Music Archives: 09/2016

Isabella Ibarra at the Southeast Career Technical Academy deserves a big round of applause for these excellent compilations she put together featuring the patrons of…

The Police circa 1978. A huge tip of my hat goes out to the excellent Boston-based music and culture blog Vanyaland and their equally excellent…

The cover of ‘Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead: Color the Ace of Spades’ coloring book by Feral House. We can now thank the fantastic publisher of…

Aggronautix, the company that makes those cool “throbbleheads,” has teamed up with Emoji Fame and GG Allin’s brother, Merle, to create just what the Internet…

Poster for Alice Cooper’s 1982 French tour Though the man himself doesn’t remember much of it, heavy Alice fans of my acquaintance adore his new…

For some the question is Prog Rock–who’s to blame? But that’s more than a tad unfair. For at its heart Progressive Rock was about great…

In the mid-70s I started a reggae band called The Ravers. I was living in Boulder, Colorado and had recently discovered The Wailers, Toots and…

After several decades of jazz music mainly serving as something to dance to–as Wikipedia drily notes, “the association of jazz with sex is early and…

The Fifth Path was a short-lived fanzine, produced sporadically between 1991 and 1994, that covered the post-industrial scene as well as the genre that later…

Royal Trux was a band that was always ready for the scold. At the very dawn of the slacker era, Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema…