The first paragraph of AllMusic’s profile of Mott the Hoople — a band whose name was the title of a 1970s novel by Willard Manus — is a...
Category - Rock
Last week, AP carried a story with the news that Nick Lowe is releasing a Christmas album with the odd name “Quality Street”: Nick...
The Black Sabbath lead singer and everyone’s favorite crazy old rock-and-roll uncle was born on this day in 1948.
Editor’s Note: This is the first of an occasional feature focusing on covers of — and sometimes by– a band or artist. Check out The Covers...
Happy Birthday, Daniel.
On Monday, TDMB featured Gioacchino Antonio Rossini’s “The Barber osf Seville,” so it seems to make sense to follow it up with Ian Dury and the Blockheads...
This is the beginning Wikipedia’s profile of Wilco: Wilco is an American alternative rock band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by...
To be perfectly honest, the stereotypical guitar hero — the flamboyant virtuoso with superhuman skills — is a bit long in the tooth. They were a...
I’m sorry that the site neglected to mark the passing on October 8 of Phil Chevron, the lead guitar player of The Pogues. Here is part of The Los Angeles...
Lots of great writing has been done about Freeport, New York’s Lou Reed in the day since his death. The Chicago Tribune equates Reed’s importance...