by talkfromtherockroom | Jun 30, 2026 | Reviews
A long circulating and important glimpse of the formative Grateful Dead will receive a widespread official release on its 60-year anniversary date. Grateful Dead, Fillmore Auditorium 1966, was first included in the huge 2015 career spanning box set 30 Trips Around the...
by talkfromtherockroom | Jun 24, 2026 | Reviews
A new album by London based experimental blues guitarist Geiger von Müller was released on April 1, 2026. Neocubist Blues is a collection of songs that expand and deconstruct the blues idiom from within its own foundations. This album settles nicely into the rock...
by talkfromtherockroom | Jun 17, 2026 | Live Reviews, Reviews, Rock Room on the Road
Wilco’s June 16 stop in Lafayette, NY was part of the band’s East Coast run culminating in their bi-annual Solid Sound festival in North Adams, MA. Presented by DSP Productions, at Beak and Skiff Apple Orchards, An Evening with Wilco featured two sets with no opening...
by talkfromtherockroom | Jun 4, 2026 | Reviews, Take One
Now spinning in the rock room is the Mamas and the Papas August 1967 single, “Straight Shooter,” the strutting flip side to “Twelve Thirty (Young Girls are Coming to the Canyon)”. The track first appeared as an album cut on the group’s February 1966 number...
