MY DAD IS DEAD: IMPECCABLE POST-PUNK ANGST STRAIGHT OUTTA CLEVELAND
Cleveland native Mark Edwards threw down a startling gauntlet of bare bones words/music in 1986 called …And He’s...
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THE GUN CLUB DOWN UNDER
Gun Club, led by the mercurial Jeffrey Lee Pierce, were booked for a month-long tour of Australia in late...
AC/DC: THE GENESIS OF THE BAND, AND THE AUSTRALIAN SCENE THAT MADE THEM
With the release of their latest album, Power Up, we explore how AC/DC were shaped by the Australian...
POISON IVY OF THE CRAMPS: UNCROWNED QUEEN OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
Poison Ivy Rorschach, lead guitarist, songwriter, arranger, producer and sometime vocalist of one of the greatest bands in...
10 ROCK BANDS YOU’VE PROBABLY NEVER HEARD OF BUT SHOULD DEFINITELY CHECK OUT
Is good old Rock ‘n’ Roll dead? When was the last time you heard a new rock band...
ROD EVANS: DEEP IN THE PURPLE
Rod Evans, original lead singer of hard-rocking Deep Purple, walked away from the music business in the late...
FAT WHITE FAMILY’S LIAS SAOUDI ON BLM AND FINDING A MUSICAL WAY FORWARD
The multi-ethnic South London-based Fat White Family has been called the ‘sonic equivalent of society coming unhinged.’ Their...
DUTCH NUGGETS: ORIGINAL 1960s’ ROCK & ROLL ‘ARTYFACTS’ THAT DEFY TIME
You’ve heard of the British Invasion, right? Well, ‘the Dutch Invasion’ that followed did not exactly storm the...
THE UNFORGETTABLE YARDBIRDS: DRUMMER JIM MCCARTY EXPLAINS IT ALL
Though they lasted only five years, the Yardbirds reshaped rock, pop and blues. Through all the personnel changes—Clapton,...
TOM PETTY AND ME: AN INTERVIEW WITH JON SCOTT
Promo man extraordinaire Jon Scott has worked with The Who, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Elton John, but he developed...
WHAT WAS THE FIRST ROCK & ROLL RECORD? DEKE DICKERSON SAYS IT’S ‘ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK’
In Part 1, Deke Dickerson lays out his belief that the template of Rock & Roll was forged by...
EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG: ROCK & ROLL WAS INVENTED IN WILDWOOD, NEW JERSEY! – BY DEKE DICKERSON
Deke Dickerson charts the birth of Rock & Roll music—as we know it—to the early 1950s, and a...
JACK CASADY: THE BASS MAN SPEAKETH
One of the most distinctive bass players in rock history, Jack Casady came to prominence with Jefferson Airplane,...
PETER LAUGHNER: AN UNFINISHED LIFE
Cleveland’s vital and unsung punk scene would not be complete without a chapter on Peter Laughner. Laughner, who...