Addicted To Vinyl

Seventeen years ago today, Pearl Jam released their debut album Ten. As of 2003, the album has been certified twelve times platinum in the United States, and remains the band’s best selling album.
So you might find it hard to believe that the album wasn’t an immediate success, and took nearly a year to reach […]

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So, Nine Inch Nails were in town over the weekend at Quicken Loans Arena, which got me thinking a bit about something. But first, you can check out a few reviews of the Cleveland show here, here, and here.
Still with me?
Good.
Billboard Magazine has a feature online celebrating 20 years of Nine Inch […]

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On the heels of their recent live DVD release, Tesla are set to release Forever More, their first new studio album in four years on October 7th.
My compadre Chris Akin caught up with Tesla guitarist Dave Rude for an interview on last night’s edition of The Classic Metal Show. The interview covers a lot […]

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Unless you’ve been under a rock today, you probably know that Metallica revealed “The Day That Never Comes,” the first new music from their new album, the Rick Rubin-produced Death Magnetic, which will be online and in stores on September 12th. Clocking in at nearly 8 minutes, the track is already inspiring debate on […]

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Fifteen years ago, I saw Bruce Hornsby for the first time here in Cleveland at Music Hall, a show that sealed the deal making me permanently a diehard Bruce Hornsby fan.
As a kid, Hornsby caught my ear with songs from The Way It Is and the followup Scenes from The Southside.
A Night On […]

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Bruce Springsteen onstage at the Cleveland Agora, August 9th, 1978
Image courtesy of Uncle Waldo’s Coffeehouse Concerts
August 9th, 1978:
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band were onstage at the Cleveland Agora for a concert celebrating the 10th anniversary of local powerhouse rock and roll station WMMS.
Today is the 30th anniversary of that legendary concert and live […]

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A week before Bruce Springsteen and the E. Street Band took the stage for a string of homecoming shows at Giants Stadium, my comrade Chris Akin got a chance to talk with E. Street Band guitarist Nils Lofgren.
Lofgren spoke with Chris about his new CD The Loner: Nils sings Neil, a wonderful […]

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A few days ago, I was preparing this post and had to put it aside because of “real world” commitments. Several days later, as I was working on another post, I wound up on the Pollstar site to check a date, and came across newly posted concert dates for Jackson Browne!
I shot straight to […]

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A week from today (8/12,) reactivated Boston rockers Extreme, will release their first release of new material in 13 years titled Saudades De Rock.
(If you’re scratching your head on the above, it is pronounced “sow-dodge de rock”, which roughly translates from Portuguese as “Nostalgic Yearning for Rock”)
While rejoicing at the prospects of new material from […]

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I’m on the Counting Crows email list, so I’m not quite sure how I missed this, but the Counting Crows have partnered with LiveDownloads.Com to launch an official concert download site.
To celebrate the launch of LiveCountingCrows.Com, the band are offering a free download (for the first 10,000 fans) of their Charlotte, NC concert, recorded only […]

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