Wednesday Rock Blogging

This band epitomizes the L.A. punk scene of the late 70s and 80s...and 90s, and ever since. There will be another very special show this year or next:

The English Beat was one of two bands that played the US Festival both years (1982 &1983), with the other band being Oingo Boingo. They are playing at the Belly Up on February 10th:

Filmed at Paradiso in 2019: Paradiso is a Dutch music venue and cultural centre located in Amsterdam. Originally a nineteenth-century church used by the "Vrije Gemeente" (Free Congregation), it was squatted by hippies in 1967, seeking to turn it into a leisure club....

Those who were in the LA area during the 1970s and 80s came across DJ Jim Ladd who played free-form radio for decades. I remember listening during the night that John Lennon died, and he played a memorial set that gave me a new appreciation for Lennon - and music in...

These guys remind me of the late James Harman and Those Dangerous Gentlemen - rockin' the blues!

A good old Irish Christmas song this week, in honor of Shane McGowan - who was born on December 25, 1957! Hat tip Richard! The Pogues were an English or Anglo-Irish Celtic punk band fronted by Shane MacGowan and others, founded in King's Cross, London, in 1982, as...

About 50 years ago, a quartet of L.A. session musicians became so synonymous with the era-defining soft-rock scene — headlined by James Taylor, Carole King, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Crosby, Stills & Nash and Fleetwood Mac among others — that they were...

These two share a birthday....today! They are five years apart.

Last played here in 2017 - we thought the guitarist was trying to look like me: