It’s 1978. I’m 20 years old, living in a log cabin in the East Mountains. A few miles away on South 14 stands [...]

It was the year 2000. Kurt Cobain was six years dead. “Alternative rock”—the self-appointed “successor” to punk—was shifting. There were still plenty of [...]

“Supergroup.” That term is derived from the 1968 LP Super Session—featuring Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield and Stephen Stills—and it’s used to describe a [...]

It’s difficult to believe that releasing a CD is essentially an anachronism. Can uploading a collection of different bands be rightfully called a [...]

They rock, they shred, and they melt faces. In this regard they are tireless. However, the members of Mother Death Queen are not [...]

What, again with the obscure comparisons? Yeah, it’s the music writer’s stock-in-trade because we really can’t say much besides asinine things like “soaring [...]

Here was a “news” item that I lost interest in as soon as it happened. And with its ultimate outcome being decided by [...]

Pick a review of Cults—any review—and you’ll find references to girl groups and walls of sound. Umm … no. Comments like these tell [...]

I hate cover bands. Or, more accurately, I hate the raison d’être and demand for cover bands, an unimaginative audience that is only [...]

With all the events happening at the inaugural Rockabilly on the Route weekender—the Wheels on 66 Classic Car Show, the Route 66 Burnout, [...]