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...
The Immediate Family: Enduring Hardship With Music And Old Friends
By Shawn Perry
The coronavirus pandemic devouring the world as we know it in 2020 will likely be remembered for what it has changed — especially the things that human...
Best Vintage Rock Studio Albums Of 2014
Love it or leave it, the studio ''album" lives on in an age of downloading, streaming and attention span deficiencies. And 2014 had enough nuggets to keep the trend...
Kind Of Blue For The Ages: A Miles Davis Musical Milestone
By Shawn Perry
Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue was recorded in the spring of 1959, over two sessions — one on March 2 and the other on April 22. I...
John Waite | The Hard Way – Film Review
It’s no secret the pandemic and the lockdown established in its wake caused a major disruption to many lives. For musicians who tour for a living, it was a...
Tribute To Meat Loaf: Paradise By The Dashboard Light
By Ralph Greco, Jr.
Dr. Emmett Brown, the character from Back To The Future played by Christopher Lloyd, famously says at one point in the film series: “You’re gonna see...
Chris Spedding & King Mob Are Ready To Rock Your World
By Ralph Greco, Jr.
In a band made up of such rock and roll stalwarts as guitar legend Chris Spedding, Pretenders drummer Martin Chambers, Stephen W. ‘Snips’ Parsons (vocalist with...
Best Vintage Rock Box Sets Of 2014
CD sales continue to decline, but that hasn’t stopped the majors from releasing extravagant multi-disc box sets, often priced at $100 or more. Once again, a flood of box...
Why The Yardbirds Will Always Matter
Story by Shawn Perry
Photos by Ron Lyon
Unlike other first-string British invaders like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who and the Kinks, there was little controversy surrounding the...
RIP Neil Peart: Rock’s New-World Man
By Ira Kantor
Neil Peart made rock and roll stoicism its own kind of virtuosity.
If we were to look at the Rush drummer compared to other legendary luminaries like Keith...
