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Former Enuff Z’nuff singer and founding member Donnie Vie the king of power pop appeared on The Metal Summit this past Wednesday to talk about what he has been up to and also take questions from the fans. Some of the things that were mentioned during the interview is that he and Chip Z’nuff are […]

  I know at least one of his fellow supposedly-lovin’ Spoonfuls resents the situation to this day, but whenever Zal Yanovsky appeared on stage alongside John Sebastian, Joe Butler, and Steve Boone during their halcyon daze in the mid-swinging Sixties, some poor girl in the audience would inevitably capsize the entire proceedings by screeching out […]

Kickin Valentina has released the first single and video “Somebody New” from their upcoming 3rd full-length album, The Revenge of rock will be released on January 22, 2021. Now on to my review. I miss the good old days of rock videos that have cool cars and hot looking women. Whatever happened to those days […]

  “MUSWELL HILLBILLIES isn’t just a better country-rock album than anything by Wilco or Son Volt; It’s a better country-rock album than anything by The Byrds.”   When the esteemed J.R. Taylor first wrote this in The New York Press awhile back, I couldn’t help but laugh. J.R.’s always tossing around outrageous statements like this, […]

  Bob Dee went to upstate New York to work on his latest release, six songs, E.P. Stun Gun. Bob Dee released the first single massive guitar-driven Down, which is different from any of the material he has done in the past. Stun Gun was supposed to be followed by a world tour and another […]

  For all intents and purposes, Lindsey Adams Buckingham has lived a charmed life since first dropping on October 3, 1949.   Raised in the comfy Bay Area opulence of 1950’s Atherton, California, a handsome, athletic golden boy suddenly and forever sidetracked by his elder brother’s Elvis and Buddy Holly 45s. He quit the school […]

  Over-intellectualizing about a subject as pure and simple in its perfection as the Ramones sort of defeats their entire purpose, now doesn’t it? The proverbial “dancing about architecture,” as Steve Martin (by way of Frank Zappa) might well say. Consequently, I’ve shied away from most books and studies concerning Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee and […]

  Theresa Carmoney is an independent music artist. Go to her youtube page, and you will find her signing a wide range of songs. The first song I ever heard Theresa sing was a cover of Whitesnake Is this love. I had a chance to interview Theresa Carmoney to talk about her songs and career. […]

  …even after watching Louise Palanker’s absolutely riveting Family Band documentary:   Susan Claire Cowsill is the youngest human being ever to score a genuine Billboard Top Ten hit.   John Patrick Cowsill, still the youngest male of the original family band, retains fond memories indeed of drumming four sets a night inside Rhode Island […]

Twenty-five years ago, BON JOVI, their 6th studio album These Days with Tim Collins as a producer, was released, The album featured the debut of bassist Hugh McDonald. Alec Jon Such fired the year before. I was 16 years old when this album came out. As a teenager in those days, music was the best […]

  BRIAN JONES’ HAIR Not only the longest, and the blondest, but the most distinctive coif to come out of the (first) British Invasion …hence his invariably being positioned as the focal point of the band’s publicity photos, not to mention album covers. “Personally, I always make a point of cleansing my hair after every […]

Hard Features (An Open Letter) | Dear Tour Promoter we want a Blood Sweat, & Beers XXX tour 2021|  by Angel Alamo Before the popular package co-headlining tours, there was a tour that, after 29 years, still stands out. I am talking about none other than the Blood, Sweat, and Beers tour. The line-up had […]

In the last 30 years, AC/DC has put out five studio albums. As a live act, they are the band to see when they come to town. AC/DC is one of the few bands who have kept the cycle of album/tour, while other groups will go out on the road even if they don’t have […]

  The Christmas following my Pancakes with Pat, a strange package arrived on my doorstep from a hitherto unknown address in Burbank, California. “Boone Productions, Inc.,” read the label. “Printed Matter Only,” said the customs sticker. I eagerly tore the box open, only to find therein several colorful books neatly swaddled in clear, clean bubblewrap. […]

  In commemoration this month of his birth on May 18, 1912 – or perhaps of his death 88 May 12’s later – I duly busted virtual balls all over the www in order to gauge impressions made upon certain Pig-friendly facets of the music biz by the life and croon-y art of that Canonsburg, […]

  Due to the CORONAVIRUS M3 Festival has been pushed to Labor Day weekend, September 4-6, 2020. The Festival originally scheduled to take place on May 1-3, 2020. Ratt has initially been scheduled to headline but is not able to make the Festival in September. Tyketto also planned to perform and have canceled all 2020 […]

To most of us, Woodstock was an event that is a part of music history taken place during the summer of 1969. August 15- August 18, 1969. One photographer was there taking pictures of the event. I had a chance to talk to Elliot Landy for ballbuster music, who shared some stories and spoke about […]

  Bob Dylan’s ex-wife sits on the bleachers in a smoky little Hoboken nightclub watching her latest son-in-law belting out his latest demo tape to an appreciative but slim audience of friends and scene-schemers. Bob Dylan’s ex-wife’s looks certainly belie her too many years of lawsuits and sleepless months:  She’s still slim, dark, and her […]

  As hard as it may be for us to recall all these decades later, the extremely late Eighties somehow found Dave “Rave” DesRoches touring his home and native land fronting Canada’s own Ramones, aka Teenage Head, extolling the second-hand virtues of carpet kissin’ Hawaiian beer-drinking parties… as the remainder of the music biz moved […]

  First, there was Elvis. Amen! Then there was Ricky Nelson and Johnny Hallyday. Perhaps even Conrad Birdie.   Of course P. J. Proby could often sing “movie Presley” – and much later surely do “Vegas Elvis” – better than the true specimen, Terry Stafford hit U.S. Number 3 with an o.k. “Suspicion” during the very […]

  If you bought any records from KISS, Bon Jovi, or Aerosmith and read the songwriting credits, the name Desmond Child always popped up. Desmond Child has been the man behind the scenes writing hit songs such as Aerosmith “Angel,” KISS “I was made for lovin’ you, Bon Jovi “Living on a prayer.” He has […]

  So even though Tarantino’s latest failed to put Paul Revere or his Raiders back up at the Toppermost of the Poppermost, and American Funnyman Neil Hamburger’s long-too-awaited Still Dwelling seems to have passed totally under the fryer, the Pig Player this past year was kept busy as always spinning, alphabetically as always…   ALEX […]

Robert Tepper has had a great career. He is having his song No Easy Way out on the Rocky 4 movie to the soundtrack to coming out with a new album Better than rest. The album is an 11 song collection of an album that we can say is his best album yet, and it […]

This column this time around is about shows and how expensive they are getting. When you go see these “classic” rock bands, most play these casinos, at least they do near me, which in this case is Atlantic City, and the cost of going is over $100 per ticket. That, to me, is crazy. Most […]

  IRWIN CHUSID (author, Songs In The Key Of Z): Outsider music is a slippery genre. It’s musicians who tend to be self-taught, untrained, working certainly way outside the channels of mainstream music. There are very important qualifications; they are sincere about it. They mean it. They’re not doing it to be funny. They’re not […]

  As our still-favorite p-rock album celebrates its Gala Anniversary on October the 28th, what better time to examine TEN REASONS WHY THE SEX PISTOLS DIDN’T  (OR COULDN’T)  SAVE ROCK AND ROLL MALCOLM McLAREN Never before in the long and illustrious annals of popular music history has a man been handed so much raw talent atop […]

Kirk Reed is a guitarist, singer, composer, teacher, and veteran of the Toronto music scene. He teaches at several music academies including DeGazon and T-Rox, where he assists in the band factory program. Being a full-time musician, Kirk enjoys performing regularly throughout Ontario. And is the frontman and founding member of the original rock band […]

It has been an exciting year so far for Autograph and Jimi Bell. The band has been playing shows and keeping rock and roll alive. Now the group is starting a new chapter with the addition of Jimi Bell replacing founding member Steve Lynch. I had the opportunity to interview Jimi Bell, a guitarist who […]

Rick Dal Cortivo – Guitar, Vocals, Tim Gray – Bass, Scott Borchert – Drums Angel Alamo: How did the band come up with its name? Ricky DalCortivo: After bouncing a bunch of ideas around, Sleeping Village settles in the name Electric Omen. After playing our first show, we just felt like it didn’t fit the band. […]

I first became aware of the man in 1970, as composer of what to this very day remains my absolute favorite Three Dog Night tune, “Out In The Country.” Then, in the years to follow, that same man would somehow become downright ubiquitous upon the 25 living-color inches of the family RCA XL-100. On variety […]