Fred Roberts/Music

Fred Roberts/Music

Fred Roberts photo The husband and wife team of Henrietta Jacobson and Julius Adler, long time stars of the Yiddish theater on the Lower East Side, recorded on the Sun label. *** Sun Records   Introduction Mention the record label Sun and the first associations...
Fred Roberts/Interview with Spencer Drate

Fred Roberts/Interview with Spencer Drate

Cover Me: Taking album art to new heights   Interview by Fred Roberts, Music Editor One might call Spencer Drate and Judith Salavetz the gray eminences behind modern rock and roll culture. They are responsible for imagery so iconic, it has become embedded in our...
Fred Roberts/Music

Fred Roberts/Music

Crystin Moritz photo *** The Brilliant Dilettantes: Modern experiments in Art & Music    Introduction One often hears the deliberately misspelled term “geniale Dilletanten” in Germany used to describe a performance that floats in the realm between...
Fred Roberts/Musical Decalogue

Fred Roberts/Musical Decalogue

Leonard Roberts Photo  Tip of the Iceberg in a Digital Sea Ten Releases You Really Ought to Hear by Fred Roberts Contributing Music Editor Writing about music tears me apart, because I learn about so many artists that deserve to be known, yet I am extremely limited as...
Music Review / Fred Roberts

Music Review / Fred Roberts

© 2015 Julia Kausch The Hoodoo Two Werewolves Ravage Rostock   by Fred Roberts Contributing Music Editor   T he Blues are alive and well in the Warnow Delta of Rostock, Germany. The Louisiana Bayou, home of the evil eye, mojos and spells, isn’t just a...