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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