Time Is Tight

Recently discovered photographs of Hendrix’s two Toronto concerts (and subsequent court appearences). I was at both concerts.

The most succinct definition of “pop” and “R&B” I’ve ever read:
The separate designation of pop and R&B bears explaining. Pop in the record industry is a euphemism for white; R&B means black. Until 1949 Billboard listed music by black artists as “race” records, but then a staffer named Jerry Wexler coined the term rhythm and [...]

I didn’t know geeks could dance like this. (Quicktime; via Celsius1414; also posted to MetaFilter.)

Elvis Costello, accompanied by Steve Nieve, played a rapturously received concert at the Orpheum in Vancouver last night. The duo format gave both musicians room to stretch, play with the settings of songs from throughout Costello’s career and debut several ballads from his upcoming album "North". They closed the show with the title track, [...]

Rompin’ Ronnie Hawkins is apparently over his cancer and back to performing.
Late last summer, good old Arkansas boy turned Canadian rock icon Ronnie Hawkins, then 67 and, as he puts it, “as broke as the 10 commandments,” was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
“I had six or seven months to live,” he recalls. “So I doubled up [...]