Best Classic Bands | Jeff Tamarkin, Author at Best Classic Bands

The film is a portrait of a time in America when all seemed innocent and carefree but was not: bubbling just underneath, trouble and tension.

The third album from the genius and his motley band lampooned society and the hippies escaping it. We look back at a ’60s masterpiece

Not only a renowned singer-songwriter in his own right, Tom Rush helped popularize peers like Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and Jackson Browne.

The filmmaker recalls the other ‘Beaver’ kids, offers his views on being a child actor, and muses on the impact of the show.

Everybody was “Dancing in the Moonlight” in the early ’70s, but who was the band that recorded this catchy one-hit wonder? We decided to find out.

Our interview with the noted music author about his 2024 book, Drums & Demons: The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon

The idea was simple but brand new: a rock band augmented by a jazz-influenced horn section. Soon, a classic album was born

In honor of this true individualist, we present a “lost” interview from 2003, when Yoko was emerging as a dance music star.

It was, to be sure, one of the bleakest songs ever to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. And then Zager and Evans never charted again.

Singles, for the most part, housed just one memorable song. That, like so much else, began to change with the arrival of the Beatles.

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