Articles by Dave Gil de Rubio

When you think of the Doobie Brothers, images of denim, leather, rock and roll and bikers abound. It’s an image that been attached to the band during a half-century in which they’ve ensconced themselves in […]

B.B. King. That is who you can say kicked off a lifelong love of the blues for Slash, best known as the lead guitarist for Gun N’ Roses. It’s a passion that led the Brit-born […]

Popular music is at an interesting juncture in 2024 where naysayers proclaim that rock and roll is dead and that a younger generation has moved on to more tech-driven creative pursuits that hinge more on […]

Humility and spirituality are the twin engines that drive Carlos Santana and the common thread that’s run through his creative and personal life dating back to when he started the Santana Blues Band a few […]

Joan Osborne is officially a member of the sandwich generation. The 61-year-old singer-songwriter is not only empty nesting as her daughter enters her sophomore year at college, Osborne is also grappling with her 92-year-old mother […]

Heavy is the head that wears the crown. In this case it’s Wolfgang Van Halen, whose late father Edward single-handedly reshaped guitar playing in much the way Jimi Hendrix did a few years prior. But […]

The late American feminist/activist Betty Friedan once said, “Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” It’s an adage Frank Turner wholeheartedly embraces and is a philosophy he’s imbued into […]

For those of a certain generation who like their music hard and heavy, the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) represented a special era of music that leaned heavily into instrumental virtuosity, hooks, riffs […]

In the annals of popular music, you’d be hard-pressed to find an artist as eclectic and prolific as Todd Rundgren. To call him creatively restless is like calling The Beatles a quaint pop band. As […]