Saturday February 04

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Feb 2, 2012 - Richard Barone (audio interview)
Richard Barone returns to Icon Fetch with a brand new album Collection 2: Before and Afterglow, featuring demos and rare tracks spanning his entire career, including a brand-new reworking of the classic "Sidewalks of New York," plus covers of songs by ELO, Nilsson, and Bobby Fuller. There's even a seldom...
Jan 30, 2012 - Chris Willis (audio interview)
Singer Chris Willis first teamed with French DJ David Guetta back in 2001 for the club hit "Just a Little More Love."  Over the next ten years, the duo would put together a string of international dance hits including  "Love Don't Let Me Go," "Money," "Love is Gone," and "Gettin'...
Jan 25, 2012 - Rob Shanahan - Music Photographer
Rob Shanahan is so good at taking pictures, Ringo Starr has selected him as his personal photographer.  For the last 15 years, Shanahan's work has appeared in countless music magazines, on album covers and inside CD booklets.  Now he's put together his first collection of photographs - appropriately titled Volume...
Jan 13, 2012 - Smithereens (Pat Dinizio) (audio interview)
The Smithereens have become legends for their brand of no-nonsense rock n' roll, scoring hits with "Behind the Wall of Sleep," "A Girl Like You," "Only a Memory," and "Too Much Passion."  Their first album of original material in twelve years - 2011 -  is being hailed as one of...
Jan 10, 2012 - Sophie B. Hawkins (audio interview)
Sophie B. Hawkins first burst on the scene with the sensual hit "Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover,” from 1992. Her next album yielded another smash in “As I Lay Me Down” in '95.  As she readies her first new full-length album in seven years – The Crossing –...
Jan 4, 2012 - Suzi Quatro (audio interview)
Suzi Quatro is known in the US for her role as Leather Tuscadero on TV's Happy Days, and her 1978 Top Ten duet with Chris Norman "Stumblin' In." But, overseas she's a bona fide icon - selling a staggering 50 million records worldwide, scoring several number one singles in both...

In Tony's Blog

New Van Halen Track By Track #5

Van Halen's A Different Kind of Truth comes out Feb 7 (preorder here from amazon), but we've got our hands on it already.  Here's our thoughts on the last few tracks of the new record:

Track 11 – “Stay Frosty” Wanna dedicate this one to the ladies.  Yeah, it’s a re-write of “Ice Cream Man” complete with the acoustic guitar (the picking is even similar).  But, you know what?  It works.  It’s fun – Dave’s not pushing his voice – and he even gives a good scream at the 3:29 mark.  This is some vintage Diamond Dave-era VH.

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This Day in History

Wednesday, 04 February 1948
Welcome to His Nightmare

alice cooperHappy Birthday to Alice Cooper (his mom knows him as Vincent Furnier, known for his wild theatrical performances of the early Seventies.  He scored hits with "(I'm) Eighteen," "No More Mister Nice Guy," and "School's Out."  Listen to Alice Cooper on Itunes.


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Random LP of the Day

church - starfish cd coverThe Church – Starfish (Deluxe Edition) (Second Motion) Album review To celebrate the Church’s 30th anniversary, Second Motion has reissued the band’s entire back catalog featuring remastered sound and unreleased bonus tracks. Theirs is one of the most unlikely stories in rock – the Church, who had little success outside their homeland of Australia, got signed in 1988 by the same man who was guiding Whitney Houston to superstardom, Clive Davis.  The label mogul must’ve seen something in the underground band, who had a penchant for psychedelic jamming, when he signed them to his Arista record company.


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