Sixties rock icons Grace Slick, Michelle Phillips and Eric Burdon turned Hollywood into ‘Hippiewood’ when they recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Monterey Pop Festival. The stars turned out for a special Monterey Pop Festival movie screening, held as part of the Mods + Rockers Film Festival at the Egyptian Theatre. Slick, Phillips […]

This all out tribute to the Beatles album was called to my attention this past weekend. As we continue to celebrate the summer of love and the 40th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper’s, we simply must acknowledge this fine effort by the Smithereens. Yes, of course the band are big Beatle fans, and they’ve […]

Nellie O Apple posted an interesting article about Joni Mitchell’s new album “Shine,” which will be the second major release on Starbucks new music label HearMusic.  To be released September 25th, Mitchell will follow McCartney, who was the first major artist to release a new album on HearMusic.
Read more at
http://redroselass.blogspot.com/2007/07/joni-mitchell-joins-mccartney.html
Source:  http://www.reuters.com/article/musicNews/idUSN2526634420070725

Prince just released his latest album called Planet Earth.
Amazon.com sez…
Simply put, Planet Earth is the album longtime Prince fans have been waiting for. Several cuts on this album revisit some of the classic Prince sound that captured fans all over the world and helped deem him an incomparable music icon.
Album Review by Tammy La Gorce:
Because […]

There were some great movie soundtracks in 1967 too. Like John Barry’s soundtrack to You Only Live Twice, the James Bond film with Sean Connery.  The title song “You Only Live Twice” was sung by Nancy Sinatra, and the album was released in July of ‘67.
All the 007 movies were cool.  […]

It seems that everyone is celebrating 1967’s Summer of Love, but who would have thought Cheap Trick would try to pull off something like this?
Writer Stephanie Ng Wan has posted an interesting article on www.soulshine.ca.
Forty years after the release of the legendary Beatles’ record Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, American rock troupe Cheap Trick […]

amazon.com celebrates the 40th anniversary of the summer of love…

Summer of Love: 40th Anniversary ~
It Was Forty Years Ago Today…(close enough, anyway…) Many things come to mind when we think of the Summer of Love: hippies, San Francisco, free love, be-ins, LSD. Hippies became yuppies and a house in Haight-Ashbury now runs you a million […]

UK Music Festival Celebrates 5 Years!
The Lovebox London Weekender takes place July 21st & 22nd, at Victoria Park in London, and 2007 is set to be a really awesome festival. It’s 200,000 fans & growing stronger with some great musical line-ups and reunions.
Sly & the Family Stone, Blondie & the B-52’s top off […]

The platinum-selling, Grammy nominated R&B group Az Yet has teamed up with the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association’s Power To End Stroke Campaign. “Keep On Pushing (The Power Song)” will garner not only national attention for the program but will be a fund raiser as well.
For every iTunes (exclusive) download of […]

An album art exhibition has opened in Coventry, England featuring pop album covers from the last 50 years, ranging from The Beatles to Pink Floyd. The exhibit is tastefully arranged by decade, starting from the 50’s to the present day.
Video from BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/