Tag: the rolling stones
Best of 2012: Mick’s Picks – The Shows
We’re keeping this train rolling, ringing in 2013 with a week long toast to 2012. Today we’re looking back at the best shows of 2012 that we caught. And while I tend to be susceptible to getting my mind blown at pretty much any live music event, this year took things to a new level. [...]
Best of 2012: Mick’s Picks – The Tracks
This year I decided to go a little deeper. All week, I’ll be bringing you the best tracks I heard, the best records front to back, and the best shows that these eyes and ears feasted upon. Keep it tuned in all week as this is the spot to get your fill of unbiased and [...]
Single of the Week: The Rolling Stones – Doom and Gloom
How could it be anything else? The greatest rock & roll band perhaps of all time show on ‘Doom and Gloom’ that in their seventies, they still have everything that made them great in the ’70s. While A Bigger Bang was a great release, there is something present in ‘Doom and Gloom’ that seemed to be missing [...]
Some Girls – Live in Texas ’78
I’ll admit it. I tried like hell to delay this write up until I got all the way through the Some Girls reissue. First there was the reissue of Exile, and then the reissue of Goat’s Head, and then the reissue of the footage, beginning and ending with the reissue of Ladies and Gentlemen… The Rolling [...]
Mick’s Pick: Rewind: Exile on Main St. – My Revelation…
I was born into a household that skewed toward the Stones side of the Beatles/Stones argument. My dad leaned toward the Beatles with a strong affinity for The White Album, but my mom was the one that really taught me to love music. And the Stones are her unequivocal number one. That all said, I [...]
Mick’s Picks: Best Tracks of 2010
Ok – here goes… it’s kind of funny – throughout 2010 I kept thinking to myself that I wasn’t that impressed with the musical offerings… Looking at the total body of 2010, however, it was a pretty damn good year for music. So, without further adieu…
‘Flyin’ Hi’ – Faithless
‘Little Secrets’ – Passion Pit
‘Long Live the Fallen World’ – Young Galaxy
‘Horchata’ – Vampire Weekend
