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• The Chesterfield Kings’ Long Road to the Throne

  by Bob Hill•May 7, 2008•Comments (3)

  Back in the late ’70s the Chesterfield Kings had all the earmarks of a great American rock band destined for failure. The critics absolutely adored them. They played their hearts out for peanuts. They were huge in Europe. All of which generally leads to a five-year shelf life, a 10-year reunion, and a brief mention decades later on VH-1’s (read more)

• Your Handy Guide to the Month in Music

  by Mike Conklin•April, 30, 2008•Comments (0)

  Would you guys respect me less if I told you that, for my money, the most exciting thing going on in the music industry is featured twice a week on national television? It would, wouldn’t it? Well, It’s a good thing I’m so much more concerned with summer festivals and R.E.M. than any of that crap, isn’t it? (read more)

• Melodic Pop Punk: Descendents vs. Green Day

  by Daniel McDermott•April 30, 2008•Comments (11)

  In a family tree of popular music that begins with great-grandfather Robert Johnson, stretches down to Chuck Berry, branches off to Buddy Holly, the Beatles, Dylan, Zeppelin, the Ramones, and ends with the birth of Green Day, the Descendents would be the crazy musical uncle (read more)

• Questions and Answers With Ted Nugent

  by Matt Gewolb•April 16, 2008•Comments (23)

  Does this man really think that burglars should be denied a trial and executed on the spot? Pardon us for saying, but that seems a little crazy. (read more)

• Rediscovering Rock and Roll, A Journey: Chapter Three

  by Paul Williams•April 9, 2008•Comments (1)

  What kind of a fan am I today? In some ways I’m unchanged, and I still look for and sometimes find in the music exactly whatever it was I hungered after when I was 16 (proof that the world is a passionate place; a friend in the lonely night; release for my anger, confusion, idealism, desire fear and love). (read more)

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