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Rage Against The Machine Celebrate 20 Year Anniversary Of Debut Album With Limited Edition Box Set
posted: October 10, 2012
Can you believe it’s been twenty years since Rage Against The Machine released their debut self-titled album? In 1992, the politically charged rap/rock hybrid group came right out of the gate with one of the…
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Riffs, Rants, And Rumors: Los Lobos Look Back On 'Kiko'
posted: August 29, 2012
It was 1991 and Los Lobos were pissed. We had recorded The Neighborhood and toured that record nonstop, remembers saxophonist/keyboardist Steve Berlin. The Neighborhood took us about a year to make, for no…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Richard Barone Regains His 'Cool Blue Halo'
posted: February 15, 2012
The rock world was getting ugly in 1987”the fresh fruit from the first half of the decade began to turn rancid as New Wave pioneers lost the plot and either fell apart or fatally tarted…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Rockin' Holiday Gift Guide
posted: December 7, 2011
The holiday season is supposed to appeal to all of our finer instincts as sentient earthlings ”at least that’s the idea that’s been inculcated in us practically since birth. So why is its annual arrival…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Can's Crowning Krautrock Moment
posted: November 30, 2011
Nothing is true, everything is permitted. So goes the famous maxim popularized by Vladimir Bartol‘s 1938 novel, Alamut, and attributed to eleventh century Persian revolutionary Hassan-i Sabbah. If there’s any album falling even nominally under…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Bob Seger's Still Making Night Moves
posted: November 23, 2011
The Bob Seger catalog is the rock & roll equivalent of your skeletal system”you probably take it for granted to the point that you seldom think about it, but where would you be without it?…
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