Author Archive
26 Mar 2023
Take Five: Phil Collins
Phil Collins is best known as the lead singer and drummer in Genesis, and as a solo artist. His peerless drumming is a key component of what makes those recordings […]
25 Mar 2023
Album Review: Peggy Lee — Norma Deloris Egstrom from Jamestown North Dakota
If you were a rock fan in 1972, chances are good that you had no use for so-called “easy listening” music. That was the stuff your parents and their uncool […]
24 Mar 2023
Album Review: Rick Wakeman — A Gallery of the Imagination
Rick Wakeman is staggeringly prolific. I defy anyone to absorb his entire body of work; hell, even coming up with an accurate count on the number of album’s he’s released […]
23 Mar 2023
Take Five: Andy Summers
Andy Summers is best known as guitarist in The Police, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands of the 1980s. That band’s reggae-influenced take on new wave […]
22 Mar 2023
“Do Your Parents Know You’re Ramones?!”
“Riff Randell, rock ‘n’ roller.” That’s how P.J. Soles introduces her character in Rock N Roll High School, the cult film that built upon a foundation of B-movies and served […]
21 Mar 2023
The Shiny, Timeless Pop of Tchotchke
There’s a strong classic pop sensibility running through the songs on Tchotchke, the self-titled debut album by the New York City trio. The three musicians admit as much. “I grew […]
20 Mar 2023
Interview Roundup: The Residents
People sometimes like to joke about The Residents. “Play their records to get your overstaying guests to leave” and such. They’re willfully weird, tauntingly transgressive, aggressively amelodic. Or so goes […]
19 Mar 2023
Interview Roundup: Joe Satriani
It’s one thing to be a technically superb guitar shredder. Lots of axe-wielders can claim that title. But just because one can execute blindingly difficult runs on the six-string doesn’t […]
18 Mar 2023
Take Five: Michael Nesmith
Michael Nesmith would have celebrated his 80th birthday last December 30; he passed away in 2021 after an acclaimed tour with former bandmate Micky Dolenz. The talented musician and songwriter […]
17 Mar 2023
Interview Roundup: Yes
One day not along ago, I decided to amuse myself by counting up just how many members — present and/or former – of Yes I have had the pleasuring of […]