Glam-Racket

Hailing from rural Pennsylvania and sporting one of the weirdest band names since The Flaming Lips (a band they’re opening for this fall), B...

It’s quite possible that the worst Bob Dylan album of all time is the one in which he joined up with the Grateful Dead for the Dylan & t...

Shredding? Check. Kick Triplets? Check. Murmaider sequel? Check. Yes, Dethalbum II is similar in many ways to its predecessor and it packs ...

Do you want to know why people don’t listen to the radio anymore? Because there’s no personalities, there’s no distinction between one stati...

True story: I was messing around online at work and I noticed that the number one search item for a few hours today was Soupy Sales. What on...

I wish I could adequately tell you how awesome my hometown was growing up. It had its share of typical small town bullshit, but there was mo...

Check out this late night finds. A pair of hit singles from the 1910 Fruitgum Co. Who are these guys? One of the originators of bubblegum mu...

The waiver has been signed, so this may be my last post ever. With any luck, I will die from scalding hit Duncan Hills coffee being poured o...

I’m going to confess that, while I was waiting for the release of Mastodon’s Crack The Skye , I totally immersed myself in Kylesa’s Static T...

It’s a shame that the Get Up Kids are-at this moment-pegged with an image problem. And how ironic is it that while this image problem is in ...

On the band’s fourth full-length (fifth if you count Call Of The Mastodon ) Atlanta’s Mastodon make an album that will finally test the pati...

Cedar Rapids has been in the news from the flood of ’08 and the presidential elections from last year, our town has been quietly absent from...

I don’t know if this is confession or an incredible source of pride for me, but until right now , I had no idea that the song on one of thos...

One of the coolest things that my father ever did for me was to hook up and FM antenna that I got for free, on the ceiling of our attic and ...

Who the fuck schedules a medical procedure when the band is on a world tour? Brian Fucking Johnson, that’s who! Yeah, I’m a little ticked th...

Mohair Pear may be the last remanent of old-school awesomeness on The Hill in Cedar Falls. It's been a while, but whenever I'm in th...

I’ve written at length at how completely influential this band was to my own creative development, so why not shell out a few extra clams th...

It wasn’t that long ago when Karin Dreijer Andersson, one-half of the duo The Knife, was blessed with the kind of praise that most independe...

My cousin and I were also talking about the individual Beatles, specifically how annoying the Ringo songs were. I mean, God love him, he’s a...

Aside from some Queen and a brief period of IPod shuffling, the weekend has been all about the Beatles. At nearly every big box retail outle...