Reviewed: 10cc Live in Birmingham UK
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Reviewed: The Cheap Cassettes “All Anxious, All The Time”
Reviewed: The Cheap Cassettes “All Anxious, All The Time” Doffing their caps to The Dead Boys, The Real Kids, & early Blondie, we ask: "Is this the best cryogenically-frozen-and-reanimated band of 2017?" Cheap Cassettes – “All Anxious, All The Time”...
White Buffalo, Black Lodge, and the best of the rest from SxSW 2017
White Buffalo, Black Lodge, and the best of the rest from SxSW 2017 Donuts, Handmaids, Veep, and lots of Twin Peaks. More, more, more things you missed at SxSW South by Southwest may have downsized since reaching critical mass a couple of years ago, but it’s not as if...
LIVE: Blackberry Smoke: Birmingham Academy, Birmingham UK April 7th, 2017
LIVE: Blackberry Smoke: Birmingham Academy, Birmingham UK April 7th, 2017 Wine, women, whiskey and a heapin helpin' of Allman Brothers worship BlackBerry Smoke: Birmingham Academy, Birmingham UK April 7th 2017 Hey Kids! Ever wished you could travel back in time to a...
Play Ball! Rocking Baseball Songs for Opening Day
Play Ball! Rocking Baseball Songs for Opening Day Amy and official Red Sox Organist Josh Kantor pick 13 home run tunes! It must finally be spring because baseball season has officially started. Baseball is not just America’s pastime, it’s also very rock n roll....
Vic Chestnutt & Sam Phillips: New Releases
Vic Chestnutt & Sam Phillips: New Releases Sour on the singer-songwriter set? A pair of new releases bring the sweetness. Does the phrase ‘singer-songwriter’ conjure up visions of overly-sensitive, overly-prim young men sitting on steps yodeling about their...
SxSW Films 2017: Five Pairs Face Off
SxSW Films 2017: Five Pairs Face Off Pairs of Fresh Rockumentaries, Documentaries, Film Noir, Women's Stories, and films about Aging Hollywood Icons face off in our SxSW movie roundup. Standing in line for my final screening of SXSW’s 2017 film program, it occurred to...
Skillz To Pay The Billz: 4 Ways to Make a Living at Rock n’ Roll
Skillz To Pay The Billz: 4 Ways to Make a Living at Rock n’ Roll When music sales get tough, the tough get going It’s hard to make it as a band these days. With streaming quickly becoming most people’s preferred method of consuming music, record...
St. Patrick’s Day Playlist: 12 Tunes to Get Your Irish On
St. Patrick’s Day Playlist: 12 Tunes to Get Your Irish On Pogues and Pugwash, Horslips and Hothouse Flowers, a dozen tracks to get jiggy with Hey, it’s St Patrick’s Day! Time for the wearin’ of the green, “Kiss Me I’m Irish” t-shirts,...
Biography: Sex Pistol Steve Jones’ “Lonely Boy”
Biography: Sex Pistol Steve Jones’ “Lonely Boy” The sex and drugs, and rock and roll swindle. The disappointing thing about “Lonely Boy” is that, Steve Jones – former Sex Pistol, thief, and alcoholic – is not articulate enough to pull off a 300-page...
Shriners + Poopfort + Rock n’ Roll: 7 Ways to Maximize Your Joy at Boise’s Treefort Music Fest
Shriners + Poopfort + Rock n’ Roll: 7 Ways to Maximize Your Joy at Boise’s Treefort Music Fest Seeking a sleepier SxSW? You’re SoL. Though now well established, Boise’s Treefort Music Fest isn’t old enough to be cynical. Like Boise itself, everything about...
