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Brett Milano

Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project – Celebrating a Great Year in Music (December Entry)

Arts Fuse writers continue their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. This month’s diverse list includes Elton John, Paul and Linda McCartney, Humble Pie, Miles Davis, and Nick Drake.

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Rock Tagged: Adam Ellsworth, Allen Michie, Brett Milano, Bryter Later, Elton John, Humble Pie, Live-Evil, Madman Across the Water, Miles-Davis, Milo Miles, Nick Drake, Paul and Linda McCartney, Ram, Rockin’ the Fillmore

Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project – Celebrating a Great Year in Music (November Entry)

Arts Fuse writers continue their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. This month’s diverse list includes John Lee Hooker, Víctor Jara, The Grateful Dead, Grand Funk Railroad, and Yes.

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Allen Michie, Brett Milano, E Pluribus Funk, El derecho de vivir en paz, Fragile, Grand Funk Railroad, Grateful Dead, John Lee Hooker and Canned Heat, Jon Garelick, Paul Robicheau, Scott McLennan, Víctor Jara, Yes

Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Celebrating a Great Year in Music (March Entry)

Here’s yet one more fantastic thing about it no longer being 2020: it’s now the 50th anniversary of the excellent music that premiered in 1971.

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Adam Ellsworth, Allen Michie, Brett Milano, Daniel Gewertz, Deliverin’, Gordon Lightfoot, If You Could Read My Mind (a.k.a. Sit Down Young Stranger), Karen Schlosberg, Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin IV, Mountain, Nantucket Sleighride, Poco, U-Roy, Version Galore

Rock Interview: Talking with Brand X — After Decades, Back on Tour

Brand X was essentially a bunch of top-flight session men who got together to blow off steam, a UK version of Weather Report.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Music, Rock Tagged: Brand X, Brett Milano, John Goddsall, Regent Theatre

Book Review: The Story of The Cure — The Beatles of Goth

As confessions of rock decadence go, Lol Tolhust’s are fairly tame stuff.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Brett Milano, Cured: A Tale of Two Imaginary Boys, Da Capo Press, Lol Tolhurst, The Cure

Book Review: Homage to Scott Miller — Perceptive Attention Paid to a Lost Pop Genius

Brett Milano approaches his subject with encyclopedic knowledge, a fan’s fervor, and the seasoned music journalist’s skill.

By: Brett Milano Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Brett Milano, Don't All Thank Me At Once, Game Theory, The Lost Pop Genius of Scott Miller

Music Review: Singer Bryan Ferry — Seductive Melancholy Wrapped in the Most Elegant of Grooves

Given the realities of music in 2016, it’s good to see a glitter-era icon who’s still alive and kicking.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Brett Milano, Brian Ferry

Music Interview: Prog-rocker Billy Sherwood and His Passion for Yes

“Hey, the more Yes music being played in 2016, the better.”

By: Brett Milano Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Music, Rock Tagged: Alan White, Billy Sherwood, Brett Milano, Geoff Downes, Jon Davison, Steve Howe, Yes

Concert Review: Bob Dylan on Tour — No Nostalgia Allowed

The set proved that Bob Dylan remains, among many other things, one of music’s great contrarians.

By: Brett Milano Filed Under: Featured, Music, Popular Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Blue Hills Pavilion, Bob-Dylan, Brett Milano, Shadows in the Night

Music Review: Singer/Songwriter John Hiatt — Making a Cranky Sort of Peace

John Hiatt’s voice has taken on some Tom Waits-like cragginess in recent years.

By: Brett Milano Filed Under: Featured, Folk, Music, Popular Music, Rock Tagged: Brett Milano, Bring the Family, Cary Hall, John Hiatt, Lexington MA, Slow Turning

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