“Liam Gallagher John Squire.” “There should be a lot more music by John Squire out in the world.” Liam Gallagher John Squire Liam Gallagher and John Squire Warner, March 1 6/10 Get the album on Amazon Music. For every 10 crazy things that Liam Gallagher says, you can count…

Hall & Oates (Daryl Hall and John Oates) perform at the OMNI Coliseum in Atlanta on Dec. 14, 1980. Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images. In case you missed it due to travel or Thanksgiving preparations, Hall got a restraining order against Oates. Per the AP, John Oates wanted to…

Noel Gallagher performs with the High Flying Birds at Concord Pavilion in Concord, Calif. on June 6, 2023. Nate McKinley/STAFF. CONCORD, Calif. — It was “Garbage” written at the top of the marquee, but Tuesday’s concert at Concord Pavilion may as well have been a double bill as Shirley…

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, “Council Skies.” Freed from the branding of his incredibly famous band, Oasis, Noel Gallagher has become a bit of a musical chameleon. If I were a betting man, I’d say you could play Council Skies, the latest solo album with his band High Flying…

Liam Gallagher, “C’mon You Know.” Liam Gallagher has always leaned in to the Britpop aesthetic, with a Beatles-esque foundation that the former Oasis and Beady Eye vocalist has built a legacy upon for decades. While Gallagher relies on that tried and true formula on C’Mon You Know, his third studio…

Marc Bolan of T. Rex, courtesy: Roger Bamber/Shutterstock. For those just joining us, this column has been running for three years. In 2019 and 2020 it was like this; me making it up as I go along, picking a theme of varying topicality and public interest every week to…

Taylor Swift finding her inner rainbow at a concert at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California on May 11, 2018. Photo: Roman Gokhman. A common criticism I get on Twitter about this column, other than that I hate Europeans, is that I’m stuck in the past and hate modern…

There’s another excessively long longlist this week. You’re going to have to put up with these until I’d gotten out of high school and decided all new music was stupid. It’s an immutable human law, isn’t it? Music stops being good upon graduation from high school. Sure, there are…

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds perform at The Fox Theater in Oakland on March 10, 2018. Alessio Neri/STAFF. OAKLAND — Noel Gallagher brought his band, the High Flying Birds, the the Fox Theater Saturday. The former Oasis lead guitarist recently released  his latest album, Who Built The Moon. Kicking things off with the…

Liam Gallagher performs at The Warfield in San Francisco on Nov. 13, 2017. Alessio Neri/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher, brought his solo show, supporting material from the recently released album As You Were, to the Warfield Monday evening, and the oft-controversial singer-songwriter played up to his…