It’s quite fashionable to criticize the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s annual inductees, and I’m nothing if not fashionable.
The 2019 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees Are…Well, They Are
Deep Cuts: Classic (Instrumental) Rock
Rock and roll, for all of its memorable riffs and heavy beats, is really a lyric-based medium.
Deep Cuts: Too Late Songs
I missed my Monday deadline: No true tale of liquor, lust, and primer-gray Camaros for you this week.
From the Stacks: Def Leppard – Hysteria (picture disc)
Time to unload another one of the picture discs that I purchased as an investment because I was an idiot. I bought this one with my Starship Records manager’s discount. I probably […]
From the Stacks: Molly Hatchet (Self-Titled)
All right, I’ve busted out the Nazareth and Herman’s Hermits Frank Frazetta album covers, now it’s time to bust out the big guns.
114. You Don’t Know How to Play the Game
Steve The Manager left Camelot Music for a bigger store down in Florida. Our new boss was a 24 year-old named Rich who sported cowboy boots and a poodle mullet. Almost immediately […]
84. Happiness I Cannot Feel And Love To Me Is So Unreal
If you could have one superpower what would you choose? The answers are as hackneyed as the question: I want to fly for the freedom; I’ll take strength for the invincibility; give me […]
Deep Cuts: Music Goes To Court
On May 19, 1913, Igor Stravinsky debuted his new ballet, The Rite of Spring. People actually rioted, proving once and for all that ballet fans are representin’. That riot and the legal […]
67. I’m Up and Down and In Between
Without question the biggest album of 1983 in Boiling Springs, South Carolina was Def Leppard’s Pyromania. Nothing captured the upstate zeitgeist like that album: mullets, alcohol, and big dumb songs about rocking […]
The Cutout Bin Revisited
Are you still awake? Sweet Dio’s crucifix, I started rambling about junior high school nine months ago and you have sat there the whole time, patiently staring at my record collection while I […]
Why It Matters 