Music & Merch
As traditional record sales have gone away, selling merchandise is one of the only consistent ways for artists to make money...but it's...
Toadies Are Alive And Well
Fort Worth rock veterans owned the crowd at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey Photo credit - Michael Kravetsky/Watermrk Studios...
A Superstar Is Born
Dave Grohl debuts with Nirvana 32 years ago today No one could've predicted that a skinny punk rock drummer from the Washington D.C....
Getting Better With Age
R.E.M.'s 1992 album Automatic For The People still sounds amazing 30 years later Automatic For The People was released in the United...
Slacker: 1991, Teen Spirit Angst, and the Generation It Created
A behind-the-scenes look at this crazy journey as I write my first book For those of you who've known me since the late 80s/early 90s,...
Brains, Beats, and Bars
My conversation with Hip-Hop producer and Ph.D., Configa Artistry comes in many forms. Technical skill, hours, and years of practice in...
Chuck D of Public Enemy Agrees to Sell Music Catalog
In what's becoming one of the hottest trends in the music industry, Chuck D of the iconic Public Enemy has agreed with Reach Music...
Music For Insight & Regard, But Mostly, For The FKN Love
Arrested Development's latest album just might be their best. My conversation with Speech about this and much more. “When the hard stuff...
10 Years Gone But Never Forgotten
Remembering Beastie Boys founding member, Adam Yauch (MCA) on the 10th anniversary of his death Earlier this week, May 4th to be exact,...
Let The Music Jump Off The Page
Reading, writing, and discussing music books are an underrated part of music fandom There's something about the written word, no matter...
752 Days Later...Live Music Comes Back Into My Life
The Menzingers at Starland Ballroom 4/2/22 Photo by author Let's go back a bit, shall we? The date was March 11. 2020 and my life (and...
If Music Is Life, Drums Are Its Heartbeat
Author S.W. Lauden explores the history and importance of punk rock drummers in his latest book, FORBIDDEN BEAT: Perspectives On Punk...
