As I sit around in anxious pain, watching the clock in anticipation of the release of both the Stones’ (Foreign Tongues) and Jack White’s (Frozen Charlotte) new albums, I find myself cycling through my playlists. Rock music soothes the savage beast, as the saying goes. It’s either that or whiskey and this is healthier. As…
Editor’s Note: I inadvertently hit “publish” yesterday while I was trying to sketch out my initial thoughts about the framework/context of my review on U2’s new song. My apologies for the boneheaded publish/delete. If you got the two paragraph email version of those early sketched out ideas, sorry! Consider it a teaser! After releasing two…
As I sit inside my house, bemoaning our recent heat wave, loathe to go outside in the sweltering air – it feels like a blast furnace out there – I’ve been pondering the great rock n roll questions. In my defense, I’m in that excruciating waiting period between the release of the Stones’ second single,…
As if we weren’t excited enough about the upcoming new Stones album – and this one only 3 years after the superb Hackney Diamonds, vs the 18 years between new LPs prior – the band has released a new double-sided single. The new tracks are “Jealous Lover” and Divine Intervention.” The build up to the…
Every spring (during March to be exact) we look back 40 years to put together a playlist of rock songs for whatever given year that might be. This year, obviously, we looked back to 1986. As an aside, every January we do a 50-year playlist in the same manner, this year 1976. When compiling the…
As the World Cup takes over my city this month, I find myself hunkering down here in the B&V labs. It’s not that I don’t like large crowds of people, but as they say in Barfly, “I just sort of feel better when they’re not around.” Although admittedly, I’m hearing the folks from Scotland drank all the…
Mike Campbell & his Dirty Knobs have returned with a new album, Mission Of Mercy. The album was preceded by the fabulous first single “I Remember.” The Dirty Knobs have put out an album every two years since their debut Wreckless Abandon in 2020, including External Combustion in 2022 and Vagabonds, Virgins, & Misfits in 2024. I had…
*Image of documentary poster taken from the internet and likely copyrighted I was flipping around the different apps last night, looking for something to watch, when up popped a rockumentary entitled The Rise Of The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel. On doing some research I found out that this thing came out in March of…
While I was out for summer vacation traveling with family and subsequently subsumed in Paul McCartney’s new album The Boys of Dungeon Lane, Neil Young released a live album recorded with his latest backing band The Chrome Hearts entitled As Time Explodes: Live Album. The material on this album, I believe, was captured on Neil and…
Don’t pay the ransom! While I stepped away from B&V for a minute on summer vacation – my last post was, gads, May 26th (Playlist: Desperados, Outlaws & Criminals) – rock n roll legend Paul McCartney released his new album, The Boys Of Dungeon Lane. It was preceded by the single “Days We Left Behind” a few…