Glam-Racket

When you’re a young boy under the age of 13, free from the swell of girls, hormones, and away from the haze of teenage social ladders, you s...

It came with stickers. Awesome stickers. Stickers about Venus and Mars. And I put them on the wall of my bedroom closet. The house-which is...

When it came to singles, I was the only one in the house that had a record player. It was a hand me down, a small portable player that could...

I logged online to check my bank account when I noticed the Yahoo headline, “Amy Winehouse found dead.” The headline didn’t necessarily burn...

Did you really thing Noel Gallagher would wait a full year without shooting a cannon portside, announcing "Me too!" in the post-Oa...

No idea who came up with the name, someone should smack that person. High Flying Birds?! That's a lame Elton John song from '73, or ...

Got this in my email today. At first, I thought it was an old April Fools joke I forgot to open last spring. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Dead Ken...

I’m going to come right out and say it. I like Sebastian Bach. For most of the time he’s been around, I don’t think I had a full grasp of wh...

Is it just me, or has the week in music been dominated by the zany behavior of bass players? First of all, and I’ve struggled whether or not...

The making of the Bee Gee’s Odessa was a tumultuous one for the Brothers Gibb. Working on vague sketches of a nautical concept album, the b...

It’s hard to convince anyone at how great the Bee Gees really were because of three words: Saturday, night, and fever. But the reality is t...

I watched the documentary to Simon & Garfunkel's 40th Anniversary of Bridge Over Troubled Water -which was awesome, btw-and was comp...

There’s probably dozens of different tags that you could place on Minerva Lions’ sound, but none of them would probably stop you to take not...

Oh 38 Special, there’s a “special” place in my heart for you. You were part of the very first concert I ever saw-an event that I am currentl...

I’d never heard of Loudon Wainwright III before one summer afternoon when I was riding my JC Penny five-speed bike back home from my friend’...

Bill Callahan Live At The Blue Moose, Iowa City, Iowa June 30, 2011 Last week in Iowa, a woman was found dead in the cattle field, her toddl...

My cubicle at work sits across from the area printer. It’s less than six months old and it’s always breaking down, so I’m accustomed to peop...

Bill Callahan’s only fault may lie in his consistency. His latest solo effort, Apocalypse is neither better or worse from the last or the o...

From the same folks that brought you the Roky Erickson bobblehead and the G.G. Allin bobblehead, shield your eyes and witness the release ev...

Looking back on my youth, I remember my father getting all worked up about Neil Diamond’s Hot August Night album, declaring it to be one of ...