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Reissue CDs Weekly: Karen Black - Dreaming Of You (1971-1976) | reviews, news & interviews Reissue CDs Weekly: Karen Black - Dreaming Of You (1971-1976) Reissue CDs Weekly: Karen Black - Dreaming Of You (1971-1976) Marvellous collection of the actor’s previously unknown recordings by Kieron TylerSunday, 18 July 2021 Karen Black’s connection with music was never hidden. In Robert Altman’s 1975 film Nashville she played a country singer. In 1970’s Five Easy Pieces she was a...

Bloodstains , and more! A full description of its contents is just below. Remember, we only come out twice a year, every Spring and Fall, so you don’t want to miss one of our jam-packed 180-page issues! And since this issue #88 is being mailed to subscribers and those who pre-order it by itself, but will mostly be unavailable at some of the normal stores that carry us that are closed because of the pandemic, it is imperative if you want a copy that you order it now! And of course, in those s...

Catching up with her more than three decades later, the Saskatchewan-born Buffy Sainte-Marie radiates energy and enthusiasm.

Supercharging their beloved blues music with rock’n’roll swagger and a complete disregard for the rules – of both music and the authorities – The Rolling Stones laid the template for all rock’n’roll outlaws to follow. The best Rolling Stones 60s songs trace their evolution from bratty upstarts to voices of their generation, throwing down the gauntlet to anyone else who dares challenge their claim to the throne. Think we’ve missed one of yours? Let us know in the comments section,...

40 at 40: Buffy Sainte-Marie discusses what we weren’t ready for in 1988 In the first of our series revisiting 40 memorable covers from the past 40 years, we check in with the Oscar-winning musician three decades after her April 14, 1988 cover By Glenn Sumi and Daryl Jung Feb 15, 2021 Buffy Sainte-Marie read NOWs 1988 cover story on her and made a few corrections. It’s fitting that we’re launching a series of 40 memorable NOW covers with Daryl Jung’s April 14, 1988 cover story...

Sometimes overshadowed in his collaborations with Martin Scorcese, writer-director Paul Schrader was a singular voice of the New Hollywood generation who managed to define a style all his own and maintain an auteurist commitment to and repetition of themes spiritual, intellectual, and macabre within the context of the commercial film to present day. Raised in a fundamentalist Calvinist community in Grand Rapids, Michigan, film was forbidden throughout his childhood, and he relays his first film...

Rolling Stone Elliot Mazer, Engineer-Producer for Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt, and the Band, Dead at 79 Producer behind Young’s By Michael Putland/Getty Images Elliot Mazer, the longtime producer and engineer who helped craft albums for Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt, and the Band, among others, died at his San Francisco home on Sunday. He was 79. Mazer’s daughter Alison confirmed the producer’s death, adding that the cause was a heart attack after years of battling with deme...

Tom Pettys first official live album, 1985s  Pack Up the Plantation: Live!, covered a wide range of material. From older Heartbreaker songs to newly released tracks, it had something for everyone — including his frequent singing partner, Stevie Nicks. After numerous earlier collaborations, Petty confidently invited her to team up again for a cover of "Needles and Pins," a combination that just made sense. "Some of my best musical memories of her are sitting on the couch and just playing th...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Listening to Phil Spector: A three-minute thrill ride, then a reckoning with evil [Los Angeles Times :: BC-MUS-SPECTOR-LISTENING:LA] LOS ANGELES — Pick a classic Phil Spector production. It actually doesn’t matter which. The opening eight bars of the Ronettes’ 1963 smash “Be My Baby” are among the catchiest in American song, a thump, thump-thump, splash rhythm that rockets into outer space with sizzling shakers and snares that boom like shotguns. When Ronn...

Print Pick a classic Phil Spector production. It actually doesn’t matter which. The opening eight bars of the Ronettes’ 1963 smash “Be My Baby” are among the catchiest in American song, a thump, thump-thump, splash rhythm that rockets into outer space with sizzling shakers and snares that boom like shotguns. When Ronnie Spector’s soaring voice swoops in to steal the thunder, the combined eruption is undeniably thrilling. Or take “Strange Love,” the Darlene Love-propelled gem that...