Alice Cooper Featured On Lottery Scratchcards
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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...
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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
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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...
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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)
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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...
Singer John Corabi Burns It Down With The Dead Daisies
By Charlie Steffens
Since forming in 2013, The Dead Daisies have released four full-length studio albums, a live album, and toured extensively with some of the biggest bands in rock,...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Billy Cobham’s Vital Transformation ~ Billy Cobham’s ‘Spectrum’
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Billy Cobham
Spectrum
Billy Cobham became a legend well before releasing his debut solo album. Prior to 1973, the Panamanian drummer by way of New York cut...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: The Kings Are (Still!) Here
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The Kings
The Kings Are Here
They had the attitudes of punks and the chops to be a Canadian Beatles.
The story of how I discovered The Kings...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: The Sweet Green Icing Of Success ~ In Defense Of...
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"You don’t mean to suggest that someone
would criticize ('MacArthur Park')?
I mean, my God! (laughter)"
– Jimmy Webb, March 2018
Based on its compositional structure alone, “MacArthur Park” should...
Ira Kantor’s Vinyl Confessions: Snake Eyes, Seventh Heaven ~ The Alan Parsons Project ‘The...
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The Alan Parsons Project
The Turn Of A Friendly Card
In 1980, the Alan Parsons Project opted to make gambling the core concept of its fifth album....
