Category: Hard Rock
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Listen Now: Nevermind The Grunge, It’s The Nineties! An Alternative Nineties Rock Mix
Damon Albarn: “If punk was about getting rid of hippies, then I’m about getting rid of grunge. It’s the same sort of feeling: people should smarten up, be a little bit more energetic. They’re walking around like hippies again – they’re stooped, they’ve got greasy hair, there’s no difference. Whether they like it or not,…
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Listen Here: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow – Dad Rock in the Eighties.
Every Record Tells A Story Presents: A Blog You Can Listen To: Click the Mixcloud player link above to hear the music, and read the liner notes below…. If the link above isn’t showing you can click here to access all the music via Mixcloud With racial tensions, recession and mass unemployment affecting entire communities…
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I’ll Be Alright Without You: An Appreciation.
Journey. Known in the UK almost exclusively for “Don’t Stop Believin’” – a song about a girl and a boy from a place – South Detroit – that weirdly doesn’t exist. A song recorded in 1981 that didn’t make the UK charts until 2009 following its appearance in an episode of X-Factor, (even its appearance…
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Hard Rock’s “Yesterday”: The Story of Goldilox by Kings X
“Goldilox is the song that people just missed out on… one of the greatest songs that I had ever heard”
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Stone The Crowes!: It’s The Magpie Salute
The Black Crowes are long gone. It has been three years since they split, ten years since their last album Warpaint and more than twenty years since their commercial peak when despite everyone else playing grunge or Britpop The Black Crowes sold thirty million albums and hit the number one album spot in America with…
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Blues For The Red Sun: The Story of Josh Homme and Kyuss
Chris Goss was driving through the Palm Desert in 1988, a couple of hours drive from LA, on his way to launching the career of one of rock’s most important figures of the next century. He just didn’t know it yet… Goss was the producer and band leader of Masters of Reality. He was on…
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Not Good Enough or Not Pretty Enough? Why David Coverdale Sacked His Band…
Extra bonus within!: A Playlist of Whitesnake songs that aren’t sexist! It’s 1979. Tonight, Whitesnake’s new drummer Ian Paice is making his debut at London’s Hammersmith Odeon. Lead singer David Coverdale is onstage, slaying the audience with a typically pelvis-thrusting performance. It’s a sexually charged, entendre-filled, microphone-extending act. But something is wrong. The two…
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Axl/DC?: Five Reasons Why Axl Rose Fronting AC/DC is Great News For Fans
Axl Rose is to replace Brian Johnston as AC/DC’s chief shouter in a move that has caused the sort of Earth-shattering consternation amongst the chattering classes not witnessed since the producers of “Call The Midwife” controversially staged a scene where someone was slightly rude to someone else. There’s no truth to the rumours that…
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When Rock Got Real: $hake Your Money Maker…
In 1990 rock music was having what football commentators euphemistically call “a transitional season”. You know, “Chelsea are one point off relegation and have sacked their manager, they’re having a transitional season…” We were still a year away from Metallica’s Black Album, Nirvana’s “Nevermind” and a follow up to Guns ‘n’ Roses’ debut LP. …
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Operation: Mindcrime – live at Chinnerys, Southend on Sea
The best concept album ever? There’s no contest. *plays the theme tune to Hong Kong Phooey* Is it “The Wall”? No. is it “Tommy”? No. Is it “Operation: Mindcrime” by the mild mannered Queensryche? “….Could be…” I realise that anyone reading this who is unfamiliar with a) Operation Mindcrime b) Queensryche or c) Eighties…
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Reading Festival, Bad News and Dumpy’s Rusty Nuts…
As one of the UK’s most established festivals, The Reading Festival is not, as some overseas observers may assume, a place where noted authors gather with their literary chums to swap notes on the trickier passages of Ulysses and enjoy a bookish shindig.* Indeed, some observers note that the only bookish types present are the…
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The Search For Authenticity in Rock: Here’s A Cinderella Story…
One band’s quest for authenticity in the unlikliest place – the genre of glam metal: The Story of Tom Keifer’s Cinderella
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An Alternative Best of…Journey
Take A Midnight Train Going Anywhere With This Alternative Best of Playlist For AOR Kings: Journey… The idea that Journey might be pretty cool is clearly a difficult one to get your head around, but back in the eighties, Journey were the thinking AOR fan’s go-to band. REO Speedwagon and Kansas were too wimpy, Boston…
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Strangeways Here We Come: The Story of Scotland’s Greatest American Rock Band
I think the moment that I realised that the beard-and-brown-brogue-infested East London was no longer the hotbed of cooldom (yes, that is a word) I had always assumed it to be was when a friend told me he had been drinking in two well-known bars* in Hoxton and Shoreditch at 2am whilst the DJs played Atomic Kitten,…
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Is This Skynyrd? It’s Pretty Cool: The Strange Tale of Raging Slab
In some respects, the Wikipedia entry for New York’s Best Southern Rock band (yes, you read that correctly) Raging Slab is as (unintentionally) funny and as interesting as any band. Raging Slab had a career blighted by incredibly poor luck, doubtless brought some of that on themselves*, yet began life with Deee-Lite’s Super DJ Dmitri…
Every record tells a story 