Judas Priest – Nostradamus – The debate continues

I’ll continue to follow up on the ongoing debate regarding the new Judas Priest album Nostradamus, which we’ve talked about previously. My good friend Chris Akin spent an hour on Saturday night’s edition of The Classic Metal Show debating and talking about the new album with Blabbermouth.net contributor Keith Bergman (another longtime friend of mine.) […]

A little Patience with Lonn Friend

I enjoy Lonn Friend’s reflections on the past, present, and future yet to come. In his latest dispatch, he visits a number of topics, including the filming of the Guns ‘n Roses video for “Patience.” Read on…. link to original Myspace post How do you know when the shadows have really given way to light? […]

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 […]

CD Review: Journey – Revelation

The past couple of years have been turbulent ones for Journey. They released a new CD Generations that came out shortly before Sanctuary, the record company that released it, went belly up. Vocalist Steve Augeri ran into problems on the road that saw the band resort to taped vocals initially, and several days before starting […]

Imeem/Sleater-Kinney

I’m just going to take a moment to talk about today’s latest musical web addiction in my world. I have a new friend, and I can tell already that we’re going to be really good friends. I say “friend,” but actually it’s merely the website Imeem. I’ve been aware of Imeem for quite some time, […]