Marshall Crenshaw Brings Timeless Power Pop to City Winery Boston w/Sarah Borges opening w/Eric Ambel On his 73rd birthday, Marshall Crenshaw celebrated with a career retrospective at Boston’s City Winery. There is something timeless about a Marshall Crenshaw song. Built around irresistible melodies, his music has a way of sounding familiar even when you hear it […]
Marshall Crenshaw w/James Mastro at The Iron Horse in Northampton, MA on Sunday November 9 Marshall Crenshaw brought his “40+ Years in Showbiz!” tour to The Iron Horse in Northampton, Massachusetts, playing songs from his four-decade career-spanning repertoire, as well as new material from his recently released “From The Hellhole” album. As Crenshaw and band […]
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The memorably named Peanut Butter Conspiracy remains a tiny footnote in rock history. The quintet doesn’t even qualify as a one-hit wonder, as its only charting single, 1967’s “It’s a Happening Thing,” climbed no higher on Billboard’s pop list than No. 93. Perhaps it’s time for a fresh assessment of this outfit, however. Formed from […]
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Bentley’s Bandstand: August 2025 by Bill Bentley Marshall Crenshaw, FROM THE “HELLHOLE.” Here’s the prime example of a rock & roll expert who knows how to juggle originals and cover songs in a way that everything comes out his own in the end. It’s not an easy attribute to perfect, but Marshall Crenshaw sure did. […]
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Marshall Crenshaw From ”The Hellhole” (Yep Roc Records) There are so many of us who have idolized this man and his music since the release of his self-titled debut back in ’82 – the love reinvigorated with each subsequent release (there have been 12 since, not counting compilations). Quite a feat given his awkward beginnings […]
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Music & Film Reviews: Eric Clapton’s The Definitive 24 Nights, plus Hot Tuna, Marshall Crenshaw, and Delbert McClinton Eric Clapton’s 24 Nights, which appeared in 1991, culled 15 superlative performances from a series of concerts that year and in 1990 at London’s famed Royal Albert Hall, where he has appeared more than 200 times. The […]
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Grrr Live! is at least the 10th archival audio/video concert package that the Rolling Stones have issued since 2017, so some fans may be running low on spending money or shelf space or may simply have had enough of recordings that feature overlapping setlists. That said, this latest album may be the best of the […]
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