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Neil Young Is More Bummed Out By Kurt Cobain’s Death Than You
Rock ‘n Roll icon Neil Young just released an autobiography called Waging Heavy Peace and some of the book’s more choice nuggets are becoming 30 second sounds bytes on the 24-hour news shows. One...
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Axl Rose On Jimmy Kimmel: My (Delayed) Reaction
I understand that this is now old news at this point, but I’ve been unable to write about Axl Rose’s recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel. Part of the reason was that I was horribly stranded in New York...
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The GnR Poster Too Risqué For Las Vegas
The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino has yanked down a city-wide ad for the historic (sorta) Guns ‘N Roses concerts taking place in Las Vegas this month after a bunch of anger/complaints from the citizens...
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About That Paul McCartney/Nirvana Song
Last night a pretty incredible benefit concert was held at Madison Square Garden to help victims of Hurricane Sandy. This so-called “12/12/12″ concert was jam-packed with tons of talent: The Rolling...
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“Melt The Guns” by XTC
Once again tragedy, a preventable tragedy in my opinion, has struck the United States. Every time this happens I wonder how much longer we’ll allow the madness that is our gun laws to continue....
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Will Owsley is Dead.
Man this bums me out. Will Owsley is dead. I found out about it yesterday, third-hand. I was listening to a really cool podcast, Michael Butler’s Rock and Roll Geek Show, and it was mentioned...
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St. Vincent and the Business-side of “Birth In Reverse”
St. Vincent’s new single is out, and boy is it great. It fills me with optimism regarding the singer/songwriter/weirdo’s forthcoming album ST. VINCENT. Even though this will be the singer’s fourth...
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Beatles For Sale: My Rant Against The American Reissued Beatle Albums
Last month The Beatles American albums were re-issued in a large, expensive boxset. Back in 2009, when the remastered CD’s were issued, I gladly handed over my hard-earned currency for better packaging...
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(Un) Joining A Fan Club
At the end of last month I left the Guided By Voices fan group on Facebook after I realized I’m not really a fan. Oh, I love GBV and still regard them as one of my all-time favorite bands, but I’m not...
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I Made Jack White’s Guacamole Because…Rock ‘n Roll!!!
When I first heard “Fell In Love With A Girl” way back in 2002, I had no idea that people would still be talking about Jack White in 2015. I liked the song well enough, but I wrongly predicted that...
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Blur Is Back With “Go Out”
It’s been over 10 since the last blur album. Think about that for a moment. Ten years is a long time. I never thought the band would return from the land of dead bands–but they have. Apparently Blur...
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Reflections On BB King: The Legend Is Gone
When I was in High School I got into Blues music thanks to one caring English teacher and a bunch of 1960’s blues rockers. I was listening to Cream, Led Zeppelin, The Yardbirds, and Eric Clapton pretty...
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The Music Streaming Gods Giveth and Taketh Away…
Music streaming has been in the headlines this week in a big, big way. I’m sure you’re all aware that Apple threw their proverbial hat into the music streaming business this week with the launch of...
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RIP Scott Weiland
I’ve been trying to decide what, if anything, I would write regarding the passing of Scott Weiland. When the news broke that Weiland had died on December 3rd my first thought was “of course he did.” As...
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Lemmy is dead and GnR Lives?
It’s been a crazy week in the world of rock and more than one person has asked me if/when I was going to write a post. I wish I had a good excuse for posting so infrequently, but I don’t really have...
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RIP David Bowie
I’m sitting at my dining room table on the Monday after the David Bowie has died and I’m trying to figure out what to write. “Heroes” is quietly seeping out of the wireless hi-fi I use to fill my house...
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Will Axl Put the “A” in AC/DC?
From the files of “Too Strange For Fiction” comes the rumor that W. Axl Rose, your friend and mine, is going to step-in as lead singer and finish AC/DC’s current tour. Excuse me, what? Seriously, this...
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RIP Prince
Just when I thought the high-profile rock star deaths of 2016 were slowing down, Prince died. He was only 57 years old and apparently died due to complications relating to the flu. I’d heard that he’d...
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Can We Talk About Michael Stipe’s Beard?
Recently I was listening to a podcast and someone was talking about a benefit concert held on March 31st for the late (great) David Bowie at Carnegie Hall in New York. Among the many stars who came out...
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Axl Rose’s Debut with AC/DC: Defensible Dreck?
Let there be…Axl? This weekend Axl Rose officially hit the stage as the fill-in lead singer of AC/DC. The band resumed their ROCK OR BUST tour in Lisbon, Portugal (I bet you think I had to look up...
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