Full of enough energy and electricity to light the Griswold's home for Christmas (pump up the volume on "Black Gold" and "Sedona"), Little Neon Limelight is my Favorite Rock Record of the Year.
After a six-year sabbatical from the limelight, the London-based "beat rock" specialist has reemerged with a new album and a new lease on life.
WHEN Citigroup was formed a decade ago, in a merger that reshaped banking, the deal's architect, Sandy Weill, basked in the limelight and admitted to feeling like a rock star.
Michael Azerrad's "Our Band Could Be Your Life" passionately resurrects 13 such groups, from the Los Angeles hard-core punks Black Flag, whose guitarist Greg Ginn started SST Records, the scene's foremost independent label, to Mudhoney and Beat Happening, Northwesterners whose comrades in Nirvana finally brought an indie-rock variant called grunge into the limelight.
The antithesis of most rock stars, Cooder has always shunned the limelight and after the release of his Get Rhythm album in 1987, it had seemed he would never make a record under his own name again.
ROCKS OFF CONCERT CRUISE May 3: This floating music series presents Fishbone, whose period in the limelight is long over, but whose hybrid of funk, rock, ska, punk, and soul remains as intoxicating as it was when the band made its début, in the mid-eighties.
Based on the song "Limelight" by its most famous native sons, the prog-rock band Rush, it protects Canadians' pursuit of "the universal dream" — provided that, as the song says, citizens "put aside the alienation, get on with the fascination, the real relation, the underlying theme".
By the end of the 1970s, punk and new wave pushed country rock out of the pop charts and the media limelight.
A relentless self-promoter, Murphy clearly enjoys the limelight, but social justice runs through him like a stick of rock – which some put down to his Quaker roots.
AS the recorded music industry struggles, rock bands have been trying to stay in the limelight by marketing themselves in myriad ways.
