I dug this lengthy blast of lower-cased brain food from Joshua Jesty, and felt compelled to share it here with all of you very fine vinyl citizens. Here’s hoping that you enjoy it, as much as I did. Don’t forget to read my previous Jesty-related dispatch regarding Girl, the new forthcoming Jesty musical mixdown that […]
Category: Good Reads
Quick Hits: The Wrestler, The Yayhoos, Mix Tapes, & Lemonheads
Hey kids, I had a “moment” this past week. Occasionally, I’ll lend out music to friends, although if I have my ultra-anal thinking cap on, I’ll often just burn them a copy instead. In this case, I wasn’t thinking straight (not the first time that this has happened.) A couple of weeks later, my co-worker […]
Happy 90th Birthday to Jane Scott
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 […]
Inside the new Bruce Springsteen Rock Hall exhibit + Joe Vitale comes to the Rock Hall
Hey Bruce fans, dig this! Thomas Mulready from CoolCleveland.Com caught up with Jim Henke, Vice President of Exhibitions and Curatorial Affairs for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, to discuss the new Bruce Springsteen exhibit From Asbury Park to the Promised Land: The Life and Music of Bruce Springsteen Check out Mulready’s video interview […]
The Great Metallica Debate
As a publicity whore, I was happy when Scene Magazine got in touch and asked if I’d be interested in debating various Metallica topics, leading up to their pending induction on Saturday night into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Brian and I will be in attendance for the induction ceremonies, and I think […]
Blue Arrow Records Grand Opening On Waterloo – More Details + Devo + SXSW
George from Brewed Fresh Daily has more details and a nice picture of Blue Arrow Records, which will officially open on Thursday in the Waterloo District, located at 16001 Waterloo Road. I shared a basic rundown on Blue Arrow in my previous update, and George shares some additional background right here! I’m looking forward to […]
Some Links To Know About – The Jigsaw, Propaghandi, The Alarm, + Bruce Springsteen
I’ve been ill over the past 24 hours after reading D.X. Ferris’s rundown of the downward spiral of Phil Lara and the Jigsaw Entertainment Group. In the past couple of years, Lara has purchased or taken a controlling interest in 4 prominent Cleveland-area landmarks – The Jigsaw Saloon and Stage, Peabody’s Down Under, The Hi-Fi […]
4 Days in California with Blue Rodeo
Yeah, you caught me…trying to put a clever twist on the Five Days in July album title from Canadian treasure Blue Rodeo. ATV reader “oldmanflint” was lucky enough to attend two out of the four recent California area dates from Blue Rodeo. The review of one of those shows was shared previously in the comments […]
Another cool website – Classic 45s
Scored another worthy website to know about via Bruce/Not Lame/Twitter. Bruce sez: VINYL LOVERS – now this is a truly awesome site for lovers of those little 7″ers Indeed! I could spend hours looking at pix of labels and sleeves. Check out the site for yourself right here. And while you’re at it, here are […]
Cool Chris Cornell interview
My musical comrade Will Harris (Bullz-Eye, Popdose, etc) is always talking to someone cool. Everytime I turn around, there’s a Facebook status update from Will to make me jealous, or something new from Will to read in my Google Reader. Today, Chris Cornell was the subject for a great interview posted at Bullz-Eye by Will. […]