Legendary former Plain Dealer rock critic Jane Scott turns 90 years old today. For those of you that are outside of Cleveland, this link will give you some entertaining material to read about Jane. And for even more reading, check out this 2004 interview with Jane! How about this stat from Wikipedia: Scott retired in […]
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Welcome To Cleveland. Wait, where are you going?
Good stuff via The Cleveland Bachelor Here’s the first installment, in case you missed it:
The Excitable Boy
After laying out the reasons why I’m not a big Springsteen fan, I feel compelled to tell you why Warren Zevon is one of my favorites. I first heard his music in 1978 on WMMS, Cleveland’s only true rock station at the time (aside from M-105 which briefly put up a good fight but flamed […]
The Stereo Dictator Makes the Scene
Greetings ATV fans! It is an honor to join you all as an official member of one of the coolest websites on the net hosted by one of the coolest guys I know. Now that the sucking up is over, let’s get down to it. I’m Kevin Brennan aka the Stereo Dictator, a lifelong Cleveland-area […]
Here’s a rock and roll tour for ya – Bob Dylan + John Mellencamp + Willie Nelson
Bob Dylan is once again revisiting his highly successful summer tour of minor league ballparks, which inspired similar tours featuring Def Leppard and Bryan Adams, and Counting Crows with Live and Collective Soul. Dylan grabs fellow veteran ballpark traveler Willie Nelson and adds John Mellencamp to the bill. Dylan was so-bad-that-I-walked-out awful a few years […]
Quick Hits: Material Issue, Bruce Springsteen, Career Advice for Aging Rockers, Neil Diamond
Oh internet friends of mine, it’s been a looooong time since we’ve done one of these Quick Hits type of posts. I’m getting ready to point my car towards Michigan for night #2 of the J. Geils Band reunion shows in Detroit, happening Saturday night. The band are reuniting for a pair of shows in […]
Record Store Day is HERE
Well folks, here we are. RECORD STORE DAY. I’ll be headed out in a little bit to grab a couple of things, and also will be picking up stuff for Brian, who’s going to unfortunately miss Record Store Day due to work obligations. Seriously, working from 11am-9:30pm puts a serious damper on being able to […]
Record Store Day roundtable: Discussing the resurgence of metal vinyl with key record labels
Saw this very cool post from my buddy Mark Morton and had to share it here for everyone’s enjoyment. In the post, Mark and a panel of heavy hitters from the industry take a look at the renewed popularity of vinyl, specifically the metal genre, and the overall impact that it is making in the […]
Record Store Day is TOMORROW!
It’s been a fun week! Wednesday night, I went to the Rock Hall with my pals D.X. Ferris from Scene Magazine, Sirius XM personality Dusty Street, and Pale Hollow drummer Nick Perry, for an evening of Q&A with drummer Joe Vitale about his book Backstage Pass. If the goal is to leave ’em wanting more, […]
How To Get The Job
My buddy Tom Megalis serves up another winner below. Those of ya’ll here in Northeast Ohio will recognize Tom as “that Revol guy,” and some might even know him as the father of Cleveland/Brooklyn musical sensation Nicholas Megalis. He’s one of the funniest guys I ever had the pleasure of working with – and I […]