The Mind-Blowing Odes of L.A.’s Hardest-Rocking Poet
"So when somebody comes up to me and says, "You know what? You made me like that again," I just think, 'Hell yeah..'" -Rich Ferguson on the reactions to his jaw-dropping live performances. Continue...
View ArticlePower Trio: Three Songs, One Name
Gloria Harrison relates the exquisite agony of sharing a first name with not one, but three iconic songs. Continue reading →Related Posts:The Time We Recorded “Game of Pricks”Power Trio: 3 Songs That...
View ArticleLou Reed: Rock and Roll’s Dark, Beautiful Heart
How Lou Reed's appetite for risk and a complete indifference to other people's definitions of success and failure painted him as the most influential artist of our generation. Continue reading →Related...
View ArticleRock and Roll Coffee: An Interview with Megadeth’s David Ellefson
"Dave Mustaine and I are the only two guys, maybe next to Joey Kramer and Steven Tyler, who wrote books and who are still in the same band together." -Megadeth bassist David Ellefson on the release of...
View ArticlePower Trio: Three Songs that Were Cynically Ripped Off, Played Worse Than the...
The intrepid Sean Beaudoin delivers three airtight cases against some of the most egregious, soul-sucking rip-offs in music history. Continue reading →Related Posts:Power Trio: 3 Songs About Being...
View ArticleRock and Roll Coffee: The Revenge of Eddie Trunk
Music Editor Joe Daly brings Eddie Trunk back to discuss whether it's possible to separate Ted Nugent's politics from his music, which new band is poised to be the next Metallica and whether certain...
View ArticleThe 50 Most Epic Deaths in Song
Joe Daly breaks down the 50 most epic deaths in song. Perfect for Monday coffee, long drives and 3 a.m. resin-soaked debates after the bars have all closed. Continue reading →Related Posts:Power Trio:...
View ArticleMetallica Rock City: A Conversation with “Into the Black” Authors Paul...
Metallica have plowed their way to the top, selling over 100 million records worldwide and becoming quite possibly the most successful heavy metal band of all time. Or have they? Monday Metallica Rock...
View ArticleMonday Rock City: The Return of Eddie Trunk
He's the official ambassador of all things rock and metal; articulate, approachable, the author of not one but two sources of required reading in the form of Eddie Trunk's Essential Hard Rock &...
View ArticleMonday Rock City: A Conversation with Duff McKagan
Bass player of the biggest, most controversial and contentious band in the world becomes... finance expert? Only one name you can attach to that story: Bestselling author, dad, and respected journalist...
View ArticleMonday Rock City: A Conversation with Ed Piskor, Creator of Hip Hop Family Tree
Acclaimed comic book artist Ed Piskor's Hip Hop Family Tree series details originator Kool Herc’s revolutionary rec room parties in the summer of '73 up to the rise of super stars the Beastie Boys and...
View ArticleMonday Rock City: A Conversation With Lamb of God’s D. Randall Blythe
Sex, drugs, rock & roll and... a Czech prison? Lamb of God singer D. Randall Blythe's memoir Dark Days has it all. Our own JM Blaine caught up with the newly sober wild man to talk about the road...
View ArticleMonday Rock City: A Conversation with Def Leppard Guitarist Phil Collen
Def Leppard founder and co-guitarist Phil Collen is one of the only human beings who can say: "My band has sold over 100 million albums." While most of those sales came in the band's 80s heyday, the...
View ArticleMonday Rock City: A Conversation with Greg Renoff, author of Van Halen...
So you thought you knew Van Halen? I did. But I had no clue they’ve been around in some form since 1971, or that the brothers basically hated David Lee Roth but let him in because it was cheaper than …...
View ArticleMonday Rock City: The Dirt, The Game & The Truth with Author Neil Strauss
"Get to know yourself in truth, and without fear," bestselling author Neil Strauss tells Jamie Blaine. "Because if you don’t, you’re not living your own life." Strauss, who penned off-the-charts hit...
View ArticleMonday Rock City: A Conversation with “Petty: The Biography” Author Dr....
Jamie Blaine sits down for a fascinating chat with author Warren Zanes about his much-lauded biography of rock n' roll icon Tom Petty. Continue reading → Related Posts: Monday Rock City: A Conversation...
View ArticleMonday Rock City: A Conversation with Captain & Tennille’s Toni Tennille
They were known as pop’s most wholesome duo, a husband and wife team beloved for their dazzling smiles, love-conquers-all message and super-cute songs about butterscotch castles, muskrat kisses and...
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