Man, I love it when a band brings the music! Not just the hard driving rhythms, the catchy melodies, or the dynamic conveyance of emotion through dramatic time changes. I love it when a band brings the music with pure passion, an edgy resentment for the status quo, and a bag full of fun! Water is Ri...

Charm City Devils is Nikki Sixx’s record label’s latest Eleven-Seven Music acquisition. I’ve only heard the one track “Let’s Rock N Roll” (The Mp3 is available for free download below). It doesn’t have that modern feel to it. It has that feel that so many ba...

. HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO ALL WHO DIDN'T HAVE ONE TORCHES ARE FOR CARRYING, SONGS ARE FOR SINGING What Great Love Song Cuts You To The Heart? Here are some of mine. Some are songs we heard when first we fell in love. Some are songs we turned to when we lost our love. Some are songs of bitter memory...

Trying to remake one of the greatest and most unique pop music albums forty years after the fact is quite an audacious challenge. Van Morrison's Astral Weeks has stood outside of time and space for so long that the thought of going back to that mystic well seems like a fool's errand for even one so ...

Captain Beefheart aka Don van Vliet retired from the music business in the early 1980's, but he still casts a long shadow in several musical realms including rock 'n' roll and jazz. Fast 'n' Bulbous is a hard swinging septet that covers Beefheart's compositions from a progressive jazz perspective. L...

This Thorns of Life live at 924 Gilman Street recording isn’t anything to sneeze at, but if you’re dying to hear what Blake Schwarzenbach’s new band sounds like, these MP3s do the trick. Sounds good to me and I can’t wait to hear more. 3 interviews with Blake: here, here, and...

I was just looking through sites for hot updates and noticed this hot one from Blue Blood sneaked by us somehow. It’s another hot one from Blue Blood’s couples section, and these two are real rock-n-rollers. It’s a very hot series taking place in what looks like their little apartm...

So, as I outlined in Pt 1, Social networks can be a really tough place to inhabit as a musician, because you’re going to get a LOT of artists sending you friend requests expecting you to check out their music. The idea for the artist, in that case, is that numbers mean everything. If I have 80...

. SUNDAY ROCK'N'ROLL MUSIC VIDEO CONTEST MUSICAL CHICKS EVERYBODY DIGS! YEAH, BABY! SCHWING IT! On The Worst Day Of The Year For The Ladies, Here's To The Diva's It's that time of year again. Get out the big plastic Mexican-hat-guacamole-and-chips dish! Plunk your ass down on the couch with a bunch ...

. SUNDAY ROCK'N'ROLL MUSIC VIDEO CONTEST MUSICAL CHICKS EVERYBODY DIGS! YEAH, BABY! SCHWING IT! On The Worst Day Of The Year For The Ladies, Here's To The Diva's It's that time of year again. Get out the big plastic Mexican-hat-guacamole-and-chips dish! Plunk your ass down on the couch with a bunch ...