WJRR’s Earthday Birthday – 2016
WJRR’s annual Earthday Birthday is a daylong, sweat-soaked, outdoor concert celebration – featuring some of the biggest bands in the biz. Christopher Long found much to love on the smaller stages.
WJRR’s annual Earthday Birthday is a daylong, sweat-soaked, outdoor concert celebration – featuring some of the biggest bands in the biz. Christopher Long found much to love on the smaller stages.
One of progressive rock’s figureheads has died. Gail Worley remembers Keith Emerson.
With enough bad blood between the bands to make Keith Richards envious following a transfusion, the Mötley Crüe/Poison/New York Dolls Tour was more of a Deathmatch than a good-time, glam revival. Chris Long snuck in on the action.
Gail Worley chats with Sevendust’s drummer and gets the real scoop behind their label switch, upcoming projects, and Rose’s physical non-regime.
Just how can you keep your drum patterns fresh? Gail Worley speaks to master rhythm chef Stephen Perkins about that and cooking with Tommy Lee, in this second part of her two-part interview.
A clothing line based on his tattoos. A new band. A new dedication for his instrument. Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx skips the past and talks about present projects and a future of cracking coconuts on the beach. Gail Worley digs up the dirt.
From Motley to Mayhem, Tommy Lee has done it all, and Gail Worley gets him to tell all.
Never a Dull Moment (MCA). Review by Joe Frietze.
Honk The Horn (Mint). Review by Marcel Feldmar.
We get all kinds of strange mail here at Ink 19. Here’s a random sampling from this month’s virtual mailbag.
Jailhouse Blues: Songs of Love and Devotion (Shitfuck). Review by Gregory Schaefer
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.