Dave Steed takes a look at 10 more of his favorite 300 metal albums.
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Ken Shane
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When General Norman Johnson died on Oct. 13, the world of soul music suffered another incalculable loss. Ken Shane remembers the great singer.
Dw. Dunphy
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It bothers me that Bryan Ferry’s new album Olympia slips into the “what might have been” category so easily. For what it is, being a release primarily comprised of Ferry’s…
Dave Steed
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You know you’ve hit it big time when celebrities wear your t-shirt. Shit though, it’s Miley. Run to the hills!
Jeff Giles
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If you were reading my stuff way back in the old Jefitoblog days, you know I have a sick fascination for smooth jazz — to the point that I ended…
Ken Shane
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In 1982 Richard and Linda Thompson released what some saw as a devastating breakup album. The truth is complicated. A brilliant reissue gets to the heart of it.
Ted Asregadoo
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Open up you bags, ’cause this week’s Mix Six is going to really dish out the musical treats!
Dave Steed
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Dave Steed checks out seven new metal releases so you know what to headbang to.
Jeff Giles
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Malcolm John “Mac” Rebennack has gone by many names over the course of his long career — Dr. John, the Night Tripper, that guy with the song in the Heineken…
Rob Smith
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Jeff Scott Soto is one of the great long-time underdogs of AOR. Rob Smith advocates for his immediate ascension to superstardom, in this week’s “Death by Power Ballad.”
Michael Fortes
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Michael Fortes catches up with the stars of Parlour to Parlour’s 14th episode, The New Up, as they release a new EP and prepare for another national tour.
Mark Feldman
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What if the Beatles stayed together — and the best of their solo work ended up on Fab Four albums?
Ken Shane
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Philadelphia’s War On Drugs follows up their 2008 album “Wagonwheel Blues” with an EP that defies that conventions of that format.
Jeff Giles
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I never thought I’d be interested in listening to an Aaron Neville record. Yes, of course he’s done some stellar work with the Neville Brothers, but fellow children of the…
Will Harris
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Not every album released on Not Lame Records was the very definition of power pop, but 10 years on, Mark Helm’s Everything’s OK remains an album of powerful pop. It’s an important distinction…and a great record.
Michael Parr
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Think you know your cover art? Come test your knowledge in this week’s Cover Me with Michael Parr.
Jeff Giles
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Powder your noses, ladies — CAPTAIN VIDEO! is back with a new transmission from the 1980th Dimension.
Dw. Dunphy
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The second (and seemingly final) Traveling Wilburys album turns 20 this week — and for Dw. Dunphy, the disappointment still stings a little.
Jeff Giles
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Very shortly, I’m going to abandon any kind of commentary on these KBCO things altogether — it is a seventeen-volume series, after all, and we’re only five in — but…
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Dw. Dunphy
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This is an archival interview which took place in October 2010.
Dw. Dunphy
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If you’re holding your breath for the day MTV starts playing music videos again, let it go. It’s never going to happen, not while there’s a solitary teen mom left…
Michael Fortes
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Peace and love – they were meant to be together. With that in mind, Michael Fortes brings together a mix of 20 songs with “peace” and “love” in their titles.
Dave Steed
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Headbang along with Dave Steed as we inch closer to the top metal albums in the world.
Scott Malchus
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A strong, effective piece of songwriting that blended hard rock with some new wave leanings, you hear an unexpected poignancy in “Little Guitars.” That’s right, a Van Halen song that actually has feeling.
Dw. Dunphy
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From time to time, it is interesting to look back on albums often regarded as classic, if just to divine what is so classic about them. Some albums have had…
Ken Shane
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Earlier this year HBO aired the New Orleans-based series Treme, featuring remarkable music each week. Now it’s been collected in a soundtrack album.
Ken Shane
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Occasionally there is an event in the music world that transcends the mundane. The release of Bob Dylan’s publishing demos from the early ’60s is such an event.
Dave Steed
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Gregg Giuffria hands his balls over to Gene Simmons, Glenn Hughes comes back to rock and Hooters! Can’t go wrong with that combo.
Dave Steed
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Dave Steed headbangs along with new releases from Woe, October Falls, Firewind and more.
Rob Smith
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Rod Stewart has made another crappy standards album. “Rob Smith Can’t Say No,” but he CAN suggest some alternative listening.