Black Rose (Expanded Edition) – Spotify playlist I was gonna e-mail J.D. You see I was reading Mike Mettler’s interview with him in “Sound & Vision,” at least I think that’s where it was, I get so many magazines, they start to blur together, but not the point that J.D. was releasing expanded editions of […]

Turn Of The Decade Playlist – Spotify From the eighties to the nineties, when rock still ruled, before MTV went totally big budget pop. That’s right, rock used to dominate on TV, and TV dominated the airwaves, determined what we heard on radio too. And although Michael Jackson broke the color line, rap/hip-hop didn’t start […]

Rockin’ Vibes – Spotify playlist Do you know this band Kaleo? They’re from Iceland and now signed to Atlantic and they’ve played SXSW and…they’ve got two tracks with over twenty million plays on Spotify. I’ve never heard of them. I started with “Discover Weekly,” and discovered that unsung, never broke through Bob Schneider definitely has […]

Friday Night Playlist – Spotify Friday night, nothing much to do but hang around “Long Flowing Robe” Todd Rundgren From Todd’s second solo LP, “The Ballad Of Todd Rundgren,” the best work he ever did, and as a result of streaming services it’s right at your fingertips to check out. This album, and especially its […]