I’m not very happy with Spotify right now. Spotify is the new online listening service, where you can set up your own playlists from millions of tracks and enjoy your own online custom-made radio station. You can build a playlist for listening to Spotify at work, you can build a playlist for listening to Spotify…
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Pan Am: From airline to TV series to … soundtrack album?
Regular readers will know about my feelings for the failed television drama Pan Am. The show is currently burning off its final episodes as quickly as it can, and hopefully the show can join the pantheon of failed airline dramas like LAX and San Francisco International Airport and The Loop and Flying High and a…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Ten Great Songs by the Electric Light Orchestra
I always believed that if the Beatles took their Sgt. Pepper album and made a second one – and a third one – and a fourth one – in that same musical vein, they would morph into the Electric Light Orchestra. And realistically, how cool was it that a rock band calling themselves an “Orchestra”…
Read MoreYour new Class of 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees are…
Before I say who got in, let’s recap from my “betting sheet” earlier this year. THE BEASTIE BOYS I said: Pretty sure this is their year. Did they get in? YES!! My response to that: About freakin’ time. Welcome to the Rock Hall. THE CURE I said: Sure. Did they get in? NO. My response…
Read MoreA prayer of support for Cheryl Bentyne
I have always, always, ALWAYS held a strong spot in my heart for the vocal group Manhattan Transfer. It was twelve years ago this month that I was blessed to interview them for Goldmine magazine. I’ve remained in contact with the quartet, and a true Christmas holiday isn’t complete unless I get to the Blue…
Read MoreWant to give the holiday gift of high-quality rock music photographs? Sure you do!
In 1962, a young man named Eddie Kramer took a job as an assistant at London’s Advision Studios. That “foot in the door” allowed Kramer to collaborate with some of the top names in rock and roll music. He engineered and produced albums by such artists as Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and…
Read MoreMadonna’s Set List for the Halftime Entertainment of Super Bowl XLIV
Ah, the announcement that everybody’s favorite Material Girl, Ms. Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone Penn Ritchie, will be providing the halftime entertainment at Super Bowl 46 in February 2012 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Of course, thanks to a bit of detective work (and knowing a few friends over in Indy that used to be…
Read MoreUAlbany Professor discovers that 92% of all pop songs are about sex. Well, duh.
In the journal Evolutionary Psychology, UAlbany psychology professor Dawn R. Hobbs published a survey that determines that of nearly 175 songs that hit the Billboard Top 10 on the pop, R&B and country charts in 2009, more than 90% of them contained “reproductive messages.” That’s right, they’re talking about having sex. For her research, Hobbs…
Read MoreThe “Best New Artist” Grammy Award… who won, who didn’t, and who should have!
The urban legend is that the Grammy Award for “Best New Artist” could be considered the kiss of death for an artist’s career. Although many successful artists have earned the trophy, and have gone on to bigger and better things – for example, The Beatles, Christina Aguilera, the Carpenters and Crosby Stills & Nash have…
Read MoreYour betting sheet for the 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions
Of the fifteen acts listed below, five of them will comprise the Class of 2012 in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Your potential inductees are, in alphabetical order: The Beastie Boys The Cure Donovan Eric B. & Rakim Guns ‘N Roses Heart Joan Jett & the Blackhearts Freddie King Laura Nyro Red Hot…
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