Our buddy Bear from Cleveland Rock and Roll went to see Steely Dan earlier this week. Though we tried, we couldn’t scrape together the dollars here at ATV HQ to fund a ticket for either of the two Steely Dan shows, so we invited Bear to share his review of the first night! Is There […]
Category: Albums Revisited
The Band – The Last Waltz
Having my own music blog has really magnified one of the things that I love most about life – the musical journeys that you take, and are introduced to, by friends. A couple of weeks ago, I was catching up on the massive stack of blogs in my Google Reader…..which really makes me think about […]
Jonah Koslen to recreate classic MSB CD
I was jazzed to see the news about former Michael Stanley Band singer-songwriter Jonah Koslen who recently announced an April 18th date at The Winchester where he will recreate the classic MSB live album Stagepass with his creatively titled band Stage Pass Now. As someone that didn’t grow up here in Cleveland, it took me […]
Good Listening: Icehouse – Live in Australia 1988
I was having an odd Saturday night at home hanging out on Twitter. Earlier that day I spent the afternoon cleaning house with my new roommate. Here’s how that went down… Earlier in the week, she asked me “What do you think about a day of cleaning on Saturday?” The voice inside my head immediately […]
Going back in time with Duran Duran’s “Classic Album” Rio on DVD
I got my hands on the recently released Duran Duran – Rio DVD, which gets the documentary treatment from Eagle Vision’s excellent Classic Albums video series. You’ve probably seen Classic Albums on VH-1 Classic featuring Meat Loaf’s Bat Out Of Hell, Def Leppard’s Hysteria, Queen’s A Night At The Opera, etc. I first discovered the […]
Spending another Sunday morning with the Counting Crows
I’d like to start this particular post off with a plug for Mel, who takes a look at the pros and cons of long distance relationships via a two-parter post on her blog. Oh, the paragraphs I could dedicate to the subject…. We’re going to talk some Counting Crows in a second, but here’s a […]
I’m thinkin’ about Tonic
Any Tonic fans in the house? I’ve been listening to Tonic’s second album Sugar a lot this week. It’s probably my favorite from the three albums that they’ve done, (so far?) and I feel like they often got the short end of a stick as a band. Take a look at their three albums, and […]
And tomorrow will make a day since we’ve met
I wrapped up the week freshly reunited with an old friend. Gregor over at captain’s dead caught my eye with MP3s of one of my favorite KFOG-FM/ San Francisco broadcasts, a 1996 session with Paul Westerberg recorded at Fantasy Studios. This particular broadcast is a nice little one hour Westerberg career rundown that held a […]
Expanded reissue of Warren Zevon’s major label debut in stores today
Warren Zevon’s classic 1976 self-titled major label debut gets an upgrade with a deluxe edition that hits stores and digital download today. The brand new two CD version of Warren Zevon, Zevon’s classic Asylum Records debut produced by friend Jackson Browne, is fattened up with a second disc that is loaded to the brim with […]
My DVR is crushing me + I read books, and watch videos on Youtube
Greetings from the homestead. Things have been kind of weird here recently. The other night, I got a knock on my door, and the man at the door randomly asked me if I was selling my house. With his family sitting in the van across the street. It was a little bit unsettling the more […]