Glam-Racket

It was thirty years ago today that AC/DC’s Highway To Hell was released. It’s hard to believe that in just a few short weeks, I will finall...

Here's the best 8 minutes you'll ever spend in your life. For those of you not familiar with the Trailer Park Boys, it's a Canad...

Centro-Matic’s only flaw may lie in their prolific output. It’s hard to focus on one achievement because the moment you do, they’re off rele...

There are moments where I don’t just feel like I’m heading for trouble with my daughter, I know it. It has nothing to do with the fact that ...

Golden Earring is the first band I that ever had a brush with greatness. It was in St. Louis, Missouri at a hotel. Our family went to breakf...

Admittedly, I’ve given the band Axe more webspace than what they’re probably entitled to, but a sidetracked visit to You Tube brought me to ...

It took a quarter century and Michael Jackson's passing before footage of the 1984 Pepsi commercial footage to finally come to, ahem, li...

Funny how the moment you hear something new from a band that’s been out of commission for a while is the moment when you realized how much y...

It’s been three years since Love Is All released their debut Nine Times The Same Song , but you’d think it’s been three weeks judging by the...

One of the things that amazed me about the Church show I saw last month was the amount of aural textures the band created with what seemed t...

Awesome video footage of Bob Nastanovich joining Poison Control Center on stage for a drunken rendition of "Two States." His wife ...

Last summer, my wife and I stumbled across the 80/35 Music Festival in Des Moines and got comped a pair of tickets at the last minute. Free ...

Oh yeah. Just finished The Devil and Daniel Johnston doc. Highly recommended. Two in a row. Here comes the obligatory opine on the subject ...

It’s not the best Springsteen album-that title probably goes to Born To Run -but The River ranks as my personal favorite. It’s the album th...

Let’s get right down to it: “Outlaw Pete,” the opening track of Bruce Springsteen’s sixteenth album Working On A Dream does sound just like...

I debated about considering this as a lost classics candidate over at Glorious Noise , but I think that it would have been a little too obsc...

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...