Glam-Racket

Walking to the vinyl section of the Record Collector , a strange cover caught my eye. It was a picture of two men dressed in white, stand...

A few weeks ago, That Metal Show host Eddie Trunk referred to a band that I had never heard before, Riot. I take what Trunk says with a grai...

No Iowa dates. Bummer. There's nothing better in winter than hot pop wax. Speaking of: "The Lonely Forest will head out with Portug...

J. looks totally awesome with his white hair and full-on beard, and when you throw a full on rendition of Bug to boot, this is bound to be a...

Back home, we'd call them "coneys." Cinderella just calls 'em a paycheck. True story: My Mom managed a womens clothing sto...

My old man had this on 8-track. It was me that played the piss out of it until the tape broke. No more James Gang Thirds until my mother in...

One of the most metal moments in rock history occurred thirty years ago in my home state of Iowa. Tonight is the night that Ozzy Osbourne ta...

The first mistake Barack Obama made during his first term as President of the United States is not invite Etta James to sing her signature s...

A long forgotten quintet from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Map Of The World swindled one six-song e.p. from Atlantic records at the tail end of 1989...

No wonder Jack Rabid named a magazine after this song. I have no doubts after watching this video that seeing Bad Brains during this time pe...

It used to be that concerts were dangerous. Believe it or not, we read those articles where the cops were called to Black Flag shows. It was...

I'm posting this so that I can come back to it and watch it in its entirety. Or before Greg Ginn goes and orders it be taken down. It...

“Who can I trust?!” Damian Abraham screams repeatedly towards the end of “Life In Paper”, one of several great tracks found on Fucked Up’s l...

There’s nothing wrong with Fucked Up, but I’ll be damned if I can find anything great. The issue for me is-and has always been-that I immedi...

Some words on the song that's been going through my head today, because it is the Epiphany. We went to our annual Epiphany celebration o...

We’ve reached the end of this Iowa caucus season, and it’s weird sitting on the sidelines as a registered Democrat, watching the GOP make a ...

This year kind of snuck on by me. While certainly not the best year in recent memory, a quick check of my jpeg file indicates a healthy amou...

When it was announced that Sammy Hagar would be taking over the lead vocalist position in Van Halen, David Lee Roth made an observant statem...

Lots of open dates, and that troubles me. Michael isn't known much for his ability to follow through on lengthy travels through the U.S....