This is just so cool in so many ways. Let’s start at the beginning and work our way to the end… 1. Somebody identified what he considers to be the 100 most essential riffs of all time — spanning seven decades of rock history 2. This person can play every single one in a convincing [...]

Here’s an interesting showcase of five apps that will change concert going A couple of great items from our friends at Hidden Track I really enjoyed reading about the jamband “glass ceiling” vis a vis Grace Potter & The Nocturnals And they offered some sweet video of Eddie Vedder fronting Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers [...]

Two of Chicago’s best rock journalists have weighed in with interesting takes on the Pink Floyd bassist’s stadium sized spectacle at the historic ballpark. Here’s Greg Kot’s take from the Tribune. And another view from Thomas Conner at The Sun Times.

The Barn’s Pink Floyd Week marches on.  Just for fun, we’re offering a mystery recording to see if music fans can identify where it comes from just by listening.  I think the answer will surprise you. While listening, see if you can get a feel for the circumstance of this recording.  Think of the timeframe [...]

Another Chicago related post as Pink Floyd Week resumes after a day off. We step into the time machine and emerge in 1972 at Chicago’s impressive Auditorium Theater.  This “liberated bootleg” has circulated in many forms for many years and for my money, this is the best sounding copy out there.  Working out the material [...]

Pink Floyd week continues with another infographic… What does it mean to have staying power?  Using the album covers iconic imagery, this infographic from the Behance Network, compares Dark Side Of The Moon‘s consecutive weeks on the Billboard Top 200 to other notable streaks and series.   Zoomed image of the words…  

Pink Floyd week continues… So Theo Epstein is not the only one scouting at Wrigley Field these days. Roger Waters also dropped by recently to figure out how a stadium sized version of The Wall might work for 2012. There probably won’t be much in the way of musical surprises given that he’s playing the [...]

Here’s a righteous Pink Floyd infographic, which chronicles significant milestones and band member movement during 40 years of band history.  This was crated by a flickr user known as 802.11 and has made tons of appearances all over the web.  A great use of some very Floyd-like psychedelic imagery to convey the information.  I love [...]

Inspired by Live Music Blog, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and other sources that dedicated the week’s worth of content to Pink Floyd in celebration of their recent album remasters, I thought I’d be fashionably late with a Pink Floyd week of my own.  Of course, for The Barn that means showcasing Pink Floyd content [...]

Our first offering of Pink Floyd Week, is a taste of the Roger Waters-less Floyd’s stop in Rosemont on the Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour back in 1987.  The recording is a bit noisy at times, but overall offers a nice glimpse of how the band integrated classics with some newer material during this tour, [...]