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Jazz, blues and pop singer Ernie Andrew dies; towering figure on the Central Avenue music scene

Over its 13-year run, Vee Jay built a roster that left a lasting impact on every genre of music

Keefer on 97.3 KBCO

Fifty years ago, Ravi Shankar and George Harrison gave birth to The Concert for Bangladesh, an event whose impact on pop and classic rock still resonates.

Mel Blanc, ″The Man of A Thousand Voices,″ including the legions of Looney Tune stars such as Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Tweety Pie and Bugs Bunny, died in 1989. He was 81. His son Noel Blanc is auctioning off his prized possessions.

The New York native lit up the summer with his breakout record “Gyalis

Its convenient to blame 2003 for Liz Phairs musical silence.Thats when she put out her most sugary pop record, an album so slick that it both

Saving American Music | Blues, Roots, Country, Jazz, Rock & Roll, Bluegrass, Folk

‘Soberish’ is the former indie darling’s first album in more than a decade.

May 12, 2021 | Surfing One early spring day in 1962, Jan and I were driving to the beach in my newly custom-painted, fuel-injected Corvette. I had spent months hand-sanding the fiberglass. I had taken off all the chrome. The guy from the Japanese body shop I frequented painted the car with twenty coats of Chinese red lacquer. The indent on the side of the car that was normally painted white at the factory, I had painted jet black. I removed the fake knock-off hubcaps, painted the rims jet black...