News Of The World: Rocker’s Irregularly Updated Music News Roundup
by Erin Amar | Jun 3, 2012 | All Stories, Music, Music Reviews | 0 comments
News Of The World: Rocker’s Irregularly Updated Music News Roundup (Aging) punk (rockers) still scare people:In Bath England, the local city council got their knickers in a twist over a proposed punk festival planned for the Queen’s Jubilee Weekend, June 2-4. ...Guns N Roses Live: Too Much Of A Good Thing
by Keith Valcourt | Apr 13, 2012 | All Stories, Music, Music Reviews | 0 comments
Guns N Roses Live: Too Much Of A Good Thing There are certain invitations you can’t turn down, and a pair of free tickets to witness Guns N Roses live at a smaller theater is high on the list. Even on a Sunday night. Not to say my going wasn’t full of...Thomas Dolby vs. Howard Jones
by Keith Valcourt | Mar 11, 2012 | All Stories, Music, Music Reviews | 0 comments
Thomas Dolby vs. Howard Jones For only one night in Los Angeles! The big event! In this corner Howard Jones, the mainstream prince of electronic piano pop and the man behind the mega hits “What Is Love?’, “Things Can Only Get Better” and “Everlasting Love”...Barry Adamson Tries to Set You Free
by J. Michael Whalen | Feb 17, 2012 | All Stories, Music, Music Reviews | 0 comments
Barry Adamson Tries to Set You Free Barry Adamson, formerly of Magazine, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, and Visage, has been consistently producing moody, sometimes sleazy and generally engaging solo recordings since the late 1980s. This year Adamson celebrated...Live: Different Decade Same Truth, Van Halen Remains Hard Rock’s Greatest Band!
by Keith Valcourt | Feb 7, 2012 | All Stories, Music, Music Reviews | 0 comments
Live: Different Decade Same Truth, Van Halen Remains Hard Rock’s Greatest Band! The last time a new Van Halen record featured David Lee Roth as the lead singer Ronald Reagan was in the White House, The A-Team was on TV and I spent my nights worrying about acne...Ben Folds: The Best Imitation of Myself: A Retrospective
by Don Fluckinger | Jan 20, 2012 | All Stories, Music, Music Reviews | 0 comments
Ben Folds: The Best Imitation of Myself: A Retrospective Think we’re at a musical low tide now? In December 1997, I’d become a jaded, beaten-down critic, having given up on rock for the moment and permanently given up on music writing for a career. It paid shit, plain...Vinyl, CD, MP3, Cassette,… which sounds best? Ask The Producer!
by Will Kennedy | Nov 30, 2011 | All Stories, Music, Music Reviews | 9 comments
Vinyl, CD, MP3, Cassette,… which sounds best? Ask The Producer! Q.: With so many different formats of recorded music to choose from (mp3, vinyl, CD, AAC, FLAC, .WAV, .AIFF), how do I know which one sounds closest to what the artist originally intended? A: This...Alice Cooper: Welcome 2 My Nightmare
by J. Michael Whalen | Oct 27, 2011 | All Stories, Music, Music Reviews | 0 comments
Alice Cooper: Welcome 2 My Nightmare When I heard Alice Cooper was releasing an album called Welcome 2 My Nightmare, I cringed. The first thing that came to mind was Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell, the disappointing 1993 sequel to Meat’s 1977...Styx: Regeneration I and II
by Erin Amar | Sep 27, 2011 | All Stories, Music, Music Reviews | 4 comments
It might just be a youth spent growing up in southern New Hampshire, but Styx is the kind of band I find it embarrassing to suggest publicly you might enjoy. While the group’s early work could be considered a weak Midwestern imitation of Queen,...Nick Lowe: The Old Magic
by Joe Gallo | Sep 1, 2011 | All Stories, Music, Music Reviews | 0 comments
There’s nothing heady about Nick Lowe. He used to be the master of the 3-minute pop song, and having written a stack of tunes worthy of Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, and George Jones he’s now the master of the 3-minute heartbroken ballad. As with the best...Steve Kilbey & Ricky Maymi Present: David Neil ‘The Wilderness Years’ – Live at Lizotte's, Sydney
by Sharon Daniel | Aug 22, 2011 | All Stories, Music, Music Reviews | 0 comments
Having listened to The Church’s Steve Kilbey for 30 years, the prospect of seeing him live at one of Sydney’s renowned dinner/music restaurants was something not to be missed. Tucked away up a small flight of stairs, the venue is a music lover’s dream....
