J Geils Band

Watch Toyah & Robert Fripp cover J. Geils Band's "Centerfold"

Rober Fripp is on the cover of the new issue of PROG magazine and in honor he and Toyah have covered J. Geils Band’s 1981 hit “Centerfold“…

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2018 nominees: Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Kate Bush, Judas Priest, more

Talking about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame earlier this year, Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien said: “But if you ask me what I’d rather be doing that night, I’d rather be sitting at home in front of the fire or going to a gig.”

J. Geils, RIP

J Geils, lead guitarist of The J. Geils Band, has passed away at age 71.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2017 nominees (2Pac, Pearl Jam, Bad Brains, Depeche Mode, Jane's Addiction, more)

Pearl Jam and Tupac Shakur are nominated in the first year that they’re eligible.

No Christmas at the Seaport this year, but Darlene Love & Ronnie Spector still celebrating (dates)

Darlene Love @ South Street Seaport 2010 (more by Chris La Putt) November 2012 update from The Howard Hughes Corporation:The safety and security of our employees, tenants and customers is always our top priority, and we are grateful that no one was seriously injured at The Seaport during the storm…

both J. Geils/B.B. King 'Rib Rock' shows cancelled

The Rib Rock Festivals scheduled for this Saturday, August 27th at Nikon at Jones Beach Theater and this Sunday, August 28th at the PNC Bank Arts Center have been cancelled due to safety reasons concerning Hurricane Irene…

Peter Wolf playing Brooklyn, BB King playing w/ J. Geils Band

Peter Wolf will play a Brooklyn show at The Bell House on October 28 in addition to the the previosuly mentioned Manhattan and CT shows he has scheduled…

Peter Wolf schedules shows, J. Geils Band too (dates)

Peter Wolf @ Highline Ballroom in 2010 (more by Jacob Blickenstaff) J. Geils Band frontman Peter Wolf, who we last saw when he was a guest of Yo La Tengo at Maxwell’s for Hanukkah, went on a short tour this past March that never hit NYC…

Peter Wolf released an album (w/ guests Neko Case & others), playing w/ Bettye Lavette & in Brooklyn Friday

DOWNLOAD: Bettye Lavette – Salt of the Earth (MP3) “Wolf was born in the Bronx, New York. He planned a career as an artist, but he got a job in the late 1960s as a disc jockey on then-cutting edge Boston FM radio station WBCN and began exploring his interest in blues and rhythm and blues music, giving himself the nickname “the Wolfa Goofa”, sometimes expanded to “the Wolfa Goofa with the Green Teeth” (as mentioned in the intro to “Must of Got Lost” on the Blow Your Face Out album)…