The word whore is a fine word, an awe-inspiringly OUTSTANDING word. Few words in English have as much linguistic linguini….
Lizzie West plays the Tractor Tavern at 8:30 p.m. Wed., May 7, 2003.
Bobby “Blue” Bland has been making records—fair to middlin’ to blitheringly great records—since 1951, which means (among other things) he…
Coin toss in a binary universe. Heads, they’re fab. Tails, they ain’t. Heads it is! For refusing to play venues…
Could there be a more versatile band, worldwide, than moe.? Not likely! They are the only group to finish in…
A Tale of Two Cities, starring My Chemical Romance. It was the best of times and the worst of October….
Not a cover artist? Think again. During her Thanksgiving weekend residency at the Hoss Hide Corral (Rhinecliff, N. J.), Tori…
In response to last week’s Rhymes With Seltzer, Koichi Koyama of Federal Way writes: “It was disturbing to see Smashing…
Just got the prepublication proofs on as dandy, cool, and cookin’ a rock book as has passed this desk in…
Midge DuPlessis, a cig club exec who’s done gangbusters galore with her MARLBORO OF CANADA FAN CLUB, du MAURIER REGULAR…
Join any good clubs lately? Honoring the cigs smoked by artists who have cut records at Muscle Shoals Studios is…
Whew. Finished. Eyes. Teeth. Four hours in a day! Days w/out wacking (the sap dries up). Evening the score? The…
As whole-cloth appropriations of ’40s/’50s “Negro culture” go—make that successful appropriations (monetarily speaking)—the musical oeuvre of Marc Anthony stands as…
I’m often asked, Have any practitioners of rocka-roll attended one or more semesters of college or university, and what, if…
Has there ever been a hotter or hepper participle phrase band than Counting Crows? Let’s see. . . . Smashing…
Hey kids! Math and science are definitely kool, but they ain’t everything. A basic knowledge of geography is essential if…
It’s not often that an artist comes along with credentials as dazzling as Vixx Viyanillas of Transmissionary Six: Rhythm guitar…
If you love your dog, listen to the experts! “Howard Keel’s The TLC Method of Training Your Dog offers a…
ROCK DEATHS THIS WEEK: Johnny Ramone (congestive heart failure), Bob Weir (polio), Sid Vicious (eye cancer), Eminem (choked on a…
From 1979 to somewhere in the mid-’80s, me and Mark Smith of the Fall, the second greatest band of the…
