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Box Set Review: Talking Heads’ (3-Disc) ‘Tentative Decisions – Demos & Live’ – The Rosetta Stone of Early Heads?
ByKenneth Corsini March 10, 2026
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…
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The 2026 Rock Hall of Fame Nominees & Our Annual B&V Picks For Our Fan Ballot
ByKenneth Corsini March 6, 2026March 6, 2026
*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…
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New Song Review: Social Distortion Returns (At Last!) With “Born To Kill” Title Track To Upcoming LP, Their First In 15 Years!
ByKenneth Corsini March 3, 2026March 6, 2026
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…
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Review: Paul McCartney’s New Documentary, ‘Man On The Run’ – The Story Of Wings
ByKenneth Corsini March 1, 2026
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…
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Review: U2’s New, Earnest ‘Days Of Ash EP’ With Best Track In Years, “American Obituary”
ByKenneth Corsini February 26, 2026
“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…
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B&V’s List Of Rock N Roll’s Greatest Career Comebacks – Our Favorites
ByKenneth Corsini February 18, 2026February 18, 2026
*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…
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New Song: Black Keys Return (Already) With The Bluesy Stomp of “You Got To Lose” – Announce New LP ‘Peaches!’
ByKenneth Corsini February 15, 2026
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…
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Review: Beck Releases Wonderful “Odds & Sods” Compilation, ‘Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime’
ByKenneth Corsini February 12, 2026February 12, 2026
*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…
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Review: Joe Bonamassa Hosts ‘B.B. King’s Blues Summit 100’ – Star Studded Blues Jam “Celebrating The King Of The Blues”
ByKenneth Corsini February 9, 2026
Guitar genius Joe Bonamassa has pulled together a host of musicians to celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of blues legend B.B. King with the release of B.B. King’s Blues Summit 100, chalk full of blues guitar power and stars galore. I’ve always loved B.B. King, although I was only honored to see him…
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Bands Who Sold Out: Rockers In The 70s Who Went Soft In The 80s – The Bands Who Lost Me…
ByKenneth Corsini February 5, 2026February 9, 2026
We’re in the dog days of our miserable “winter of discontent,” if I may borrow that phrase from Shakespeare. Cold, grey days that go on seemingly endlessly. Can’t really go outside, everything is still blanketed in dirty, soot-covered snow. Typically this time of year sends me into some deep rock n roll ruminations. Last year…
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