This is the ignoble 56th anniversary of the last day of the original Woodstock Festival, an event that seems sadder, cringier, and more deluded than ever. To mark the occasion, I'm including the following excerpt from The Endless American Midnight....
2025-08-18
2025-08-05
Todd in the Shadows Finally Gets Around to Big Country
You all know I love Big Country, and I always will. Their first two albums especially were the very powerful soundtrack to a very powerful time in my life, and seemed to manifest themselves exactly when I needed them most.
2025-08-01
Mama, Ozzy's Gone Home
The GOAT has been laid to rest. The city of Birmingham paid tribute to the Clown Prince of Rock n' Roll, with the kind of funeral procession usually reserved for the parasitical Royal Family. The GOAT is gone, but we still have the memories and the music.
2025-07-22
Who's That Girl?
2025-07-07
Remember the Sabbath
This excerpt is posted to observe the ceremonies in Birmingham over the weekend...
2025-06-24
78 from '78 (for my GenJones peeps)
Well, we've covered 1979 rather extensively, so why don't we wind it back to 1978? Here's a sampling of the kind of music you would have heard if you were lucky enough to live near a great FM radio station - WBCN in Boston, WPLJ in New York, WMMS in Cleveland, WLUP in Chicago and more...
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