Danielle Howle and Friends

Just for fun, here’s a clip from March of Danielle Howle at the Windjammer in Charleston, singing the Faces “Ooh La La” with Mac Leaphart and Mark Bryan (of Hootie and the Blowfish).

Jimmy Page at the Olympics

So, Led Zeppelin was everybody’s favorite band in high school, but did you happen to see Jimmy Page at the closing ceremonies of the Olympics tonight? Not sure that was the most classic moment in his career, Olympics or not, and whoever that chick singing was, I just wasn’t feeling it like I would have [...]

Gary Lee Conner Singing, Not Screaming

Two coincidental events convinced me I needed to post this tonight–first, I noticed in the birthdays list in today’s paper that it was the birthday of Gary Lee Conner, who was in one of the best bands of the Seattle grunge era, The Screaming Trees. Second, when looking around for what Conner might be up [...]

“My Baby, She’s Alright”

One of my personal favorite bands from the 1980s was Boston group Scruffy The Cat. Sort of retro, sort of rockabilly, kind of twangy, with some very catchy tunes, the band was a WUSC favorite around that time, too. In 1986, the same night REM played the Township Auditorium, Scruffy was set to open a [...]

New Grooves from Groovelily

The jazz-pop trio Groovelily has been a favorite of ours for many years now, so it is with great excitement and anticipation that we can pass along news of new music from the band. Their newly revamped website, www.groovelily.com (based on the same WordPress platform as this blog, incidentally) has lots of neat stuff for [...]

Springsteen Live In North Charleston 8-16-08

(There are already videos of several songs from this concert on Youtube, they will not allow reposting into other sites so I’ve included direct links for three of them)
For his first concert with the E Street Band in the Charleston, SC area since 1978, Bruce Springsteen did not disappoint. Playing to the locals from the [...]

Roy Orbison’s Black and White Night

(This is the third in a short series of Bruce Springsteen-related posts leading up to his concert this Saturday night in North Charleston, SC)
One of my favorite Bruce moments is this 1998 music video, a concert film shot in a stylish black and white, that paired the legendary Roy Orbison up with a batch of [...]

Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?

(Second in my short series of Bruce-related posts leading up to Saturday’s show in North Charleston, SC)
Long one of my favorite Bruce Springsteen songs, this odd little tune is not one of his better known songs, and it is not a concert staple like the big hits. Part of his early writing stage where the [...]

A Long Walk Home

(This is the first in a short series of posts leading up to the Springsteen concert in North Charleston, South Carolina this Saturday.)
“Long Walk Home,” from Bruce Springsteen’s 2007 album Magic, has become a favorite for me in the almost year since the album’s release. In the mold of “My Hometown” without the dirge-like tempo, [...]

Isaac Hayes, R.I.P.: Black Moses Finally Reaches the Promised Land

The thing that always disappointed me about the Biblical story of Moses was that despite his hard work and all the crap he had to put up with from the Israelites for forty years in the Wilderness, he never got to set foot in the Promised Land before he died. The music world lost Isaac [...]