Led Zeppelin’s eleventh—and final—American jaunt was in support of their seventh studio album, Presence. The 1977 tour was plagued by unfortunate incidents, with the most…
The Portuguese release of ‘Walk on the Wild Side’ (via Discogs) In 1993, the BBC documentary series Arena devoted four episodes to “Tales of Rock…
Sun Ra had his share of offbeat and amusing records–his Batman and Robin album and his limbo album spring to mind as typical (atypical?) Sun…
The story goes that Lux Interior of the Cramps was an inveterate maker of cassette mixes for his friends. (CD mixes, much less online playlists,…
Seriously, the wealth of batty–pun intended–images from the 1960s never ceases to amaze me. Here we have the foremost pop artist of the era and…
One of the oddest Christmas records of all time came out in 1973 under the name Aamok. The single was put out by the label…
In the early 1980s, two albums of rare Beatles recordings were released with little fanfare. Consisting of the Christmas messages the Fab Four distributed to…
Creepy politicians and media personalities are losing their jobs and stature left and right over revelations of sexual importuning, and we fully support that (just…
Every year about this time I write up my annual “Christmas Shopping Guide for Hard-to-Buy-for Rock Snobs” list of cool things for your musichead loved…
I’m pretty sure jokey Christmas sweaters produced in the last several years must by now outnumber the entire total of sincere (if ghastly) ones made…