You’re not gonna listen to this record. But it’s the best Todd Rundgren album you’ve never heard. That’s the scourge of the Internet, of the modern era, we’ve got so much information at our fingertips that we don’t bother to partake, hell, some people forward links without listening or reading what they’re sending on! So […]

This is the one that made them a household name. Well, dorm room name. Prior to 1971 the Dead were San Francisco hipsters, with a small presence at the Fillmore East, where they most famously played at midnight. But despite not appearing in the Woodstock movie, in the spring of 1970 the Dead made inroads […]

Peter Frampton was not the only unheralded rock star to break through with a live album in 1976. But unlike “Frampton Comes Alive,” Bob Marley and the Wailers’ live LP was a single disc and it had little initial impact, it was not the end of the band’s career, but only the beginning. You’ve got […]

I gotta know tonight If you’re alone tonight I wanted to hear “Hysteria” in hi-def. So I fired up my Wimp app and searched, but didn’t find it, other than in its live iteration. That’s right, Def Leppard is at war with Universal. Can’t stop this feeling Can’t stop this fire The album is twenty […]