can understand that people can find me very irritating. And I accept that to ...
Review by Dave DiMartino, Creem, June 1984
THE SMITHS believe that it is possible to replenish appetites of both the soul and the pelvis simultaneously. That is: they might, but then again, ...
Tears for Fears: The Stunning, The Lovely & The Brilliant
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, May 1985
BATH, ENGLAND – In America, people take baths; in England, they not only take them but live in them. And they pronounce them funny – ...
Arthur Lee, Love: Love: Through The Ages (Of Prophets, Seers and Sages)
Retrospective and Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, April 1981
ARTHUR LEE'S LEGEND LINGERS ...
The Police: Police Poised On The Brink Of Infinity
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, November 1983
HOW, INDEED, does one write the proper Police story? Does one rant and rave about new records being set weekly on the Billboard album charts? ...
John Cale: The Academic In Peril
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, August 1981
ADDRESSES THE INEVITABLE"I don't really aim for being a 'renaissance man' or anything like that – but sometimes you end up that, if you do ...
Review by Dave DiMartino, Creem, May 1982
"I hate war. I have seen war. I have seen war on the land and sea. I have seen blood running on the street. I ...
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, December 1981
While Rick James & all his Women laugh... ...
The Doors: Absolutely Live (Elektra)
Review and Interview by Dave DiMartino, Harvey Kubernik, MOJO, January 1997
THOUGH IT EMERGED to mixed reviews in July 1970 – not least from the band, who thought the set middling – Absolutely Live is an ...
Blondie, Meat Loaf: Blondie/Meatloaf: Meat To The Beat
Report and Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, February 1980
AUSTIN, TX – Talk about incongruity. Here we are speeding down a Texas highway, sun blazing overhead. We're in a van, naturally – the only ...
Elvis Costello: All This Useless Beauty (Warner Bros.)
Review by Dave DiMartino, Musician, 1 July 1996
IT'S EASY to get lost within the sheer bulk of Elvis Costello's work – particularly since most of it, from 1977's My Aim Is ...
The Eagles: Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, California
Live Review by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, August 1994
THE BEST – AND CERTAINLY MOST SUCCINCT – REVIEW OF this, the opening night of the reunited Eagles' concert tour, came midway through guitarist Joe ...
Bruce Springsteen: Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles
Live Review by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, January 1996
"I KNOW THIS IS LA," ANNOUNCED BRUCE Springsteen at the start of his concert, "so I hope I don't have to go out there and ...
Neil Young: At the Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles
Live Review by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, May 1999
A MAN less heard unadorned than in context – be it with Crazy Horse, Pearl Jam, The Bluenotes, the Stray Gators, the Shocking Pinks, ...
Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison at the Pauley Pavilion, UCLA, Los Angeles
Live Review by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, July 1998
Set List Van Morrison: Sweet Thing/You Make Me Feel So Free/Burning Ground/It Once Was My Life/Cleaning Windows/Vanlose Stairway/That's Life/Days Like This/Sometimes We Cry/Moondance/This Weight/Tupelo Honey/Why ...
Yes live at Los Angles Universal Amphitheater
Live Review by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, February 1998
IT'S ALWAYS seemed a tragic waste of snottiness that some safety-pinned '70s punk combo never thought to take the early, pre-Roger Dean Yes logo – ...
Joni Mitchell: The Unfiltered Joni Mitchell
Interview by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, August 1998
IT'S A SATURDAY NIGHT IN Burbank, California, and perhaps 200 invited guests are sitting in a circular arrangement of plush chairs, overstuffed sofas, even cross-legged ...
Steve Miller Band at the Greek Theatre Los Angeles
Live Review by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, September 1997
THIRTY YEARS in the rock 'n' roll business. A man without a record label. A man who packed the Greek Theatre playing absolutely nothing from ...
J.J. Cale: No Name, No Number, No Pack Drill
Interview by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, July 1994
HE IS THE MOST unrecognizable man in pop music; success, it seems, comes to him only when he wants it. And a major part of ...
Moby Grape, Skip Spence: Alexander "Skip" Spence
Obituary by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, June 1999
"I'LL TELL YOU A GOOD ONE, a realy good one," says Jerry Miller, long-time guitarist with Moby Grape, warming to the subject of his former ...
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Ray Gun, March 1994
THE FIRST TIME I met Morrissey was nine years ago, when the thin, seemingly mild-mannered singer was slightly in need of a shave; when he ...
Tim Buckley: Morning Glory: The Tim Buckley Anthology
Review by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, April 2001
FOR AN OVERVIEW of a career that began in seemingly humble singer/songwriter tradition, shot skyward in a surge of near-astonishing artistic ambition, then apparently fizzled ...
Crosby Stills and Nash: Crosby Stills & Nash: At the Universal Amphitheater, 1997
Live Review by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, December 1997
"I DIDN'T CUT IT," David Crosby announced from the stage of LA's Universal Amphitheater, a pained grin on his face. "It's falling out." And indeed, ...
Fleetwood Mac: The Way We Were
Report and Interview by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, September 1997
IT IS DEJA VU of the very strangest sort on this May night in Burbank, California. Thrilled to be at this invitation-only event, each and ...
Captain Beefheart: "Yeah, I'm Happy. Happy as a clam."
Retrospective by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, December 1993
He is alive. A recluse. Painting in seclusion up near the Oregon border. There have been weird signals through the ether since he stopped making ...
Burt Bacharach, Elvis Costello: Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach: Painted From Memory
Review and Interview by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, October 1998
Two years in the making, the full-on follow-up to ‘God Give Me Strength’, their collaboration from the soundtrack to Grace Of My Heart. ...
Traveling Wilburys: Bert and Ernie Fill in for Lefty: Traveling Wilburys - Vol. 3
Review by Dave DiMartino, Musician, December 1990
THEY SAY YOUR PERSPECTIVE changes when you’ve got a kid, and since little Mikey hit the one year mark at our house, I’ve been listening ...
MC5: The MC5: The Big Bang (Rhino)
Review by Jon Savage, Dave DiMartino, MOJO, February 2000
First overall retrospective of seminal late ‘60s/early ‘70s rabble rousers: includes material from all stages of their career. ...
Skip Spence : Alexander 'Skip' Spence: Oar (Columbia US)
Review by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, June 1997
Tracks: Little Hands/Cripple Creek/Diana/Margaret-Tiger Rug/Weighted Down/War In Peace/Broken Heart/All Come To Meet Her/Books Of Moses/Dixie Peach Promenade/Lawrence Of Euphoria/Grey/Afro ...
Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume 4
Review by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, August 2000
Billed as Smith’s ‘secret’ volume, the line-up was intended as the fourth in this celebrated series but never made it to the starting gate. ...
Jeff Buckley: Mystery White Boy (Columbia)
Review by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, June 2000
Posthumous collection of live tracks culled from the singer's '95-'96 Mystery White Boy tour. Released in tandem with 1995 concert video filmed in Chicago. ...
Bruce Springsteen Takes It To The River: So Don’t Call Him ‘Boss’, OK?
Report and Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, January 1981
ALL THINGS GOOD come to he who waits; he who hesitates is lost. For every stupid cliché there’s another one out there equally stupid that ...
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