50 of the best non-grunge alternative ’90s rock albums
The '90s is often associated with grunge music. Sometimes it even overshadows its overarching umbrella genre, "alternative rock." This was a time when this...
Rat Bastard talks boring music, liberating noise and cutting handmade records...
Miami Beach's Rat Bastard has parlayed obscurity into a sort of personal success. Born Frank Falestra in 1958, in the small town of Ellenville,...
David Bowie’s Heathen photographer reveals Bowie’s surprise of Next Day’s success...
Ahead of the unveiling of an exhibition of unseen images featuring David Bowie shot by Markus Klinko for the 2002 album Heathen, I had a chance to talk...
‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’: the last of the great...
Though it was David Bowie's first starring role in a feature film, Nicolas Roeg's 1976 movie the Man Who Fell to Earth is far...
A Final Post and Message
Well, that was an interesting year to take a sabbatical. I saw a total of three movies in theaters, and it wasn’t because of...
From the Archives: David Bowie’s longest ever performance happened in Fort...
Back in October of 1997, I wrote about what will go down in history as David Bowie's longest ever live performance. I was following...
Exclusive interview with Starfucker (Part 1 of 2): Philosophy and rock...
At the time of publication of this post, Starfucker have only about a week left in its nearly two-month-long US tour (purchase tickets through...
As Pink Floyd reissue mania continues, allow me a few words...
Pink Floyd has seen quite a resurgence in interest these past couple of years. Since the blog began, I have referenced them often. There...
An interview with Harry Waters – jazz man … and son...
I have produced another artist profile piece for another “New Times” publication in South Florida. This one appears in the “Broward/Palm Beach New Times,”...
Posies’ Ken Stringfellow talks keeping busy and big — but tough...
When we caught up with singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist Ken Stringfellow he was as occupied as you might expect ... even in a foreign land like...