There are uncounted year-end best-of music lists out there – in print, online, on YouTube – any place music geeks talk about music. I...

Record production and supply chain issues aside, 2021 overall was a pretty great year for gathering music. This time, it's another...

I seem to have gotten into the habit of including one new release and one 2021 reissue in each of these posts. That wasn't an intentional...

Carrying on with a couple more of my favorites from this rapidly disappearing year. Despite being ignored by pretty much every media...

How can it be that time already? Time to look back on a year that feels like it just got here? But it is, indeed, time to give a...

My earliest Christmas memories revolve around pandemonium. I was one of a brood of eight, so I remember adrenaline, noise, flying...

I’m back after a fine Thanksgiving weekend. Lots of good food and football and family time. I didn’t make it to my local shop for Record...

Tis the season for some of the biggest releases of the year, just in time for holiday shopping. Every Friday from now until Christmas...

Maybe overheard somewhere, maybe not. One. RAY: Hey man. DANNY: What’s up R? RAY: Probably gonna head on over to the record store in a...

I listened to the new Rod Stewart album three times over the weekend, fully intending to write something positive about it. An LP of...

Back in the prehistoric pre-internet days, when my mother used to hang wet clothes on a line using bird beaks and Dad powered the family...

Cover songs are, of course, everywhere, you hear them all the time in every form of popular music. Not at all uncommon for a semi-popular...

“Rock and roll is the devil’s music!” That was the dire warning from preachers, school boards, and parents back in the 1950s. Elvis was...

• Billy Idol, The Roadside EP – Mr. Rebel Yell had the look way back in 1976, long before America paid much attention. Black leather,...

“Music is the soundtrack of your life.” Corny, right? The quote is usually attributed to Dick Clark, but it sounds like a phrase invented...

A modern version of the blues is still alive and kicking, and these two guitar-slinging women are making sure it stays that way. • Sue...

It’s no coincidence that the rise of rock and roll and the evolution of the electric guitar went hand in hand back in the 1950s. This is...

The Beatles, Let It Be (50th Anniversary Edition) – Who am I to review a classic Beatles album, right? Nope, not gonna do it. It’s one of...

Not to worry, I'll explain what that title means in just a sec. As anyone who knows me or follows me on social media is aware, I have a...

THE FINAL VINYL DECISION: Finding and buying LPs If the lure of getting (back) into vinyl collecting and listening is nagging at your...