On April 6, 1987, The Cult released their multi-million selling LP, Electric. That album, following hot on the heels of the band’s highly successful breakthrough album, Love (1985), would generate…
Two important member s of the Rock and Roll elite have left us for loftier plains over these last few days. And while no one member of that same elite…
The fine folks over at Legacy Recordings have assembled and announced the upcoming issue of Sound System, a 12-disc set (with cool stuff, too) featuring the music of The Clash.…
After their rave SXSW show back in 2012, the buzz began to build for the Portland, Oregon dream-pop band simply named Blouse. Headed by Charlie Hilton, who is a modern…
Mellonta Tauta is an interesting term to be adopted by a band as its name. It means “things of the future”. It is also a short story by Edgar Allen…
Last week, we asked the question (and discussed) whether too many songs on an album encourages the failure of an album, or discourages the inclination for a listener to buy…
Sometimes, an album comes to my attention that you just can’t seem to find all the right words for it. Of course, I mean this in a good way (we…
There are several important releases that are coming down the road that should be addressed apart from the normal soup of 2 liner notations that we do here. The three…
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Tangerine Dream has carved out a delightful legacy for all of their ambient treasures dating as far back as 1969. With such classics as Stratosfear (1976), they have pushed the…
NYC’s The Lost Patrol has labored for many years to gain the following they have gathered over three consistently excellent quality releases. Over the periods of 2008 until now, the…
For 2013’s Record Store Day, Columbia Records reissued three Aerosmith classics on 180g vinyl, riding the surging wave of LP interest that is breaking out across the world. Hell, I…