Reading Velvet Underground co-founder John Cale’s new book, “What’s Welsh for Zen: The Autobiography of John Cale,” you never really learn the answer to that question — or any others, for the most part. Continue reading
In the third in a three-part series, Soundbytes examines the impact the Internet and New Media is having on the music industry and how fans might be listening to music in the future. Continue reading
Greatest hits albums are music’s equivalent of Cliffs Notes. They’re convenient, easy and tell you just what you need to know. That idea is the driving force behind the release of the first-ever greatest hits package for the proto-punk outfit, the MC5. Continue reading
In the second in a three-part series, Soundbytes examines the changing shape of the music industry and how fans will be experiencing music in the future. Continue reading
In the first of a three-part series, Soundbytes examines New Media’s impact on the music industry. While the Internet is changing everything, perhaps the fiercest area in which the online world and “unplugged” businesses are fighting over customers is in the music industry. Continue reading
Soundbytes has a compiled a list of the best albums for the year 1999. Continue reading
Read the second of a two-part series that examines the greatest albums in rock and hip-hop released during the 20th Century. Continue reading
Read the first of a two-part series that examines the greatest albums in rock and hip-hop released during the 20th Century. Continue reading
Curtis Mayfield’s delicate falsetto always had a cool feeling to it. And yet, it was the burning-passion of his songs that solidified his reputation as one of soul music’s greatest singer-songwriters and social critics. Mayfield died on Dec. 26, 1999. He was 57. Continue reading
Thirty years after he was part of turning rock music on its head, Rick Danko, bassist and vocalist for the Band, died on Dec. 10. Though Danko’s and the Band’s fame have been mostly forgotten in recent years, their legacy and vital importance in rock music can’t be understated. Continue reading
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