Announcements and reviews about new music
The history of Australia’s AC/DC can be divided into WBS and ABS: Their early history with lead singer Bon Scott (With Bon Scott) and the rest of their career after his untimely death in February of 1980 (After Bon Scott). The time WBS covered a mere seven years but laid a foundation strong enough […]
A special pre-album release review: April of 2019 will see Happy Growl Records release a 2-CD set by Kenny Baldwin’s band Locate Your Lips. Kenny was a drummer with Tony Williams-like jazz – fusion aspirations, but he also had a regular music gig as the owner of a Milwaukee punk rock club called […]
Looking back over the past fifty years of rock music, a lot of great bands have come and gone. A few of them became gigantically successful and, amazingly, some are still out there rocking. Back when The Who sang, “I hope I die before I get old”, odds are that none of the bands populating […]
Is Classic Rock Magazine obsessed with Deep Purple? In an early summer of 2018 issue, they included a bonus CD with the majority of the tracks having some connection to Deep Purple’s own label, Purple Records. This came on the heels of of earlier issues of CRM that focused on the current state of the […]
No, I am not talking about the TV show Better Call Saul. I am talking about Saul Hudson. Don’t ask me why, but I have always been fascinated with the real names of actors and musicians who are better known by their stage names. Take Peter Horlebeeke, the singing drummer for one of Michigan’s […]
The Arndt’s are at it again – they sent us a copy of their newest record The Fun in the Fight and we will be spinning it along with all the other great music they have sent us in the past. Jocelyn and Chris send out the greatest SWAG packages (usually food) but that isn’t why […]
Memories are those things that sometimes pop into one’s head in a seemingly random manner, but there is just something about music that tends to trigger very specific memories in my brain. When others refer to ‘the soundtrack of their life’, it makes me think of things that I associate with certain songs. For […]
Near the end of my time with the band Knockdown, Lee the bass player loaned me a copy of an album called Medusa by an English band called Trapeze. He mentioned something about wanting to learn some of their songs, but a few months later, we played our last gigs before Ray the guitar […]
We last visited Joe Bonamassa-land after the release of his 2016 album Blues of Desperation (FTV: Joe’s Blues 5-4-2016). At that time, we found Bonamassa riding the crest of a wave of creativity that saw him releasing multiple live CD/DVD packages of his own work (Live at Royale Albert Hall and Live at Radio City […]
Bruce Iglauer isn’t exactly a household name. If one isn’t a blues music fan, Alligator Records probably won’t ring many bells either. During the past couple of years, there has been a profound transition in the music business and Alligator Records is, by Iglauer’s estimation, lucky to still be hanging around at all, let […]