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Beach Boys, The: Beach Boy vs. Beach Boy

Comment by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, December 1999

WHILE THE BEACH BOYS were once musically illustrious, in the Nineties they've spent more time in the courtroom than the recording studio. ...

Crosby Stills Nash and Young: CSNY: Rockin' in the free world

Live Review by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, February 2000

DURING THE INTERMISSION at Wednesday's Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young performance, Susan Nash turned Portland's Rose Quarter into a birthday tribute to her husband. She ...

Jimi Hendrix: The Experience Music Project Opens in Seattle (Part 1)

Report by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, June 2000

IT WASN'T YOUR typical ribbon cutting. Gazillionaire Paul Allen smashed a Stratocaster made of unflavored green rock candy, designed especially for the occasion by glass ...

Rickie Lee Jones: Keeping Up With Rickie Lee Jones

Interview by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, June 2000

SINCE HER 1979 emergence, Rickie Lee Jones has always whipped myriad influences into her own musical blender. Now she's turning the tables. ...

Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding: Noel Redding Boxes His Own Experience

Interview by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, July 2000

ASK NOEL REDDING what will be on the "new box set," and he won't offer any insight about the upcoming release that features dozens of ...

Jimi Hendrix: Experience Music Project Opens in Seattle (Part 2)

Report by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, July 2000

SHORTLY BEFORE BO Diddley began his set at the Experience Music Project celebration, Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist Noel Redding approached him with greetings from a ...

Beach Boys, The: Keeping the Beach Boys Alive

Live Review by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, August 2000

THERE ARE SOME really good reasons to loathe Mike Love's Beach Boys. There is the authenticity problem: there is no one named Wilson onstage, and ...

Eliza Carthy: Angel of Rebellion

Interview by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, February 2001

ELIZA CARTHY IS in the midst of playing a fluid passage when her feet stop moving. She rolls her eyes, exhales and scowls before attacking ...

Peter Gabriel Plugs in for WOMAD

Live Review by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, June 2001

IF MUSIC IS the food of love and life, then perhaps sometimes we need exotic tastes to cleanse the palate. ...

Cyndi Lauper's Still Unusual

Interview by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, September 2002

ON THE SURFACE, Cyndi Lauper hasn't changed that much since 1983, when her debut album catapulted her to fame next to other then-newbies Madonna and ...

Jimi Hendrix: Family Feud Continues

Report by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, October 2002

THE RIGHTS TO Jimi Hendrix's music were returned to his family seven years ago, prompting fans to believe that the plundering of his recorded legacy ...

Heart Pump Out New Beats

Interview by Charles Bermant, Rolling Stone Online, May 2003

TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS after their debut, Ann and Nancy Wilson, always Heart's pulse, have finally assumed absolute control of the band. Now, with Nancy producing, they're ...