Includes writing about music, show reviews, and other musical experiences.

Me and Ray Manzarek – RIP

by Richard B. Phillips May 22, 2013

I was seven years old when I first discovered The Doors. I was visiting my sister’s new house in Bethesda, Maryland one summer. I was with my parents. I was bored and had nothing to do so I poked around through her cassette collection that was still in boxes from when she moved in. And […]

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Combat Rock Turns 30

by Tony Shea May 18, 2013

This week marks the 30th anniversary of the release of the Clash’s fifth album, Combat Rock. Ranked #28 in Rolling Stone’s 2004 issue of Greatest Artist of all Time, the Clash was a stunningly original band that begin with a pure punk style and elevated the form into something that was a unique genre unto […]

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Superfly Love Assassin – LA Rock n’ Rollers Candygram For Mongo Release Their Third Album

by Tony Shea May 17, 2013

LA rock n’ pop n’ punk n’ country rollers, Candygram For Mongo return with their third album, BANG!, after a four year hiatus. C4M has been a featured artist on Clear Channel Radio’s Discover New Music Program and their songs have been heard on Battlestar Gallactica (Syfy Channel) and Unhitched (Fox) among other shows and […]

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Tainted Love (In Praise (and Defense of) 80’s Pop)

by Shannon Murfree May 15, 2013

It’s Friday Night. I’m driving in a car with my road dawg, Wanda, to a tiny dive bar way outside of the city to see one the Bay Area’s best 80’s pop cover bands, Tainted Love. We’ve been driving for awhile. Are we the only fools that would drive out here for the experience — […]

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What Mother Warned You About – Ian Dury

by Tony Shea May 13, 2013

Fittingly perhaps, Ian Dury’s birthday coincided with Mother’s Day this year, since Dury was the kind of bloke that my mother always warned me about – a free spirit. The purveyor of “Sex and Drugs and Rock n’ Roll,” Ian Dury was the kind of person who gave my mother nightmares. As the frontman of […]

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The King of Kings

by Tony Shea April 26, 2013

This week marked the birthday of blues great Albert King. One of the great badass guitar players in history, as well as one of the “Three Kings” of the blues, along with BB and Freddie, all no relation, Albert King was known as the “velvet bulldozer.” Standing 6’4” and weighing 250 pounds, Albert King sweated […]

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Funny Stuff at the Outhouse – My Life in Midwest Punk Rock

by Ben Easher April 2, 2013

Though my parents were from the East Coast and have since retired there, my father got his first and only job in Springfield, Missouri when I was one year old. For a while, he had continued to seek employment elsewhere, but we were still there when I was graduating high school at seventeen. Though medium-sized, […]

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Farewell to Sunset Strip’s Legendary Key Club

by Tony Shea March 9, 2013

It was recently announced that the legendary Sunset Strip venue, The Key Club, will close its doors on March 15, 2013. Originally opened as Gazzarri’s in the 1960’s, and renamed The Key Club in 1998, the club played host to some of music’s biggest names through the years including: The Doors, Van Halen, and Guns […]

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In Contempt of: Christmas…Music

by Mike Anthrope December 23, 2012

In Contempt of: A column that celebrates all the things in life I can’t stand. If you’re anything like me, your eardrums are about to explode by now because you’ve heard so much lame Christmas music blaring from the in-built ceiling speakers in every department store and every open car window, the 9,000th rendition of “White […]

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Have a Holly Jolly Christmas

by Candygram For Mongo December 18, 2012
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The Top 10 Frank Sinatra COVERS

by Tony Shea December 11, 2012

During his career, Frank Sinatra became one of the most popular recording artista of all time, selling more than 150M albums worldwide. But though he recorded more than 60 albums of material, he only earned a small handful of actual songwriting credits. In fact according to his Wikipedia Page Sinatra actually only co-wrote 7 songs: […]

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In Praise of Dave Brubeck – RIP

by Dan O'Day McClellan December 6, 2012

The great Dave Brubeck died on December 5th, 2012, one day short of his 92nd birthday, after a lifetime of producing joyous vibrant sounds. You might say that he was instrumental to the soundtrack of my life, through the good times and the bad, and undoubtedly the lives of many others, since he played on more than […]

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Philanthrope

by Jay Stone November 26, 2012

Listen to a track from Jay Stone’s very unique album Soul Cab. [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/67465737″ iframe=”true” /]

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