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Sex, Drag and Rock & Roll: Neil Patrick Harris Talks 'Hedwig'
A week before his first preview performance in the most flamboyant role of his career, Neil Patrick Harris is striding across the stage of the New York Theater Worksho... | More »April 21, 9:55 AM ET| David Fricke -
Phil Lesh's Long Strange Trip to Brooklyn
Phil Lesh opened his April 15th concert at the Brooklyn Academy of Music – the second of two shows there – with a romp through memoir, rendered in the pres... | More »April 16, 5:45 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks Radio: Blues & Speed With the Strypes, Zappa, Allmans
"We're not playing blues or ska or punk – we're playing it all together," singer Ross Farrelly told me recently, describing the sound and moxy of super... | More »April 3, 5:30 PM ET| David Fricke -
The Strypes Bring Maximum R&B; to New York
In 1964, the Who coined the term "Maximum R&B," summing up the brawn, blues and ecstasy in their pop art. A full 50 years later, on March 18th, the Strypes –... | More »March 20, 4:00 PM ET| David Fricke -
The Last Stand? The Allman Brothers Get Down to Business at the Beacon
The first minutes of the Allman Brothers Band's March 8th concert at New York's Beacon Theater – the second of their 14 shows there this month – ... | More »March 11, 4:35 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks Radio: Working Man's Glam With the Kaiser Chiefs
A recent night in Brooklyn with the shout-along choruses and good-time-gang charge of hardy Britpop survivors the Kaiser Chiefs put me in a long-term glam-rock mood &n...; | More »March 5, 4:30 PM ET| David Fricke -
Angelique Kidjo's African Dance; k.d. lang's Harlem Nocturne
The African freedom-soul singer Angélique Kidjo is a sensual firebrand who moves freely between luxuriant detail and exultant minimalism in her music and agenda... | More »February 20, 3:50 PM ET| David Fricke -
New Film Reveals the Sad Flight of the Byrds' Gene Clark
On a short, recent U.S. tour, an indie-rock superband featuring members of Beach House, Fleet Foxes and Grizzly Bear performed the whole of No Other, a marvelous, larg... | More »February 19, 9:45 AM ET| David Fricke -
U2 Open Up About New Album After Historic Rooftop 'Tonight Show' Gig
"I wanna be in that band!" U2's Bono shouts with delight as he stares at the screen. The singer, gripping a beer and dancing to the music, is crammed with the res... | More »February 18, 3:25 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks Radio: Pete Seeger, Some Byrds and the Mighty Hannibal
January is supposed to be a slow month. This one was fast and full, with great performances and deep loss: Pete Seeger on January 27th and R&B vocal legend the Mig... | More »February 7, 11:20 AM ET| David Fricke -
'Dookie' at 20: Billie Joe Armstrong on Green Day's Punk Blockbuster
"Back then, I just wanted to write songs I could be proud of and be able to play in five years," Green Day singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong says, recalling his st... | More »February 3, 1:45 PM ET| David Fricke -
A True Deja Vu: David Crosby's Triumphant Solo Return
Croz – David Crosby's nickname to those closest to him – is only the singer's fourth studio album as a solo artist in more than four decades. And... | More »January 28, 11:20 AM ET| David Fricke -
Revisiting Country Music's Big Bang, the Bristol Sessions
In July 1927, Victor Records engineer and talent scout Ralph Peer set up a makeshift studio in the building of a hat company, in the Tennessee-Virginia border city of ... | More »January 27, 2:50 PM ET| David Fricke -
A Headphones Jam With Umphrey's McGee in New York
My seat at the Beacon Theater for the January 18th show by the Chicago-based progressive-rock-with-pop-and-jams band Umphrey's McGee was in the fourth row of the ... | More »January 22, 1:50 PM ET| David Fricke
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