Led Zeppelin was reviled by the critics.  Garnering little mainstream press, the band’s first album built momentum over the spring and summer of 1969 and then in the fall, the band released the less than creatively entitled "II", "Whole Lotta Love" blistered onto the airwaves and suddenly, Led Zeppelin was the biggest act in the […]

From: HolleradoSubject: Thanks Hello Mr. LefsetzI am a longtime reader of your column, first time writer. I wanted to say thanks for talking about us last week. Besides  getting a whole bunch of new people to take notice of hollerdo, it really meant a lot to me personally to have you talk  about what we […]

I’m in Syracuse. Yes, I went to the Dinosaur.  I even went to Heid’s! How BBQ blossomed in upstate New York, I’ll never know.  Just like how white sausages in the region are named "Coneys".  But I got the full on feel.  Of a place off the beaten path where houses are cheap but the […]

I don’t trust research, methodology is key, and is so often suspect, and even worse, research will tell you where you’ve been, not where you’re going, but I point you to this recent study by Edison Research to counteract all the B.S. spewed by traditionalists in this industry as well as the blowhards at terrestrial […]