by Sean Passmore | Sep 28, 2024 | Academy Of The Rock N Roll AF
After five unprecedented decades in the music industry, Linda Ronstadt announced her retirement from performing at the age of 65 in 2011. A teenager in the mid 1960s, Ronstadt fronted the rock group Stone Poneys, scoring a Top 10 hit with Monkee Michael Nesmith’s hit...
by Sean Passmore | Sep 24, 2024 | Album of the Week
In all the years olde English psychedelic tunesmith Robyn Hitchcock has been making albums, going all the way back to his 1979 debut, A Can Of Bees, with his band Soft Boys, he has never made a bad album. As a matter of FACT, Robyn Hitchcock has never made a mediocre...
by Sean Passmore | Sep 24, 2024 | Academy Of The Rock N Roll AF
The Carter Family was a traditional American folk music group who recorded between 1927 and 1944. They were the first vocal group to become country music stars, and were among the very first groups to record commercially produced country music. Their music had...
by Sean Passmore | Sep 19, 2024 | Academy Of The Rock N Roll AF
Italian opera singer Enrico Caruso is the world’s first ever international recording star. Born in 1873, he sang professionally from the age of 22 until a year before his death at age 48 in 1921. Caruso’s career included 863 appearances at New York’s...
