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...

The Evolution Of Music In Online Gaming

Over the course of three decades, online gaming music has progressed from basic wobbles and chirps to become a distinct genre in its own right. The technical restrictions of...

Essential Stones: 10 Shows Over Four Decades

For as long as I have known him, Dave has loved the Rolling Stones. He has driven hundreds of miles and spent hundreds of dollars to see them. When...

Top 10 Vintage Rock Concerts Of 2016

I think we can all agree that 2016 was a banner year for concerts. And we saw and reviewed lots of them. We didn't make it to Desert Trip,...

The Cars ‘Move Like This’ For Reunion Album

By Jimmy Casey The Cars are a band that seems to be stuck in time. That span of years, for them, was relatively short but certainly helped define the musical...

Vintage Rock Film Review: George Harrison: Living In The Material World

So this Marty Scorsese guy…he might have a future in film... We all know Scorsese's background with great gritty filmmaking about the New York streets and his collaborations with Robert...

Leonard Cohen & The Catechism Of Immeasurable Delight

  Watching Leonard Cohen sing with U2 in the documentary I'm Your Man brings one a catechism of immeasurable delight, a divine connection of art and communion: Irish/Canadian, Christian/Hebrew, outward/inward,...

Don Dokken: ‘Breaking The Chains’ Of The Past, Looking Forward

Story & Live Photos by Charlie Steffens Some of the groups that reigned in the 70s and 80s — particularly those that fall into the category of "Hair Metal" —...

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...

Roy Orbison: The Monument Singles Collection (1960-1964)

By Jimmy Casey One of the first musicians I ever played in a band with had a serious appreciation of Roy Orbison. He might have mentioned it, I don't remember,...