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Here’s Something Else!: We’re Buying A Stairway To Led Zeppelin

Something Else! Reviews August 2, 2011 3

Led Zeppelin’s image, dating back to the band’s debauched 1970s heyday, has grown so outsized that it sometimes obscures, well, the music

Here’s Something Else!: Supertramp That Doesn’t, You Know, Suck

Something Else! Reviews July 19, 2011 0

Supertramp was many things over its too-brief period of hitmaking — wanna-be proggers, post-Beatle popsters, kinda-classical rockers, memory-defining radio monoliths. Sure, Roger Hodgson’s voice could occasionally become a sing-songy distraction. And they were sometimes,

Here’s Something Else!: Kicking It Old School, Bo Diddley Edition

Something Else! Reviews June 7, 2011 0

It’s hard, if you really listen, not to be startled when 1955′s “Bo Diddley” — all fast-driving beats and nervy aggression — gets going. Diddley ditched chord changes for propulsive determination more than half

Here’s Something Else!: Kicking It Old School, Isley Brothers Edition

Something Else! Reviews April 12, 2011 0

In a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame career dating back to the early 1950s, the Isley Brothers stayed on the move — transforming themselves from gospel shouters to doo-woppers to early rock ‘n’

The Steel Horse Archives: “Jackyl” (1992)

Jeff Vrabel September 21, 2009 6

JACKYL Title: “The Lumberjack Song” Album: Jackyl Release Date: 1992 Why You Remember Them: You cannot imagine how often, in the research of this column, one comes across the phrase “lumped into the hair

Way Out Wednesday: “Rock ‘n’ Roll Disco with Fat Albert and the Junkyard Band!”

Tony Redman March 18, 2009 3

It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time to pull out another album from the Way Out Junk archives. Today’s music selection from Fat Albert and the Junkyard Band is called Rock ‘n’ Roll Disco, which