Category: MUSIC NEWS

  • Thanks for the Memories

    Thanks for the Memories

    A look at the music from the Closing Ceremonies at the 2024 Summer Games The Olympics have come to a close and we are left with some great moments.  We saw individuals and teams excelling at levels that we can only dream about.  We cheered and screamed at our television sets and always had something…

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  • MTV is Back! Sort of

    MTV is Back! Sort of

    A look into what happened to the MTV archives online A few weeks ago, MTV was nearly wiped out online. The good stuff anyway. Journalists who spent decades writing about all thing’s music were shocked when they found out, in late June, that years of research and historical documentation was just gone. The short of…

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  • Nickelback is Okay?

    Nickelback is Okay?

    A review of “Hate to Love: Nickelback ” a NETFLIX Documentary I just finished watching the NETFLIX documentary entitled “Hate to Love: Nickelback”, because, well, I felt I had to. I indulge in just about every music documentary that I can find streaming. I love to learn about obscure record studios and humble beginnings of artists…

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  • The DOJ vs. The Ticketmonster 

    The DOJ vs. The Ticketmonster 

    I’ve officially hit my “Old Man Phase”, as I find myself muttering “I remember when…” a lot more than I used to. I’ll be turning fifty in less than two months and a few things have changed about my concert going experiences. For instance, I like sitting down more than a mosh pit. That’s not…

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  • RSD Part Deux

    RSD Part Deux

    featuring Randy & The Mormons Welp, I said there would most likely be a part two to the Record Store Day story and now I am going to make that attempt. If you read that story than you know the overall experience that I had shopping and picking those treasures from The Groove Record Store.…

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  • Music, Maggie and Memories

    Music, Maggie and Memories

    This authors adventures to record stores and a live performance by Maggie Rose I decided to do a little record shopping on Saturday, as one does when they want to relax. At least, that’s what I tend to do. I wanted to get a lay of the land as Record Store Day approaches. It’s a…

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  • Losing a Legend

    Losing a Legend

    Iconic Engineer and Frontman, Steve Albini has passed at age 61 Today the world has lost an absolute legend in the music industry. It was announced earlier today that Albini, age, 61, had suffered a heart attack and passed away. Steve was a recording “engineer” or “producer” or maybe producing engineer is the better term.…

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  • Meat Loaf Remembered

    January, 2022 Like many college students in the eighties, I fell in love with the music of Bat Out of Hell. The collaboration between Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf was an opus to young love, lust, and all of the angst that came along with those pursuits. It was something that this dorky twenty year-old…

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