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...

Bands You Should Know But May Never Heard: Flash

By Henry "Dixie" Howard What do you do when you're ousted from one of England's most prominent progressive rock bands? You strike out (or come back) by forming your own...

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...

Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame (2007)

2007 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: The Politics Of Induction For Patti Smith Upon Her Induction Into The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame ...

Essential Blues: 10 Must-Have Collections For The Vintage Rocker

To quote Muddy Waters, "The blues had a baby, and they named it rock and roll." While most fans of the latter are generally aware of this fact, it's...

How We Killed Classic Rock Or The Idiot Killed Radio’s Star

By Ralph Greco, Jr. OK, I’ll admit it here and now — with very few exceptions do I purchase, listen to, or enjoy new music artists. I hear the term...

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,...

Feature Article: C’est La Vie ELP

By Shawn Perry On September 9, 1998, Emerson, Lake & Palmer played their last show together. I was sitting four rows away from them, in the cozy confines of the...

The Great Band Scandal

By Ralph Greco, Jr. Here’s a question that may be on nobody’s mind but mine: Just who is left of the original “beach boys” in The Beach Boys? The 60s...

Modern Gems For The Vintage Rocker

To quote a very good friend of mine from Indiana, who happens to be white: “Buenos tacos everyone.” Welcome to Modern Gems, a new column on finding those new,...