Tin Roof. Rusted.

“You’re pretty sentimental aren’t you,” she asked me via text message. Well, yeah….you read the blog, right? That’s what I was thinking, with so many sentimental memories connected to songs, albums, places, and people, I guess like pretty much everyone else in the world. Although I can tell you that I’ve met plenty that aren’t […]

At Bonnaroo (sort of.)

Well kids, here we are! After making my way through seemingly insurmountable amounts of work on Monday and Tuesday, I was finally ready and able to step out the door for Bonnaroo. At this point, I need to stop down and give huge amounts of thanks to my co-worker and fantastic friend Rebecca for being […]

Blow Your Face Out!

What if Peter Wolf and the J. Geils Band were to decide to come to Detroit and play a couple of random rare shows on a weekend? That would be awesome, right? My friends, it certainly was. I finally got to cross another band off of my list of “concert regrets” – bands that I […]

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 […]

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 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, […]