George Rains
- May 2, 2018
- 8 min
Cellar Dweller, Part One
First of Three Parts The Cellar began as an eccentric little coffee house in a dank, dark basement underneath Houston Street in downtown...
Bill Bentley
- Apr 9, 2018
- 10 min
Bentley's Bandstand / April 2018
Marcia Ball, Shine Bright. This woman must have a fountain of youth flowing through her backyard, because after a half-century of ripping...
Bill Bentley
- Mar 20, 2018
- 10 min
Bentley's Bandstand / March 2018
David Byrne, American Utopia. In rock & roll, David Byrne has long been the King of Quirk. That's a high compliment, too. Over 40 years...
Bill Bentley
- Feb 18, 2018
- 10 min
Bentley's Bandstand / February 2018
Bing & Ruth, No Home of the Mind. As those moments arrive when the only sure-thing bet for a psychic lift is music that turns sound into...
Bill Bentley
- Jan 15, 2018
- 9 min
Bentley's Bandstand / January 2018
Ella Fitzgerald, Ella at Zardi's. As part of the centennial celebrating Ella Fitzgerald's birth, the lady's record label went all out...
Bill Bentley
- Jan 3, 2018
- 2 min
The Haiku Reviews / Bentley's Bandstand
The end of the year seems like a good time to collect some of the righteous reissues that have come out in the past 12 months and help...