Glam-Racket

I was high when I reviewed the last Animal Collective album. Not that it changes what I ultimately thought about the album…it stands up incr...

Probably the only subtle thing about Amanda Palmer’s debut solo album is its cheeky reference to Twin Peaks in the title, Who Killed Amanda...

I suppose it’s time to official acknowledge the death of Michael Jackson. I avoided it because 1.) I’m still sick of Thriller and 2.) He’s a...

Back home. Arrived late last night after a meeting with Ann & Nancy Wilson. We left the kids with the Grandparents in Des Moines while w...

It’s a two-parter. First of all, thanks to my cousin for getting that woeful piece of shit “Midnight Maniac” by the Swiss band Krokus stuck ...

Let me say this, if you have kids and they’re under the age of three, do yourself a favor and don’t even bother going on a family vacation. ...

Here’s a riddle: what do you get when you’re a wheel, the sun, black, white, the day and the night? Answer: you get “The Man Of The Silver M...

It made me cry. Even though I knew what the outcome would be, I struggled to hold back tears. All of the praise that New York Doll has rece...

What the fuck is Poison doing at the Tony awards anyway? Do we need a musical about 80's hair metal? Not to sound callous, but there’s n...

Best Colonial Lanes story: Me, another friend name Todd and a mutual friend named Katie all decided to go bowling. On the way to Colonial La...

Family Man is the “White Album” of Black Flag releases. It’s an e.p., I know, but work with me here. It’s the first Flag release that demon...

She picked ‘Koko” because she loved chocolate. We picked Koko because she embodied what the ‘Queen of the Blues” should be: fiercely indepen...

Reunion albums-like reunion tours or any other event where the boys get back together-shouldn’t be rocket science. It should be a gathering ...

They’re using the old theme song. Good for them, it rocks. They’ve got an art deco set. Good for them, it rocks. They’ve got Andy Richter ba...

I finally watched Anton Corbijn’s Control last night. It was better than I expected. At the end of the day, I would put it in the same cate...

Probably the best in-store appearance footage ever. A fat, middle aged dude nearly looses it at a recent record signing in San Bernadino , C...

The idea of a band performing one of their classic albums live and in its entirety is a novel one and something I enjoy immensely. I have tw...

My copy of Deerhunter’s Microcastle came with a bonus disc, Weird Era Cont. I spun Microcastle a few times, fell in love with it, and in t...

The running gag may be the notion that Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox is somehow recoiling from the “fame” that all of the critical praise...

Jay Bennett certainly was not very flattering in I Am Going To Break Your Heart . The constant bitching, ill advised comments (“easy rockers...