Random Music News for Thursday, January 26, 2017
Construction has started on my new office complex in the basement. This is going to take a while. And now, the music news… Butch Trucks, founding member and drummer for the Allman Brothers
Read MoreConstruction has started on my new office complex in the basement. This is going to take a while. And now, the music news… Butch Trucks, founding member and drummer for the Allman Brothers
Read MoreHe wore the same pair of black pants every day for 25 years. He consumed so much speed that a doctor recommended against a blood transfusion because removing the drugs from his system
Read MoreMaynard James Keenan is an interesting guy. No, wait. He’s more than that. Much more. He’s mysterious, cagey, guarded, outrageous, inventive, dodgy and clever. He’s a singer, songwriter and actor. A winemaker with
Read MoreSex, drugs and rock‘n’roll. To many of Motörhead fans, frontman Ian “Lemmy” Kilminster embodied just that. Rock biographer Mick Wall takes an up close and personal look at the hard and fast life
Read MoreThe Arctic Monkeys are one of the few truly superstar acts to emerge from the alternative scene over the last decade. They may also have been the first alt-rock band to break out
Read MoreJust because it’s Thanksgiving doesn’t mean there isn’t music news… Kayne West auditioned for American Idol over the weekend. No, seriously. Love this: in 1972, Black Sabbath had a $75,000 cocaine budget. Now
Read MoreIf there’s one grunge band that’s long overdue for a proper biography, it’s Alice in Chains. Yeah, there have been a couple in the past, but they’ve been awful. (Trust me: I’ve read
Read MoreOver the years I’ve written plenty of official record company bios for a variety of well-known artists (sorry, the identifies of them are a secret) and I can honestly say that each one
Read MoreGaz is a mate of mine who, believe it or not, uprooted his family and moved to Burlington, Ontario. (His wife saw a real estate show on the telly and said “Oi! That
Read MoreI’ll see this. Definitely.
Read MoreDuring is Layne Staley incarnation, Alice in Chains sold 20 million albums. They were one of the top-tier grunge acts. So why hasn’t there been a proper book on the band? (There have
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