I was familiar enough with Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?” to know it was on an album called Blondes Have More Fun when this album happened to cross my desk. Knowing the song and having never actually listened to the full record before, I was looking forward to this project. Shortly after doing …
I have been in England for a couple of big events. The first was the vote on Brexit, where the U.K. decided whether or not to continue being part of the European Union. The second is now the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the longest serving monarch in the U.K., which happened yesterday. …
I was surprised to see an article yesterday talking about a tour called Welcome Back My Friends – The Return Of Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Considering that Keith Emerson and Greg Lake have been dead for about six years, I dreaded reading further on how they were planning to pull this off, hoping beyond hope …
As I’m guessing I may have expressed before, sometimes the amount of genres and subgenres in music seems to be a bit much. When I was researching the first song, I saw it mentioned that this was considered one of the first successful “power pop” records (at least according to the Internet; take that for …
It’s been less than a year since I saw IDLES play in Hollywood, but I’m already ready for another show. There’s some small part of me that fantasizes about seeing an announcement for a secret show while I’m still here in London, but I’m guessing that is unlikely to happen. While the crowds have been …
The criteria to get into a Hall of Fame always seems to go a bit unstated. I think people know what a Hall of Famer looks like when it’s obviously, but where is that line of demarcation between getting in and not? My buddy Carlos and I have discussed this on occasion, specifically as it …
If you haven’t picked up on the theme for this past week, it’s been artists from England. As I am still in the U.K. for another week, this theme will press on for a little while longer. When I was looking up a possible song selection earlier today, the timbre of the singer’s voice made …
There have been plenty of musical artists that have tried their hand at acting. Some have failed miserably, but there are plenty that have had success, both in major roles and more minor ones. Though certainly in the latter of those two categories, I enjoyed seeing Tricky in the movie The Fifth Element. He played …
I remember exactly where I was when Radiohead’s Kid A album came out. It was my sophomore year of college, and I was living in in the same dorm room I had lived in the previous year but with a new roommate. I had a good sound system set up in our room, an old …
One concert ticket I really wished I had saved from back in the day was for the band Oasis. I saw them in 1996, the summer before I started high school, at The Palace Of Auburn Hills in Michigan. Towards the end of the previous school year, we had taken a class trip to Washington, …