Friday, May 2, 2025

CD Review: Various Artists - Motor City Is Burning (2025)

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A hell of a lot of great music has come out of Detroit, Michigan and surrounding areas, from blues and soul artists like John Lee Hooker an...
Monday, April 28, 2025

Book Review: Richie Unterberger's Unknown Legends of Rock ‘n’ Roll (1999)

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Subtitled “Psychedelic Unknowns, Mad Geniuses, Punk Pioneers, Lo-Fi Mavericks & More,” Richie Unterberger sets the bar pretty high for ...
Friday, April 25, 2025

Book Review: Al Kooper’s Backstage Passes & Backstabbing Bastards (1999)

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Musician, songwriter, label executive, producer – Al Kooper has made a living out of being the “Forrest Gump” of rock music. For better tha...
Monday, April 21, 2025

Rock ‘n’ Roll Farm Report: Collage, The Exploding Hearts, Los Straitjackets, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Paul Stanley (December 2006)

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December 2006 The “Rock ‘n’ Roll Farm Report” was a short-lived review column that ran on our Alt.Culture.Guide™ website for almost a year u...
Friday, April 18, 2025

CD Review: John Lee Hooker’s The Standard School Broadcast Recordings (2025)

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With well over 100 full-length recordings to his name (and more than a few under other names), we’ve long since passed the point where John ...
Monday, April 14, 2025

Rock ‘n’ Roll Farm Report: Jeff Beck Group, The Buzzcocks, The Church, My Morning Jacket, Only Living Witness (November 2006)

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November 2006 The “Rock ‘n’ Roll Farm Report” was a short-lived review column that ran on our Alt.Culture.Guide™ website for almost a year u...
Friday, April 11, 2025

Archive Review: John Lee Hooker's Live At Newport (2002)

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During the 1930s and ‘40s, countless hopeful musicians traveled the “blues highway” from the Mississippi Delta through Memphis and St. Louis...
Monday, April 7, 2025

Rock ‘n’ Roll Farm Report: J.J. Cale, Crash Kelly, Def Leppard, Radio Birdman, Satyricon, Towers of London (October 2006)

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October 2006 The “Rock ‘n’ Roll Farm Report” was a short-lived review column that ran on our Alt.Culture.Guide™ website for almost a year un...
Friday, April 4, 2025

The Reverend's Guide to Record Store Day 2025

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That twice-yearly Bacchanalian festival of vinyl consumerism is right around the corner and, like many of my fellow blockheads, I have my ow...