Spending a year with David Foster

More goodness from the Popdose folks: The Video Setup for Ear of Madness – click and watch this first Yup, that’s me. And my iPod. And David Foster. Everyone knows David Foster, right? The penultimate overproducer. The musician. The songwriter. The record executive. The TV reality star? Yes, indeed. The Canadian who alienated millions of […]

Find Your Own Way Home

Find Your Own Way Home is the name of the latest CD from veteran Illinois classic rockers REO Speedwagon. And the album is also the unlikely source of inspiration that led me through what would be an important period of personal exploration in 2007. I purchased the CD as part of a “can’t miss” three […]

Life on Planet Rock with Metallica

Metallica – Fight Fire with Fire (live at the Wiltern in May of 2008 w/ Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers) Former RIP Magazine editor Lonn Friend shares a great read and look back at his time spent with Metallica, chronicling the genesis of what would become “The Black Album.” Friend posted the following […]