Rock
Though it doesn’t seem that Chicago will ever shake up their setlists or rediscover their original mission, at least they can still sneak just a little Varese in with the hits.
“Music is kind of like a religion in a way, and your heroes become your patron saints.”
One good reason to see Matthew Sweet is that his songs are more immediate live than on CD.
The under-appreciated singer-songwriter Tommy Keene is equal parts an aficionado and creator of pop music.
The late Tommy Ramones’ drumming was as key as any component in the band’s makeup.
“It was an unusual time in music when the-powers-that-be were very hands-off. They left the art to the artists.”
Classic rock (which is really a radio format, not a musical genre) is a strange animal, which has spawned an audience that apparently cares more about hit songs and memories than about who’s actually onstage.
Even by Widespread Panic’s intuitive standards, this was a fairly challenging show: The setlist seemed to favor their deeper, less outgoing material.
There have been three pop LPs this year that I’ve really been digging: they are gloriously wacky.
These challenging LPs offer opposing, but equally thrilling, aural/cinematic adventures: one is an overblown grindhouse flick, the other a wondrous fantasy feature.
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