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Alan Echenberg wrote 1 year ago: I Want You… (Apple does Costello) *** I Need You… (The Heartbreakers do the Beatles) *** … more →
Alan Echenberg wrote 1 year ago: “Worthy Canadian Initiative” was… famously… the winning entry in the New Rep … more →
Alan Echenberg wrote 1 year ago: In the spring of 1968, as Paris exploded in riots, Jean-Luc Godard headed across the English Channel … more →
Alan Echenberg wrote 1 year ago: The quality of this 30-year-old video leaves something to be desired – looks like someone uplo … more →
Alan Echenberg wrote 1 year ago: The Holy Trinity of hoser culture would be… what, exactly? Probably: Rock ‘em Soc … more →
Alan Echenberg wrote 2 years ago: Mickey Mouse? Or Bugs Bunny? Which side are you on? One or the other. No wavering. Oka … more →
Alan Echenberg wrote 2 years ago: In December of 1968, The Rolling Stones filmed a televised concert special for the BBC, featuring th … more →
Alan Echenberg wrote 2 years ago: On his parenting blog, my pal Al offers up an interesting… musical… take on an age-old c … more →
Alan Echenberg wrote 2 years ago: The Chicago Blues begat Rock and Roll. And Willie Dixon (1915-1992) begat some of the most famous, i … more →
Alan Echenberg wrote 2 years ago: A couple of years back, Petra Haden covered the cult-classic concept album “The Who Sell Out … more →
Alan Echenberg wrote 2 years ago: In 1933, four years before Walt Disney released “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, his f … more →
Alan Echenberg wrote 2 years ago: There’s nothing like a pop song with a great hook to take you back in time to wherever you wer … more →
Alan Echenberg wrote 2 years ago: The late great Joey Ramone and the great late Johnny Ramone were the only two original members of th … more →
Alan Echenberg wrote 2 years ago: I’m not the biggest Bob Dylan fan, but I recently saw Martin Scorcese’s fantastic Dylan … more →
Alan Echenberg wrote 2 years ago: Live from New York, Pete Townshend and Lou Reed perform the Velvet Underground’s White Light/W … more →