Journey once ruled the earth. If you’re reading Addicted to Vinyl, you know this already. Even if you did, the Journey story probably runs deeper than you realize. And it’s all laid out in a new book by Neil Daniels, the UK rock author extraordinaire who’s written books about Bon Jovi, Judas Priest and Led […]
Suburban Metal Dad no. 44, “Star Wars Saturday”
Suburban Metal Dad, an original webcomic by D.X. Ferris, served fresh every Monday and Friday. Check out today’s strip after the jump…
Contest: A Free MP3 and chance to win “Europe ’72” by The Grateful Dead
I had the great pleasure of speaking with longtime Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux this past week for an interview that will be online soon. How soon? As soon as my fingers can do the transcribing work! Lemieux is currently knee deep in the assembly work for the highly anticipated 72 CD release of Europe […]
Rhino Handmade prepares Chicago “Live in ’75” release
When I spent some time recently reminiscing about some great live Chicago video from the ’70s, I had no idea that my words might make it to the music gods with power to release cool stuff. Actually, it’s probably completely unrelated, but I’m very, very stoked about the latest announcement from Rhino Handmade about Chicago’s […]
Suburban Metal Dad no. 43, “Mighty KC RIP?”
Suburban Metal Dad, an original webcomic by D.X. Ferris, served fresh every Monday and Friday. Check out today’s strip after the jump…
Springsteen at Winterland
Every now and then, someone will leave a comment here that for one reason or another, fails to post in the comments of the actual post. A gent named “Mark” left a comment on my post of Bruce Springsteen’s classic Agora show, which as you can imagine remains as one of the most popular posts […]
A Smart Ass In Every Room: Cruising The Bay Area with Joel Selvin
As someone with a passion for both music and writing, I really look up to the legendary members of the old guard that really paved the way for what is being done in their respective fields today. On the radio side of things, I’m talking about guys like Rick Dees (now on Twitter @RickDees) and […]
Suburban Metal Dad no. 42, “Neighborhood Politics”
Suburban Metal Dad: original webcomic by D.X. Ferris, served fresh every Monday and Friday. Check out today’s strip after the jump…
Some good news for Crowded House fans…
As Record Store Day approaches, there are two items on my “must have” list amidst the many other items on the list of releases that fall into the “would like to have” category (I’m looking at you, Tom Petty vinyl reissues). One of those items is the Foo Fighters vinyl compilation that collects many of […]
Further Conversation: More Stuff From My Chat With Everest
I spoke with Everest bassist Elijah Thomson on Monday for the Riverfront Times. There was more stuff than I could use for the piece, so of course you get to enjoy the tasty leftovers here. I always have to give credit to my good friend Rob Evanoff (who at the time, was their publicist) for […]