Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Twenty-Eight
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
This week: Clara Rokmore, Akrobatik, Danielle Howle, Norman Greenbaum, Clarence Williams, and the Black Angels.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
This week: Clara Rokmore, Akrobatik, Danielle Howle, Norman Greenbaum, Clarence Williams, and the Black Angels.
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Much of the success of Billy Joel’s fifth album, The Stranger, has been attributed to his pairing with producer Phil Ramone, who surely did help turn Joel’s tunes into stainless pop, but a heavy focus on Ramone tends to give the producer too much credit, attributing the record’s phenomenal success to his presence. This, of [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
This week's column features Jack Nitzsche , Fruit Bats, Misophone, Bread, Dorothy Love Coates, and Cachao.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
This week's column spotlights music from: Karlheinz Stockhausen, Can, Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Lykke Li, Paul Oakenfold and Dele Sosimi.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Iggy Pop Music legend Iggy Pop was born in Muskegon, Michigan. He started out as lead singer of the Stooges in the late '60s....
Seriously? OMG! WTF? (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
Billy Joel's 5 studio release, The Stranger is celebrating its 30th year and Legacy Recordings is giving the much deserved special treatment on July 8th! The limited deluxe edition of “The Stranger” includes a CD of the original album, in its entirety, remastered by producer Phil Ramone; a CD of a previously unreleased concert featuring Billy [...]
anonymous (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008
Rickie Lee Jones Singer-songwriter and two-time Grammy winner Rickie Lee Jones was born in Chicago, one of four children. Jones has described her family as "lower-middle-class-hillbilly-hipster." She is reported to have been a solitary child with a deep imagination, whose father taught her to sing. When you listen to her, you have to turn off your cell phone, your BlackBerry, your iPhone, the TV,...
anonymous (Free subscription) | 03/28/2008
Pop Levi Pop Levi was born in London, the son of a 'Jewish doctor and a Gentile nurse.' It is rumored that Pop is really his middle name and his real first name is somewhat of a mystery. Around 1997, Levi moved to Liverpool, formed his first band and supported himself with odd jobs. He possesses a smart and elegant sense of humor about himself. Pop is definitely too...
anonymous (Free subscription) | 02/29/2008
This week, recommendations for songs from Hanne Hukkelberg, Ry Cooder, Otis Rush, AIR, Sweet, and Chick Webb.
anonymous (Free subscription) | 02/22/2008
This week, recommendations for songs by Bernard Herrmann, Megafaun, Bobbie Gentry, Polygraph Lounge, Blondie, and Ledisi.
Glorious Noise (Free subscription) | 02/20/2008
Elliot Scheiner is a record producer and engineer who did his audio apprenticeship, in effect, with Phil Ramone back in the '60s. He talks to Glorious Noise about the state of audio and the music industry.
anonymous (Free subscription) | 02/14/2008
Valentines Day recommendations from Leonard Cohen, Etta James, Harry Nilson, The Pretenders, Big Star, Starland Vocal Band, and Cass McCombs.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Record producer Phil Ramone says this weekend's MusicCares tribute to Aretha Franklin in Los Angeles will give props to the Queen of Soul's celebrated career. We are just getting artists who are going to perform songs she made famous and songs that repres...
anonymous (Free subscription) | 02/01/2008
This week, recommendations for songs by Under Byen, Lupe Fiasco and Matthew Santos, Ennio Morricone, Sonic Youth, Renata Tebaldi, and Janis Joplin.
anonymous (Free subscription) | 01/25/2008
This year, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Grammy Awards. With an abundance of moments, it's so hard to choose which one to share. Here, an Aretha Franklin and Luciano Pavarotti story that stands out in our memory.