Music History

By Harvey Kubernik       Fifty years ago, Bob Marley& The Wailers headlined a four-night residency at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, England, spanning June 15-18, 1976, to kick off the second leg of their Rastaman Vibration tour....

By Harvey Kubernik  Five & Dime Universe Inc., in collaboration with guitar wunderkind Toulouse Engelhardt, the “Segovia of Surf,” has just released his newest album, Music from the Martian Gras. It’s available in Vinyl, CD, & Streaming formats....

Harvey Kubernik Interviews with Jerry Garcia, Bill Graham, Marty Balin, Paul Kantner, and Grace Slick.  Six months after changing its name from the Warlocks, the Grateful Dead was a scuffling, unsigned band searching for an identity when it played Bill Graham’s...

By Harvey Kubernik Copyright 2026 "Brian put his heart in his music at a time with Pet Sounds when we were all using other muscles.       “In 1966 Lou Adler arrived in London with an acetate of Pet Sounds. He came to my house from the...

By Harvey Kubernik      One of the most ambitious albums in rock history, Yes’ Tales from Topographic Oceans arrives today from Rhino as a Super Deluxe Edition boxed set.      The massive collection...

By Harvey Kubernik © 2026     Visuals Courtesy of Gary Pig Gold Archives        The legacy of Ritchie Valens and Buddy Holly continues in 2026. A remake of the iconic 1987 film La Bamba is currently in development...

By Harvey Kubernik Copyright 2025    In November 1969 the Rolling Stones toured the United States for the first time in three years. Gone was founder member Brian Jones, replaced by Mick Taylor from John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. Gone too were the Top Ten-laden...

By Harvey Kubernik     “RUBBER SOUL - the album that changed the musical world we lived in then to the one we still live in today.” ---Andrew Loog Oldham, record producer/manager of the 1963-1967 Rolling Stones, founder Immediate Records, author,...