They were young, rail-thin long-hairs donning tie-dyes and denim — modern-day ministers on a common mission to spread their own “Good News” Gospel. With reckless abandon,...
In true Twilight Zone fashion, The Fantastic Plastics preach at a pulpit from the past, while forging fearlessly into the future. Sparkling like genuine diamonds displayed...
What a peculiar period — the mid-‘70s — particularly for the music world. In 1975, the disco craze was revving up, yet the charts remained dominated...
Be sure, KISS did not invent the concept. But they did perfect it — elevating the live album format to an all-new, highly bankable art form....
Of all the factors that make them a fascinating force, the most engaging is that they always sound like an unhinged house party. The B-52’s never...
To suggest that it merely was a “transitional” year would be to understate the significance of 1975 in the Bruce Springsteen story. The New Jersey-born musician...
They comprised the mightiest force on the late ‘80s thrash scene — “The Big Four.” While the fight for “Top Dog” status among this ferocious pack...
Like a babbling idiot who was latest to the party, I arrived at the soiree only after somebody had already puked in the pool. How do...
The face, the voice, the sure-fire confidence and the stadium-sized anthems — all key components that make up the iconic Dee Snider brand. As the frontman/poster...
Long before it became a universally recognized “thing,” product “branding” was important — particularly in marketing pop music. But what required many artists several years and...
To not only survive, but actually thrive in the ever-competitive, oft-cutthroat music biz for any extended period (especially 40 years), an artist requires the freedom to...
Simply put, they’re bona fide “busy bees” — buzzing between bases in New York and Illinois, and crisscrossing the country on such exhaustive excursions as the...
The alternative revolution revving out of the Pacific Northwest didn’t necessarily satisfy the entire hard rock contingent of the day. As the changing of the guard...
Oh, good grief! Incredibly, it was 70 years ago this fall when Minneapolis-born cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, first introduced the world to his now-legendary PEANUTS comic...
Ah yeah, the good ol’ “U.S. of A.” — a country rich in culture — a nation blessed particularly with a rich musical heritage — a...