Manhattan Beat – Billy Raffoul, Boz Scaggs, & More! Everynight Charley Crespo December 5, 2018 Columns, Manhattan Beat Billy Raffoul/Mercury Lounge/Nov. 13, 2018 Canadian singer Jody Raffoul gave his son Billy Raffoul a guitar for his 10th birthday. When Billy was in high school in his home town of Leamington, Ontario...
Manhattan Beat – Colter Wall, Lucinda Williams, & More! Everynight Charley Crespo November 28, 2018 Columns, Manhattan Beat Colter Wall/Irving Plaza/Nov. 5, 2018 In Swift Current, Canada, a 13-year-old Colter Wall learned to play guitar by copying hard rock guitarists. He then gravitated to old blues and folk music. In his...
Manhattan Beat – Steely Dan, Gwar, & More! Everynight Charley Crespo November 21, 2018 Columns, Manhattan Beat Steely Dan/Beacon Theatre/Oct. 29, 2018 In 1967, while in college in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., Don Fagan passed by a café and heard Walter Becker practicing on electric guitar. They met a...
Manhattan Beat – Stabbing Westward, The Coffin Daggers, & More! Everynight Charley Crespo November 14, 2018 Columns, Manhattan Beat Stabbing Westward/The Gramercy Theatre/Oct. 20, 2018 Christopher Hall at age five played the trumpet and later studied classical music in college, with the goal of becoming a trumpet player in th...
Manhattan Beat – Public Image Ltd, Matthew Perryman Jones, & More! Everynight Charley Crespo November 7, 2018 Columns, Manhattan Beat Public Image Ltd/Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn/Oct. 15, 2018 Following the breakup of the Sex Pistols in 1978, vocalist John Lydon chose to move his music in a radically different direction and...
Manhattan Beat – Tedeschi Trucks Band, The Black Lillies, & More! Everynight Charley Crespo October 31, 2018 Columns, Manhattan Beat Tedeschi Trucks Band/The Beacon Theatre/Oct. 10, 2018 Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks met in 1999 when she was the opening act for the Allman Brothers Band, in which Trucks was a guitarist...
Manhattan Beat – Tom Morello, Willie Nile, & More! Everynight Charley Crespo October 24, 2018 Columns, Manhattan Beat Tom Morello/le Poisson Rouge/Oct. 1, 2018 Born in New York City and raised in Libertyville, Ill., a 13-year-old Tom Morello sang in his first band, a Led Zeppelin cover band, and purchased...
Manhattan Beat – Imperative Reaction, , & More! Everynight Charley Crespo October 17, 2018 Columns, Manhattan Beat Imperative Reaction/Stimulate at dröm/September 22, 2018 Ted Phelps founded electro-industrial band Imperative Reaction from the remains of Digital Neural Assault in 1996 in Los Angeles. I...
Manhattan Beat – Ian Moore, Fear, & Others! Everynight Charley Crespo October 10, 2018 Columns, Manhattan Beat Ian Moore/Coney Island Baby/September 20, 2018 Encouraged by his parents, Ian Moore took up the violin at age six and guitar at age 15. By the early 1990s, Moore was a teenage guitar prodi...
Manhattan Beat – The The, Owl City, & More! Everynight Charley Crespo October 3, 2018 Columns, Manhattan Beat The The/Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn/September 16, 2018 Matt Johnson spent much of his youth in or around his family's pub in London, England. At age 11, he was in a band, Roadstar, and at age...
