If Rivers Cuomo of Weezer were to walk past you on the street, you probably wouldn’t notice him. If you did, you might think that this stranger kinda looked like Louis Tully, the
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Music is always just downstream of what’s happening in popular culture. The early 80s were a volatile time for politics and society was shifting, too. The Cold War was dangerously close to turning
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Being in a band is stressful. Everyone may start off as mates—or at least friendly and cooperative—but humans being humans, all of that all-for-one, one-for-all, band-as-a-gang stuff can go south very suddenly. It
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We’ve all sat listening to music and thought to ourselves “What does this song mean? What’s the singer (or the band) trying to say?” Sometimes it’s nothing, just a bunch of words strung
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When an artist writes a song, it’s a very personal thing until it’s recorded and released into the world…once that happens, the artist has no more control over. It becomes the psychic property
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Anyone with a passing knowledge of rock is aware of its origins back in the late 1940s and early 1950s when blues, rhythm and blues, western, country, folk, and hillbilly traditions began to
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If you’re a musical artist and start to do well, the point will come when you need a manager. The manager is the person who looks after all the business stuff so the
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I’m almost finished writing Ongoing History episodes to the end of 2024. I want to start 2025 with a series entitled “The Greatest Rock Moments of the Millennium So Far.” This will consist
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For some people, history is dry and boring, consisting of nothing but dates and wars and dusty facts about things that don’t have anything to do with life today, And yes, that can
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Call me nosy, but I love knowing what other people think about things. This is why I gravitate towards surveys, the kind of stories where ordinary people are asked for their opinions on
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We don’t like to think about our favourite musicians as being mortal. Because let’s face it, we believe that they do extraordinary things and make us feel in ways we otherwise wouldn’t. Rock
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