J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Bob Dylan and Van Morrison go way back. The two legendary contemporaries have covered one another tons of times over the years. They've performed together on multiple occasions -- including, as ...

Bob Dylan paid tribute to his longtime friend and collaborator, Van Morrison, during a tour stop in the latter’s Northern Ireland on Thursday evening. The performance took place at The Waterfront in ...

Van The Band comes from Ireland to perform a tribute to its most famous pop music solo performer, Van Morrison. The band is led by Padraig Allen and Patrick Conroy, one from the Belfast area, the ...

RECORDING WEEK 2025: Every good function band knows one thing: play ABBA’s Dancing Queen, Come On Eileen by Dexys Midnight Runners or Van Morrison’s 1967 smash hit Brown Eyed Girl and the dancefloor ...

“My heart was beating on the hillside/Near Belvedere and Tiburon/I need to take you back, back down to ‘Frisco,” sings Van Morrison in 2016’s “In Tiburon.” In 1971, prolific singer-songwriter Van ...

He’s the grumpy genius who gave the world Brown Eyed Girl, Moondance and the otherworldly masterpiece Astral Weeks. And on August 31, Van Morrison hit the big 8-0 - still touring, still recording, and ...

One of the most hard-driving rock songs of the 1980s about fast cars and fast women is Van Halen's 1984 hit "Panama." The song has a bit of a tale that made it stand out when we compiled our summer ...

Sammy Hagar isn't offended by David Lee Roth's comments about his new song. Last week, Diamond Dave poked fun at Hagar's almost five-minute-long epic "Encore, Thank You, Goodnight" — a song which ...

Blues-rock icon Van Morrison turns 80 this August, and Belfast is gearing up to mark the milestone in style. From celebratory concerts to whispers of a long-awaited museum, fans of “Van the Man” have ...

Rock 'n' roll history includes a long and colorful tradition of contractual obligation albums, one that's brought us a handful of unintentional classics as well as a number of records that are so bad ...

It would be very, very easy to go overboard when discussing Van Morrison’s new album, Remembering Now. The 79-year-old Northern Irishman’s latest release, his first album of original songs since the ...