Rolling Stone — Photo: Kelly A. Swift/Retna After four decades, Astral Weeks is still the sweetest slice of mystery in Van Morrison’s catalog, but until this past weekend, Morrison had never performed the album live. (Speaking recently with David Wild in Rolling S... more info

Undercover, Australia — Van Morrison`s eagerly awaited live performance of his classic `Astral Weeks` album took place on the weekend to rave reviews but a small crowd. more info

All About Jazz — For anyone who wasn't at the Hollywood Bowl on Friday night, there'd be little chance of explaining how Van Morrison's repetition of one seemingly innocuous sentence -- "This is a train" -- could turn into a deeply spiritual incantation. But transc... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — For anyone who wasn't at the Hollywood Bowl on Friday night, there'd be little chance of explaining how Van Morrison's repetition of one seemingly innocuous sentence more info

Rolling Stone — Photo: Rivas/AFP/Getty When Van Morrison’s second solo album, Astral Weeks, hit shelves in 1968, it was a commercial failure. But in the following decades, the mystical-themed album has become one of Morrison’s most beloved, influencing everyone ... more info

All About Jazz — Van Morrison discusses Astral Weeks, which he'll perform at the Hollywood Bowl If necessity is the mother of invention, it might follow that desperation is the father of inspiration. That was certainly the case 40 years ago, when Belfast-bred blue... more info

Guardian Music — In the early Sixties the young George Ivan Morrison briefly played saxophone in a Belfast showband called the Olympics. Once, before a gig in Derry, the band's minibus pulled up outside his house on Hyndford Street, east Belfast and lead singer Alfie... more info

Guardian Music — Having just listened to Van Morrison's 'Astral Weeks' over and over again last week while writing about it for the Observer Review, I am more convinced than ever of its unassailable greatness. Nothing in popular music compares with it in terms of it... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — With a two-night Hollywood Bowl stand next week, he muses on the 'poetry and mythical musings' of a classic. If necessity is the mother of invention, it might follow that desperation i... more info

Paste Magazine — Singer/songwriter wears influences on sleeves, pant legs, headband, socks… The temptation is to dismiss Brett Dennen as the sort of derivative ’70s-style singer/songwriter that serves as triple-A radio’s foundation. But maybe the way to lo... more info