Glam-Racket

It started with the title. God bless ‘em for wanting to do it their way, or specifically Britt Daniel’s, but the shitty title is something t...

Not only was Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band released forty years ago, but so did the rumors that Paul McCartney had died as well....

Holy shit, Julian Cope turned 50 years old. Clearly, that is a sign that a higher being (pun intended) is responsible for making sure Cope c...

Thirty years ago this week, Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines, and Dean Kilpatrick died when their band's plane crashed in Mc...

I’m not very good at nursery rhymes. My wife is: in a heartbeat she’s croonin’ “You Are My Sunshine” perfectly in key while I get the lyrics...

I was checking out some raunchy old-man-on-teen-girl porn when the laptop tried out a nifty virus that’s pretty elusive and protective. Prot...

Here’s a prime example of what happens when record store employees who have no business recommending music, actually do so and when stupid r...

It goes without saying that the road of record companies is littered with talented artists unceremoniously dropped due to shifting prioritie...

I'm sure that everyone who attended The Rolling Stones performance at the L.A. Coliseum on October 11, 1981 now claims that the greeted ...

Out of any rock star’s birthday, I can only claim to remember one without looking or reminders. John Lennon’s birthday is days away from my ...

How utterly sad and pathetic is it that I'm acknowledging my own birthday on this blog? Fairly, but I come bearing a true Totale tale th...

And here I thought that Ronnie James Dio was this tiny, nice dude who always seemed to speak with an important delivery like he was way awar...

Visiting the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was an awesome experience, and it's important to consider the Hall based entirely on the exhibit...

Jesus Christ, this is horrific. While I was getting all smartassy about the Van Halen tour rehearsals, out pops a You Tube of the real live ...

I’m now officially out of my “I could tolerate seeing Van Halen with David Lee Roth phase and it only took one glimpse of the rehearsal vide...

It’s official. Thanks to the stunningly mediocre Our Love To Admire , the final New York band from the Class of 01 released an album that fa...

Seven years ago, Blonde Redhead made their transition from no-wave revisionists to more accessible art rockers with their album Melody Of Ce...

I saw some fucked up shit during my time in radio (seeing Question Mark’s tighty whities bunched over the waistband of his gold lamé pants),...

Not only did I go through 2, count ‘em, two copies of Jane’s Addiction’s Nothing’s Shocking when it was released, I started looking for sim...

Before Okkervil River’s set at The Picador in Iowa City Saturday night, the band (including opener Damien Jurado ) set up their wares at a ...