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 […]

The Top 12 Punk Rock Live Albums

Editor’s Note: This recent post from Brian at Broken Headphones was too good not to share here on Addicted to Vinyl. With his permission, I’m sharing it here for you to enjoy. If you’re not visiting Brian’s site on a regular basis, shame on you….add that sucker to your RSS! P.S. Brian’s original post featured […]

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 […]

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 […]