Here’s a couple interesting remembrance pieces you might have missed recently.
Firstly, singer-songwriter Dave Alvin remembers the night in 1983 that he and a group of musicians from X and The Blasters backed up the late Bo Diddley at the Music Machine in West Los Angeles.
“Whatever you do, do not play ‘the Beat!’ ” Alvin distinctly [...]

Positive vibrations with the Black Angels

PHOTO by BRIANA PURSER
There is that lonesome, crazy, almost-poisonous sound that was there in American music almost as soon as they began recording it—what B.B. King said came from breaking the verbs in the blues, and what Wayne McGuire’s lonely essay found in “Sister Ray.” It was the drone, the [...]