Last year I made a real effort to listen to a lot of new music (which is why I was able to come up with this top 10 albums of 2010 list.) This year I haven’t made that effort. But a lot of other people have. So here’s a best of of best of 2011 [...]

Remember these guys? You may not appreciate it at this point but these guys were a sort of cutting edge rock and roll group for their time. They were a self contained song writing, performance and production unit, that lyrically addressed in any depth for the first time, the youth culture of California of their [...]

Bon Jovi everybody! Howsitgowin? OK. Here’s the deal: If you’ve been checking in regularly and not been finding new posts as often as you have in the past, don’t worry. We’ve all been kind of busy dealing with stuff like health issues, real jobs, being held without being charged, and everyday matters like that. But [...]

Seig Howdy! Music By Day Consumers. Since Pink Floyd seem to be ALMOST as popular as The Beatles around these here parts, it’s probably a good idea to address a couple of issues I see as being unimportant to anyone but the newly obsessive Pink Floyd fan who needs just that little bit more than [...]

If you don’t live in Canada, have YOU heard of Sloan? No? Maybe you’ve heard a song called “Underwhelmed“. This one was on their debut LP Smeared (1992) and was on a ‘major’ label popular with the ‘grunge’ world at the time: DGC. This song almost made them rich as Chris Murphy (Bass/lead Vocal) pointed [...]

This week Jimmy Fallon’s late night show is having a Pink Floyd week to celebrate today’s release of the Pink Floyd Discovery Box Set and the Dark Side of the Moon Immersion Box Set. Last night The Shins kicked off the week with a cover of “Breathe.” The schedule for the rest of the week: [...]

30 years after releasing High and Dry, the album in which Def Leppard began to crawl out of obscurity and begin to develop the sound that would be uniquely theirs, front man Joe Elliot doesn’t look much worse for wear.  In fact, he doesn’t appear to have changed at all, except for a few scowl [...]

I don’t imagine I was the only counterculture personality who smiled at the news–news?  really?–that the goddess Oprah planned to shut down her televised bubble gum juggernaut in 2011. Now I may be totally off base with this, but when Oprah wasn’t giving away cars to focusing on the medical ailment du jour, she’d pad [...]

If you’re a songwriter who is interested in some friendly competition with other songwriters & constructive feedback on your songwriting you should check out Song Fight! It works like this: Every week (or so) a new song title is given and you have to write an original song based around that title to be submitted [...]

Rob Zombie a heavy metal legend. Rob first started in White Zombie a early heavy metal band. What made White Zombie stand out was that they were a purely fantasy band, which in the 90′s made them very unique. They had four albums in their career from 1987 – 1995. Their main influence was old horror films [...]