The Difference Between Modern Vinyl Records & The Old Ones

Music is a part of our lives. There are lots of professional singers, composers, musicians, and other enthusiasts who can’t imagine their lives without it. Moreover, there are lots...

2013 NAMM Show Photos: Media Day

January 23, 2013 Anaheim, CA Photos by John Peresada

This Town (Still) Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us: Why Sparks’ ‘Kimono My...

By Ira Kantor You’re instantly hooked in by the album’s opening notes — a keyboard ostinato that sounds like something out of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus. A...

Uriah Heep’s Mick Box: Last Man Standing

Story by Shawn Perry Photos by Joe Schaeffer, Charlie Steffens & Richard Stow For the last 50 years, Mick Box has had one job: playing guitar for Uriah Heep. He's also...

Best Of Rock: Seven Things Taken For Granted

By Ralph Greco, Jr. A woefully subjective-in-no-way-conclusive-completely-unscientific listing of those moments in rock music, whether intentional or accidental, that stir men’s souls and cause women’s skirts to inch-up so suggestively...

Best Vintage Rock Concerts Of 2013

What a year for concerts! The Rolling Stones, the Who, Fleetwood Mac and Black Sabbath all returned for huge tours after years of inactivity. Heart & Jason Bonham teamed...

Best Of Rock: 10 Songs I Really Do Like…But Don’t Need To Hear Again

By Ralph Greco, Jr.   All bands have ‘em. They are those super-duper popular tunes that either broke a group to a mainstream audience, have been co-opted for commercials or are...

Conversations with the Masters: The VintageRock.com Interviews on Kindle

The first edition of Conversations with the Masters: The VintageRock.com Interviews was released in 2017 as a limited-edition coffee-table book. Sadly, the first edition is no longer available. Now, the...

Best Of Rock: 10 Great Rock N’ Roll Moments Of The 1980s

Best Of Rock: 10 Great Rock N' Roll Moments Of The 1980s By Ralph Greco, Jr.   Granted, for a Vintage Rock guy like me there weren’t that many great rock and roll moments...

Best Of Rock: 10 Lyrics That Rattle The Brain

Best Of Rock: 10 Lyrics That Rattle The Brain By Ralph Greco, Jr. Being in these jaded years of my late thirties — so late that I am 48 — I...