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Japan, love em or hate em, the bands 1979 third album, "Quiet Life," was quite possibly glam rocks final glorious fling. Well, "Quiet Life" has just turned 40 years old and all the past glory comes in the form of a reissue package.

You don't have to be emerging from a disastrous and deadly pandemic of global proportions to get excited about summer concert season. But it sure...

Today in Music History - March 3 The Canadian Press 2021-03-03 Today in Music History for March 3:   In 1875, one of the most popular operas ever written, Georges Bizets "Carmen," premiered in Paris. It unfolds a story of love, hate, jealousy and murder set in the world of Spanish gypsies and bullfighters. The composer was booed out of the theatre. In 1927, bluesman Herman (Junior) Parker was born in West Memphis, Ark. Influenced and aided early in his career by Sonny Boy Williamson, Parke...

Print Motown legend Smokey Robinson somehow managed to go eight decades without realizing that Hanukkah can also be spelled Chanukah. Now he’s getting a chance to redeem himself after mispronouncing the Jewish holiday in a video greeting commissioned for a fan. It was the alternate, Hebrew-style spelling of Hanukkah — Chanukah — that the “Cruisin’” singer garbled in a recording posted Sunday on Twitter. Robinson, 80, emphasized the digraph “ch” sound and inadvertently concoc...

FM[WBAI]SBD.DAT(MSR > DAT > 1c> DAT) > CDR > SHN An absolutely pristine recording, once they suss out the soundboard feed a few minutes in. And since we’re now broadcasting in stereo, i can tell you that all of jerry is in the right channel and all of merl is in the left, with Tom, John and Bill lined up down the center. Beautiful balance and quality! And very electric! This folks, is JAZZ! And here’s an interesting page telling the relationships between Tom, Jerry and Merl: https://hootero...