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THRASH METAL!! The best thrash album of all time? Not an easy choice. For me it’s Exodus “Bonded by Blood”. A underground landmark. Thrash metal. I am sure some of you when you heard those words think of maybe old Metallica or the Bay area thrash scene in the 80’s. When I was started to […]

Kentucky Headhunters are the most underrated southern rock band. They have won a grammy released a double platinum album. After 31 years they are still rocking with no end in sight. The band have released a new record On the safari. The first single Deep south blues again is out now. They plan to be out on […]

  They’ve been called The Greatest Band You’ve Never Heard, the Ultimate Cult Group, Hamilton, Ontario’s deepest Underground legends and, consequently, Canada’s best-kept-ever musical secret. Nevertheless, you could find Julian Cope spinning their music in England, Steve Wynn collecting their records in L.A., and Thurston Moore still searching out original artyfacts whenever he traversed the […]

  Bob Dylan duly dumped about another thirty-seven (at last count) albums in our laps last year, while on much the other hand the vast majority of my aural Good Times! during oh-16 came courtesy of that PreFab Four. Nevertheless, there still remained room on the Pig Player for the following splendid, purely alphabetically-listed ball-busters […]

  Your fearless columnist busted true Yule balls over the past several weeks, virtually scouring this whole world asking that age-old musical question… Why would YOU rather be listening to The Beach Boys this Christmas ??   “Because I live in Syracuse, and it’s gonna fucking snow until July. I’d rather be surfing!” (Carl Cafarelli […]

AUDIO AGGRESSION Our Audio Expressions Editor gives us another lethal dose of his ass-kicking “Streets of Intuition” featuring an Interview with Glenn Hughes of Black Country Communion, formerly of Deep Purple, Trapeze, Black Sabbath, and many others. Topics discussed include his days with Trapeze, joining Deep Purple, Hughes Thrall, Gary Moore, John Norum, The Hughes […]

Our Audio Expressions Editor give us another lethal dose of his ass kicking “Streets of Intuition” featuring an Interview with Glenn Hughes of Black Country Communion, formerly of Deep Purple, Trapeze, Black Sabbath, and many others. Topics discussed include his days with Trapeze, joining Deep Purple, Hughes Thrall, Gary Moore, John Norum, The Hughes Turner […]

  A full Fifty (!!) years this month since “Last Train to Clarksville” first hit # 1, can it really be true Rolling Stone publisher/magnate Jann S. Wenner continues to personally conduct a campaign to bar The Monkees from induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Far-from-dummy Monkee Peter Tork certainly thinks so. […]

There are not many musicians that can say that they can do it all. I’m very sure of that when you talk to Paul Nelson you’ll know you will never meet another one like him. Paul Nelson has toured with countless worldwide acts and performed live and or on recordings alongside a list of today’s […]

“I stay in haunted houses and inns frequently” I saw a ghost in the back seat of my car while driving alone in New Hampshire many years ago. After doing “research” I found out it could have been two types of apparitions. One is a ghost that has to complete a particular trip or “mission”. […]

I saw a Halloween Dummy, placed by three dummies, stop a train. True story… I’m almost ashamed to tell this story, but I’ll use this as a confession. Perhaps the good Lord and L&N will forgive me. In the Fall of 1977, around Halloween, a couple friends and I took a little ride around the […]

“When I was a kid on Halloween something shot through the sky and landed in the woods near my house late one night. So, I went to go check it out. I walked deep in the woods and came across a giant circus tent I slowly opened the flaps of the tent to look inside […]

  I found myself watching Ron Howard’s great new “Eight Days A Week” film just the other night, which got me to thinking about some OTHER ol’ Beatlesongs you, and I, should probably be listening to right now…   1) Please Please Me …and, with the supreme Beatle ballad “Ask Me Why” on its original […]

Let’s get one thing straight right off the top here: Jimi Hendrix was not the illegitimate mutant offspring of wild Indians, raised by wolverines deep within the celestial ice caverns of Venus’ third moon. No, Jimi – make that Jimmy – grew up in relative normality in Seattle WA, I kid you not, and his […]

Interview with Nathan James of Inglorious, formally of Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Uli Jon Roth, and Superstar UK fame, Topics discussed include his beginnings as a singer, singing on TV on The Voice and Superstar, playing with TSO and Uli Jon Roth, and his new band Inglorious.

1.  HE HAS AN UNPRECEDENTED 2,416 RECORDS IN PRINT … ALL COMPRISED OF THE SAME 47 SONGS. 2.  AN AVERAGE OF 512 PEOPLE HAVE VISITED GRACELAND DAILY SINCE 1977… A 400% INCREASE OVER THE NUMBER WHO VISITED ELVIS’ HOME WHILE HE WAS STILL ALIVE. 3.  “ELVIS” SPELT SIDEWAYS IS “LEVIS.” 4.  COOL PEOPLE LIKE ROY […]

Brand new interview with ex-Danger Danger, and The Defiants’s Paul Laine on melodic metal radio show The Signals of Intuition. Topics discussed include The Defiants new self-titled debut, his beginnings as a musician in Vancouver, the recording of his first solo album, joining and playing with Danger Danger, Dark Horse, and The Defiants’ plans for […]

  What I feel inside I can’t explain. That John Entwistle should die in his late fifties is totally unthinkable. He was the indestructible one. He was the rock. He was the island. He was the fulcrum on which it all hinged. (Mick Farren) John was the best. He made “My Generation,” along with the […]

Introducing “Audio Aggression” Exclusive Partnership between Ball-Buster Music, Power Metal Point & The Signals of Intuition to bring AUDIO only Interviews to the pages of Ball-Buster Music beginning with “Primal Fear/Sinner Guitarist Tom Naumann” which originally aired May 16th 2016. Topics discussed include Primal Fear’s new album Rulebreaker, his beginnings as a musician in Stuttgart, […]

  As pretty-pointedly shown throughout Martin Scorsese’s remarkable No Direction Home documentary, the 1966-model Bob Dylan was an American idol at the indisputable peak of his powers as the [insert your own convenient pigeonhole here] Poet/Laureate of a Generation, Crown Prince of the (Thinking Man’s) Hit Parade, or – my personal favorite – Snot-headed, Venom-spewing […]

NELSON debut album After the rain. Spun four hit singles. (Can’t Live without your love) and affection which went straight to #1, “After the Rain”, “More Than Ever”, and “Time Will Tell” all made the top 40 billboard charts. After 26 years NELSON are alive and rocking!Currently touring as Ricky Nelson Remembered (Saluting Their Father) […]

Billy Sheehan is a legendary musician who continues to record and perform with no plans of slowing down anytime soon. He is best known for his work with David Lee Roth band having played on David Lee Roth’s first two albums Eat Em’ and smile and Skyscraper , Mr. Big, and The Winery Dogs. Billy […]

What does the term death metal mean to some of you? Some may think it’s a wall of noise with gurgle vocals. Not to me. When death metal is played right it can be one of the most devastating forms of music known to man. Here’s the big problem though. There are only a handful […]

  Late one night in very late 1976, a singer acquaintance of mine burst into the (condemned) house I was then sharing with the neighborhood bar band, shouting “You will never believe what I just saw in Toronto tonight! These four guys with Brian Jones haircuts wearing drainpipe Levis, singing all these really fast, short […]

  What with the recent Blackmore brew-ha-ha all over his old pals’ induction – finally! – into that so-called Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I was reminded to dig out three vintage CD’s from my by-far favorite, as in Mark I version of Deep Purple. I was also reminded that these initial DP LP’s […]

  Fifty-seven years after The Day The Music supposedly Died on February 3, 1959, I give you… TEN REASONS WHY BUDDY STILL MATTERS:   THE CHIRPING CRICKETS Buddy Holly, alongside Niki Sullivan, Joe B. Mauldin, and Jerry Allison, formed the immaculately suited, fully self-contained two-guitar-bass-drum singing/songwriting template upon which some of the greatest rock bands […]

  Just on the off chance you’ve already made it through all 18 discs, 20 hours, and/or 379 tracks of Bob Dylan’s Cutting Edge Collector’s Edition, then may I suggest you now turn both ears immediately towards…   DRIFTING SAND Summer Splash (Piña Colada Records) To fill that sonic gap in a year which saw […]

Absolutely hate all these “reality” singers’ shows that are on the air these days. The Voice, American Idol and America’s Got Talent to name 3. Shows like these make me sick. All these singers in just a few weeks become ‘stars? In some cases, somebody has to win the show and they get a record […]

  While some of you may be running out right about now to grab Apple Corps’ 2015 digital Yuletide stocking stuffer, may I recommend instead you treat the Fab fan(atic) on your Christmas list with something even coooooler ?? Such as a great collection called The Beatles with Tony Sheridan: First Recordings, wherein during their, […]