Garage Sale Vinyl: Cheap Trick
This week, Christopher Long rummages through his own garage. In the process, he discovers a true treasure: a naked, ravaged copy of Heaven Tonight, the classic 1978 LP from Cheap Trick.
This week, Christopher Long rummages through his own garage. In the process, he discovers a true treasure: a naked, ravaged copy of Heaven Tonight, the classic 1978 LP from Cheap Trick.
8 Days On The Road (Foghat Records / Select-O-Hits). Review by Christopher Long.
The Ninth Trip (Riding Easy). Review by Carl F. Gauze.
John 5 and the Creatures give a class in Guitar God 101 at the Social.
Detroit in the 1960’s was a hard city going through hard times. The music that come out of Detroit was incubated at the Grande Ballroom. Wayne Kramer (MC5), Ted Nugent and many others remember the wild times.
Charging faster than an angry Great White Buffalo, the Motor City Madman, Ted Nugent, unleashed a rock and roll love fest of Gonzo proportions in Orlando, nearly steamrolling Christopher Long.
The once vital city of Detroit gave us the auto industry and punk rock. Detroit Rock City shares the heights – and the depths – of the Motor City. James Mann says “Kick out the jams!”
Belgrade rocker Ana Popovic storms a castle in Italy.
First Kill (Metal Nation). Review by Vinnie Apicella.
Winter (self-released). Review by Stein Haukland.
Elva (Interscope). Review by Stein Haukland.
He’s done time with Frehley’s Comet, Cheap Trick, and Ted Nugent, yet Tod Howarth can’t get arrested. Stein Haukland talks with the pragmatic rocker about the business of music.
Event Review by George Jegadesh
A young dancer becomes a legal genius in this fun and fast musical comedy.
Forgotten ’70s action film Fear Is the Key is as gritty as the faces of the men who populate it. Phil Bailey reviews the splashy new Blu-ray.
Coffin Joe returns in a comprehensive Blu-ray collection from Arrow Video, Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe.
Bob’s been looking for a replacement copy of the rare John Cale release Sabotage/Live (1979, Spy Records) since 1991. He still hasn’t found a copy at a reasonable price, but a random YouTube video allowed him to listen and reminisce.
Hidden gem and hallmark of second-generation martial arts film, 1978’s The Shaolin Plot manages to provide a glimpse of things to come. Charles DJ Deppner reviews Arrow Video’s pristine Blu-ray release, which gives this watershed masterpiece the prestige and polish it richly deserves.
The HawtThorns invite you to soar, with the premiere of “Zero Gravity.”
There’s nothing as humiliating as a cattle call. Unless it’s a cattle call in your undies.