Glam-Racket

Following the pop tart approach initiated on The Con , Tegan & Sara’s latest ( Sainthood ) continues the tradition of New Wave gloss t...

What follows is a letter that I sent this past week to the corporate headquarters of Live Nation Entertainment, the newly merged company of ...

Southeast Iowa wasn’t a bad place to grow up in the first half of the 1980’s. We made our own fun most of the time, were fortunate enough to...

Quick question: Can you imagine Cheap Trick without Bun E Carlos? Of course you can’t. He is an intricate part of the band, not only in term...

That’s a framed picture of Johnny Cash giving the bird. It’s on the wall in the storage room of my basement, a casualty of the kids, the in-...

To call it a cash-in would be a bit of a disservice since 1.) nobody really buys cds anymore and 2.) those that still do are faced with dimi...

The worry for me is that the Pavement reunion will all but overshadow the new Spiral Stairs album, The Real Feel . Hopefully, the opposite w...

A few years ago, one of the members of Mission of Burma hinted that the band realistically had a few years left before calling it a day. The...

What people forget with Quiet Riot’s Metal Health album is that it is really the band’s third album. The band’s first two were only release...

I hate to break it to the kids, but I don’t share your enthusiasm for Hall and Oates . I suppose that nostalgia should make me a prime candi...

There's nothing cool about the passing of Alex Chilton and many fans are continuing to make sense of a legendary performer taken from us...

My sophomore year in college was the first year I discovered Alex Chilton. It was the The Replacements album Pleased To Meet Me and the tun...

I wouldn’t go and say that I’m a fan of all forms of reality television, but I do love a good trainwreck-specifically the fallen stars of en...

It pains me to admit this but I haven’t bought a cd in quite a while. I received some great discs for Christmas because my awesome mother-in...

This has been big news lately, but I haven’t spoken about it because I’m not really a fan of OK Go’s music. I guess you could call me a fan ...

If you’ve never heard Sparklehorse’s It’s A Wonderful Life , go out and get it right now. Same thing for Good Morning Spider . Both are said...

Here we go again-one of Iowa’s most historic venues is closing, only to re-open again in a few days under a different name (maybe) and under...

You have to understand that music is a constant companion in our home. Sometimes it’s played in solitude through the earbuds of an Ipod. Som...

We should be preparing for the grunge revival right about now, so what’s with the influx of bands during the past few years that seem to foc...

I think a good way to determine if you’d enjoy Richard Hawley’s Truelove’s Gutter , the former Pulp guitarist’s fifth solo release, is to re...