Well so far according to messages that I’ve been receiving , my male friends don’t have that much of a problem with it and think it’s pretty cool while my female friends are pretty much saying “Ick!” You can form your own judgment. If you haven’t heard, what I’m referring to is the recently announced nuptials of Bryan Ferry and 29-year-old Amanda Sheppard. They’ve actually been dating since September of 2009. It’s Bryan’s second marriage. He previously was married for 21 years to Lucy Helmore. They had four sons together, Merlin, Tara, Isaac and Otis. Bryan also had a long relationship with Jerry Hall but were never married, she of course famously ended up with Mick Jagger. I...

  Are you getting tired of all the political banter? Are you in a swing-state and every commercial break has candidates telling you how the other side is full of crap?  Do you feel disenfranchised and would like to be able to support a ticket that you believe in? Would you like to tell everyone you see about that ticket? If you said yes to two or more of those questions, then we have the T-Shirts or magnets for you. PleaseRock.com has announced that along with their usual array of cool shirts that they’ve added a couple of classic rock favorites as well. Available is a classic, Hall/Oates 2012 “I CAN Go For That” T-shirt and also some goodies...

    “First Man on the Harvest Moon!” – Stephen Dalrymple NBC News were the first to report the death of astronaut Neil Armstrong, which is obviously a huge story, but in the frenzy to get the first full story up on their website they made a mistake in their headline. They originally reported the death of ‘Astronaut Neil Young’. NBC News first reported Armstrong’s death in a tweet . That’s where most people first heard the news. Armstrong’s wife Carol told NBC’s Jay Barbree about her husband’s passing  and that’s how word got out. Barbree broke the story, and he’s getting praised  for it. In the minutes after, the NBC News website was frantically trying to get their story up. In their haste, a mistake was...

    “First Man on the Harvest Moon!” – Stephen Dalrymple NBC News were the first to report the death of astronaut Neil Armstrong, which is obviously a huge story, but in the frenzy to get the first full story up on their website they made a mistake in their headline. They originally reported the death of ‘Astronaut Neil Young’. NBC News first reported Armstrong’s death in a tweet . That’s where most people first heard the news. Armstrong’s wife Carol told NBC’s Jay Barbree about her husband’s passing  and that’s how word got out. Barbree broke the story, and he’s getting praised  for it. In the minutes after, the NBC News website was frantically trying to get their story up. In their haste, a mistake was...

Today’s Cool Album of the Day (#113 in the Series) is Little Feat, Waiting For Columbus. We usually only have studio albums in this blog. No Greatest Hits packages either. But today is going to be different. Today is Little Feat, Waiting For Columbus. It’s quite possibly the best live album ever. (Note: since this was originally published we have indeed begun covering live albums, but still no greatest hits packages.) I do so for sad reasons. Little Feat drummer Richie Hayward passed away yesterday from liver cancer. He will be missed by masses. He was a wonderful musician and according to those that knew him, a wonderful person. What always amazed me about Waiting For Columbus was Richie’s...

    Yes, Cheap Trick Fans, it has indeed been  35 years since the boys played and released the classic “Live in Budokan” album. To celebrate they will be performing the full concert set list in its entirety. The first show will be the John Varvatos Bowery boutique in New York City. The boutique where the performance will take place is in the storefront once occupied by CBGB. The band is close with Mr. Varcatos.  You can see the show via new.livestream.com/CheapTrick/Budokan. The April 28th date was the date of the original show in Japan. On April 30th they’ll move the show to El Rey in Los Angeles. There they will play the setlist from April 30th, 1978. It will be televised...

  Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “99 Revolutions” by Green Day Can an artist who has been charged with being a party animal for an arena full of people still be the life of the party after coming off a stint in rehab? That question was answered this evening when Green Day took the stage for their rescheduled 99 Revolutions Tour supporting three recent album releases Uno!, Dos!  and Tre!. And with the help of his two band mates Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool, plus longtime touring guitarist and new fourth member James White augmented by touring members Jason Freese on keyboards and saxophone and Jeff Matika on guitars, Billy Joe Armstrong managed to whip up...

  One of the greatest honors in the recording world is to have your work added to the Library of Congress National Registry. Let’s look at the 100 or so entries that were recorded since 1960. Here are the final 25. Be sure to visit all four pages Part 1 / Part 2 /Part 3 / Part 4 ———————————————————————————– “Born to Run” (album). Bruce Springsteen. (1975) Singer and songwriter Bruce Springsteen, whose live performances are renowned for their energy and passion, burst onto the rock scene in the early 1970s, a time when many believed that rock was in need of new lifeblood. Billed early in his career as “the next Bob Dylan,” his music evolved into a unique synthesis of early rock and...

  One of the greatest honors in the recording world is to have your work added to the Library of Congress National Registry. Let’s look at the 100 or so entries that were recorded since 1960. Here are the third 25. Be sure to visit all four pages Part 1 / Part 2 /Part 3 / Part 4 ———————————————————————————– “The Band” (album). The Band. (1969) The Band’s debut album, “Music from Big Pink,” was a shot across the bow of popular music. “We were rebelling against the rebellion,” declared guitarist Robbie Robertson. Ignoring the prevailing “hard” rock, their second, self-titled LP (colloquially known as “the brown album”) continued their emphasis on Americana, but featured even better songwriting and ensemble playing than that on “Pink.”...

  One of the greatest honors in the recording world is to have your work added to the Library of Congress National Registry. Let’s look at the 100 or so entries that were recorded since 1960. Here are the second 25. Be sure to visit all four pages Part 1 / Part 2 /Part 3 / Part 4 ———————————————————————————– “I Started Out as a Child” (album). Bill Cosby. (1964) Recorded live at Mr. Kelly’s in Chicago, Bill Cosby’s second album is made up of short vignettes on a wide range of topics, but mainly drawn from his childhood in Philadelphia. Cosby’s delivery is intimate in style, but he uses the microphone and public address system of the venue to create...