Best Of Rock: 10 Rock & Roll TV Moments Of The 21st Century
By Ralph Greco, Jr.
Discounting YouTube, anything one might catch off on Netflix or any other streaming service, and certainly pining for the days of Don Kirshner's Rock Concert and The...
Springsteen On Broadway: Rust-Proof
By James Arthur Casey
About a month ago, my wife and I decided to cancel our Netflix, which we've subscribed to ever since the days when they mailed DVDs and...
The Rolling Stones | Beggars Banquet – Classic Commentary
So many musical puzzles fell together in 1968. The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix lead the way with career-defining albums released in November. Somehow, though, the Rolling Stones got in...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Driven To Sniff ‘n’ the Tears
Photos Courtesy of Paul Roberts
Their lone U.S. hit begins simply enough until nine seconds in — a few acoustic guitar strums and then POW, the musical gas is punched...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: The Lovable Sweetness of Lime
Photo Courtesy of Denyse Le Page
Disco supposedly bit the dust on July 12, 1979.
The venue was Comiskey Park in Chicago where, during a White Sox-Tigers battle royale, a dumpster full...
Alice Cooper Featured On Lottery Scratchcards
Photo by Sven Mandel
Yes, you read that right. Alice Cooper scratchcards are now available via the Arizona Lottery. Although rumor has it that it’s only going to be for...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Little Big Man On The Silver Mountain ~ The Recorded...
Photo Courtesy of Mickey Lee Soule
Before Ronnie James Dio became the undisputed godfather of heavy metal — replete with devil-horn gnarled hands — he was Ronald Padavona, frontman for...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Exile On Easy Street
Photo Courtesy of Exile
In 1978, the Gibb brothers and younger sibling Andy engaged in a six-month-long ping-pong-like domination over the Billboard Hot 100, volleying one iconic hit to fans...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Treat It As A Good Thing – Jon Anderson...
Photo Courtesy of Stan Johnson
Before Amazon entered my life, I was forced to hunt for hard-to-come-by CDs the old-fashioned way — in America’s many, many Goodwill stores.
In one such...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: “AHORA!” (Carmen’s Celestial Masterwork)
Photo Courtesy of David Randall-Goddard
Carmen
Fandangos In Space
A few years back, Rolling Stone published its list of the Top 50 prog rock albums of all-time, spanning multiple regions, degrees of...
