“Rock is dead!” they bleated. “It’s over!” That’s what they were saying in 1957 when Elvis was inducted into the army. Rock’n’roll was still young, still being treated as a fad, and with
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There’s been much discussion about the death of rock over the last couple of decades, but despite all the eulogies, the genre just won’t go away. In fact, it might actually been getting
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[This was my weekend column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] It hurt to see Pete Townshend, one of my musical heroes, succumb to the notion that rock music is in decline. “Hip-hop is rock
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I had yet another conversation about the myth that rock music is dead. To hear the people in this bubble talk, things are so hopeless that us rock fans might as well roll
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This was the first day of the Great Blizzard of 1977. People in the Great Lakes still talk about how bad it was. Unreleased Prince music is coming “very soon.” SONOS is fighting
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Now that Blue Monday is behind us, we can concentrate on getting through the second half of what’s been (generally) a brutal month. Here’s your music news for January 16, 2018. Please don’t
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While I’m whinging about the lack of loud guitar music in modern rock/alt-rock, other people are taken a dim view of popular music in general. And who’s to blame for the state of
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Oh, dear. It’s another “rock is dead” bleat, this time from Coldplay, a band that done their best to kill it. In the past, I would have gone to great lengths to refute
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What’s this about rock being dead, murdered by unscrupulous pirating kids? That notion spouted by Gene Simmons received quite a bit of attention earlier this month, caryring all the way up to CNN.
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Oooo boy. Here we go again. Gene Simmons–never a man short of opinions–has declared rock to be dead in an interview with Esquire. I quote: Rock is finally dead.I am so sad that
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I’m more optimistic than the artists quoted in this article from Classic Rock Magazine. Or maybe I’m just delusional. The End, it seems, is nigh. “It’s strange in rock culture just now,” Primal
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