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Legendary drummer Hal Blaine passed away at age 90 on March 11th
I (David Kessel) had the pleasure of growing up in the recording studio along with my brother Dan....
50TH Anniversary of Neil Young Everybody Knows This Is No Where
By Harvey Kubernik © 2019 In January of 1969 Neil Young began recording his second solo album...
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The City’s Now That Everything Been Said Album Reissued by Light In The Attic; Seminal 1968 Group With Carole King
By Harvey Kubernik C 2015 The Light In The Attic record label in late 2015 reissued the Lou Adler-produced 1968 album Now That Everything’s Been Said by The City, a music unit formed by songwriter/pianist/singer Carole King, bass player Charles Larkey, along with...
Marty Balin
By Harvey Kubernik c 2015 Singer and songwriter Marty Balin the founder of Jefferson Airplane, hit maker of the Jefferson Starship group, and a well-received solo career, is readying a new album, The Greatest Love for February 2016. The collection, produced by Balin...
Rubber Soul: 50 Years On
By Harvey Kubernik c 2015 RUBBER SOUL - the album that changed the musical world we lived in then to the one we still live in today. ---Andrew Loog Oldham Rubber Soul was the Beatles’ first release not to feature their name on the album’s cover, an uncommon strategy...
BOB DYLAN – THE CUTTING EDGE 1965-1966: THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 12, A DELUXE 6CD ANTHOLOGY, RELEASED BY COLUMBIA RECORDS/LEGACY
By Harvey Kubernik c 2015 The latest chapter in Columbia/Legacy's highly acclaimed Bob Dylan Bootleg Series focuses on the legendary studio sessions that produced Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde On Blonde, the trilogy of album masterpieces...
Tower Records All Things Must Pass Documentary Opens Theatrically During November in the U.S.
By Harvey Kubernik c 2015 "the dreams of youth moving past tower records / the library / of the youth" From the poem, "cafes & screenings & academies & descent & personal style & violent dancers" (Published in Enough the Great Running Chapel, by...
Introducing Darlene Love
FEATURES SONGS WRITTEN BY ELVIS COSTELLO, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, LINDA PERRY, JIMMY WEBB, DESMOND CHILD, ELVIS COSTELLO, JOAN JETT, BARRY MANN & CYNTHIA WEIL AND OTHERS NOW AVAILABLE By Harvey Kubernik 2015 Listen to The Rockin' Surfer Show With Dave The K Special...
JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE FREEDOM: ATLANTA POP
FESTIVAL 2CD/2LP RELEASED IN SEPTEMBER; JIMI HENDRIX ELECTRIC CHURCH DOCUMENTARY DVD/BLU-RAY DUE ON OCTOBER 30th; Billy Cox interview with Harvey Kubernik By Harvey Kubernik c 2015 About 100 miles south of Atlanta, next to a field just outside the town of Byron, there...
BOB DYLAN’S THE BASEMENT TAPES COMPLETE: THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 11 RELEASED BY COLUMBIA RECORDS/LEGACY RECORDINGS; SIX DISC SET DEFINITIVE CHRONICLE OF DYLAN’S 1967 SESSIONS WITH THE BAND FROM ORIGINAL TAPES
By Harvey Kubernik c 2014 In 1965, Levon Helm and the Hawks ((Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, and Garth Hudson) had met up with Bob Dylan, who hired them as his back-up for what was to be many months of savage, sinew-building road trips. Levon did not go...
Turn Up The Radio! Harvey Kubernik’s New Book Is Out For The Masses
Harvey Kubernik provides an amazing history of the evolution of rock and roll. Combining oral and illustrated history with a connective narrative, Turn Up the Radio! captures the zeitgeist of the Los Angeles rock and pop music world between the years of 1956 and 1972....