Rock Legend Eddie Van Halen, Dead at 65
Maybe it’s my age, or the season of life I’m in, but my immediate reaction to the passing of Eddie Van Halen was not music
Maybe it’s my age, or the season of life I’m in, but my immediate reaction to the passing of Eddie Van Halen was not music
They’re a comedy rock band in the style of ‘80s rock. This means power ballads and slow jams, but with a comedic bent.
The Boss decided to look inward in the summer and fall of 1987 after his marriage to actress Julianne Phillips went down the shitter.
It is pretty hard for me to listen to this album and think that the world will not get any new music written by Justin Townes Earle
An mix of rock, Americana, & 70’s style soul/psychedelic rock, from start to finish Dan Auerbach’s Waiting on a Song is truly a masterpiece.
There’s been a lot of doom and gloom around as of late and I thought I’d pitch in with a couple of songs where virtually everyone dies.
I texted my good friend and told him it sounded like early Bright Eyes, but with better production and sound engineering.
After first hearing this thoroughly lovely piece, I was surprised to learn that it was written by Charles Avison, an English composer I’d never heard of.
Do you like Little Feat? The Band? Early Sir Elton John? Then you will for sure like this little band from Texas
25 years in, BT has never had an album that felt like a consolidation of strengths…just a new tentacle. This is the consolidation album.
What does a disgraced Vice President, break dancing, and an international farting contest have in common?! They are all on records on my shelves
For those of you that are unfamiliar, Spotify operates on the most unsustainable economic model in probably the known universe
With this release Bob Dylan became the first artist to chart in the Top 40 in seven consecutive decades
A lot of thrash metal just rock the f*&$ out, but a band like Pantera contains a bit more refined artistry than one would expect
There are till people that listen to mainstream country music when Ryan Bingham exists, and that is a problem that I am trying to personally remedy.
I am pretty excited to discuss this week’s spin, though. I first heard about and heard Black Pumas while watching Austin City Limits
Vanilla Ice was trending…Wait, no, that was 30 years ago. Dang. Has it been that long since I first checked out the hook while his dj revolved it?
Angels, I am told, sing in clear, pure tones. Man, on the other hand, sings in roughened, time-weathered voices.
Have you ever put on an album and it absolutely blew your mind? That is a basically what happened to me when I first heard this week’s Saturday Spin. Last week, I discussed Ryan...
Let’s talk a little bit about Ryan Adams’s Gold and why it is a landmark record.