The King is Dead… It Ain’t Nice To Wake the Dead
The King in better days...when he was alive!
by Shawn Perry
August 16, 1997 - Twenty years ago, Elvis Aaron Presley stopped breathing and seemingly fell off the throne of his...
Top 11 Vintage Rock Studio Albums Of 2016
Love it or leave it, the studio ''album" lives on in an age of downloading, streaming and attention span deficiencies. 2016 had enough nuggets to keep the trend going,...
Slim Jim Phantom Talks Up 40, First Stray Cats Album In 26 Years
Story by Shawn Perry
There is little argument that, in the midst of the new wave surge of the early 1980s, the Stray Cats single-handedly brought rockabilly back from its...
Top 10 Vintage Rock Studio Albums Of 2020
To say 2020 has been an unusually tough year is a vast understatement. You'll get little argument from anyone that it pretty much sucked. There was, however , a...
The Psychedelic Sounds of San Francisco
by Dave Gardner
The late sixties was surely a peak in the short history of Vintage Rock. Perhaps there was no better location to spring forth the exuberant sounds that...
A Farewell To The Unknown Man (In Remembrance Of Vangelis)
By Ira Kantor
His photos depict a bear of a man with a steely eyed gaze looking as if the last thing he wants to do is speak.
But there’s a...
Why Playing Viola Is A Great Pastime
The viola, which is known to be the bigger counterpart of a violin, is one of the most recognizable instruments in the orchestra. Though its seemingly larger size may...
Burt Sugarman & Mark Goodman Shine A Light On The Midnight Special
By Ralph Greco, Jr. & Shawn Perry
Promoting the release of the famed 1970s late night TV show, The Midnight Special, on DVD, producer Burt Sugarman and Mark Goodman, former...
Falling Under The Spell Of The Mighty Zep
By Carl Cunningham
In the crowded world of classic heavy metal and hard rock, there was none harder and heavier than Britain's Led Zeppelin.Since their formation in 1968 as an...
Remembering Ric Ocasek: New Wave’s “Magic” Man
By Ira Kantor
He wasn’t sexy or flashy. In fact, he was more praying mantis in look and demeanor. Yet the second Ric Ocasek’s monotonal vocals pronounced the phrase “Let...
