Rhapsody says:
The Doors' rep has taken a vicious beating in recent years: Jimbo's poetry sucks, Manzarek's a blowhard, etc. But it's the Doors -- not the Stones, not Zeppelin -- who invented the template for raunchy hard rock; Live in Pittsburgh 1970, recorded shortly after the release of Morrison Hotel, proves this. Morrison might be drunk, but he's howling like a madman while his group ditches the brassy psychedelia of 1969 for stripped-down shaman blues. This basket is packed with chestnuts, but nothing beats the futuristic rockabilly of a seven-minute "Mystery Train." Listen here
The Black Crowes-Warpaint
Warpaintis the first studio album from the Black Crowes in seven years, not that you
can really tell. The Crowes still bang out that old-school boogie that might be three or four
decades old if it wasn't brand-new. All the obvious ingredients that fueled their 1990 debut,
Shake Your Money Maker, are still in place, from singer Chris Robinson's Jagger swagger to
the band's Faces-style barroom juking.
A Night of Laughs Win a pair of tickets to "A Night of Laughs" at the Dante Club on Sunday, September 7th. This is a comedy benefit for the Domestic Violence Intervention Center.
