The twangy grandeur of Zal Yanovsky’s big guitar riff on the Lovin’ Spoonful’s You Didn’t Have to Be So Nice made it a Top 10 hit in the winter of 1965-’66. The track also caught the ear of Brian ...

Is it wrong to invoke a John Sebastian solo tune — “Welcome Back” — to welcome back the Lovin’ Spoonful this weekend, at a Los Angeles show, for the first time in decades? It is wrong, in Sebastian’s ...

Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider were the co-creators of The Monkees. The band has long been compared to The Beatles. During a 2012 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Rafelson discussed how the ...

If you heard a collective gasp a few months back, it was probably just music fans reacting to the announcement that this year's Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductees include The Lovin' Spoonful. While ...

With their striped shirts, shaggy hair, granny glasses and string of hits, The Lovin' Spoonful were akin to an American Beatles. But where The Beatles drew on American rock 'n' roll of the 1950s, the ...

John Sebastian and Val Yanofsky, who became the artistic twin poles of The Lovin’ Spoonful, earned their musical stripes within the folk scene in Greenwich Village in New York City. The time was the ...

Motown was a significant influence on a number of classic rock bands. For example, two Supremes songs inspired The Lovin’ Spoonful’s “Daydream.” Notably, it was difficult to put the latter song ...

February is shaping up to be quite a month for concerts-goers, as artists from all corners of the music world descend on the Lehigh Valley. From a King of Pop retrospective and an ‘80s hair-metal ...

A reunion of three original members was just part of an epic L.A. show that also had Sebastian acting as a sideman to guest artists. This was John Sebastian, leaving the Alex Theatre in Glendale early ...

On Saturday, the annual Wild Honey benefit will take place at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, raising money for the Autism Think Tank and paying tribute to the Lovin’ Spoonful. We spoke to Wild Honey’s ...