*Photo taken by your intrepid blogger I found myself wandering the house this week, looking for any distraction I could find from the rather grim stuff happening in the world right now. Especially since my Artemis II buzz wore off. I found myself standing in the B&V Labs (aka my listening room) and staring “with…
“Tell me a story, I don’t care if it’s true…” – Ringo Starr, “Returning Without Tears” Ringo Starr has returned with his second T Bone Burnett produced LP in a row, Long Long Road. This of course, follows Ringo’s fabulous album Look Up which came in January of 2025. I’d call this streak a comeback, but as LL Cool…
*Image of Artemis II’s photo of the Earth taken from the internet & likely copyrighted We are living in, arguably, some pretty dark times. Every day the news brings more – for lack of a better word – crappy news. But in the midst of all the darkness being caused by evil, greedy, corrupt men,…
“You people are as great as ever, I tell you…” – Gregg Allman, Great As Ever One of our all time favorite rock n roll/blues rock/blues singers, Gregg Allman, has recently released another in a string of three archival live LPs under The Gregg Allman Band moniker, this one is Great As Ever – Live In Philadelphia…
(Title is an obvious nod to the brilliant Hunger S. Thompson) Emboldened by the success I’d had running down to my local renown record store and snagging a copy of the Stones’ new vinyl-only single “Rough And Twisted,” I decided to dip my toe back into Record Store Day this morning. It had been years…
“I remember, I still remember, I still remember you…when the night turns still…” – Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs, “I Remember” I had no sooner posted my latest on Michael Stipe’s new single “I Played The Fool” that he’s done in collaboration with Andrew Watt, than I saw that erstwhile lead guitarist of Tom…
I am, as I’ve admitted in these pages, a bit of a music obsessive. When I was young it used to actually piss me off when a new album slipped past me. Well, it would only rile me in a mild way… I had other things to be pissed about as a teenager (didn’t we…
The rumors of a new Stones album, the follow-up to the wonderful late career Hackney Diamonds in 2023, have been flying around for a while now. Hackney was their first album in 18 years so to think after only three years we’d see another LP coming out was almost far fetched only a few years ago. But then…
Well, I finally settled in and watched the new rockumentary Billy Idol Should Be Dead this weekend. It was released theatrically last year (2025) and I believe has just recently been made available for streaming. I have to say, having now seen this documentary, yes, Billy Idol should be dead. Thank the universe that he isn’t!…
After surprising and delighting me with the release of Days Of Ash EP on, as you would guess, Ash Wednesday this year, U2 have returned (already!) with a second surprise release, Easter Lily EP which came out on Good Friday. I considered writing about this immediately on Friday, but got a little sidetracked with the two…