todd rundgren Archive
22 Aug 2023
Take Five: 5 Todd Rundgren Production Credits You Should Know
Todd Rundgren is one of music’s renaissance men. He’s a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist with more than 20 studio albums to his name; that doesn’t even count the three albums […]
16 Apr 2023
Interview Roundup: Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren and I go way back, even if he doesn’t know it. I grew up with his music, though I missed my first opportunity to see him live. Utopia […]
14 Apr 2023
Don’t Forget All About It: Todd Rundgren’s Early Days in Nazz (Part 3 of 3)
Continued from Part Two… Stewkey was nominally the group’s lead vocalist, but Todd Rundgren – the band’s songwriter – was a singer as well. And Rundgren explains that he had […]
13 Apr 2023
Don’t Forget All About It: Todd Rundgren’s Early Days in Nazz (Part 2 of 3)
Continued from Part One… With the prevailing Anglophile mindset of the four members of Nazz, however, there was a belief that the producer’s role extended to the sound of the […]
12 Apr 2023
Don’t Forget All About It: Todd Rundgren’s Early Days in Nazz (Part 1 of 3)
For many decades now, Todd Rundgren has enjoyed a well-deserved reputation as one of popular music’s most restless and versatile artists. His large body of work spans multiple genres: rock, […]
27 Aug 2021
Album Review: Joe Jackson & Todd Rundgren featuring Ethel — State Theater New Jersey 2005
It was more than sixteen years ago that two of popular music’s most iconoclastic artists decided to work together (sort of). Todd Rundgren and Joe Jackson teamed up for a […]
23 Jul 2021
Album Review: Various Artists — Still Wish You Were Here
My standard disclaimer where tribute albums are concerned is that the concept if dodgy on its face, and that it rarely succeeds. But for every rule here is an exception, […]
10 May 2021
Album Reviews: Two featuring Fernando Perdomo
In this post-major-label era when many of the so-called barriers to entry have been swept away, the fact that a recording artist is prolific doesn’t provide a reliable indicator as […]
31 Mar 2021
With Live Concerts on Hold, Todd Rundgren Employs Technology as Something to Fall Back On
This concert review appeared previously in PROG Magazine. Sidelined by the pandemic, multigenre hero Todd Rundgren did what he often does: he looked to technology to provide human connection. And […]
30 Mar 2021
Todd Rundgren’s 1989 album ‘Nearly Human’ gets a Covid-era 2nd Wind
Even in the face of widespread venue closures, Todd Rundgren has found a way to bring live music to his fans. His run of shows had one of its final […]