As I mentioned in my previous post on Depeche Mode’s newly released (stunning) cover song “Universal Soldier” from the charity LP Help(2), I find songs through strange sources these days. In the early days of my rock n roll obsession I need only turn on my local radio station, good ol’ KY/102 to find new music. Many…
It’s weird how I find new music these days. Back when I was in high school, I typically eschewed the company of my family (I thought they were lame, after all). I’d retreat to my room and if I didn’t have homework to labor over I’d turn on the radio. If there was new stuff…
I spent the weekend holed up with the new Talking Heads’ archival release, Tentative Decisions – Demos & Live, a 3 disc retrospective visiting their early days – the pre Jerry Harrison days – with (as the title would suggest) demos and live stuff from 1975 up to their debut in 1977, Talking Heads: 77. It’s…
*Image above of the Rock Hall of Fame taken from the internet and likely subject to copyright With every passing year the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame, aka the Rock Hall, becomes less relevant to fans. It’s really a Pop music hall of fame if we’re being honest. Maybe that’s why rock fans, who…
While I was on vacation last week, venerable punk rock/cowpunk band Social Distortion from Southern California put out their first new song in… checks notes… 15 years. They’ve also announced a new album and this newly released song is the title track, “Born To Kill.” Fifteen years is a long time between albums and puts…
While I remain way behind on posting about recent rock n roll developments due to a brief vacation with the Rock Chick (at least I’ve got the U2’s new EP review up), I paused in catching up to watch Paul McCartney’s new documentary/rockumentary about his early solo career last night. There is a bunch of…
“The power of the people is so much stronger than the people in power” – U2, “American Obituary” As often happens, I hit the “publish” button on our latest post about our “favorite rock n roll comebacks,” only to discover that U2 had released a new EP on Ash Wednesday, Days Of Ash EP. I…
*Photo taken by your intrepid blogger includes Dylan’s ‘Time Out Of Mind,’ Neil Young’s ‘Freedom’ and McCartney’s ‘Memory Almost Full’ I think we all love a good comeback story. Our hero faces a setback and battles through it to regain his footing atop the mountain, so to speak. I know the comeback is big in…
While I spent most of February obsessing over 70s bands who sold out in the 80s, the Joe Bonamassa helmed B.B. King’s Blues Summit 100, and Beck’s new compilation of rarities, Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime the Black Keys snuck out a new song. I’m not sure how I didn’t catch this earlier? But on February 5th, the Black…
*Image taken from the internet and likely copyrighted Funky troubadour and B&V favorite Beck has released what I can only describe as an “Odds & Sods” collection of previously released tracks under the title Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime. The album’s collection of songs, many of which are cover tunes, are songs that have been released as…