Paul Zollo

Mary McBride Takes Her Music To Those Who Need It Most(0)

December 20, 2011

(Mary McBride) She rocked the house. With an amazing band featuring Blondie’s Paul Carbonara on guitar, singer-songwriter Mary McBride delivered an impassioned and inspirational show Tuesday night for the lucky residents and staff of L.A. Family Housing’s Valley Shelter. And not only did this internationally-acclaimed artist provide a rousing two hours of great music to [...]

Mary McBride Takes Her Music To Those Who Need It Most

Marc Platt Delivers The Goods With <em>Bitter & Sweet </em>

Marc Platt Delivers The Goods With Bitter & Sweet

Marc Platt’s Bitter & Sweet (Dream Wild Records) is a masterpiece, a chain of powerful songs beautifully produced and rendered. Platt has been writing great songs and making powerful albums for years. But this a new level of greatness for him. This is as good as it gets. “Songs should be sturdy,” Van Dyke Parks [...]

American Icons: The Test Of Time

(Photo: Lorca Cohen) “They just don’t write songs like they used to.” How many times have you heard that one? When I was a kid, people from my parents’ generation would often say this, referring to the great songs of Tin Pan Alley they grew up with as rendered by great vocalists like Sinatra and [...]

Meet The Fuxedos

(Photo: Paul Zollo) HAVING BEEN A FAN of this remarkable band for several years, I expected something great from them. But this is beyond expectations. The Fuxedos’ self-titled debut is one of the most audaciously inventive albums of all time. Just the version of “I Want To Hold Your Hand” should earn them their own [...]