One way to gauge the quality of older rock & roll recordings is by the label that released them. Ork Records, Spy Records, Stiff, Radar, ZE, ESP-Disk and on...
Known for hits she later wrote for Tina Turner (“Better Be Good to Me”), Pat Benatar (“Love is a Battlefield”) and others (including KISS, Aerosmith, Cheap Tric...
In 1983, when Chris Epting was at Boston’s Emerson College, he produced a cable access TV series on which he interviewed “artists I was crazy about.” High on th...
When he was a senior at Boston's Emerson College in 1982, Chris Epting was enticed by members of Lords of the New Church (Stiv Bators, Brian James, Dave Tregunn...
Chris Epting has written regularly for many outlets including the Los Angeles Times and the Huffington Post and is also the author of more than 30 pop culture/travel books including James Dean Died Here, and Led Zeppelin Crashed Here. He has also co-written memoirs with John Oates, Phil Collen and Leif Garrett among others. Originally from New York, he's lived in California since the mid-1980s and is still madly in love with the music of his youth.